Modular Reflex - Electronic music, Em 22 - my 62nd album. A succesion of gentle, quasi-orcheasteral phrases roll over one another.
Clinging to a notion of the symphonic, clinging to an Ideal of an orchesteral texture, phrases wheel and pass in very gentle succession. Sweet waves in a musical space wash on some unimagined shore and you are there to percieve them. The subliminal Ideal in music. One can then ask - well, what is music ? I answered by and by - ‘Sound Considerable as Time and Process.’ A gorgeous cover by jim Tetlow - with me as backseat driver ! A wonderful man - he was my hands in the graphic - a photograph of a Scottish landscape from his father’s home - with a surreal green wash, that moves the mind to the music. The sight of a row of such covers on a Discography page gave me the thought of ‘a band of gold’ – hence my Golden Band Group.
Built with a Canonic fragment from Nono - the Nono Being a set of Pieces, scattered across my ‘Rh Catalogue’ of works - crossing my established Genres. So, I define a ‘Series’ as a thread that can cross those established Genres - as a ‘Crosscurrent.’ There are 15 Nono pieces altogether - with four in the Golden Band Group.
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 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 are eight Em Albums in the Golden Band Group, Em 21 to Em 28, some of my most intense pieces.
[] Album Em 21, XAU, is where a confusion of shadows comes out of a harsh light.
[] Album Em 22, Modular reflex, is a series of soft, almost orchestral layerings.
[] Album Em 23. Popenstrung, is a deep expression of string music, enfolded in the process.
[] Album Em 24, Integral Shining, is a Meta Music engaged with Maurine Anderson’s shapeshifter project.
[] Album Em 25, Einzstuck is a complex sheet of hammered out Metalique.
[] Album Em 26, The Coventry Canticles, are a set of three, Bell harmonic pieces, created for Coventry Cathedral.
[] Album Em 27, Solar - finds the vast thermal blooming of the Sun.
[] Album Em 28, Cold Outer Worlds - Icy cold music in two album length pieces, Uranus and Neptune.
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.
credits
released May 27, 2011
Julian Broadhurst Composition, realisation and Mastering at Isabel
Cover by Jim Tetlow
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