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Ghostly Psalms: Roots of a Magic Square

from Ghostly Psalms by Philip Blackburn

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(organ duet 1: Gary Verkade and Lars Sjöstedt)

Some find comfort in numbers, especially ones laid out in a matrix that embodies exquisite internal relationships and irrefutable logic. The three organ tropes of Ghostly Psalms use bell-change patterns to reinterpret the same six-line sequence according to different schemes that determine the number of notes, their duration, and pitch (both overtones and undertones). The permutations never repeat exactly until the final phrase. The tropes present as it were different facets of the same crystal. Total serialism and campanology: truly a nerd’s paradise.

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from Ghostly Psalms, released March 27, 2021
Featuring Philip Blackburn, Ellen Fullman, Teresa Wong, Wild Music Chorus,
Clare College Choir, Sisters of Notre Dame, Maria Jette, Donald Engstrom,
Carrie Henneman Shaw, Andy Lo, Gary Verkade, Lars Sjöstedt

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Philip Blackburn Saint Paul, Minnesota

Philip Blackburn was born in Cambridge, England, and studied music there and at the University of Iowa with Kenneth Gaburo. He is a public artist specializing in sound — a composer/environmental sound-artist. Blackburn’s works have been heard in ships’ harbors, state fairs, forests, and coming out of storm sewers, as well as in galleries, parking lots, and on concert stages.

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