Into This Fracturing Land
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The world has become like a fracturing land. A land of desolate plains and jagged mountains. A land of bottomless fissures and blazing skies. A land of anxiety and boredom and failed resolutions. A land where life and reason cling to existence, screaming defiantly in the face of an overwhelming darkness.
"Into this Fracturing Land" (2020) for cello and electronic media draws upon this hypothetical world as a musical summary of many of my thoughts and experiences over the last year and half. What does it mean to fail? What does it mean to collapse? Are we already living in a fracturing land? Can we undo the fracturing that has been set in motion?
Into this Fracturing Land utilized a tuning system in which the octave is divided into 31 equal steps, instead of the 12 steps used in most modern Western music.
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Composed, performed, recorded, produced, and mastered by Nicholas Denton Protsack.
Released December 7th, 2020. Rereleased under Whatnot Records April 25th, 2023.
© 2020 Nicholas Denton Protsack
℗ 2023 Whatnot Records Inc.