Tracks:
1.- Fixed ratio harmonic bells 23.22
2.- Changes where bell number = repeat number 03:30
3.- 2 harmonic studies 06:05 <-- sound
4.- Deep glass bells (with harmonic clouds) 03:17
5.- Dark cracked bells with bass 01:59
6.- German-style ringing 03:19
7.- Emphasizing enharmonic partials 03:01
8.- Changes for January 07003, soft bells, Hillis algorithm 10:40
9.- Lithuanian bell study 01:26
10.- Large bell change improvisation 01:23
11.- Reverse harmonics bells 02:45
12.- Bell Improvisation 2 01:40
13.- Virtual dream bells, thick glass 03:59
14.- Tsar Kolokol lll (and friends) 03:59
15.- 1st - 14th January 07003, hard bells, Hillis algorithm 05:09
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Additional information:
JANUARY 07003
Bell Studies For The Clock Of The Long Now
This record has grown out of the Long Now Foundation's
project - the Clock of the Long Now. This is an idea to
create a working clock which will mark time for ten
thousand years - not really because we need more
clocks in the world, but because we need more
encouragement to start contemplating the possibility of
a distant human future. The Clock of the Long Now is
an icon to long-term thinking.
When we started thinking about The Clock, we naturally
wondered what kind of sound it could make to announce
the passage of time. I had nurtured an interest in bells
for many years, and this seemed like a good alibi for
taking it a bit deeper.
I began reading about bells, discovering the physics
of their sounds, and became interested in thinking
about what other sorts of bells might exist. My
speculations quickly took me out of the bounds of
current physical and material possibilities, but I
considered some licence allowable since the project
was conceived in a time scale of thousands of years,
and I might therefore imagine bells with quite different
physical properties from those we now know. And as
I started trying to make bell sounds with my
synthesizers, I got diverted by some of the more
attractive failures.
-- Brian Eno
All profits from the sale of this record will be
donated to the Long Now Foundation. The first prototype
of the Clock is working and on permanent display at the
Science Museum in London. This CD has fifteen tracks
and a total playing time of 75 mins 43 seconds.
www.longnow.org
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