The Garden of Kali
(acousmatic, two channel musique concrète)
Inspired by the Flemish master Hieronymous Bosch's famous painting The Garden
of Earthly Delights, which is intriguingly beautiful, macabre, hallucinogenic
and grotesque. The electronic portion consists entirely of recordings of sounds
produced by prepared piano - a technique developed by John Cage wherein the
piano strings are laced with screws, bolts & rubber erasers, and the strings
are strummed, rapped with knuckles, scraped and trounced with mallets. These
sounds, thus perverted, were then electronically bent, molded, stretched, splintered
and blended into a bumpy sonic landscape.
Ideally the work should be performed in total darkness, and diffused manually
over a multi-channel loudspeaker orchestra array.
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