Great Equatorial

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Release Date: 1994

Label: Voiceprint

From the liner notes:

In 1993 I was commissioned by the Royal Observatory in
Greenwich to compose some music to celebrate the renovation
of the room containing the Great Equatorial Telescope and its
re-opening to the public. The music was to be played
continuously throughout the day as the public wandered around.
Any traditional ideas of beginning, middle and end, or
conventional development, would therefore be pointless, since
people would be arriving and leaving all the time.

The obvious solution would have been to write a New Age
ambient piece, so that it wouldn't matter at what point listeners
arrived and left. I have always tried to avoid obvious solutions
throughout my composing career, and I devised a system of
mini-development for the piece, whereby whatever period of
time was spent in the room by a visitor, he or she would be
certain to hear at least one theme and its variation. In extending
the piece, which was originally ten minutes long, to CD length, I
have taken the opportunity to extend, vary and develop [...]

The equipment used was a Korg M1, Proteus 2 and Proteus 3.
These were recorded onto floppy disk using the Cubase
programme, and mastered by the SADIE System directly onto a
DAT.
--
David Bedford '93

© Voiceprint (UK) 1994
℗ Voiceprint (UK) 1994

Made in Austria

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