Other Music
The Primary Trigrams of the I Ching
About the Primary Trigrams
The entire album was composed and performed almost exclusively on the Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer, which at the time (1986) was considered the flagship keyboard. The master multi-track recorder was the venerable Tascam 80-8, another landmark product. The master mix was intended for compact cassette distribution, and therefore eq'ed a bit bright. as cassette recorders have poor top end.
Several of the tunes for this project were renamed and rearranged from earlier works
This is the first Electronic Impressionist work I released. The original was completed in 1987, and has been updated twice since then, in 1992 and 1995. The songs continue to be modified as culture, taset, experience and equipment mature and change. Music is a living thing, and a song is only as old as its performances and performers re/co-create it. As an improvisatory vehicle, it is a pattern of possible scalar cross-sections through which we weave our magic, sometimes by choice, sometimes by vocabulary, and sometimes by something outside of ourselves.
Electronic Impressionism
Electronic Impressionism is the name I give to music that has the following characteristics:
- Created primarily via electronic instrumentation with limited acoustic instruments
- Small to full Orchestral in scope
- Electronic timbres used to emulate the effect of the instrument
- Programmatic thematic material
- Heart over deliberate intellect
This project was very early in the evolution of electronic musical capabilities, there was little in the way of timbral emulation or proper attack signature recreation, so the emotive effect is more effective than the simulation.
Personnel:
- David 'Dasher' Kempton: Electronic keyboards
And Still More...
Music that didn't quite fit elsewhere