of spectral music
for large orchestra composed by Tristan Murail
using simulated synthesis to create a harmonic interpolation
between an orchestrally synthesized chord
derived from a simulated bell
sound and a chord derived from a trombone sound (Fineberg 2000, p.69). This process is meant to evoke the shifting of continents and thus the piece is named after the former supercontinent Gondwana
([]).
The piece uses interpolation
to make a smooth transformation on all musical parameters including spectral profile, envelope, and instrumental attacks (ibid, p.108).
...not as much as I am in the metamorphic or sedimentary rock categories. I mean I can take your igneous rocks or leave them. I relate primarily to micas, quartz, feldspar. You can keep your pyroxenes, magnetites and coarse-grained plutonics as far as I'm concerned...
Eunice!? That's a person named Eunice?
I love those old Ventegums.
It so happens, Mr. Simon, that Howard has had discussions with Leonard Bernstein about the possibility of conducting an avalanche ... in E flat.
...you are not Burnsy. Burnsy is Burnsy, I mean Eunice is Burnsy, I mean she isn't Burnsy. Nobody is Burnsy.
It's the television set, Eunice. There's a movie on--a war movie. They're getting dressed for the big battle.
Well, there's not much to see actually, we're inside a Chinese dragon.
Why, those are Howard's. What on Earth are you doing with Howard Bannister's rocks?
Don't kick those rocks, you Philistine!
There is an old Croatian saying, Bollixter, which goes...