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Digital Composite by Pat Martino
assisted by Joe Donofrio
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"Think Tank is the title for my latest release on Blue Note Records, due
to be out sometime in October of this year. The digital composite is a
collage containing three separate elements. The first is a version of the
12 point star with the addition of fingering constellations faded and superimposed
upon the background of a digital painting of mine originally titled ' A
Folded Kiss '. The collage continued on a suggestion of Donofrio's to contain
them within an interesting version of a Buckminster Fuller pentahedron, gaining
more dimension through the use of gradients and contrast.
Think Tank doesn't end there. Although the song itself is similar
to a standard minor blues, its construction was odd comparatively. The
topic for the motif is drawn from three words. Coltrane, Tenor and Blue.
Their transfer into melodies came from the interface of the English Alphabet
and the Aeolian Mode, which in itself is a mirror image of the first seven
letters of that alphabet , A to G, continuously repeated from H to Z.
The placement of the tones, phrasing and chord changes were improvised."
Pat Martino
June 16, 2003
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