The 78 Eleven Note Chords - Music

American Composer And Critic Tom Johnson Born November 18 1939 In Greeley Colorado Is One Of The Few Composers To Self-Identify As Minimalist In Fact He May Have Coined The Term While Serving As The New Music Critic For The Village Voice. He Has Since Collected Those Articles In The Book The Voice Of New Music Which Is Available Free Online. He Has Lived In Paris Since 1983. His Pieces Are Most Often Based Simply On Mathematical And Logical Processes Such As Tiling Which He Attempts To Make As Clear As Possible. His Works Include Rational Melodies An Hour For Piano Organ And Silence And The Four Note Opera. As Greg Sandow 2003 Describes Nine Bells "in Which He Walked At A Steady Rhythmic Pace And If I Remember Correctly For More Than An Hour Among Nine Suspended Burglar Alarm Bells Systematically Exploring All The Possible Paths Among Them. Which Since He Strikes Each Bells As He Passes It Are Also All The Possible Melodies Their Pitches Might Make. As In Many Of Tom's Works Theory And Practice Are Identical Here... You See And Hear The Structure Of The Piece. That's Not Even Remotely Abstract Instead It's Pure Happiness As The Pealing Bells Seem To Ring With Tom's Concentration Visible In His Face And Body Audible In His Steady Steps And His Joie De Vivre." Johnson Is Married To Artist Esther Ferrer. read less