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"Dialogue” grew out of programs Tenney wrote for a set of pieces called “Five Stochastic Studies”, which, along with some studies in timbre, occupied his time at Bell Labs from 1961-1963. “Dialogue” uses stochastic control over timbral, durational and pitch parameters. It was the first piece by Tenney which made use of the computer in determining hierarchical features, and in making stochastic decisions regarding the given statistics of musical parameters for various sections. In other words, the software is responsible for larger-level formal decisions as well as small-level event values, specifying the mean and range of musical parameters over long sections. The piece is a “dialogue” between noise and tones. By stochastically specifying the statistical trajectories of these two types of sounds, Tenney creates a constant shifting of emphasis between them.


Technical note: The version on this CD was digitally remixed and remastered from the original analog tapes.

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from JAMES TENNEY: SELECTED WORKS 1961 – 1969 (ART 1007, 1992), released January 3, 1992

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ARTIFACT RECORDINGS is a project of Ubu, Incorporated, an artist-run, non-profit organization supporting experimental and electronic music based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our download and compact disk series is dedicated to representing a living experimental music tradition that continues to thrive in the cracks between the commercial, academic and classical music establishments. ... more

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