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<BODY TEXT="#FFCC00" BGCOLOR="black" LINK="#CC6600" ALINK="#FF6666" VLINK="#FF9966"> <P> <TABLE BORDER="1" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="20%" VALIGN="TOP"> <P><B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFBF0">AUSTRALIA SITE<BR> - NEW !</FONT></B></P> <P><B><FONT SIZE="2">Colin Bright - Composer from<BR> Sydney - Australia<BR> </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600">*</FONT><FONT SIZE="2"> </FONT><A HREF="index1-dodo.html" target="right"><FONT SIZE="2">Home Page</FONT></A></B></P> <P><B><B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFBF0">Order on line</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC9900"><BR> </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600">*</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC9900"> </FONT><A HREF="cd.html" target="right"><FONT SIZE="2">CDs for SALE</FONT></A></B><A HREF="cd.html" target="right"><FONT SIZE="2"><BR> </FONT></A><B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600">*</FONT><A HREF="form.html" target="right"><FONT SIZE="2">Order FORM</FONT></A></B></B></P> <P><B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCCFF">latest e music<BR> - listen to<BR> </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600">*</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC9900"> </FONT><A HREF="harp.html" target="right"><FONT SIZE="2">There Ain't No Harps In Hell, Angel !</FONT></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC9900"><BR> </FONT></B><FONT SIZE="1">Where all harpists really belong</FONT><B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC9900"><BR> </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600">*</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC9900"> </FONT><A HREF="bigbang.html" target="right"><FONT SIZE="2">Tales of the Big Bang (Part 1)</FONT></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC9900"><BR> </FONT></B><FONT SIZE="1">Stephen W. 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This piece demonstrates that this <BR> is not true. As much as the music is beautiful and heavenly (tempo = 99.9 bpm), <BR> the player, nevertheless, cannot help but get 'down and dirty', thus - via a tour <BR> of purgatory (tempo =83.25 bpm) - ending up in hell (tempo =66.6 bpm), which<BR> is where all harpists really belong!<BR> <BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Century Gothic">Samples of : -<BR> <BR> AC/DC's Highway to Hell<BR> George F. Handel's Hallelujah Chorus<BR> <BR> and fragments of<BR> <BR> Led Zeplin (heaven) and Jerry Lee Lewis (hell)<BR> + Raging guitar, bass 'n' drums.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#CC6600" FACE="Century Gothic"><BR> <BR> <BR> The piece plays with the idea of heaven and hell in a quirky way, simply juxtaposing them as opposites. The association of angels with the instrument is seriously questioned as the harpist plays bluesy riffs and at one point employs a guitar slide. We begin at heaven and before too long begin our descent -'goin' down' - via purgatory, where things get a bit dirty - 'great balls of fire'. But we manage to find heaven again, with the assistance of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, and, after some treatment, we truly descend to the satanic voices of a new chorus - 'There Ain't No Harps In Hell, Angel!'. Finally, the harp is crackling - afire!<BR> <BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Century Gothic">This piece is dedicated to Marshall McGuire in gratitude for his tireless support and promotion of Australia's composers and their music.</FONT></B> </CENTER> <H3 ALIGN="CENTER"><B><FONT COLOR="#CC6600" FACE="Brushstroke Plain">Urban Psychoscapes</FONT></B></H3> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><B><FONT COLOR="#CC6600" FACE="Century Gothic"><BR> One of a set of pieces which integrate the spoken word, acoustic instruments, players with improvising abilities, electronic instruments. These are pieces which pull no punches. What each piece has to say is done in a direct and sometimes confronting way. They invoke the voice of the repressed, the underdog, the dispossessed.<BR> <BR> These electro-acoustic pieces, or studio pieces, as I think of them, are related musically through the integration of my own stylistic techniques with some aspects of more popular musics, (e.g. rock/techno instrumentation), and, thematically through the socio-polital material (voice/language), giving the music its emotional thrust.</FONT></B></P> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><B><FONT COLOR="#CC6600" FACE="Century Gothic">The Harp is close miked, and played to a CD of electronically produced sounds and samples - including a ¼ tone harp. The harp is essentially a diatonic instrument. That is, it is like the white notes on a piano, which can become 'black' but must be basically one or the other. So, part of the musical idea is for the normal harp and the ¼ tone harp to become integrated with one another, thus producing a new mega-harp. Rhythmically, the player must be quite accurate, as the ¼ tone harp often plays the notes in between the harpist's notes. This produces big, rich, fluid-like arpeggios, some edgy harmonies, and microtonal 'echoes' of the harpist's chords.</FONT></B></P> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><B>  </B><A HREF="index1.html" target="right"><U><B>Home Page</B></U></A></P> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600">View this site in </FONT><A HREF="index.html" target="_blank"><FONT SIZE="2">FRAMES </FONT></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600">- recommended !!</FONT> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY>