RESOLUTION #1: Fractured Dream (1985-86)

For 4-track cassette tape. This piece was recorded on my Fostex 4-track cassette player during Christmas 1985.

It is a flight of musique concrète fancy that roughly follows a night of sleep, but was really an excuse for me to explore the sounds around my childhood home in Greenville. N.C. It was not called a "Resolution" until I created that series in 1999. It's original title was "Fractured Dream."

Some of the sounds used:

Grand piano, claves, vacuum cleaner, an ugly glockenspiel, tambourine, T.V., traffic sounds, our 1971 Mercury Monterey station wagon and 1984 Oldsmobile Regency (diesel), trash can, leaves, axe on stump, flourescent light bulb, sink and shower, live crowd noise from RUSH-All the World's a Stage, telephone, and a cameo by my mom.

The music is in RealAudio (56k modems) format.