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"The sound quality is exceptional [...] Performer, improviser, and composer McGowan has assembled around himself a tribe of dedicated musicians who perform the most fiendishly difficult rhythms with flair and ease..." - Guy Livingston, Paris Transatlantic

Solar Neon

(2010)


For the Ensemble Scala

Instrumentation:

31 tone organ
flute
clarinet
viola
guitar
piano
percussion


Duration: c. 10' 


Written for the Ensemble Scala

Premiere: November 28th, 2011 - Muziekgebouw aan t' IJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands





"Solar Neon explores sonic color through the juxtaposition of mirrored timbral analogues of microtonal progressions with brash semi-extemporanious gesticulations carried out by opposing forces encompassing maximum variances in articulation, dynamic scope and fields of tonality."


- Ned McGowan

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