WULF: SIXTEEN, For Broken Dulcimer & Feedback

by Kevin Wulf

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1.	Part One, Movement I. "BOAP" 01:30	buy track
2.	Part One, Movement II. "KLOG" 01:47	buy track
3.	Part One, Movement III. "JOZ" 01:04	buy track
4.	Part One, Movement IV. "ZED" 01:19	buy track
5.	Part Two, Movement I. "BOEM I" 01:36	buy track
6.	Part Two, Movement II. "LLA" 01:48	buy track
7.	Part Two, Movement III. "BOEM II" 01:26	buy track
8.	Part Two, Movement IV. "ALL" 01:40	buy track

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This piece is constructed into two parts, each with four movements. The sound for feedback is generated by sending a microphone into a PA, with the PA being fed through a guitar head and cabinet, with the microphone being moved, according to the score, in front of the speakers. Using a seismographic notation system, I've assembled each cabinet to its own staff. The higher the line is on the staff, the more towards the left speaker the mic should be; the lower, the more towards the left. The dulcimer is notated with on a single line, and each note is coupled with a letter. Each letter represents one of SIXTEEN string groupings present on the specific dulcimer used to write and record this piece. A legend is included within the score, and so is a picture of the dulcimer with the string groups labeled. Time within the piece moves left to right, but is indeterminate. Each event within the piece happens relative to the previous event, but the exact duration of a sound, noise, or silence is produced through chance operations. There is an emphasis on the numbers "15, 16, 1, 2, 7, 13, 12, 11, and 10", as noted at the beginning of the score, and spoken in the fourth movement of the first part. These were chosen based on which notes were played throughout the piece in solitude, not as those only played when a "z", meaning all, is present. The title of each movement was generated based upon the strings used within the movement itself {with an occasion vowel thrown in to make each title pronounceable}. The only movement that deviates from this rule is the fourth, "ZED", whose title refers to the use of "z" and it being the final movement of the first part, just as "z" is the final letter of our alphabet. Therefore, the titles themselves are also indeterminate. The emphasized instrument family in the first part is the cabinet, while the second part beholds the dulcimer as its own. Thus, this may be one hell of a hoot to soak yourself into; slowly, gently, delicate even. Sharp side-head pains follow those who do not tread cautious on volume level!

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released December 1, 2023

All music composed and performed by Kevin Wulf
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Kevin Wulf
Written between September 26, and October 3, 2023

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Kevin Wulf New York, New York

Composer based in New York City.

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