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Eternal West

from Eos by Patti cudd

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    I have long explored the world of percussion through touch, revealing marvelous and hidden sound worlds in simple objects. This collection shows my lifelong passion of bringing such new works to light.  A number of these pieces have lived with me since my graduate days, others are recent commissions, but all have expanded my musical horizons in extraordinary ways.  Now by extending the world of physical percussion with virtual computer objects and processes, I am excited to enter new sonic and mental territories in the company of these many remarkable composers.
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The Eternal West (Paul Elwood, 1995) was written for and dedicated to percussionist Patti Cudd. Expressively, the piece is informed by notions of the mythic American West emblematic of the questing spirit in both interior and exterior movement. A few lines from Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) helped serve as a starting point for the piece. In his novel “Mason & Dixon” he describes the two explorers traveling far to the West “in perfect enfilade” until they are in sight of the Rocky Mountains. And this description resonated with a line from Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). In “Cities (II)” from his collection titled “Illuminations he writes: “ . . . the suburb loses itself strangely in the countryside, the ‘Country’ that fills the eternal West with forests and endless plantations where savage gentlemen seek distraction beneath the light they made.” (Translated by Wyatt Mason, “Rimbaud Complete,” the Modern Library, 2003.) As the explorers to the West pushed boundaries, the percussionist is asked to push boundaries of possibility in the number of things she is asked to do simultaneously through the piece.

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from Eos, released January 28, 2021
Executive Producer: Chris Mercer
Producer: Chris Mercer and Patti Cudd
Engineering and mastering: Chris Mercer and Chris Jacobs
Recorded at: Erickson Recording Studio, University of California, San Diego
Year piece was recorded: 1996

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Patti Cudd Saint Paul, Minnesota

Dr. Patti Cudd is active as a percussion soloist, chamber musician and educator.

As a champion of the music of the 21st century, she has given concerts and master classes throughout North America, Asia, Europe and South America.

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