{"id":38022,"date":"2015-09-16T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modisti.tk\/15\/?p=38022"},"modified":"2015-12-31T16:47:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T14:47:35","slug":"prism-mirror-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modisti.com\/15\/prism-mirror-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Prism, Mirror, Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38023\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38023\" src=\"http:\/\/modisti.tk\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/004713_10_fig2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prism, Mirror, Lens\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modisti.com\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/004713_10_fig2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modisti.com\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/004713_10_fig2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/modisti.com\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/004713_10_fig2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modisti.com\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/004713_10_fig2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/modisti.com\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/004713_10_fig2-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/modisti.com\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/004713_10_fig2-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/modisti.com\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/004713_10_fig2-380x380.jpg 380w, https:\/\/modisti.com\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/004713_10_fig2.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prism, Mirror, Lens by Dave Seidel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have released a new album on Bandcamp called <a href=\"https:\/\/mysterybear.bandcamp.com\/album\/prism-mirror-lens\">Prism, Mirror, Lens<\/a>. It consists of two tracks: the 47-minute title piece, and an older piece called <em>Nur<\/em> that I wrote in 2009 and revised recently. In a departure from my previous releases, these are both performance pieces, and both were recorded as live single takes (after a lot of practicing). Here are summary descriptions of both pieces:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Prism, Mirror, Lens<\/em> (2014) is a piece for Shnth and realtime Csound processing. It utilizes pure tunings, complex timbres, and sounds of long duration, in a setting of continual spectral change. Prism, Mirror, Lens is dedicated to Samuel R. Delany, from whose novel <em>Dhalgren<\/em> the title is taken.<\/li>\n<li><em>Nur<\/em> (2009, revised 2015), composed and performed using SuperCollider, creates rhythmic structure from acoustical beating patterns using overlapping layers of precisely-tuned oscillators. This piece is dedicated to David Borden and Mother Mallard&#8217;s Portable Masterpiece Company; I was fortunate to hear them perform live (more than once) in their original configuration as Borden, Steve Drews and Linda Fisher, when I was a young teenager living in Ithaca, New York in the early 1970s. Nur (???) is an Arabic word meaning light.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The release is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/mysterybear.bandcamp.com\/album\/prism-mirror-lens\">https:\/\/mysterybear.bandcamp.com\/album\/prism-mirror-lens<\/a>. It&#8217;s pay-as-you-wish (which includes $0), so there&#8217;s no reason not to download it and get a much higher-quality listening experience than you will get from streaming it (especially if you download it as FLAC, which is lossless).<\/p>\n<p>My next scheduled performance in on September 26 at <a href=\"http:\/\/as220.org\/\">AS220<\/a> in Providence, RI (US) as part of the duo Palimpsest with the great vocalist <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/amatworks\">Laurie Amat<\/a>. Also on the bill: Matthew Underwood, Mem 1 (Laura and Mark Cetilia), and Ed Osborn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 208px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2023840848\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/mysterybear.bandcamp.com\/album\/prism-mirror-lens\">Prism, Mirror, Lens by Dave Seidel<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have released a new album on Bandcamp called Prism, Mirror, Lens. 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