TITLE: The elements of risk in creation
CAT# (YEAR COMPOSED): #59 (2001)
INSTRUMENTATION: an electronic composition with optional voice
DURATION (APPROX): 6’05 (BETA Version 4m39)
PREMIERE PERFORMANCE: Electronic playback only: “Ursprung” (experimental music theater) in the Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin Prenzlauerberg during the Festival ‘Reservoir V’, 2001
Electronic playback with voice: Mike Edgerton at Orgelpark in Amsterdam on 2016_05_11
RECORDING:
electronic playback only:
voice with electronic playback (video):
NOTE: The elements of risk in creation represents the feelings of false memories of creation or the feeling we’ve been here before, in the hospital and in the wilds. Is this a previous life, since I’ve not been here before? Why is the feeling so strong – why is the image in my mind so clear when I’ve never been to Japan? These illusions are represented by brain wave signals and heartbeats, as well as the cooing, mutterings, and biphonic cries of infants and patients. What illusion is this – the sounds of the cooing, muttering, biphonic cries of our non-human relatives? These are the memories that invade my silence. These are the resonances from different environments that are always present. Is this reality, did I do that? Déjà vu.
Michael Edward Edgerton 