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Concerto in D, for solo violin and DMIX (1991)

by Daniel V Oppenheim

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Track 1 01:48
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Track 2 01:02
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Track 3 03:11
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Track 4 02:10
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Track 5 04:51
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Track 6 01:52
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Track 7 01:54
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Track 8 01:56
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Track 9 00:58
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Track 10 00:42
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Track 11 01:22
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The Concerto in 'D' is scored for solo violin, several synthesizers and a signal processors, all controlled by a computer in real-time via DMIX. DMIX is a high level environment for music composition and performance developed by the composer, it is object-oriented and implemented using ParcPlace Smalltalk-80 version 2.3.

The work is in three movements. The first and last are more traditional and use pitch oriented materials as a basis for harmony and structure. The middle section is influenced by Musique Concréte and explores new sonoric, gestural, and expressive domains, that are made available for the first time via the unique combination of an electric violin and the DMIX program. The merging of these two opposing approaches, pitch versus timbre, was one of the main compositional problems that shaped this work.

The Concerto explores new modes of performance, musical expression, and means of interaction between the performer and the music. An elaborate tracking system, SHADOW, was implemented to enable the computer to constantly follow the performer, his tempo, dynamics, and other musical and gestural parameters The performer plays and SHADOW follows, transcending the performer beyond the role of the Classical virtuosi into the conductor. However, this does not fundamentally change the paradigm of neither Classical composition nor performance practice. A step further was taken where, under the composer’s careful supervision, the performer's gestures were used to shape the accompanying musical materials as they are being composed. It is specifically this new mode of performance practice, much different from improvisation, that give this Concerto its unique flavor.

The concerto is composed in three movements with an interlude between Movement II and II:

Movement I
Movement II
Interlude
Movement III

In this Album, the movements are split between 11 Tracks that together, are a continuous flow of the Concerto.

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released January 27, 2016

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