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The Bells (1977) Version 2

2010-08-27T23:49:35.000Z

This is the 2nd visualization version of this audio work by myself.

This is an example of one of my early electronic works from 1977. It was first completely written out in a graphic score and then realized. The composition's sounds were created using the Studio Buchla 200 series (suitcase) Synthesizer at The Grinnell College Electronic Music Studio. Within the score spatial movement and timber were of equal in importance as compositional parameters while other parameters such as pitch or rhythms were slightly less in significance. The organization of the sounds was accomplished solely by splicing all the sound events together using a splice block and Revox Reel-To-Reel; over 1000 splices were used to assemble the entire composition. It was written as a 3 movement work within a opening & closing audio framework.

The visualization was created by myself this year 2010, using primarily Artmatic Pro & V-Track software with a few of the textures derived from G-force.

How Long Blues after Jimmy Yancy

2010-08-25T19:14:26.000Z

This work composed in 1998 focuses on integrating Classical & Jazz traditions, in particular early Blues. Stylistically, it sounds very much like a Blues-Jazz, but is composed with a 12-tone methodology with its interval logic having been reconfigured holistically from the original intervals within the piece making it a part of my series of 3rd stream compositions. All of these Kaleidoscopic pieces can be thought of also as variations on the original composition.

Mohawk - After Charlie Parker

2010-08-25T19:06:22.000Z

Mohawk is a variation on a theme by Charlie Parker 'Bird'. I composed this work among some other Jazz variations in the late 1990's. Performance entirely realized by myself and I created the visuals too.

Composed by Richard Byron Strunk

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Wedding Music (Trance Music 2)

2010-08-25T19:01:46.000Z

This work was commissioned by Nathaniel Borenstein for his wife Trina on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary in 1996. Music and visualization were created by myself of course.

Composed by Richard Byron Strunk

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Street Girls

2010-08-25T18:55:55.000Z

This is a short film piece I made for a symposium on violence against women this spring 2010 that was presented April/2010 in the downtown KCK YWCA theater. I created the film, soundtrack, voice over and text. A few images used were free to use; but I did extensive variations upon all such imagery and everything within this short film is both created and assembled by the composer. Subject concerns middle aged men, prostitution, runaways and street life. The text was written during one of my homeless periods in the early 1990's as part of a series of Portraits.
by composer Richard Byron Strunk

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