Before the Change

Program Notes

Two-channel tape, realized at the Summer Electronic Music Institute at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire Sections are subtitled (as follows)
1. Warmth and Rain (1:47) (1:47)
2. The Storm (2:08) (3:54)
3. The Rivers‘ Meeting (2:46) (6:40)
4. Forest With No Insects (2:20) (8:57)
5. The White Cliffs (2:08) (11:05)
6. Ascension into the Tower (1:48) (12:26)
7. Swollen Rivers and Flooded Fields (2:37) (total 15:12)

1. Warmth and Rain (64 layers of mouth clucking, 16 layers of filtered sawtooth waves that are frequency modulated by inverted envelope generator, high sine wave with low amplitude frequency modulated by a subaudio sine wave and a subaudio pulse wave, a patch on the arp 2600)
2. The Storm (White noise patch on Buchla played backwards with heavy reverberation, clangorous sounds from Moog, high frequency modulated wave cluster)
3. The Rivers‘ Meeting (complex Buchla patch using 16 oscilators, 4 sequencers, a little white noise, and keyboard macro control)
4. Forest With No Insects (64 layers of mouth clucking, 64 layers of wood block, Buchla patch with short envelops, 32 layers of popping sound slowed down 2 octaves)
5. The White Cliffs (Synthi patch)
6. Ascension into the Tower (High frequency modulated wave cluster, 16 layers of filtered sawtooth waves frequency modulated by inverted envelope generater, 32 layers of popping sounds)
7. Swollen Rivers and Flooded Fields (complex Buchla patch, special multi-layered toy sound)