Opus by asher tuil
After many years of using loops in my compositions I have recently been trying to move away from that.
For the past several months I have been working on compositions which are made by producing fragments of various materials which are then combined into a long form work. I’ve worked in a fragmentary way in the past but I’ve not previously taken the further step of editing those fragments to create one long composition with overlapping segments.
Working in this way has allowed me to find continuity within my process, while creating compositional forms which are quite different from anything in my previous body of work.
Opus was composed using three elements which are layered throughout. One is a series of harmonic sections played on a synthesizer, another is a set of location recordings which were made while walking around my neighborhood over a number of days, and the final group are rhythmic motifs which were produced using filtered noise.
Tracklist
| 1. | Opus | 75:39 |
| 2. | Opus I | 8:01 |
| 3. | Opus II | 5:05 |
| 4. | Opus III | 15:44 |
| 5. | Opus IV | 14:21 |
| 6. | Opus V | 3:21 |
| 7. | Opus VI | 3:14 |
| 8. | Opus VII | 7:42 |
| 9. | Opus VIII | 5:17 |
| 10. | Opus IX | 7:42 |
| 11. | Opus X | 5:11 |
| 12. | Opus (excerpt) | 5:04 |
Credits
Recorded in Providence, RI. spring of 2023
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
License
All rights reserved.
asher tuil is an artist living and working in wanskuck, providence, ri. for over twenty years asher has been working with recorded sound as his primary medium. location recordings, electronic synthesis, found sounds and a variety of other sources are used in his compositions to create a rich and dynamically varied body of work which examines these materials extensively.