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Ecstatic Autophony Sequence: Mouth Organ

by Song Research

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Primitive tone-row score for electric church organ, focusing the player's attention on essential, simplified elements of pop music, and affording player and context agency so that past and present active elements are simultaneously controlling timing and meter, prompting extemporising and the finding of familiar and novel arrangements of five tones dominant in pop.

Part of Ecstatic Autophony Sequence: song-form performances and research recordings, tracing material conditions of song through sonic embodiment and self-hearing, mimicry and self-narration and emotive reconnection.

Recorded August 2016 in St George's Church, Brighton, with a stereo mic set-up on a Zoom H5 located about 10 feet from the speakers. Features exterior traffic noise and player-created noise, kind of Glenn Gould mumphling. Occasional sung outbursts from audience members.

Inspired by Schoenberg, puirt à beul singing, and songs by Suicide and Billy Childish.

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Reduced tone row matrix from which this score is derived:

............I-0........I-5........I-7............
P-0.......C..........F...........G.......R-0
P-7.......G..........C..........D.......R-7
P-5.......F...........A#.........C......R-5
...........RU-0.....RI-5....RI-7..........

The score (edited so as to give civilians half a chance):

CFGCFGCFG
CFGCFGCFG
A#CFDCFGCA#
CFGCFGCFG
CGFCGFCGF
CGFCGFCGF
CA#FDCGDA#C
FA#CGCDGCF

etc., etc., etc.

Starting:
1. performances must be of pre-determined duration
2. play chords / tones with the root indicated
2. play rows backwards and/or forwards
3. start with any row, and work through rows till you return to your start
4. use any tempo per tone / row
5. start with timing divisions of two and four
6. play a row in any octave

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released December 3, 2019
Composition, recording: N Palmer
Organist: Mark Ritchie
Cover: N Palmer, from an original spectrogram

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See also: nielx.bandcamp.com; Fire Dept; Wild Billy Childish & The Spartan Dreggs.

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