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Structure IV is a through-composed work in three main movements that heralds much of my future electronic music. The middle section is highly song-like, with siren-like sounds coming to the fore. The emphasis is on creating an unbroken flow of sound, in a space within which distances draw attention to proximities (such that objects once near are removed into the distance and vice versa). Composed by way of a frequency modulation model the music is heard as a physical entity floating through acoustic space with the greatest liberty. In such a space, densities become measurable on a scale from zero to infinite.

Structure IV was composed for concerts at the Institute of Sonology at Geertekerk, Utrecht, The Netherlands, using B. Truax POD5 program for computer-aided sound synthesis. Its form emerged from intense analytical listening discerning the structural and sonic elements required to build a cohesive and dynamic sound sequence. The final arbiter of the form resided in the composer’s mind.

Performances include: the Institute of Sonology (1973), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1973), Zagreb New Music Festival (1974), Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges (1974), Festival Pro Musica Nova, Bremen (1974), Belgian Radio, Ghent, Belgium (1978), University of Illinois, Urbana (1978), and NEWCOMP, Boston, MA (1990).

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from The Otto Laske Collection Part Two: Electronic Music, released August 28, 2023

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Otto Laske Gloucester, Massachusetts

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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