Lightforms 5: SPECTRAL LIGHT

2025 — digital sound painting (11:00)

Revisiting my 1988 improvisation sketch for the New Music Performance Lab at University of North Texas became a prequel to a recent composition. FARBEN (2025), variations on the first movement of Webern’s Symphony, isolates instrumental colors as “prickly-pear” points of sound separated in time-and-pitch space.

The recomposed 1988 music beginning SPECTRAL LIGHT takes another approach to sound color, layering canonic textures of thicker sonority in a gentle Impressionistic blur, like the brush-blended blur of a Monet painting.

Timbres emerge, echo, and fade in a floating, slow-moving distant landscape of color.

Lightforms 5: SPECTRAL LIGHT – FARBEN