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The Creation of “Dance at the End of Time”

“Dance at the End of Time” is an electro-acoustic dance piece using choral samples. Having written the darkly comic “The Garden of Earthly Delights” just before the Covid epidemic, I wanted to make a more positive, joyful piece. The CDP software was extended to create and transform rhythmic choral melodies so they could be modified in sung-text, melody, rhythm, tempo, and vocal articulation, and assembled into rhythmic chordal events.

PublishedJune 7, 2024
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The Creation of “Dance at the End of Time”

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Trevor Wishart

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Trevor Wishart

Trevor Wishart (*1946), composer/performer from the North of England specialising in sound metamorphosis, and constructing the software to make it possible (Sound Loom / CDP). He has lived and worked as a composer-in-residence in Australia, Canada, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Mexico and the USA. He creates music with his own voice, for professional groups, or in imaginary worlds conjured up in the studio and his most recent work “The Garden of Earthly Delights” (2021) is a darkly comic take on the human situation using the voices of both actors and politicians. He is also the principal developer of music processing software for the Composer’s Desktop Project. His aesthetic and technical ideas are described in the books On Sonic Art, Audible Design and Sound Composition. In 2008 he was awarded the international Giga-Herz Grand Prize for his life’s work, and in 2018 the British Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) Award for Innovation.

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