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The Song of the Earth

from ORDO by Philip Blackburn

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The Song of the Earth is a study in transmogrification — the surprising or magical transformation of something — in this case a recording of one of my backyard windharps (think fishing line attached to a resonator) combined with a simultaneous instrumental realization of it. One environmental input; two audio outs. An alchemical reversal of entropy that teases order out of chaos. The conversion of fluctuating wind energy to acoustic tones, from noise to sound, bandwidth to melody, analog to digital, wind velocity to degrees of consonance and dissonance, a double-exposure snapshot of an infinite duration, from ambient installation to fixed composition, from just intonation to equal temperament, from Aeolian drones to extracted rhythms, from clouds to grids, from effortlessly generated material to practiced human virtuosity; The Song of the Earth occupies a place with one ear on the concert stage and the other out of doors, coexisting in tension and harmony. No electronically-generated sounds are used, just various acoustic phenomena such as vortex shedding and difference tones.

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from ORDO, released October 21, 2023
Patti Cudd, vibraphone
Philip Blackburn, windharps

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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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