Nova Ratio Mortis in Musica: A New Definition of Death in Music

from Line​-​in: R by Stephen Roddy

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Section A consists a set of musical cadavers recorded in 2009 that have been put through a process of decomposition and decay before being loosely grouped together on the basis of some equally dead ideas about musical structure, not relevant since the 1800s.

Section B introduces some newly dead harmonic material in the shape of the Piano tones head on "Out of the Cold" the following and final track of this collection. Though the timbre of this material remains intact and has yet to decompose, the melodic movement that lends a sense of life and vivacity to "Out of the Cold" is dead and gone. What is left is a lifeless corpse.

The Recapitulation drags both of these twisted dead carcasses back out and presents them in tandem like macabre fanfare in celebration of this new life, new piece made possible by the glorious dead.

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Section A consists a set of musical cadavers recorded in 2009 that have been put through a process of decomposition and decay before being loosely grouped together on the basis of some equally dead ideas about musical structure, not relevant since the 1800s.

Section B introduces some newly dead harmonic material in the shape of the Piano tones head on "Out of the Cold" the following and final track of this collection. Though the timbre of this material remains intact and has yet to decompose, the melodic movement that lends a sense of life and vivacity to "Out of the Cold" is dead and gone. What is left is a lifeless corpse.

The Recapitulation drags both of these twisted dead carcasses back out and presents them in tandem like macabre fanfare in celebration of this new life, new piece made possible by the glorious dead.

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from Line​-​in: R, released March 7, 2014

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Stephen Roddy makes "quirky, odd, heavy" electronic music that is "big and bold" and "not afraid of taking risks". Stephen creates immersive multimedia performance systems which he uses in collaboration with other musicians, dancers, and sound artists. Some of this work has been described as “raw, rhythmic, primal yet playful” and “searingly powerful and a sheer joy to behold” ... more

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