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Veils. Intro & Section A. 1984​.​(​remastered 2012)

by Paul Dolden

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Veils. Introduction and Section A. 1984 (Remastered 2012)

Veils, is a series of textures of walls of sound which act as an invitation for the listener to explore an environment where new acoustic sensations and associations can be discovered. The texture, a sustained chord of usually 14-56 notes, is constantly transforming by changing the instrument type that is articulating the sound (i.e. from strings to voice, to brass, to piano, to marimba, to glass, etc) No electronic effects were used and only straight recordings and mixing of acoustic instruments were used. However the sound source or instrument type at any moment is not usually obvious to the listener, hence the sound sources are “veiled”. This veiled sound is created by three main factors: the extensive multi-tracking (180 to 280 tracks of the same instrument are used at any one moment), the tuning of the chords, which are new microtonal intervals, which we normally do not hear. The title is also an analogy to a real veil where one can switch between seeing individual strands and viewing the overall pattern. In Veils it is imagined that listener can freely drift from one type of perception to another (i.e. micro to macro level or individual layer to mass effect).

Note: this is the first half of the work.I will upload Section B one day. The entire score can be viewed here:

electrocd.com/en/partition/8045/Paul_Dolden/Veils/Listening_Transcription

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

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released January 9, 2021

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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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