ot: string qt radio premiere

[David Beardsley <db@biink.com>]

The radio premiere of David Beardsley's (http://biink.com/db/index.htm) 
30-minute 2004
string quartet "as beautiful as a crescent of a new moon on a cloudless 
spring evening" as
performed by Christina Fong (http://christinafong.com) can be heard at 
11pm PST Friday
July 7th on KALW 91.7 FM's "Music from Other Minds" in San Francisco and 
also via the
internet at http://rchrd.com/mfom.

David's piece was submitted for a project initiated on the "Why 
Patterns?" discussion list.
"For Feldman" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F3T3PK) is second in 
a series
featuring previously unreleased works by emerging composers. This 
96kHz|24bit Audio
DVD (plays in any DVD player) contains 4 world premiere recordings and 
the only available
release of 3 works by Morton Feldman.

One day after dinner, Morton was sitting at the kitchen table having a 
taste of water,
thinking about a carpet or two, when electricity discontinued. Sun set 
and awareness
gradually changed to wonder as he saw the beauty of the crescent of a 
new moon on a
cloudless spring evening passing by the windows.

Many years later, Morton awoke on his
couch from an afternoon nap. Venus, the cat, leapt off the window where 
she was sleeping
permitting sunlight to pass through a glass reclining on a table. "That 
is" he thought, "as
beautiful as a crescent of a new moon on a cloudless spring evening".

This piece is tuned to the system known as Just Intonation, rational 
intervals from the
harmonic series.

-- 
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db