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Beriom 10

by julian Broadhurst

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Beriom 10 - Electronic music, Em 34 - my 87th album. The 10th piece in my Beriom series - a set of 12 pieces ultimately developed from a fragment by Berio - the Beri-om Series - In homage to the master.

Beriom 10 - Rh 329. Strikingly among my works are a ‘Red album’, Beriom 8 - a ‘Blue album’, Beriom 9 - and a ‘Grey album’ -
Beriom 10 - the more difficult of the three and first of a ‘Last Generation’ of more difficult Beriom albums. I wanted to go on to see where a Tenth Beriom would lead me. It led infact away from the warmth and fluidity of the 8th and 9th parts, into a Bleak grey landscape.

At this point I was interested in Dance. I was looking for a choreographer to create a Dance score for Beriom 10 and the name and reputation of Joanna Leah (Geldard) came to the fore. We met and she was interested in trying to make a stage work with my ‘Tape’ Beriom 10. Unfortunately, after numerous sessions, no final work emerged. We did though form the experimental Duo ‘Etuda’ - releasing two albums on my DCM label - ‘Percussion W’ and ‘Intonation W’ - W after the Dance studio we used. Also from our percussion and Dance sessions I drew a suite of pieces I called the W Dances, split between my albums ‘Drum music, Dm 14 to 16.’


The Beriom Series - in three Generations

Numbers 1- 3 for six trombones were originally intended to be a stand alone set - but a second experiment, this time with 5 and 6 flutes, became Beriom 4 - 7, and these formed an iconic bedrock for a series of vast electronic Landscapes in 5 further cycles, looking ever harder at the material. These give a series of 12 in all. A number beloved by me, as an Artist, years before, in numerous sets of 12 pictures.

The Beriom Series, of 12 pieces - over 8 hours - on 7 albums - are all after fragments from Berio.’ They fall into three ‘generations.’ The ‘Foundational’ - numbers 1 - 3 and 4 - 7.’ Then a mid generation - the ‘Fluid Projections.’ Then a ‘Last Generation’ of nos. 10, 11 and12. No.10 is rigorous and testing - nos.11 and 12 float like clouds. I am testing the material to destruction (all but) - in the search for Music, as ‘a consideration of Sound, Time and Process’ -searching for my Inner Self.


- The Foundational Generation -

[] Album Phm 9 - Beriom 1 - 3

BS01 - Beriom 1 - Rh 319
BS02 - Beriom 2 - Rh 220
BS03 - Beriom 3 - Rh 221

[] Album Phm 10 - Beriom 4 - 7
BS04 - Beriom 4 - Rh 223
BS05 - Beriom 5 - Rh 224
BS06 - Beriom 6 - Rh 225
BS07 - Beriom 7 - Rh 226


- The Fluid Projections Generation -

[] Album Em 32 - Beriom 8 [The Red Album]

BS08 - Beriom 8 - Rh 227

[] Album Em 33 - Beriom 9 [The Blue album]

BS09 - Beriom 9 - Rh 228


- The Last Generation -

[] Album Em 34 - Beriom 10 [The Grey album]

BS10 Beriom 10 - Rh 229

[] Album Em 35 - Untitled

BS 11 - Untitled - Rh 230

[] Album Em 39 - Dodecette

BS12 - Dodecette - Rh 400


An early reorganization of my music research interests had 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 Electronic music, Em. - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source. By Convention Em.

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, Metal Percussion music, or MPm. The third of five is the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, or MSEP. The last genre is Electronic music, Em, taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.

Album numbers 76 to 95 form my fourth ‘Group’ - a 4th time division across my Genres, my Inner Blue Group. This builds on the foundational 'Blue Cherry Group' [where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest] and the big 'New Horizon Group' - [where I explored to see where these five genres were leading me]. There then seemed to be a ‘band of gold’ across my discography. My Golden Band Group, that mark a particularly successful time for me. The albums that follow that, 76 to the end, are a ‘Blue Horizon’ - after the phrase’ blue sky research’ - the ‘Blue Horizon Group.’ For convenience, I divided this Huge area into the Inner and the Outer Blue Groups. So the Fourth Group is the Inner Blue Horizon - or Inner Blue Group.

There are nine Em Albums in the Inner Blue Group, Em 29 to Em 37.

[] Album Em 29 Auda, documents a series of vast Aural experiments.

[] Album Em 30 Haus music, is for the Bauhaus - music of metallic klang.

[] Album Em 31 is Magic Lilly music - a sweeter klang for a little girl who by all accounts could fly.

[] Album Em 32 Beriom 8, is a sea change in my work - the red album - my Beriom series crosses genres from Phm to become Em, with a huge increase in scale.

[] Album Em 33 Beriom 9, the blue album, dives under water.

[] Album Em 34 Beriom 10, the grey album is even bigger and bleaker.

[] Album Em 35 [Untitled] if that is the case, is Beriom 11 with all but name - a far flung extreme.

[] Album Em 36 Rothko Triptych is a homage to a master in three wall sized pieces, gallery music.

[] Album Em 37 Ober, lastly - is a set of shifting surfaces.

Inner Blue Group - Em []

[] DCM 076 -Em 29 - Auda []

DCM 077 - MSEP 19 - Assign 1 - 4
DCM 078 - Phm 8 - Deep Pink

[] DCM 079 -Em 30 - Haus music []
[] DCM 080 -Em 31 - Magic lily music []

DCM 081 - MPm 10 - 1st and 2nd Da Su for Mp
DCM 082 - Phm 9 - Beriom 1 - 3 (6 Tromb.)
DCM 083 - MSEP 20 - War Skies Over London
DCM 084 - Phm 10 - Beriom 4 - 7 (4 & 5 Fl)

[] DCM 085 -Em 32 - Beriom 8 []
[] DCM 086 -Em 33 - Beriom 9 []
[] DCM 087 -Em 34 - Beriom 10 []
[] DCM 088 -Em 35 - Untitled []
[] DCM 089 -Em 36 - Rothko Triptych []

DCM 090 - Phm 11- Sound Prints
DCM 091 - MPm 11 - Kontact Dance
DCM 092 - Dm 13 - 2nd & 3rd Inv for Dj.

[] DCM 093 -Em 37 - Ober []

DCM 094 - Dm 14 - 4th Inv Dj - Dm Sn no. 8
DCM 095 - MSEP 21 - Bela Whispers

The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part]
chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2021. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planned from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

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

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released May 28, 2011

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