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Basspoint

by julian Broadhurst

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Basspoint - Rh 76 43:47
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Iotis - Rh 77 17:35
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Party at Em's 1 - Rh 78 06:48
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Party at Em's 2 - Rh 79 11:20
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DCM 20 Basspoint - Electronic music, Em 2. My 20th album. A second collection of Em studies. Four consecutive Works including two notable pieces. Basspoint - Rh 76, is my first really big piece, and a landmark for that, with the smaller but still significant - Iotis Rh 77 - both for Electric Bass and Studio.

Basspoint - Rh 76. My ‘Symphonic’ outing for Electric Bass and Studio Electronics. Aa very important piece for me, really the start of so much to come. One of the first landmarks in my music – monumental at 43 minutes. Thunderously Deep with shap bright Metal Harmonics. rolling thunder, declamitry, recursive, emersive - like an ocean current it rolls over itself – to Drown the happless listner. It is placed here, on the 20th volume of the collected early music, by subject. It is however a very early piece. This is because, although the five Tranches I’ve spoken of ran concurrently, Em, as the fifth tranch, was collected last. The Rh catalogue numbers are the real guide to chronology. The name ‘Basspoint’ puns on the name and notion of a ‘Dewpoint’ – such that – the physicality of something might settle out into music –at a ‘Basspoint’ - as if this were the result somehow of a physical event – which it is of course - its performance.


Iotis - Rh 77. A substantial and quite important piece of my early Em, very much akin with Basspoint, in that it's prime ingredient is my Fender Fretless, and a whole bunch phasing. Fundermentally similar in Iconcept to Basspoint but withVery different results where a running sequence chaces itself.

Party at Em's 1 - Rh 78. First of three Environmental recordings at the house of ‘Em’ - at Emma's, a very good friend and a set of psychedelic mayhem.

Party at Em's 2 - Rh 79. Second of three such recordings at Em's. Party at Em's 3 is published on, appropriately enough 'Em 3 Cleo' – the next Em album up.


Superb - Clemens Gadenstätter,- German composer and Professor of Music - IF-DCM 7th August 2022

a chthonic trip to the edge. Love it! - Ken Heathketh - English Composer and Professor of music at RCM - IF-DCM 7th August 2022

A early reorganization of my music research interest defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Case Electronic music. - Music taking a long processing detour from an original acoustic source – by convention Em.

My 19th to 26th albums collect together the first eight dedecated Em albums in a block, one of 5 blocks, placed like books on a shelf- in an overarching 'Group' of my first 27albums. Five Blocks for the Five Tranches - as they were founded (more of less) - five sets of studies and pieces, as my Foundational Group 'Blue Cherry' [after a friend]. The foundation stone the rest of my music is built on - in four further Groups.

The Eight Em albums in the Blue Cherry Group are : Three Volumes of quite advanced studies; Em 1 Canticle for large bell – most noted for its title piece, using the ‘voices’ of bell harmonics; Em 2 Basspoint – mysymphonic outing for Bass; and Em 3 Cleo – noted for the title piece - Cleo. Next to to those are five volumes of album lenth themed sets and pieces; Em 4 Callisto – two lunar lanscapes, subtitled ‘The Moons of Jupiter Vol 1’; Em 5 WHA – an hour long outing for asymetrically phased Tubular Bells; Em 6 Cepheid - a space odyssey; Em 7 Dark Night Of The Soul – a huge electronic tone poem; and Em 8 Europa – two more lunar landscapes - ’Tthe Moons of Jupiter vol 2.’

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, MPm. The third of of five was the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion. Last of the five is Electronic music - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source – by convention Em.

The DCM album numbers are volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition.- The DCM Broadhurst Edition - Prepared for the British Library in 2018. The Volumes or Albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my works, in order of Completion.

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released February 16, 2011

Cover derives from a photograph by Aleksander Zagdański

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