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Eternal Return of a Ritual Form. 2011​.​For clarinet, piano and tape

by Paul Dolden

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Eternal Return of a Ritual Form. 2011. For Clarinet, Piano and pre recorded medium.

Francois Houle=Clarinet.
Jane Hayes=Piano.

There is a hypnotic quality in some form of world music and Western popular music that I find very engaging. The challenge as a composer is to be hypnotic without being boring!
In this work there is a melodic and rhythmic repetition that begins to feel ritualistic. This musical ritual begins slowly and accelerates to a frenzy of activity. The repetition is intended to create a hypnosis that keeps ringing on in the ear after the final broadband noise tries to obliterate it.

The work is included in the "Golden Dolden Box Set" available under the "merchandise" tab. This box set includes all my music, scores and essays from 1984 to 2021.

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released November 3, 2020

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Paul Dolden Val Morin, Québec

For 40 years I have been mixing hundreds of recorded musical parts , with each track being recorded one at a time. I write the score before I go in my studio. Works are solo studio compositions or commissions for live soloist(s) and tape. I develop my own tuning systems and use multiple tempos at the same time. The first 20 years I produced dissonant dense textures. Since 2000 more melodic. ... more

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