Heaven-Kept Soul, by David Borden

Heaven-Kept Soul

by David Borden

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PDD I don't pretend to completely understand the above description of this piece. What I do know is that this album is brilliant and beautiful. Easily one of the best albums of 2021.

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	1.	Song 02:40
	2.	Variation 1 01:45
	3.	Variation 2 01:28
	4.	Variation 3 01:42
	5.	Variation 4 04:01
	6.	Variation 5 01:55
	7.	Variation 6 02:00
	8.	Variation 7 02:11
	9.	Variation 8 02:56
	10.	Variation 9 02:05
	11.	Variation 10 02:47
	12.	Variation 11 02:29
	13.	Variation 12 02:53
	14.	Variation 13 02:33
	15.	Variation 14 03:11
	16.	Variation 15 02:16
	17.	Variation 16 02:51
	18.	Variation 17 00:44
	19.	Variation 18 01:50
	20.	Variation 19 03:12
	21.	Variation 20 01:10
	22.	Variation 21 02:42
	23.	Variation 22 02:56
	24.	Variation 23 03:36
	25.	Variation 24 02:39
	26.	Variation 25 03:27
	27.	Variation 26 01:09
	28.	Variation 27 02:10
	29.	Variation 28 01:34
	30.	Variation 29 02:10
	31.	Variation 30 02:27
	32.	Song 02:38

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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.

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released March 19, 2021

David Borden - virtual piano, virtual prepared piano, samplers, synthesizers, drum

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