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His real return to music composition came in with his original soundtrack for Mein Kamps: Akt V filmed in Berlin and named after the Berlin bakery chain Kamps. That original soundtrack existing apart from the film as a strictly musical composition is titled 'Berliner Strassen Gesang' demonstrates a richer, more complex approach to crafting and shaping sound made possible by the use of the computer in composing the work along with the twenty years of rethinking his artistic outlook in general, and his musical thinking in particular.

This new work is at once a processing of untimely deaths in his family and a reconsideration of earlier compositions -- Michi for solo violin and Chimyaku for solo alto flute -- which, in their processed and altered form and in conjunction with an entirely new tape part, project a new level of insight into the essential spiritual nature of sound and its physicality; ' The ascension of Mount Fuji is a meditative journey, a spiritual odyssey perhaps, as real as it is imagined or metaphoric.

The composer, however, leaves those distinctions for each listener to decide for his or herself. Screeching, minimal string-dronology of the highest order and an absolute classic. Questions: How endlessly the heavens turn. And yet the earth remains at rest. Do the sun and the moon quarrel as to their positions?

Who rules over and orders all these things? By whom are they in harmony? Who effortlessly causes and maintains them? Is there, perhaps, some hidden tension that prevents them from being other than as they are?

Must the heavenly bodies move as they do, powerless to do otherwise? Look how the clouds drop the rain! And how the rain rises again to form the clouds! Who moves them to this abundance? Who effortlessly produces the primary orb and stimulates it? The winds rise in the north and blow to the east and west.

The first of the two, 'Sovereign Of The Center,' was my initial attempt at putting a new musical way of thinking into an ensemble rather than solo form. There are four tracks of solo violin mixed down in different track combinations the one heard on this CD is a full-track mono version of the work. Both of these pieces reflect a general shift in my musical thinking, which occurred in with 'Chimyaku' Japanese for 'barely moving' scored for solo alto flute. It was with that work that I began to compose 'slowed-down' music, like slow-motion images in film, not merely slow music such as that of Feldman.

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