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Kuiper Transit

by David Brown

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The Kuiper Belt is the area of the solar system beyond Neptune; dark, cold and sparsely populated with objects quite unlike anything found in the inner solar system. The title and section names for this piece were chosen because of its sense of movement in vast spaces, extended suspensions and unlikely cadences.

Part 1: Gravitational Harmonics
Part 2: Solar Wind
Part 3: Across the Heliosheath
Part 4: Heliopause Passage

Kuiper Transit is constructed around the pitches of two Tibetan singing bowls. One singing bowl has two distinct resonance modes, so the resulting dominant intervals are approximately:
• Huygens' Tritone: a frequency ratio of 7/5, 583 cents wide
• Septimal Major Third: a frequency ratio of 9/7, 435 cents wide

Sound elements include the singing bowls in six transpositions, pitched & unpitched feedback to add elements of chaos and three synthesized harmony lines using two different non-equal-tempered scales.

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released January 4, 2024
Composed, Recorded & Produced by David Brown at Mockingbird Studios.

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David Brown Providence, Rhode Island

David Brown received his MFA in Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, California where he studied composition with Anthony Braxton & Kenneth Gaburo and music & information theory with David Rosenboom. His compositions combine found sounds with acoustic and electronic instruments to create collages of orchestral density. ... more

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