On Saturday I joined Intuitive Music Aberdeen in a lunchtime concert of Intuitive Music by Karlheinz Stockhausen and IMA member Haworth Hodgkinson (who took the attached photo). My role was to play the latest evolutionary phase of Stylophone (Gen-X1 to be precise, a fascinating instrument with apparently huge, if improbable, potential) in two compositions from the May 1968 collection Aus den Sieben Tagen, namely “Arrival” and “Right Durations”. The other players, including Colin Edwards and Mandy Macdonald, played digital synthesizers/keyboards, percussion and recorders along with my analogue sounds, producing a suitably ritualistic music in the Episcopal Cathedral’s resonant acoustic. The two Hodgkinson pieces were “South Breakwater” and “Prime Rant”.
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