Sounding the ritual of sensual rebellion : Pacific-European resonances

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    Abstract

    The Asian cultural influence in my music has entered through friendship to accompany my European-based aesthetic. These cultural resonances are manifest in my music as erotically charged sonic ritual. A friendship with a Filipina poet has directed my imagination towards a more personal, Pacific-oriented sound world, in parallel with harmonic and structural influences from a European training. This mix reverberates through my earlier work into later material via intervalcolor [1] and timbre sonorities, Pacific—especially Filipino—“musical objects” and conceptual influences from Asia (living color, accelerating cathartic climax) within a European trained structural sense (macrocosmic design, increasing and lengthening ratios). These resonances express, both intuitively and consciously, sensuously charged poetry born of a Pacific locale.
    Original languageEnglish
    Number of pages3
    JournalLeonardo music journal : LMJ : journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
    Publication statusPublished - 2002

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