wind – chime

In this piece for 17-pipe chromatic Chinese mouth organ, I draw upon the musics of mouth organs from two other parts of Asia. From Northeast Thai and Lao khaen music comes the use of drones, regular rhythmic accents and ornamentation, and from Japanese sho music comes slowly changing harmonic clusters. I have also introduced into this blend polyphony, the simultaneous playing of multiple, independent voices, which is fundamental in Western music but foreign to most mouth organ music. This piece was composed for David Badagnani, an ethnomusicology student and multi-instrumentalist at Kent State University.

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