Beginning IIB from was 4 sea. And Ever Shall. pt​.​2

from Modulisme Session 060 by Ernie Morgan

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Repeating loops which continually change tempi and changing timbres as well. A sense of endless variation, yet also a sense of constancy – and then, over time, the ranges of change, as do the kinds of timbre changes. You think it’s going nowhere, and then, unexpectedly, it does change. And then the earlier repetitions, or fragments of them, do come back in, if only for a moment.
I get the sense that a kind of repeating pattern is manually controlled, and the tempos are irregularly changing, following both a kind of regular logic and a kind of irregular repetition. And after a while, the kinds of repetitions do change, both for longer and shorter times. Best maybe to not follow the changes exactly, but instead to drift with the changes as they change both in short-term changes, and with more long-scale changes.
One of Ernie’s recurring titles for a series of pieces of his was “Mono-Melodies.” These sort of monophonic melodies, which also change tempi over a very wide range, provide interesting varieties of gesture and texture – yet they always seem to return to varying kinds of repeating melodies. It’s a long piece – 77 minutes (here appearing in 2 parts because of BC size restrictions), but it seems to go a lot faster than that. This piece was written by Ernie as one of the portfolio of pieces for his PhD.
It’s been one of my favorite pieces of his since I first heard it back around 1973.
Warren Burt / 2022

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from Modulisme Session 060, released February 26, 2022

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