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Mechanical Clock Music 3 - 5

by julian Broadhurst

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Mechanical Clock Music 4 22:05
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Mechanical Clock music 3 - 5 - Phase music, Phm 7 - my 68th album. Three 20 something minute Spools of Bell montage.

Mechanical Clock music 3 - 5 - Rh 254 - 256. Mechanical Clock music nos. 1 & 2 came about as an early research project - the third album, in a trio of albums that founded my Phase music genre, Phm, Phm 3 - away back in my foundational group. Fifty-four albums later we are back, with three more pieces in the same vein. A Percussion of bells this time in a sound montage of running tapes - a Phase music, Phm. It is the methodology that ties them together 1 - 5. From the almost Blacksmithery of 1 and 2, these pieces attempt to found a Change ring each time - and therein lies the music, a Mechanical Clock music.


Mechanical Clock music 1 - 6

Imagined mechanical clocks have along history in my work - begging in my Phase music Trance of tape manipulation, Phm, then ‘Crossing currents’ as I say, to my Metal Percussion Tranche or Genre, MPm. Percussion, that is, on anything other than Drums - to chant the mantra once again.

This series goes right back through my work - with nos. 1 and 2 on Album Phm 3 away back at the start of my work - to my 13th album. The third of three volumes of Collected Phase music studies - notably containing the near hour long pairing of Mechanical Clock music 1 & 2. I return to the notion of a MCM along time later with Album Phm 7 - Mechanical Clock music 3 - 5 - my 68th album - this time for Bell harmonics in tape montage. Returning again on 131st album Parellelia - away off in my Outer Blue Group with an ‘Automation for Mechanical Clock’.

[] Album Phm 3 - Mechanical Clock music. As with many other projects, in the learning journeys that these Early Phase music studies were - this Mechanical clock music is one of a pair - Rh 102 and 103. It was conceived to be so from the off. I deliberately built a working Phase Frame as a work in itself. I find it capable and complete, as a work in itself, giving rise to the notion of a Mechanical Clock. A huge open cased affair whose simple mechanic keeps a most irregular time. It is one of my favourite pieces. For Mechanical Clock music 2 - Rh 103, to create a companion piece for a pair - I cut a Phase set, from a recording of my own tubular bells, carefully measuring it onto the existing frame. The result – the clock constantly and irregularly chimes. Hard to keep hold of in the moment but sweet in its effect. Now it has confidence and Elegance. The pair are more than just studies – they are the first landmark in my Phase music genre.

[] Album Phm 7 - my Mechanical Clock music 3 - 5 - my 68th album. Three 20 something minute Spools of Bell montage. A Percussion of bells this time in a sound montage of running tapes - a Phase music, Phm. It is the methodology that ties them together as 1 - 5. From the almost Blacksmithery of 1 and 2, pieces 3 - 5 attempt to found a Change ring each time - and therein lies the music, a Mechanical Clock music.

[] Album MPm 20 Parellelia. An ‘Automation for Mechanical Clock’ - Rh 541’ [together with a live performance on a Church Ironwork]. I say this is nominally ‘Mechanical Clock music 6’ because it ties to the series No. 6 just adds itself to the set - and 6 is a Cannonic number for sets.


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 Phase music or Phm - basically tape looping and timing. Phm by Convention.

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 ts 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 59 to 75 form my third ‘Group - a 3rd time division across my Genres. A band of gold to my eyes - hence the 'Golden Band group.' This builds on both 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. They mark a particularly successful time for me. Each being a huge statement in itself - which I thought, lifted me higher than ever before - hence a ‘Band of Gold.’ Dr Tom Hewitt coined the phrase ‘Sea of Symphonies’ for it. Not Symphonies but symphonic in scale and intent. 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 Group into the Inner and the Outer Blue Groups.

There is only one Phm album in the Golden Band Group.

[] Album Phm 7, Mechanical Clock Music 3 - 5. Music for the voices of Metal, here a peel of Bells, struck rhythmically and Tape layered. Metal percussion in every sense of the word and there are three MPm albums in the group. This though is not metal percussion by Genre because my Genres are Methodological - this in the round is Phase music, Phm. It follows on from my album Phm 3, Mechanical Clock music, away back at Album 13 - the first two pieces in this series. For the want of a name - ‘The Mechanical Clock series.’


Golden Band Group - Phm []

DCM 059 - Em 21 - XAU
DCM 060 - MSEP 14 - Symphony SEP
DCM 061 - MSEP 15 - Bela
DCM 062 - EM 22 - Modular reflex
DCM 063 - MSEP 16 - Elegy
DCM 064 - Em 23 - Popenstrung
DCM 065 - Em 24 - Integral Shining
DCM 066 - Em 25 - Einzstuck
DCM 067 - MPm 7 - Sn for Tu. Met. 2 & 3

[] DCM 068 -Phm 7 - Mech. Clock m. 3 - 5 []

DCM 069 - MSEP 17 - Never Not Ac. Ar.
DCM 070 - Em 26 - Coventry Canticles
DCM 071 - MPm 8 - Inv. For Steel Vessel
DCM 072 - MPm 9 - Codal
DCM 073 - MSEP 18 - Curve
DCM 074 - Em 27 - Solar
DCM 075 - Em 28 - Cold Outer Worlds


The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part]
chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2020. 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 June 12, 2011

julian Broadhurst - realisation and Mastering at Isabel. Cover by Jim Tetlow.

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