The Exodus Generation
I was in Starbucks earlier tonight when a Glenn Gould recording of the Aria from the Goldberg Variations came on. That performance is transcendent...just amazing. But, with the sounds of the people talking in the background, the faint murmur...it reminded me of the ending of The Exodus Generation, in which I played the a minor prelude from book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier (also Bach, of course). It starts around 80% of the way through the piece.The Exodus GenerationI composed this piece from a series of interviews I did on the topic of "nature vs. technology", along with some sound design using and ARP 2600, and that piano recording. I performed it in quadraphonic sound back in college, but here it's mixed down to stereo, of course. It's one of my favorite pieces and it's in the style of Glenn Gould's contrapuntal radio pieces.