[Coco] Learning the 6809 offer on pucc list

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

At 10:41 PM 10/22/03 -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
>You had me there for a second then I got lost.  Can you explain how it 
>takes 27 years to play 3 CDs, and what is 3 minutes per pass?  :)

It's a full electroacoustic score, with overlapping sounds composed in. The
three CDs start at the same time, and are set to auto-repeat. Because each
CD is a different length (approximately 63:00, 62:30, and 61:50), it takes
27 years and some months to get them back in sync. So if you sit around for
a few hours, you have a new(ish) piece, and then a day later, it sounds
different again -- all the same elements, but kind of like an
extraordinarily long canon. It arose out of the sculptures, and the Prague
revision also included a live string quartet.

My commerical CD (the one that was to be included in the L6809 books Disney
was, um, 'selling') is a 63-minute stereo mix of that 6-channel composition.

Anybody want a copy? Pop me 5 ounces of stamps or 4 international postal
coupons and I'll send one out to you. My address is 176 Coxbrook,
Northfield VT 05663 USA. (Warning: Not for the easily bored.)

Regarding the CoCo, this piece was a manifestation of the series that began
with "Nighthawk" (1984, 4 CoCos) and "Echo" (1985, 4 CoCos each), "In Bocca
al Lupo" (1986, 5 CoCos), "Traveler's Rest/Wolf5" (1991, Model 100), and
"Circular Screaming" (1994, 2 PCs). The next version was supposed to be in
St. Petersburg (Russia) last year, but the music festival was postponed
until 2005.

Dennis