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Hex Stillness Escape

by Steve Adams

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hex stillness escape 02:43
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hex stillness escape hex stillness escape hex stillness escape hex stillness escape octagon hexagram silence octagon hexagram silence octagon hexagram silence octagon hexagram silence hex stillness escape octagon hexagram silence hex stillness escape octagon hexagram silence hex stillness escape octagon hexagram silence hex stillness escape octagon hexagram silence
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song with grey wing 03:55
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moonlit smells 03:28
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pedestrian piece 03:38
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first time reset 02:40
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not erased yet 05:03
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layering, reversal, duplication 05:43
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after Satie 03:13
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the rhythm of the runts 02:49
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liquefaction permitted 05:14
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pressure, gesture, moisture 06:50
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fictional clocks 04:34
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more pieces of the puzzle 03:21
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Hex Stillness Escape is my fourth collection of pieces that were started while participating in songadayforamonth.com, during January, 2019. It’s dedicated to Robert Rauschenberg, whose work I’ve seen a lot of during the last year, between the SFMOMA retrospective and his mammoth work The Quarter Mile at LACMA. I was constantly reminding myself while making these to simplify, leave things out, only use what really needed to be there, and to leave some rough edges. It can be very tempting when making music on the computer to pile more on and have everything line up perfectly, but, for me, that doesn’t lead to the most interesting results.

"after Satie" uses the text from Satie’s Vexations, which was read by Sylvie Sullivan - thanks Sylvie! It is one of several process pieces here, using a structure where the harmony grows out a third in each direction with each repetition, ending with #11 chords above and below. "moonlit smells" has an additive melody that grows a phrase longer with each repetition. "fictional clocks" stacks a perfect fourth and major third and repeats that pattern upward at different speeds, then reverses it at the end.

Thanks also to Myles Boisen for sonic guidance, Cal Scott for the insane Kryptanium Reaktor ensemble used for the violin sounds, and to Lauren Adams, inspirationist.

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released March 26, 2019

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Steve Adams Oakland, California

Steve Adams plays saxophones, flutes, electronics, and composes. He’s been in the Rova Saxophone Quartet since 1988 (“the new guy”) and has toured widely and recorded over 30 CDs with them. His duo with bassist Scott Walton has a CD "Cookies for Cyrano" on pfMENTUM. He received a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2000, and teaches at Mills College. ... more

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