Larry Polansky freeHorn Polansky Fiore Beal Kant Bobrowski - CB0049 - Contemporain

An album of three of Polansky’s shape-shifting chamber works. The form of both freeHorn and ii-v-i consists of a continuous modulation between three different harmonic series. freeHorn weaves together the live interaction of acoustic instruments and computer software written by Polansky and Phil Burk. ii-v-i, a reverberant cloud of moving intonation, gradually drifts from one natural harmonic series to another. Only open strings, 2nd, 3rd and 4th harmonics, and notes stopped at the 7th and 12th frets are used, and the guitars are audibly retuned from one “section” to another—each section having a new fundamental and a new tuning. minmaj is Polansky’s unique arrangement/“translation” for two electric guitars of Carl Ruggles’s work for muted brass, Angels. (It is the first movement of Polansky’s 3 Translations for Electric Guitar.) The three works are performed by the composer in the company of a group of Bay Area composer-performers. [CD in 6-panel wallet]