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Fox: Headlong

from Music for Saxophones by Carl Raven

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Headlong (2007-9) for solo woodwind and square-wave sound files was commissioned by Christopher Redgate; premiered by him, Dartmouth College, USA, May 5 2009.

Music has two measures of frequency, the pitch of individual notes and the speed at which they follow one another, and in Headlong they are connected by a set of simple ratios. There are four different speeds which, going from the fastest to the slowest, are related by the ratios 5:4, 9:8 and 5:3, and these three ratios are also heard throughout the piece as pitch intervals, the major third, the major second and the major sixth. This set of ratios is the ‘head’ motive out of which all the music grows. The electronic sounds which accompany the live instrument are deliberately simple, suggesting some sort of scientific measurement (or computer games from the early 1980s), and impose a grid on the music through which the musette’s music grows, like weeds around paving stones perhaps.

(Christopher Fox)

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from Music for Saxophones, released May 1, 2023
Music by Christopher Fox

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Carl Raven Manchester, UK

Carl is a saxophonist and improvisor. He performs regularly with Halle, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish, RLPO, RPO, Manchester Camerata, Opera North, Northern Sinfonia. He is also a member of House of Bedlam, a UK based contemporary music ensemble and is a member of the Apollo Saxophone Quartet. Carl is a saxophone tutor at the RNCM, Manchester University and Chetham's School of Music. ... more

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