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Jan Turkenburg - Counting the die's dots
Bio: Jan Turkenburg (1964) is a music teacher at elementary schools and kindergarten in The Netherlands. In his rare spare time he sometimes likes to make cut and paste music, or 'splogwroughts' as he calls them.
Track: "Counting the die's dots" is a semi-aleatoric composition. The notes on the melodic base-tracks or loops were determined by throwing a die 63 times. The number on the die corresponded with the number in a hexatonic tone scale and was entered in a midi-program. To avoid one note being more important than the other the choice for the anhemitonic (without half tone-distances) scale was made, which creates a rather mysterious effect. I also made a loop of me counting the numbers from the measures and also constructed an english cut and paste count out of the countdown recording of the apollo 11 rocket. Furthermore I used all kinds of samples that I could find of people counting in several languages. On top I played live instruments as the flute, a small djembé a keyboard and a few samples of Cathy Berberian (a.o.) to spice it up.
Website:
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