natus/natatus 1 [electronic (ChucK)]
This is the first version of a piece written as a birth present for a friend's son. The piece is nearly 6 hours long and is meant to induce sleep. The pitch collections are derived from a type of serialism that I first explored in "Icosahedral" from the 9 Bagatelles for Guitar Trio. The twelve chromatic pitches are treated as the vertices of an icosahedron. Trichords are derived from the faces of surface, and chord progressions arise from a traversal of the skin of the solid. The title takes note of the fact that the Latin words for "birth" and "swim" are nearly the same.
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