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March 6th, 2008 | 7:30 pm Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall The CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue, NYC The Sun Rises and Sets Above a Black Lake | Casey Hale for electronics with video art by Samson Young The Sun Rises... represents my long-held interest in just intonation as an extension of harmonic resources. The work is built upon a layering of sine waves pitched to harmonics 32 through 64 of the overtone series above A. The style and structure of the piece are strongly influenced by the works of La Monte Young, Phill Niblock and Philip Glass. In this tradition, I see the piece as somehow "objective" - which is to say that it can act as a sound object upon which to meditate. Though for this reason I hesitate to prescribe a way of listening, I find that my own attention gravitates towards the sonorities in between the pitches themselves: the variable colors and beat patterns that arise from the interactions of frequencies. Casey Hale is a composer and guitarist. He received his MM from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Margaret Brouwer and Zhou Long, and his BA from Bard College, where he studied with Joan Tower. He has been commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Igni Vox Productions, and the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, and has had additional premieres by the American Symphony Orchestra and the Da Capo Chamber Players. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2002 Jerome Composers Commissioning Program from the American Composers Forum, and has been a resident at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Lee Hyla, and at the Brevard Music Center with John Beall. As an instrumentalist, he has performed repertoire from the 15th century to the present, playing guitar and lute as a soloist and with ensembles both small and large, including an appearance with the American Symphony Orchestra. He is currently living in New York, where he studies with Tania León while pursuing his doctoral candidacy at the CUNY Graduate Center. return to PAST CONCERTS