Music & Techniques by Chris Vaisvil

The Sleeper (a setting of Edgar Allen Poe in 43 note harmonic series segment octave reduced)

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Illustration by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Sleeper is a semi-aleatoric composition using a tuning of 43 harmonics reduced to an octave in each of five instances of Absynth. The source midi material driving absynth is a combination of five difference piano performances. The reading is by Jerome McGann as provided by the PennSound archive. The text of Poe’s poem is here.


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3 responses to “The Sleeper (a setting of Edgar Allen Poe in 43 note harmonic series segment octave reduced)”

  1. william newbold

    But. Right now those who sleep meet the vapors of either, well inside the nite of late.

  2. Michael Kasper

    Dear Chris,

    Interesting piece.

    Peace,

    Mike

  3. Dominique Larré

    Superb piece on this splendid American poem, congratulations to composer
    and text reader.
    Dominique Larré, Sept. 7th 2013, 15:06 local time

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