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| Anatom 2015 by Dan Senn for |
for
Sal 1996 duration 9'00" solo piano |
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| Anatom for Sal was one of the early pieces
written using the Raku
Composition Program (RCP) developed
by
Dan Senn initially at the Canberra School of Music in Australia in
1981. The orginal work, called Might Nots, from
whence this work was derived, was composed for two pianos and written
1983-84 in
Canberra. Then, in 1996, after the death of Dan's friend and teacher
Salvatore Martirano (November, 1995), he reworked the original score
and
composed Anatom for Sal. In
2015, in his Watertown Studio, he
again updated the piece as presented here. |
The
RCP, produces of a variety of stylistic artifacts (see Its
Mirror for
solo flute) and is used in this work to create a continuum of driving
and
kaliedoscopic modalities resting beneath a 5/5 metrical net which
captures the piece for live performance. Yet perception of the piece
may exist apart from its surface structure, i.e., phrases which
trigger tonal (chance) references to musical memory, can begin at
any point. This happens because the RCP processes data cell-by-cell,
120 in
all, and the 5/4 netting is simply plopped on
top like fencing over hilly country land. |
The
reference to the earth and geography here is central to understanding
the RCP as the software arose out of Senn's close association with
ceramic art, specifically the Raku process, and with the land itself
having spent much of his youth farming, gardening and camping
throughout the western United States. Musical material, in the RCP, is
treated like layers of the earth's strata which can be
stretched, displaced, driven upward and condensed. See score video here. |
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