Electric Confession
for electric guitar and CD
(2000)
duration: 9’
GRT • 074
audio sample
score
available from
Australian Music
Centre
program note
This piece is
dedicated to Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny, co-composers
of The First
Circle. Having
analysed this piece for my Masters thesis some years
before, I had long wanted to write a work which took
The First
Circle as its
starting point. In the end, I deviated away from that model
in a number of ways, but there are still comparable
aspects. The use of a consistent pulse, redefined by varied
groupings of either 2 or 3 quavers, together with a
middle–section improvisation that leads back to a
recapitulation defines the structure of the work in similar
fashion.
The title is indirectly an anagram: from
The First
Circle, I was able
to derive 'Electric Shrift'. I substituted shrift, with its synonym,
confession, and thus arrived at Electric
Confession. While
that was fun (and entirely arbitrary), I do feel that the
title appropriately reflects my homage to Mays and
Metheny’s wonderful piece.
The work was written specifically for Ken Murray, who also
assisted with the preparation of the pre–recorded CD part
and the guitar setup.