ScottOpus PRODUCTIONS
ScottOpus Productions is pleased to introduce its third CD.
BEYOND THE VIRTUAL CREATION.
Kerry R. Scott (1949 - )
This CD is yet a third music feast, but this time with an experimental approach. On this CD there exist "new" sounds electronically produced to represent environments not encountered within our known world. The experimental "Virtual" sound environments metamorphosed from one composition to another and even within one composition. In addition these unfamiliar sounds are juxtaposed with familiar timbrel, melodic and harmonic structures thus providing some anchor to the known world of sound.
FUGAL VARIATIONS FOR VIRTUAL CLARINET AND PIANO
(It should be noted that the three following movements are composed and realized with the use of the computer.)
TRACK 1. - FUGAL VARIATIONS FOR VIRTUAL CLARINET AND PIANO
This Composition works on a Combinatorial Row. Although the harmonic and melodic structure is serial in nature the composition utilizes Classical Period form and schematic techniques. Loosely based on classical "first movement form" with added sections this composition seeks to provide a "new" approach to serial music which is sometimes difficult fully appreciate. Really a show piece for the "Virtual Clarinet". These fugal variations are in reality probably impossible to play on the acoustic instrument, even of our time. The Composer would, however, welcome a challenge to this point and would be pleased to provide a full score to any qualified challenger.The work is dedicated to the composer's nephew, Richard Scott whom, from all reports, is a fine and budding Clarinetist and Saxophonist. The work has effectively three parts. Firstly an Introduction which reminiscent of the sounds from video games and perhaps "pinball" machines. There follows a fugal passage juxtaposing the above themes with a parody on a childlike theme of derision and a serious fugue theme. This is followed without a break by scherzo-like section in five,eight time. This leads, and is juxtaposed with an adagio section until a reprise of the first thematic material concludes the composition
A VIRTUAL STRING QUARTET
(It should be noted that the three following movements are composed and realized with the use of the computer.)
TRACK 2. - ALLEGRO CON MOTO
Like the previous composition this composition has as its basis a Combinatorial Row. The Form of the work follows loosely the form of a classical String Quartet with the exception that the first movement is, after an introduction, a full Fugue rather than the more traditional first movement form of Sonata Form. It should be noted that no effort has been made to replicate the sounds of the individual instruments of a String Quartet nor the combined sound indigenous to the unique group of instruments know as the String Quartet. To replicate sounds of existing instruments, while an interesting exercise, is to this composer a redundant exercise. It seems a singularly fruitless endeavor to reproduce synthetically a sound that, in all probability, cannot be improved upon. The Electronic medium for music production should develop the subject, producing new sounds and forms of sound production, new and different forms of musical experiences and produce compositions that cannot be realized by "conventional" instruments and instrumental combinations. This work tries to maintain the general approach to a string quartet while at the same time developing both the form and melodic and harmonic structures of the medium.
TRACK 3. - ADAGIO GRAVE FUNEBRE
The second movement of this composition is the most traditional of the three. It comprises of three sections in a ternary form with a second section in a fugal form.
TRACK 4. - PRESTO
The third and final movement reprises sections of the previous two movements. Surrounding these reprises is the original form of the combinatorial row with a series of "Pedal Tones" sounded by the instruments within the frame work of the row itself. The work ends with a "tongue in cheek" phrase showing the precise realization of computer "Played" sounds.
FANTASY FOR A FUTURE ENVIRONMENT
(It should be noted that the two following tracks are composed and realized with the use of the computer with added sections by the digital keyboard. As an addendum enclosed with the CD is a copy of Fable II -- An Intervention of Predestination. This short story is part of A Mythography, a series of short stories written by Kerry R. Scott This particular story is part of the Fantasy for a Future Environment).
TRACK 5. - FANTASY FOR A FUTURE ENVIRONMENT
This composition uses both computer and digital keyboard realized sounds. Each series of sounds were composed separately and then mixed together to form a cohesive whole. All the sounds (instruments) are created by sampling the sounds that every day objects make when struck of blown. They are then translated into digital wave forms and from that single wave form to a series of different wave forms thus creating an instrumental range. The work is sectional in nature with each section a soundscape representing a possible future environment. There is together with this work a short story that is included in the CD. Both the Short story and the composition should be seen as a totality and be experienced together.To veiw a copy of Fable II -- An Intervention of Predestination click on Fable II.
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THE BETRAYAL OF INNOCENCE
(It should be noted that the two following tracks are composed and realized with the use of the computer.)
TRACK 6. - THE BETRAYAL OF INNOCENCE
This composition can only be described as brutal. Although the work does start quietly and with the promise of development this image is quickly banished by the betrayal theme and textures. "Virtual" sounds are used to depict the perhaps decadent atmosphere of the "Counter Culture" of "Rock and Roll" and "Rap". This work could be sub titled a "tone poem of decadence"
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