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Step​.​4D Symphony (Motifs)

by St Celfer™

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Step.4D.Motifs.1st movement (282) 01:08
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Step.4D.Motifs.2nd movement (279) 02:32
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Step.4D.Motifs.3rd movement (340) 02:27
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Step.4D.Motifs.4th movement, a solo (338) 01:11
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Step.4D.Motifs.5th movement (364) 02:19
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Step.4D.Motifs.6th movement (335A) 02:13
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Step.4D.Motifs.7th movement (226) 02:47
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Step.4D.Motifs.8th movement (365) 01:51
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When a colleague asked I said, "It's all short and symphonic and sure to shake heads."

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This symphony follows the typical 4 movement tradition except: the 4th movement is replaced with a solo of the same intentions. In the absence of a traditional 4th movement the symphony repeats itself for another 4 movements to get to the end. Hence, a true Spinal Tap deja vu that cannot be argued with: twice is more than once and 8 is more than 4 and possibly a symphony of the most movements ever. I was able to make it work drawing from just under 400 pieces made during the pandemic of 2020-2021 and picking short succinct ones that get the job done and build to the climax.

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released October 12, 2021

How do you describe your sound?

In all the best ways, the description of my sound is a tagging nightmare. A crashing of neat and tidy labels crushed into digital soup. I have a folk sensibility manifested in electronic sound-making devices. In terms of composing, it is rooted in ideas of free jazz improvisation and experimentation. In terms of performance, I unabashedly hope to have a little emo flair—nothing flamboyant—just a small cathartic release I imagine a blues musician had in their heyday, causing trouble at a small club one hundred years ago.

To answer your initial question about the best way to describe the music—I use the tag, ‘noise’. It works about as well as John Cage’s 4′33″ being called ‘silence’. True silence is akin to death and is absolutely terrifying. There is a lot of noise today. I wonder if we just need to hear the music within it.

(from the interview in Jess Henderson's Band of Burnouts:
www.schoolofcommons.org/publishing/st-celfer-interview-part-1/

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This is the first release of Motifs.

Always live and improvised: Step.4D™ by St Celfer™

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St Celfer New York, New York

*improvisational compositions on glitch-tronics, treading failure with counterblasts through the vanishing point

*there is a lot of noise today - we just need to hear the music within it

*American & Korean, floats between São Paulo, New York, and Seattle ... more

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