David Nerlich: Rare Frequencies #2

Composer: David Nerlich

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David Nerlich: Rare Frequencies #2

Authors

Composer: David Nerlich

Publisher

Canberra School of Music, Australian National University

Abstract

As the name implies, Rare Frequencies #2 is one of a series of works exploring possibilities outside the bandwidth commonly heard in tonal music. The creation of the pieces begins with the transposition of a tonal composition up four octaves and the transformation of most of the melodic and harmonic content into sheets of chaotic sound texture.