Jack Briece

4 synthesizer keyboards (Casio, Roland)

Composer's original program note on two of the movements:

PEACE and PUSHUP WORDS AND FOOD are two of the five pieces that comprise my HETEROPHONIOUS FOOL, music composed and recorded in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the spring of 1984.

This music is distinguished by its rigorous use of heterophonious polyphony and by metric and melodic structures based on numerical series related to the esoterics of The Book of Changes.

The music of PEACE is based on the numbers seven and eight, and uses various breakups of these numbers to define its rhythmics as well as the ratio of tempi between its two strata. PUSHUP WORDS AND FOOD works through, in its various strata, the metric series 9+8+6, 6+7+9 and 8+6+9.

Rhythmic procedures are characterized by emphasis on final pulses in each metric group; the sonics are polymodal. Although these pieces are individual and may be played separately, together they form an asymmetrically balanced music of eleven (3+8) minutes duration.

The music was created using Roland and Casio synthesizers.

This is an archival item from ACA's catalog, and not currently available for purchase.