Gordon Monro - "Mandala 1086"

"The Voice of the Phoenix (1)"

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"Mandala 1086"

Tape piece, duration 6 mins 35 secs (1996)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia Licence.

Go to the download page for a soundfile for Mandala 1086.

Program note

Mandala 1086 is composed entirely of sine waves. It is an interpretation in sound of the following sequence of complex numbers:
$TeX format: $\left(\sum_{k=0}^n e^{2\pi ik^3/1086} \right)_{n=0,\dots,1086}\quad.$$

The same formula interpreted geometrically gives this geometric picture (the colours are arbitrary):

Mandala image

The piece is available on CD, or as a stereo sound track on a DVD; the video on the DVD is a static image of the mandala (for projection during performance).

Performances, etc

Australian Computer Music Association conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 12 July 1996;
watt concerts, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 21-22 September 1996, as part of the collaborative audio-visual work Mists directed by Ian Fredericks;
"Disorientation" series (curated by Shannon O'Neill, University of Technology, Sydney), Lanfranchi's, Chippendale, Sydney, 8 April 2004;
"Black Box" concert by the Sydney Eclectic Composers Society, Old Darlington School, University of Sydney, 17 November 2004.
Mandala 1086 is on the CD "wattever", TP074 (two CD set, 1996), by Tall Poppies Records, PO Box 373, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. (Also available through the composer.)

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