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Hunter Coblentz - Lattice (2018)

from Music for Tuned Glass by Larry Polansky, Hunter Coblentz

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Lattice (2018)

Lattice is a work composed for 4 musicians and 27 tuned glasses. In early 2017 I began collecting glasses of various shapes and sizes in preparation for what would eventually materialize as this work. The tuned glass is particularly suitable for investigations into tuning & pitch, and yet surprisingly few works for tuned glasses exist outside Twelve-Tone Equal Temperament.

Musicologist Bob Gilmore wrote of one ambitious work, Larry Polansky’s Glass (1978-9), that proved to be very instructive in demonstrating how one might navigate the possibilities and limitations that exist within the medium.

In Lattice, pitches relate to one another via Just, septimal harmonic relationships; spiralling ad infinitum through pitch space away from any intonational focus or key. This compositional approach Lou Harrison called ‘free-style.’ In it one observes no scalar constraint as pitches wander freely, the music drifting in harmonic space. In Lattice, beating between tones is formally controlled through glissandi, achieved by tilting a sounding glass on its vertical axis.

I am grateful to Larry Polansky, for his permission & blessing to record his wonderful work, and for inspiring me to begin my own musical explorations in tuned glass.

Hunter Coblentz | London, England | 23/2/18

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from Music for Tuned Glass, released April 1, 2018
Performing: Hunter Coblentz

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