David Borden - Heaven-Kept Soul (2021)
Artist: David Borden
Title: Heaven-Kept Soul
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Cuneiform Records
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:16:07
Total Size: 176 / 315 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Heaven-Kept Soul
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Cuneiform Records
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:16:07
Total Size: 176 / 315 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Song (2:40)
2. Variation 1 (1:46)
3. Variation 2 (1:28)
4. Variation 3 (1:42)
5. Variation 4 (4:01)
6. Variation 5 (1:56)
7. Variation 6 (2:00)
8. Variation 7 (2:11)
9. Variation 8 (2:56)
10. Variation 9 (2:05)
11. Variation 10 (2:47)
12. Variation 11 (2:29)
13. Variation 12 (2:54)
14. Variation 13 (2:33)
15. Variation 14 (3:11)
16. Variation 15 (2:16)
17. Variation 16 (2:52)
18. Variation 17 (0:44)
19. Variation 18 (1:50)
20. Variation 19 (3:12)
21. Variation 20 (1:11)
22. Variation 21 (2:43)
23. Variation 22 (2:56)
24. Variation 23 (3:37)
25. Variation 24 (2:40)
26. Variation 25 (3:27)
27. Variation 26 (1:10)
28. Variation 27 (2:11)
29. Variation 28 (1:35)
30. Variation 29 (2:10)
31. Variation 30 (2:27)
32. Song (2) (2:39)
The title Heaven-Kept Soul is an anagram derived from the name Kathleen Supové, the pianist for whom this piece was composed. She is known for her boundary- breaking ways of dissolving the wall between performer and audience.
The piece is patterned structurally on The Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach. It has thirty variations on a theme stated in the beginning by the piano. The compositional challenge is that starting with Variation No. 3, every third variation is a canon at a different interval. Most of the variations are composed for synthesizers accompanying an amplified piano; there are a few variations for solo piano. The synthesizer and sampled sounds have been collected on computers, mapped onto keyboards, and played using a USB keyboard controller and laptop with REASON software. Altogether, the piece requires two USB keyboard/ computer performers and one pianist.
The piece is patterned structurally on The Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach. It has thirty variations on a theme stated in the beginning by the piano. The compositional challenge is that starting with Variation No. 3, every third variation is a canon at a different interval. Most of the variations are composed for synthesizers accompanying an amplified piano; there are a few variations for solo piano. The synthesizer and sampled sounds have been collected on computers, mapped onto keyboards, and played using a USB keyboard controller and laptop with REASON software. Altogether, the piece requires two USB keyboard/ computer performers and one pianist.