Deep Blue Spiral
Instrumentation: Alto Saxophone and Prerecorded Electronic Music
Year Composed: 1998
Duration: 7 minutes, 30 seconds
Pages in score: 17
Cost: Purchase: $20.00
Play Deep Blue Spiral
This piece can be heard on the CDs
Tango Magnetism, performed by Todd oxford, and Juggernaut, performed by Jeremy Justeson.
Reviews: Performances by Todd Oxford (2006) and Morgan King (1999) reviewed in the San Antonio Express-News by Mike Greenburg: "...a jazzy, nervous, high-energy piece in which the solo line is beautifully integrated with the electronics. It would make a great ballet score." "...[the] jazzy solo line seamlessly integrated with the crashing, nervous, streetwise, cop-show adrenaline rush of the tape part..."
Representative Performances:
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Todd Oxford, saxophone, University of Hawaii (2009) Thomas Walsh, saxophone, University of Indianapolis Contemporary Music Group, Indianapolis, Indiana (2006) Valerie Vidal, saxophone, AURA, the Moores School of Music Contemporary Ensemble, University of Houston (2004) Ken Marshall, saxophone, Trinity College of Music, London, England (2003) Aaron Heick, saxophone, Music at the Anthology Spring Festival, New York City, New York (2003) SEAMUS National Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, Patrick Jones, saxophone (2002) North American Saxophone Alliance Region 4 Conference, Jeremy Justeson, saxophone (2001) |
Program Notes:
Deep Blue Spiral, for alto saxophone and tape, was written for the
saxophonist Morgan King. Unlike most of my pieces, work on Deep Blue
Spiral was spread out over a rather long time - more than a year.
During much of that time I was not directly working on the piece, but,
from time to time, I would return to it and begin to think about it again.
Work progressed more quickly over the summer of 1998, and from then on the compositional processed progressed more normally (for me).
The prerecorded electronic music part was realized at the University of Texas at San Antonio's Electronic Music Studio. The primary tools used were a K2000 Kurtzweil synthesizer, the Vision sequencer program, and Sound Edit for digital sound manipulation.