Compositions by Brian Kehlenbach
Popped Music
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Instrumentation: Live Synthesizer and Digital Tape
Duration: c. 9:00
Notes:
Popped Music was realized on Performer sequencing
software and a variety of sampled sounds including pots,
pans, and various percussion instruments. The solo part can
be played on any type of keyboard synthesizer with good "lead
line" type solo sounds.
Circumdare
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Instrumentation: Orchestra 2222 4331, 2 perc, strings
Duration: c. 10:00
Notes:
Circumdare is a one-movement orchestral piece which
presents carefully controlled motivic material in various
melodic, harmonic and textural contexts. The motives are
gestures which are based upon shapes of the circle, arch,
and spiral. Circumdare has been performed at USC and
by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra during the Spoleto festival
of 1996.
Entropic Rondo
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Instrumentation: Solo Piano
Duration: c. 10:00
Notes:
Entropic Rondo is a one-movement piece for piano which
attempts to develop along traditional means (in rondo form)
but flirts with formal breakdown as the materials sometimes "dissolve" into
basic and uniform componants. The piece has been played at
Rancho Santiago College and also during the Los Angeles John
Cage Festival of 1995.
The Twenty-Fifth Hour
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Instrumentation: flute (picc.), oboe, clarinet, bassoon,
F horn, percussion, violin I, violin II, viola, cello, bass
Duration: c. 20:00
Notes:
The Twenty-Fifth Hour is a four-movement piece for
chamber ensemble. The movements are labeled alla marcia,
insistently, prelude, and dance. Much of the melodic and
harmonic material of each movement is derived from a pentatonic
(five-tone) scale. The title refers to the hour of reckoning
and the attitude of man in the face of his impending fate.
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