This Is Our Last Cry Before Our Eternal Silence (2021 Version)

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NEWLY RELEASED VERSION - 2021

When the French Navy ceased using Morse code on January 31, 1997, the final message transmitted was "Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence."

All of the material used in this piece comes from the sentence quoted above (“This is our last cry before our eternal silence”) using sine tones, morse code, and simple mathematical relationships to produce just intonation harmonies and related rhythms. The rhythm of each tone is spelling out the sentence in morse code. Pitch and rhythm are related mathematically as well. For example, the lowest note plays the morse code sentence, then the octave above plays it twice as fast. This gets into many more complex ratios and rhythms, and the processes go on speeding up, slowing down, going backward and in inversions, etc.

I have reworked this piece over and over for years and finally have settled on this final version. It’s quite different from that original CD-r. It combines the three major versions I did previously into one piece.

The original attempt in 2015 focused on shorter tones, one of these attempts involved fast movement and the other with a more static approach (I called it the "eternal" version). The third version came a while later for my last performance in San Diego, and used long tones unfolding in time to execute the original idea. In this last version presented here, all three versions are combined into a final piece.

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released March 9, 2021

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Steve Flato Buffalo, New York

Steve Flato is a composer and guitarist that lives in Buffalo, NY. His music encompasses many styles and techniques including microtonal electric guitar, generative process pieces, minimal text-based scores utilizing broken electronics, cut-up musique-concrete, and a piece written for the Spreckels Organ in San Diego, CA (the largest outdoor pipe organ in the world). ... more

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