This record has grown out of the Long Now Foundation's project - the Clock of the Long Now (www.longnow.org). This is an idea to create a working clock which will mark time for ten thousand years - not really because we need more clocks in the world, but because we need more encouragement to start contemplating the possibility of a distant human future. The Clock of the Long Now is an icon to long-term thinking.
When we started thinking about The Clock, we naturally wondered what kind of sound it could make to announce the passage of time. I had nurtured an interest in bells for many years, and this seemed like a good alibi for taking it a bit deeper.
I began reading about bells, discovering the physics of their sounds, and became interested in thinking about what other sorts of bells might exist. My speculations quickly took me out of the bounds of current physical and material possibilities, but I considered some licence allowable since the project was conceived in a time scale of thousands of years, and I might therefore imagine bells with quite different physical properties from those we now know. And as I started trying to make bell sounds with my synthesizers, I got diverted by some of the more attractive failures.
-- Brian Eno
All profits from the sale of this record will be donated to the Long Now Foundation (www.longnow.org). The first prototype of the Clock is working and on permanent display at the Science Museum in London. This CD has fifteen tracks and a total playing time of 75 mins 43 seconds.
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http://www.longnow.org/store/BellsCD.htmTrack List:
1. Fixed ratio harmonic bells
2. Changes where bell number = repeat number
3. 2 harmonic studies
4. Deep glass bells (with harmonic clouds)
5. Dark cracked bells with bass
6. German-style ringing
7. Emphasizing enharmonic partials
8. Changes for January 07003, soft bells, Hillis algorithm
9. Lithuanian bell study
10. Large bell change improvisation
11. Reverse harmonics bells
12. Bell Improvisation 2
13. Virtual dream bells, thick glass
14. Tsar Kolokol lll (and friends)
15. 1st - 14th January 07003, hard bells, Hillis algorithm
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