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ICEBERG (1985) was written for percussionist William Winant and is dedicated to him. It is scored for glockenspiel, crotales, and hi-hat, with each instrument being amplified and processed electronically in a different way. Two symmetrical pitch-sets, one in the glockenspiel and one in the crotales, phase against each other, and in each of the twelve sections the tonal center moves down one half-tone, while the generative interval used in determining the pitch set is widened by the same amount. The electronic sounds are all live transformations of percussion, and the performer plays in time with the automated, switching of effects, starting simply, and then playing more complex and syncopated patterns against it. A linear frequency shift is used to gradually modulate the acoustic sounds downward, along with a digital delay which recirculates it, describing an underwater geography to the percussion.

re-released and available on ICONICITIES, New World Records, 80723-2

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from SNAKECHARMER (ART 1001, 1989), released July 1, 1989
William Winant, percussion
Chris Brown, live electronics
Recording Engineer, Tom Erbe

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Artifact Recordings San Francisco, California

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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