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Quiet(assisted) is a set of short text-directed pieces, designed to be heard by a small audience using handheld listening devices. The models for these tools are the customized “listening trumpets” of Karen McCoy.
The instrumentation and number of performers is open. Ideally it should be a mix of voices, traditional pitched instruments, and non-traditional sound sources (i.e. generating noise, in the sense of lack of distinct pitch).
A player may work with one or all of these sources, depending on the
piece at hand. Likewise, particular pieces may require different subsets of performers, based on their resources.
The pieces may be performed in any order, and a selection thereof may be made from the total The duration of each is open, but the effect should be that of concision. These are a set of precise and focused bagatelles.
In principle the piece should be open to performance by amateurs and
professionals, musicians and “non-musicians” alike. Different
backgrounds and skillsets will bring different results, not necessarily
better or worse. A performer does not have to play every piece the group decides upon. But every player should see the work as an opportunity for manifesting the highest concentration possible upon the aesthetic task.

Robert Carl taught in and chaired the composition department of the
Hartt School, University of Hartford until 2022. He is currently Slee
Professor of Music, University at Buffalo, for Fall 2022. He is the author of Terry Riley’s In C (Oxford University press). His music covers a vast range of practices and media, but always attempt to create of sense of
spaciousness for the listener, whether it is vast or intimate.

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from New Music Festival 02022 Documentation: Audience Participation, released January 8, 2023
Composed by Robert Carl

robertcarlcomposer.com

Introduced by JP Lempke
Performed by
Lily Slaton-Barker
JP Lempke
the administrative assistant
Pete Amawawattana
Isabel Pinney
Christian Li
Kathie Hsieh
Kiernynn Grantham-Crum
Thomas Calletano Gonzalez
Grace Clark
Audience Members
Recorded by the administrative assistant on October 16 @ First Christian Church, at the second of three EDME New Music Festival shows in Eugene, Oregon, USA
Richard Fenton did a bit of mastering or something

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A lifetime in noise & experimental stitched to the last 100 years of electroacoustic, ecoacoustic, concrete magique

Improv jazz come unpinned from time

Conceptual music built from field recordings

Sound art for dreaming, drifting, disappearing

Ritual magick, slow to cast; slow to coalesce

Invocations unintended for human ears

Music in geologic time

Aureality for the non-conscious mind ... more

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