WARREN BURT
Harmonic
Colour Fields
"Harmonic Colour Fields is a set of five computer pieces which explore static
microtonal harmonic fields. This means that once a piece begins, harmonically,
it's going to stay pretty much the same for it's entire duration. The pieces are
descended from the 1970s "drone" pieces of such composers as La Monte
Young, Charlemagne Palestine, Hal Budd, and myself, but they make greater use
of slow harmonic progressions to make more varied musical surfaces. I wanted to
make pieces where the quality of the harmony was the primary focus, and so used
very simple rhythms, plain electronic timbres, and a minimum of melodic structuring.
In fact, in these pieces, any sense of melody is simply the result of how the
harmonic material is articulated. That is, change in harmony, and not construction
of melody was my aim in making these pieces. The title refers to the "colour
field" minimalist painters of the 60s and 70s. I thought of these pieces
as analogous to those paintings, in that the explore the varieties and shades
of one particular harmonic musical colour."
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Warren Burt
Warren Burt attended the State University of New York, Albany (BA, 1971) and
the University of California, San Diego (MA, 1975) before moving to Australia
in 1975. In Australia he has worked in academia (La Trobe University, NSW Conservatorium,
Victorian College of the Arts, Australian National University), education, and
radio (freelance and commissioned productions for ABC and PBAA), and as a composer,
film maker, video artist, and community arts organizer.
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