2025 . . . computer music (7:00)
Measuring supernovae, cosmologist Vera Rubin hypothesized that 80% of what’s out there in the universe is invisible or otherwise undetectable, mysterious matter and energy of undiscovered nature. Imagined in sound and color, dark-energy music is amorphous in form and time flow. Canonic lines float and interweave, building an evolving fabric of complex, ethereal sonorities.
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.
Thomas Clark - composer / digital artist 