About this work:
In Wilderness is the Preservation of the World was a five-section complete concert performed from 1984 - 89 by The McLean Mix, with myself and wife Priscilla. She wrote 3 sections and I two. This was the finale, accompanied by slides (35mm), many of which were experimentally altered. This was the first of many nature-based works I have been composing from then until the present (2011). I narrated, sometimes having my voice lowered via Eventide Harmonizer. Basically, slides and tape. No live performance. The Fairlight Computer Music Instrument (CMI) was used extensively in the samples. The 8 - bit resolution of the sampler was and is problematic, and some of the sounds are rather harsh as a result. The "horn" sounds were done by taking a flute and putting it through a Serge synthesizer module (the Wave Multiplier). This was done in the Univ. of Texas Electronic Music Centers--the new one with the Fairlight CMI. Done in 1983, just before I left the Univ. of Texas studios. And so, "In Wilderness...." was done between two studios (as was "Mysteries of the Ancienct Nahuatl").
(Text by John Muir, Thoreau, Wordsworth). Stereo electronic music CD with slides, live performance of amplified & processed bicycle wheel., text (in “Voices of the Water” -- from Steward Edward White’s “The Forest.”). Commissioned and premiered at the Bowling Green State U. Festival of New Music, Nov., 1985. Production on an early Fairlight CMI with 8 bit resolution for “Passages of the Night.” Distortion through a Serge module. Recorded on MLC Records in 1989. Subsequently performed at: U. Washington, Seattle(1/86), U. Victoria, B.C.(2/86), U. Idaho, Moscow (2/86), U. Akron(3/86), Bucknell U.,(3/86),Syracuse Soc. for New Music (3/86), New Music America, Houston (4/86), SUNY, Oneonta, N.Y. (11/86), N. Adams State Col. (2/87), Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo (2/87),Indiana University (2/87),Alternative Museum/Composers Forum (3/87), Sierra Club (3/87), Fitchburg Public Library (3/87), WGBH-FM Morning Pro Musica Live (4/87), Univ. of Lowell, Mass.,(3/87), U.C. Video Space, Minneapolis, (3/88), Calvin College (3/88), St. Olaf College (3/88), Keene State College (4/88), Montclair State U. (3/88), North Texas State (2/89), William & Mary College (2/89), Cal. State U.-Chico (3/89), San Diego State U. (3/89), Univ. of S. Cal. (3/89), U. of Washington (3/89), Lewis & Clark College,Portland (3/89), Wichita State U. (4/89), MTNA National Conference (4/89), Scranton (Pa.) Art Gallery (4/89), Univ. of Vermont, Burlington (4/89). Walla Walla College, Wash. (2/90), Rutgers Univ. (3/90), Ohio Univ. (3/90), Towson State Univ., (4/90), Goucher College, Md. (4/90), Recorded through MLC Publications.
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