“The music on this CD represents the evolution of a musical language that began to appear in my music as long ago as 1977 with Lahara, an extended work for solo drum with two unspecified accompanying melodic instruments, and 1982 with Palta, a kind of concerto for the Indian tabla accompanied by traditional western percussion instruments. Although Indian music is usually characterized as being elaborately melodic with no harmony (by western European definitions) whatsoever, my personal experience from the beginning has been a strong sensation of implied harmonic movement. Rag Chandrakauns, traditionally linked to the full moon and late-night hours and with the scale degrees tonic, minor third, fourth, minor sixth, major seventh, has always attracted me. I have used these interval relationships to determine both the melodic and harmonic content of nearly all of my music for the past six years.

“Although all of the pieces exist as traditionally notated scores and are regularly performed live using acoustic instruments, this CD has been realized using a combination of live performance on acoustic instruments and sampled sounds “performed” by a computer. Instruments which were sampled for use on this CD include the following:

rosewood concert grand marimba by Marimba One
Deagan vibraphone

-Deagon songbell

-Leedy glockenspiel

-Zildjian crotales

-Bösendorfer imperial grand piano

-Bob Becker, 1994

1. Prisoners of the Image Factory

2. Noodrem

3. Mudra

4. Turning Point

5. There is a Time