The Otto Laske Collection Part Two: Electronic Music

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1.	Structure IV (1973) 16:33 video	info	buy track
2.	Structure VIII (1975/2009) 10:43	info	buy track
3.	The Death of Virgil, mvt. 1 (2004) 06:19	info	buy track
4.	The Death of Virgil, mvt. 2 (2004) 08:59	info	buy track
5.	The Death of Virgil, mvt. 4 (2004) 06:01	info	buy track

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The listener should note that the creative process that led to the compositions here streamed is very different from traditional composition in that it is, at the same time, a real-time performance and a recording session if not also the final mastering, as in contemporary intermedia composition. This multi-faceted process enables the composer to develop an entire composition from an alphanumeric base score whose syntactic, spatial, and timbral potential for variation becomes the foundation of an entire work. As a result, the entire creative process takes place in the compositional domain like in digital painting, the result being a finished piece of art.

This electronic album (45:30) presents three compositions:
• Structure IV, 1973 (16:35)
• Structure VIII, 1975/2009 (10:37)
• The Death of Virgil, mvts. 1, 2, 4, 2004 (18:15)

In Structures IV & VIII, emphasis falls on deriving an unbroken musical flow from a short base score that is varied and orchestrated in a multitude of ways. Structure IV is my first computer music, in the sense that software alone, not any physical generators, produced sounds upon input of an alphanumeric score read by the software according to a ‘frequency modulation’ model. Structure VIII uses a proprietary sound generation model developed at the Instituut voor Sonologie, Utrecht, The Netherlands. The original composition was reworked in 2009 so as to render the compositional idea behind it more transparently and with richer tone colors.

The first two compositions reflect the soundscape of digital sound synthesis in the 1970’s (Truax’s POD1), while the last one stems from the technologically more sophisticated composing environment of Scarletti’s Kyma of the first decade of the 21st century.

In The Death of Virgil the composer’s goal is to render the complex and meditative internal dialogue of the great Roman poet Virgil as he struggled over the fate of his Aeneis epic during the last days and hours of his life, as imagined in Hermann Broch’s novel.

See also the individual program notes for each piece.

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released August 28, 2023

Otto Laske is a pioneer of software-based composition in both its instrumental-vocal and electronic forms. He is also a cognitive musicologist, poet and visual artist. As a musicologist, he created a new literature on music focused on understanding music composition and analysis as researchable cognitive processes that can be illuminated and taught by focusing on the ‘thought forms’ used by individual creators. On this basis, he expanded what G.M. Koenig called Composition Theory, working extensively with, and reflecting upon, the latter’s Project One composing software. His music and poetry are found at www.ottolaske.com, his visual art at www.saatchiart.com/olaske.

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Otto Laske is a pioneer of software-based composition in both its instrumental-vocal and electronic forms. He is also a cognitive musicologist, poet and visual artist. As a musicologist, he created a new literature on music focused on understanding music composition and analysis as researchable cognitive processes that can be illuminated by focusing on the ‘thought forms’ used by creators. ... more

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