Rassla, by Thomas Nicholson

Rassla

by Thomas Nicholson

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1.	Port (Rondo for Marcus Pal) 26:46	buy track
2.	Cone 11:16	buy track
3.	Rassla 17:03	buy track

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Thomas Nicholson: Rassla – Electronic music in just intonation

La Monte Young famously wrote: “Tuning is a function of time.” When precisely tuned sounds are given time and space to sound, an intoxicating synthesis of timbre, spectrum, fusion, periodicity and, especially, roughness reveals itself with increasing clarity.

In this collection of pieces, SuperCollider becomes an orchestra creating focussed conditions for experiencing this synthesis. Each piece’s point of departure is a signal of brown noise, which is carefully filtered, modulated, modified, sculpted and tuned in various ways to generate timbres that sometimes remind of strings, at other times of organ pipes – though more often than not, the sound is unmistakably electric.

1. Port (Rondo for Marcus Pal) (2020)
in 37-limit just intonation – SuperCollider

2. Cone (2019)
in 19-limit just intonation – SuperCollider

3. Rassla (2023)
in 13-limit just intonation – SuperCollider

In Swedish, “rassla” means to clatter, rattle, rustle.

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released February 3, 2023

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Thomas Nicholson Berlin, Germany

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