David Beardsley
microtonal composer/performer


Works

  Compositions (partial listing)
1994 Intersections and Directions for piano. Premiered at the 1994 Trenton Avant Garde Festival by Carlton Wilkinson.
1995 Science Friction, in harmonic just intonation from the Trenton Avant Garde Festival presents a Recital Without Musicans. Premiered at the 1995 Trenton Avant Garde Festival Composer's series.
1996 When Time Is Rubber parts I, II & III premiered at the 1996 Trenton Avant Garde Festival Composer's series. MIDI tape work.
1997 Xou Oxno, a tape collection of ambient archives on Biink! music
  The Tyranny of Equal Temperament for Harmonic Just Intonation Synthesizer. World premier at the Trenton Avant Garde Festival, September 6, 1997.
  Also premiered at TAGFest '97, the one minute composition Crustaceans A-Go-Go in harmonic just intonation as part of the forthcoming IMMP compilation of miniatures Droppings.
1998 Sonic Bloom for synthesizer and digital delays in 13 limit just intonation.
  
World premier at The Trenton Avant Garde Festival, September 12, 1998. Reviews for Sonic Bloom: "Microtonal GOD" - Downtown Music Gallery, NYC. "Phenomenal is one thought. Deep modern meditational tool is another." - Pat Pagano, dir. Southeast Just Intonation Society, Gainesville, Fl. "This release brings up a range of feelings and emotions within me, for what ever reasons, but in terms of interesting releases for 1999, it rates with many a great recording I have been fortunate enough to have heard. " - Hans Stoeve, Power Spot 89.7FM, Sydney, Australia . "It's fundamentally static, but I can listen to literally hours of the stuff..." - Joseph Pehrson, Composers Concordance, NYC. 
 
  Analog Bow Guitar Studies in 7, 11 & 13 limit just intonation and beyond.
  The release of the Superfinemagneticparticle 7 inch 33 rpm single Little Eternities where I cameo on Poetic Musical Forms.
  Yellow Star Dark Night I, II & III for synthesizer and digital delays in just intonation.
  Sonic Bloom for synthesizer and digital delays in 13 limit just intonation. World premier at the Trenton Avant Garde Festival, September 12, 1998.
1999 CD release of Xou Oxno on Biink!
  CD release of Sonic Bloom ep on Biink!
  CD release of a new work composed in March '99, Somber  on Biink!
  One hour performance of Sonic Bloom at Downtown Music Gallery, New York City, April 18th, 1999.
  Sonic Bloom at the American Festival of Microtonal Music's MicroMay '99 Microthon at NYU, May 23rd, 1999.
  The Just Intonation Slide Vina-Guitar Studies [1998-1999]
  One hour performance of Sonic Bloom at the Knitting Factory, New York City, September 8th, 1999.
  Just Intonation Guitar soundscapes. September 24th, 1999 - present.
2000 CD release of NYC (1999) on Biink! A performance of Sonic Bloom 17 at New York Cities famed home of the Avant Garde: the Knitting Factory, New York City, September 8th, 1999.
  Temple In The Ear world premier in Philladelphia, Pennsylvania. The Music Anex at the University of Pennsylvania, June 3rd, 2000. read review here.
  The Speed of Dark for synthesizer in Just Intonation with echos.
  Vixa for synthesizer in Just Intonation. World premier at Downtown Music Gallery, New York City, October 22, 2000.
2001 After the Full Moon, synthesizer tuned in 17 Just Intonation,: 7th harmonic with 17 limit neutral thirds. 
  Artar.17-limit Just Intonation synthesizer. 
  Yellow Star. Another piece in the tuning system known as 17-limit Just Intonation. Special for MP3.com. Besides that fact, two long melodies and a drone. 
  Blurry Day. 17 limit Just Intonation. An Ab neutral 3rd +11th 17th chord. Got that? World premier at the 2001 World Out of Tune Festival, NYC, June 26, 2001
  Just Improvisations 7.26.2001 - Nova Nights at The Den at Two Boots, Thursday July 26, 2001
  Just Improvisations 8.14.2001 - On August 14th, 2001, David recorded a set of Just Intonation guitar music at Manhattan Neighborhood Network Public Access Cable Television studios for Mantra TV. 
2002 Just Improvisations 2.23.2002 - open loop @ Chama aka NY Loop fest.
  Just Improvisations 3.2.2002 - open loop @ Chama aka NY Loop fest.
  Drifting on a Sea of Drones (2002) - 13 limit guitar and echos over a drone. Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. March 20, 2002, Spring Equinox concert.
 

Raga Ebo (2002) - fretless guitar and ebow, notes fretted with fingernail, and echo over a drone.

Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. March 20, 2002, Spring Equinox concert
Solo Show, April 1, 2002. Opening for Robert Rich @ the Knitting Factory NYC
Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. April 10, 2002

Undercity @ Halcyon, 227 Smith St, Brooklyn, NYC. May 12, 2002

 

For Xenakas (2002) - fretless guitar and echo. In memory of Iannis Xenakis.

Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. March 20, 2002
Spring Equinox concert. Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. April 10, 2002
Undercity @ Halcyon, 227 Smith St, Brooklyn, NYC. May 12, 2002
Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. June 12, 2002

  Just Improvisations 3.20.2002 - fretless guitar improvisations including the theme to ...and then they were dust (2001) Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. March 20, 2002, Spring Equinox concert.
 

Clouds Veil the Future (2002) - 13 limit guitar and echos over a 4:7:9 drone (I later dropped the 4, so it's just a 7:9).

Solo Show, April 1, 2002. Opening for Robert Rich @ the Knitting Factory NYC
Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. April 10, 2002

2002 WOOT Festival, Highland Grounds, Hollywood, Ca., May 4, 2002

Undercity @ Halcyon, 227 Smith St, Brooklyn, NYC. May 12, 2002
Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. June 12, 2002
Undercity @ Halcyon, 227 Smith St, Brooklyn, NYC. July 28, 2002

Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. September 7, 2002
Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. September 21, 2002

 

...and then they were dust (2001)

Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. March 20, 2002, Spring Equinox concert (theme)
Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. April 10, 2002 (sections)

Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. September 21, 2002

 

The Year of the Sunset (2002) for lap steel guitar and drone in 7 limit Just Intonation.

Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. April 10, 2002

 

Photo (2002) for Just Intonation guitar and echoes. In response to a photo by David Horvitz.

Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. June 12, 2002

 

Land of Vibration (2002) for Just Intonation guitar and echoes.

Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. June 12, 2002
Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. September 21, 2002

 

Around D (2002) for Just Intonation guitar and echoes. Also known as The Old Tomorrow.

Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. September 7, 2002
Solo Show @ Chama, NYC. September 21, 2002

2004
as beautiful as a crescent of a new moon on a cloudless spring evening (2004, for string quartet)
2006 Dry Water (2006, solo microtonal guitar improvisation) for the Out: 17 Modern Guitarists Salute Derek Bailey compilation.
   
  Video
2001 Change of Light (2001) - 6 hours of a view off of my balcony in New Jersey. A spring rain shower, sunset, night, sunrise.
   
  Collaborations
1996 Co-composition The Eye Pressing Party on Superfinemagneticparticles - Murk (cassette)
1997 inside the piano abuse on Poetic Musical Form from Superfinemagneticparticles - the Cabinet of Curiosities (cassette)
2000 Atarxia, playing ebow lap steel guitar with violinist Patrick Pagano and pre-recorded audio at the American Festival of Microtonal Music, NYC, November 11, 2000.