FRANK STEMPER, COMPOSER
Funk (1993)
Electro-Acoustic Music via computer [5:15 mins.]
Realized via Macintosh software Finale — hardware: Yamaha TX816 synthesizer, Oberheim Matrix 6r synthesizer, Roland S220 sampler, Alesis Quadraverb sound processor.
Premiered 17 February 1994, Music From This Century – SIU CARBONDALE.
Opus 31
Premiered 17 February 1994, Music From This Century – SIU CARBONDALE.
Opus 31
NOTES
At some point trying to learn computer music software and hardware stopped being merely screwing around and began slipping into my metier. I’m not sure, but this sketch may be the first. Don’t know why. And after this, the technology began influencing the substance – and vice versa. The limitless timbres bled into orchestration, texture into style, and so on for every imaginable musical parameter. There are a thousand or so sketches that came before and after FUNK, but for some reason this one stuck. At least one definition of Art is “junk that never seems to get thrown out.”
The piece was first premiered, er let out in public, 17 February 1994 at a Music From This Century concert at SIU CARBONDALE.
At some point trying to learn computer music software and hardware stopped being merely screwing around and began slipping into my metier. I’m not sure, but this sketch may be the first. Don’t know why. And after this, the technology began influencing the substance – and vice versa. The limitless timbres bled into orchestration, texture into style, and so on for every imaginable musical parameter. There are a thousand or so sketches that came before and after FUNK, but for some reason this one stuck. At least one definition of Art is “junk that never seems to get thrown out.”
The piece was first premiered, er let out in public, 17 February 1994 at a Music From This Century concert at SIU CARBONDALE.