Douglas Geers
Atomic Tango
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Atomic Tango is a brief electroacoustic work, written
as part of the 31st Festival Synthese Bourges 2001 Open Work project, "The
Creation of the World." In this project, composers and sound artists from
around the world were invited to write a 4 to 6 minute piece on the
subject "the creation of the world." Atomic Tango is my answer to
that invitation. My idea was to try to represent in electronic music
some processes akin to the time when life was first arising on the Earth.
In my music, atomic musical elements appear, evolve, and swim as in a
primordial soup. At times these atoms join into larger forms; however,
as in the history of biological evolution, most of these combinations
fail, either dying by slowly withering away or through cataclysmic
tragedy. Progress is not linear; and in reality, unlike this piece,
there is no end. Composed while in residence at the NoTAM studios, Oslo,
Norway, April 2001.
This piece is now available on the second album of the Electric Music
Collective, Defiant. Please see www.emcollective.org
for more information.
Innova Recordings has selected
Atomic
Tango for their CD, Sonic
Circuits IX. The
CD is available on the Innova website.
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