Plastic Music by Rick Nance

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Many of these are part of my PhD project, an exploration of sound as a plastic material and music composition as a plastic art, akin to sculpture or painting. All of them contain some notion of the composer as 'embodied and imbedded'. This Is Not A Model has been remixed since the pressing of "Presence III". Clicking on the title either launches an audio file or takes you to a new page.

Overlook

An odd result of several influences, this was requested by Hultgren, rerouted by me and usurped by Esther Lamnek to amazing effect. Remarkable improvisations from NYUConfluence and Effloresce
with ensemble improv

This is Not A Model

I made my to Europe via Cable Bay in Wales. This piece has samples of skaters in Birmingham Alabama, Birmingham England, Bangor Wales and Berlin (Berlin skaters courtesy of Pete Batchelor). This was produced in the studios of the Univesity of Wales, Bangor, under the auspices of Andrew Lewis. (Hi-Res only) The Transatlantic Half-Pipe

This is recording of the local fauna where I lived my first year in Leicester. Territorial Dispute

Between Dog and Wolf

Taut

Cross Country Runner /

If you "enlarge the grain of observation," then perception can be considered a quality that results from the recursive nature of an organism with its environment, both of them embedded and embodied, as opposed to something internal to the mind of the organism. This short glimmer is to CCR as perception is to them. It is an emergent phenomenon.Glint

Parables

Analogies of Control

K is kelvin. It represents a polar exploration of absolutes. As such, trumpeter Drew Petrie chose to treat this piece in a somewhat 'pure' way, as an acousmatic work, in the dark with just his ears to guide himself and the audienceK

Available as a CD quality file from the "Hi-Res" pageGravity's

GivenLeaveS

Metaphor as Mistake

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