textbook: music of solitary landscapes in hyperspace (piece for IPS)

by David Toub

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cosmic heat (from the rig veda) 04:08
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the sick face in the bowels of the earth (sakataro hagiwara) 13:23
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the nameless ones [from brownstone eclogues] (conrad aiken) 19:40
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thought (walt whitman) 15:34
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from the dhammapada 26:43
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fern hill (dylan thomas) 21:14
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joyful wisdom (nietzsche) 28:56

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textbook: music of solitary landscapes in hyperspace (piece for IPS) (1984-1987)

IPS is Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, the father of asepsis (along with Joseph Lister). I had gotten interested in his life and read parts of his textbook Die Ätiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers while I was living in Chicago. The "textbook" part comes from the fact that each of the seven sections is named for a particular poem or book that I found interesting. While each "text" had something to do with each section, the work is not at all programmatic, and nothing should be read into the music based on what I chose for each section. -- David Toub

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released April 14, 2023

Virtual piano realization -- Steve Layton
Originally recorded in 2009

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Composer, performer, recordist, connector, facilitator. Editor of Sequenza21.com, a long-running website reporting on contemporary classical music.
Collaborator at ImprovFriday/Sound-In, a weekly web gathering of musicians from around the globe. NiwoSound is an umbrella for innovative art music / art sound. ... more

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