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Reset (tabula rasa)

from Abstractions 2 by Thom Blum

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Reset (tabula rasa) (2018, 9:49)

Starting in 2016 an intense desire came over me to express in a musical way my shock and dismay with the political and societal skids we were experiencing. Although I tried to redirect my creativity towards less politically affected thinking (and worry), I couldn't stop myself.

The best I could do with my angst was to bend it towards an oneiric trance-like undoing of the mounting tumult generated by the tyrannic and mad tendencies of POTUS #45 (aka “#3”).

I set my compositional endgame around a complete reset - tabula rasa - thinking that’s really what’s needed now. And to reach the knee, just before the reset occurs, the piece would project a time-lapsed metaphor for the angst-ridden period we're in using revolving collisions at various densities and tempi.

©+℗ 2018 Thom Blum (ASCAP)

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from Abstractions 2, released August 28, 2020

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Thom Blum San Francisco, California

Thom Blum has been composing electroacoustic music since 1974.

Recent performances and installations include "[You Are [Here] You [Are] You Here]", a sound installation established in 2022 in the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, and "Telescopic 1 (zoom out)" at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2024. ... more

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