Great Equatorial

From the liner notes: In 1993 I was commissioned by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to compose some music to celebrate the renovation of the room containing the Great Equatorial Telescope and its re-opening to the public. The music was to be played continuously throughout the day as the public wandered around. Any traditional ideas of beginning, middle and end, or conventional development, would therefore be pointless, since people would be arriving and leaving all the time. The obvious solution would have been to write a New Age ambient piece, so that it wouldn't matter at what point listeners arrived and left. I have always tried to avoid obvious solutions throughout my composing career, and I devised a system of mini-development for the piece, whereby whatever period of time was spent in the room by a visitor, he or she would be certain to hear at least one theme and its variation. In extending the piece, which was originally ten minutes long, to CD length, I have taken the opportunity to extend, vary and develop [...] The equipment used was a Korg M1, Proteus 2 and Proteus 3. These were recorded onto floppy disk using the Cubase programme, and mastered by the SADIE System directly onto a DAT. -- David Bedford '93 © Voiceprint (UK) 1994 ℗ Voiceprint (UK) 1994 Made in Austria