Life in an Alto Clarinet Republic

by Dan Plonsey

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1.	2016 November 23 folded in 2 04:06	buy track
2.	2016 November 23 and 24 09:03	buy track
3.	2016 November 25 folded in eleven 02:34	buy track
4.	2017 April 4 folded in six 06:23	buy track
5.	2017 April 9, no. 2, part 1, edited 07:27	buy track
6.	2017 April 9, no. 2, part 2, edited 04:21	buy track
7.	2017 July 5 folded in 4 09:04	buy track
8.	2017 July 10 with drums 22:51	buy track
9.	2017 September 23 edited 10:59	buy track
10.	2017 September 26 no. 1 and 2, edited 10:23	buy track

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IN PROCESS -- tracks still being uploaded, titles in flux, etc.

United Fruit (now Chiquita) has nothing on the Alto Clarinet industry. Alto Clarinet music is doled out to avaricious consumers who have no awareness or interest in the plutocracy which runs our alto clarinet republic.

The process of "folding" a track is simple: divide the track into roughly equal time lengths and play the pieces simultaneously. It seems to work pretty well, especially if you stayed in the same mode, with similar phrases throughout the original improvisation. After I'd folded several pieces, I recalled that my master's thesis, _Delayed Counterpoint_, provides the perfect theoretical framework for this music. "Even a solo piece," I wrote, back in 1988, "is in counterpoint with itself, but that counterpoint is _delayed_." Which then took me 32 years to act upon.

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released August 1, 2017

Dan Plonsey: alto clarinet, compositions, recording, editing, photographs, Delayed Counterpoint, design. The Rest of the World: Sighing and shrugging impatiently.

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Dan Plonsey El Cerrito, California

Dan Plonsey is a composer and saxophonist. Inspired by music from many times and places, his compositions are irrationally rational, simple-minded, and melodic. The world which enjoys his music celebrates imperfection. Plonsey considers his works the result of being "at least slightly out of step with nearly everything. It draws upon all of my weaknesses as much as upon my strengths." ... more

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