About this work:
"Peter's People" is a 3 movement suite derived from the video of the same name. The music was composed by Barton McLean, and the video by wife Priscilla McLean, on a commission by the Arts Center of the Capital Region through the Petersburgh Library and the Taconic Corporation. The video depicts and profiles 7 artists living in the small mountain village of Petersburgh, NY and how they have strived and struggled and kept to their own vision through the years. ?
All three movements used the Kyma System exclusively in the composition. Each composition was done using one pass of a Kyma Timeline with no additional MIDI input.
"The Old Wife of the Mill Dust Reel" is a bagpipe tune, played here by Donald Lindsay, one of the Petersburgh artists and an internationally prominent bagpiper who also runs a piping school in Petersburgh. The reel has many variations, and each of them is played, separated by a second more pulsative idea, with both strains gradually combining to a heroic climax.
Although I, Barton McLean, hold the copyright, I nontheless hereby gladly authorize anyone to make copies and perform the work for noncommercial and/or educational purposes providing that my name is reasonably displayed as the composer. I do not under any circumstances authorize selecting portions of the work to appear intact in another person's composition, or to appear under any other composer's name, without my written signed authorization.
The complete video involving 8 Petersburgh artists and all the music can be found at:
http://youtu.be/h8yo02gSKWo