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GhostTown(1994)
WhenchoreographerShellieCash-Muller(acolleagueatBucknellUniversity)asked
metocollaborateonadancefortheBucknellDanceCompany,sheexpressed
interestinboththeNancarroviantempostructuresIwasworkingwithandthe
bizarrearrayofsamplednoisesIhadusedinmyincidentalmusicforAliceinWonderland.Iwasinterestedinworkingwithatuningsystemofseptimaljustintonation(scale:1/1,9/8,7/6,21/16,4/3,3/2,12/7,14/9).Thecombination,asit
turnedout,soundeddarklyhumorous,andIaddedthetitleGhostTownbecauseofthelonelinessofthesampledgoosecalls(whicharetunedtoHarryPartch's43-tone
scale).
GhostTownwaswrittendirectlyintoanoldmusicsequencingprogramcalledVoyetraPlus.Thus,therehasneverbeenanotatedscore.Iwouldoccasionallyplay
thepiece’sorganpartonkeyboardwithabackgroundtrack,however,soatsome
pointImadeascoreofthekeyboardpartwithcues.Thatkeyboardpartisgiven
hereforpurelyscholarlyinterest.Itshowstherhythmicstructure,harmonies,bass
line,andinplacesthevirtualguitarpart.TheAisplayedas4/3inaharmonywithE,
andas21/16inaharmonywithD.Itwouldbetime-consumingtoreconstructthe
entirescorefromthesurvivingMIDI.Imaygetaroundtoitsomeday.
-KyleGann