Automaton

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Release Date: 1990

Label: Clou

Automaton (Slave With Ewer Dance) is the first part of a trilogy. It is based on Murat's impressions of the mechanical fraud which was drafted and constructed by the Anatolian scientists during the first half of the thirteenth century.
In the first half of the thirteenth century the palaces located in the northern area between Euphrates and Tigris were managed by robots and machines.Cezari's work Kitab Fi Marifat El-Hayal El-Handasiya (the book of mechanical knowledge about automatons) unites scientific knowledge with practical application and is useful for the discovery of mechanical frauds.
The figure on the cover of the album represents an automatic construction which served its owner during his ablutions. Similar automatons could perform music on numerous instruments. On this album, Murat Ses performs his impressions of the timeless and boundless context of the civilization

Some technical and structural information:
The self-programmed sounds on the synthesizers base on the typical characteristics of local Levantine instruments as zurna, mey (low-key-zurna), ney and kanun. Some solo passages use typical timbral colors of Mehter ensembles consisting of numerous wind and percussion instruments (wood/brass) which are also composer's own programs. The scales in the compositions contain 1/4 tones of micro-tonal areas, which give the original authentic flair of the Levant. The rhythmes are as diverse as 9/8 and 4/4. Some parts of the music have Central Asian roots and structures of the historical Levant.

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