the Ceiling stared at me but i beheld only the Stars

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about: the Ceiling stared at me but i beheld only the Stars is an ambient-noise electronic work that takes as its starting point the intricate stonework found on the ceiling of the Quire in Tewkesbury Abbey • The central idea explored in the work is encapsulated in this quotation from George Herbert's 'The Elixer':

A man that looks on glasse,
On it may stay his eye;
Or if he pleaseth, through it passe,
And then the heav'n espie.

More specifically, the piece is concerned with notions of imposed restriction (the 'ceiling' of the title), with the concomitant spiritual reaction to—& transcendence beyond—such blind barriers • This is heard most prominently in the work’s fundamental conflict between two types of material, one noise-based, the other pitched & bell-like •

Dedicated to Michael Perry Goodman •
credits: released 07 June 2010
Opus 22
Interrobang i03
© 2010 Simon Cummings
www.simoncummings.com
tags: tags: experimental ambient avant garde contemporary classical electronic experimental noise United Kingdom
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