Wrote a new little piece last night and this morning, or, rather, composed it directly into Cubase, and based on the only other exercise like it in my work thus far. First one was called Big Beat Remix, Op. 135 (2006), after the earlier
Big Beat, Op. 39 (1990, which states eight generic measures of rock-n-roll drum rhythms in orchestral pitches simultaneously at various temporal levels), but with MIDI-track content provided by an assignment in Mark Steidel's Music 172 at Diablo Valley College. The new one is Beat Beat Remix Count-Off, Op. 146 (2007), after an assignment in Doug Michael's Music 173, which requires a recorded vocal "1-2-3-4" stated in rhythm to MIDI tracks at least three times. 'Course I had to go overboard, and there are about a million (not really) repetitions of the count-off stated from quarter-note pulse, through a background ratio where the four counts take 64 measures to be heard, and beyond.... Sort of like Steve Reich's Slow-Motion Sound, except it's not....
Normally I don't like to assign an opus number to one small work (other than these, I can only think of The Lord's Prayer, Op. 5 [1975]), but these little beat pieces have comparatively less to do with the other ideas with which I work, so there it is. Will probably collect them someday in a volume no doubt called Book II (Textbook) for Orchesrtra, and give it another opus number. Cheating...
OK, another idea: Let's put it back with Big Beat Remix, as second of two movements...
Big Beat Remix, Op. 135 (2006)
I. Big Beat Remix Midi
II. Big Beat Remix Count-Off
