Peter Milsom: Reflective Transience (1983)

Abstract

"Composed on a Nedco Able 40 series music computer,this piece is complementary to Solarion Part I and partof the diptych of that name. In Reflective Transiencethere are four procedures called upon to implementsound. Two procedures use a gliding frequency over asmall range, and two procedures concern themselves with frequency modulation and channel rotation. Effectively,a sound is created from a chosen frequencyrange and given different treatments of gliding andmodulation. A sound is developed in a very short spanof time from, say, a low frequency into a high frequency.There are four oscillators sounding and fouroscillators modulating, each individually programmedto pass through certain events." -- Peter Milsom