CORPORATE COITUS ​

A brilliant variation on Cageian notions. -Marjorie Perloff
​Corporate Coitus was composed while I was working as an audio technician at a company producing background music for businesses. When the company CEO was interviewed by a well-known business journal, I kept the audio portion of the interview for source material. I extracted the extra-verbal sounds—the “ahs” and “ums” and intakes of breath—for use in this new piece. The title Corporate Coitus came about as I feel that sex and business are always somehow connected. I heard the piece as an imaginary sex act gethering intensity to a climax followed by a gradual de-tumescence.

Shore Morning from Victor Ingrassia on Vimeo.

SHORE MORNING

An excerpt from Shore Morning, the first of my Four Short Pieces for Guitar (1993) played by Cem Duruöz and beautifully visualized by Victor Ingrassia.

KINDERGARTEN WORD RING

This is a reading of Kindergarten words and sounds by two kindergarten age students. I have also included some of their infectious laughter as well as the crunching of a pretzel. My intention was to create a quick-moving scherzo movement which would present these spoken words and phonemes traveling through space with very little electronic processing. If one listens within the sounds of the well-articulated words of this piece, it seems that these young minds can educate us about the laughter and curiosity and serious nature of words we use everyday. These are words which a kindergartner not only reads, but lives.

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