Three Creatures – Alex Temple

title: Three Creatures
instrumentation: electric guitar and electronics
duration: 9 minutes
written in: 2002-6

Three Creatures gathers together three pieces that I wrote on separate occasions for composer-guitarist Mark Dancigers. More Pockmark is a quiet, gentle piece, inspired by experimental improviser Derek Bailey’s oddball take on jazz standards. 3 Arms and 17 1/2 Legs is a manic piece of industrial avant-prog that once prompted composer Jennifer Stock to dub me “the Jeff Koons of music.” Finally, Triggerfish is a friendly piece of underwater minimalism, based on a polyrhythmic delay pattern familiar to music students as “pass the goddamn butter.”

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