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Classical Music Selection 1

by Dick Turner

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Cello Sonata 14:14
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Red (song) 05:54
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The cello sonata (2004) is in three movements connected by preludes and with a postlude at the end. It uses four synthetic scales as it's only material (M2-m2). I can't really site any influences but can say that I see a certain relationship with Messian (because of the scale type) and Chostakovitch (because of the rythms).

The Variations on Poème Electronique was something I'd originally done on tape in 1995 but all the material was lost. This version was done on a computer in 2014 or so. I've always loved the piece by Varése, composing this was a way of coming into deeper contact with it.

Just On (and Off) N Charles Street is a setting of a poem by my sister, Ruth Turner. The first movement is a musical painting of a guy pushing a hotdog cart, the second movement is a setting of the poem, the third movement is a musical painting of the confusion in the protagonist's mind. It's a true story by the way...

Liquid Sculpture for flute and cello was written in 2003. I called it Liquid Sculpture to reflect my ideas about the relationship between sound and time in music. In music I think a good piece leaves you with a sort of image at the end of listening - the piece passes in time and your mind creates the image. I oppose this to a sculpture where the spectator must bring the time to the work which is static.

The Resonances and Residues are done using a recording of the Beethoven's 7th, on a computer. It, for me, is like hearing the echoes and memories of Beethoven's work in my mind...Bouncing around my brain.This was done, by the way, for a remix contest at the Philharmonie de Paris...it was a techno-type thing, I didn't win.

Red is a song composed on a poem written by my nephew Jordi when he was 6 years old.

Further Contemplations of the Tao is a piano sonata in three movements. The middle movement is a meditation.

The Electronic Piano Sonata is the only piece which survives from all the work I did for tape. The recording isn't so great, it is a copy of a copy of a copy times almost infinity.... But it exists.... It is composed only with piano by the way.

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released June 7, 2014

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