Kaleidoscope from Kaleidoscope by Joel Grant Taylor

the source material for this music consists of recordings of shakuhachi whistle, or edge tones, which elicit partials 8-24 or thereabouts. this complex, rather high-pitched audio source material is multi-tracked, transposed, and time-stretched to produce "small works" (i.e. audio files) ranging from 30 seconds to 10 minutes in length, and then the final piece is assembled by combining these sub-works in various ways and subjecting them to the same procedures which formed them: multi-tracking, transposing, and time-stretching.

Joel Taylor is a composer/improvisor/programmer who works with a wide variety of electronic and acoustic media. He performs on analog synths, computers, keyboards, shakuhachi, suling, flute, and percussion, and has composed concert music for orchestra, gamelan, and various chamber ensembles.

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