Scott Johnson’s (CRF 2009) Mind Out Of Matter is a work combining Johnson’s two perennial interests: “the use of speech melody to generate accompanying instrumental music, and the hybridization of rock and classical strands of musical DNA.” The work is a “sprawling, extended, 74-minute, eight-movement suite” performed by Alarm Will Sound, and is available at the Tzadik Records website below.
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“Philosopher Daniel C. Dennett’s voice is perhaps the best melody generator I’ve worked with in my speech sampling pieces, and the musicians of Alarm Will Sound rock on a demanding score that tracks Dennett’s train of thought in momentary detail. I sometimes think of the result as the audible equivalent of a medieval illuminated manuscript.”