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Performance of 2 for 3 at the Cadek Conservatory in 1998 (61.6 MB)

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by James Powderly

Moseia

Moseia is a music concrete composition of sequenced audio clips, ranging from interviews with local painters, actors, musicians and performers to found musical moments and audio recorded under practice room doors and candid classroom performances. It explores the museum's role and authenticity in both the fine arts and ethnography.

Make It! Take It!

Make it! Take It! is a piece for four musicians. First, the musicians participate and make an audio recording of a game of basketball to 5 points. Then the performers improvise in teams over the basketball game audio and treating it like a musical score. The musiciansŐ goal is to gain control of the ball and to score and win. A referee/conductor calls the fouls. Performed in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall in Spring of 2000, Chattanooga,TN.

Like Gold to Airy Thinness Beat


Beat Based on the poem by John Donne, Valedictory: Forbidding Mourning, this piece for microtonal solo guitar explores ideas of bodily and harmonic sickness. Performed at the 1999 Birmingham Southern New Music Festival.

Power Lunch


Power Lunch is a music concrete composition consisting only of sounds recorded over three days during lunchtime at The River Street Deli in Chattanooga. Performed in the Cadek Conservatory Hall, Spring 1999.

Mnemosyne and the Roller Coaster Dummy


Mnemosyne was a 17-minute piece for clarinet, alto, soprano and piccolo flute, french horn, violin, cello, piano, percussion and video. The video was created by Damien Crisp and explored ideas about the process of forgetting. Performed in the Roland Hayes Concert hall, Spring 1999.

Two pieces for Three Instruments


2 for 3 is a serial composition for viola, clarinet and bassoon in two movements: a rondo and a double fugue. Performed in the Cadek Conservatory Hall, Fall 1998.

Somnabulist


Performed as a recording arttist (guitar, vocals, lyrics) for the Laser's Edge record label