The Music of Jeff Harrington or Jeffrey Harrington

Lachrimae Crystallinum

I've been finalizing the pieces for my ambient-ish CD, Espace and have finally realized a version of my piece, Lachrimae Crystallinum without those tiny clicks and pops. The piece uses an FM glass harmonica patch that has extremely high harmonics and even with Csound I was getting what appeared to be aliassing errors. Finally went back to my TG77 and piped it through my new sampler for effects, and voila. Original Notes:

A composition in the spacious ambient vein of Lamentation Sidérales, but more classical in its tonality. Using a scale derived from the harmonic series this composition builds upon a melodic motif inspired by the Beethoven Piano Sonata, Les Adieux, op. 81a. This piece is primarily a meditation on distance and the spaces between memories and attempts to evoke the musical emotions of Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, etc... deep sadness...

It is a track from the free downloadable album, Espace.

Lachrimae Crystallinum MP3

Posted by jeff at February 21, 2004 05:06 PM