pulse
Benjamin Thigpen
Programme notes
a bird flying leaves no mark of its passage
— Zhuang Zhou
Small fragments of an endlessly pulsating universe
All the sounds in pulse were produced by a Buchla 200 modular analog synthesizer.
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pulse was realized in March and April 2010 at EMS (Stockholm, Sweden), in April 2011, July 2011, November and December 2013, and December 2015 at the Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC, Sweden), and in December 2014 and January 2015 at GRM (Paris, France). pulse premiered on March 8, 2015 during the Présences
Premiere
- March 8, 2015, Présences
électronique« » : Concert, Salle 400 — Centquatre-Paris, Paris (France)
- Composer(s): Benjamin Thigpen
- Year of composition: 2010-15
- Instrumentation: 5.2-channel fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: Ina-GRM
Movements
pulse i
- Movement of: pulse
- Duration: 7:58
- ISRC: CAD501710092
pulse ii
- Movement of: pulse
- Duration: 8:56
- ISRC: CAD501710093
pulse iii
- Movement of: pulse
- Duration: 7:07
- ISRC: CAD501710094
