The C programming language is a computer programming language that was developed to do system programming for the operating system UNIX and is an imperative programming language.
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In C performed by Bang on a Can release cover (2001)
In C is a musical piece composed by Terry Riley in 1964 for an indefinite number of performers. He suggests 'a group of about 35 is desired if possible but smaller or larger groups will work'.[1] A series of short melodic fragments, In C is often cited as the first minimalist composition (though La Monte Young's drone compositions preceded it by several years, In C had a greater impact on public consciousness).[2] It was first performed by Steve Reich, Jon Gibson, Pauline Oliveros and Morton Subotnick at the San Francisco Tape Music Center.[3]
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Technique[edit]
In C consists of 53 short, numbered musical phrases, lasting from half a beat to 32 beats; each phrase may be repeated an arbitrary number of times. Each musician has control over which phrase they play: players are encouraged to play the phrases starting at different times, even if they are playing the same phrase. In this way, although the melodic content of each part is predetermined, In C has elements of aleatoric music to it.[4] The performance directions state that the musical ensemble should try to stay within two to three phrases of each other. The phrases must be played in order, although some may be skipped. As detailed in some editions of the score, it is customary for one musician ('traditionally.. a beautiful girl,' Riley notes in the score)[5] to play the note C in repeated eighth notes, typically on a piano or pitched-percussion instrument (e.g. marimba). This functions as a metronome and is referred to as 'The Pulse'. Steve Reich introduced the idea of a rhythmic pulse to Riley, who accepted it, thus radically altering the original composition by Riley which had no rhythm.[6]
First UK performance, May 1968
In C has no set duration; performances can last as little as fifteen minutes or as long as several hours, although Riley indicates 'performances normally average between 45 minutes and an hour and a half.' The number of performers may also vary between any two performances. The original recording of the piece was created by 11 musicians (although, through overdubbing, several dozen instruments were utilized), while a performance in 2006 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall featured 124 musicians.
The piece begins on a C major chord (patterns one through seven) with a strong emphasis on the mediant E and the entrance of the note F which begins a series of slow progressions to other chords suggesting a few subtle and ambiguous changes of key, the last pattern being an alteration between B♭ and G. Though the polyphonic interplay of the various patterns against each other and themselves at different rhythmic displacements is of primary interest, the piece may be considered heterophonic.
The first UK performance of In C was on 18th May 1968 at Royal Institute Galleries by the Music Now Ensemble directed by Cornelius Cardew as part of a series of four Music Now, Sounds of Discovery Concerts, during May 1968.[7][8]
Recordings[edit]
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The piece has been recorded a number of times:
Artist | Instrumentation | Duration | Tempo (♩=) | Recording information | Release information |
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Terry Riley and Center of Creative and Performing Arts (SUNY-Buffalo) | saxophone, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, clarinet, flute, viola, trombone, vibraphone, marimbaphone | 42' 03' | 132 | March 27–28, 1968 (many overdubs) | Columbia MS 7178 (LP); Sony SNYC 45368 (Re-mastered) |
L'Infonie | saxophones, trumpets, percussion, piano, guitar, bass guitar, trombones | 29' 20' | 104 | Recorded in 1970 | Volume 33: Mantra (LP); Reed Streams / In C, Cortical Foundation Corti 2 |
Ensemble Percussione Ricerca | vibes, glockenspiel, marimbas, xylophone, crotales | 41' 01' | 116 | Diamine Studio, Mestre-Venezia, Italy in 1983 | In C / Djembé, Materiali Sonori |
Shanghai Film Orchestra | traditional Chinese instruments ('various lutes, zithers, mouth organs, flute, and percussion') | 28' 35' | 108 | Recorded in January 1989 at the Recording Studio of the Shanghai Film Industry. Mixed by Terry Riley, Jon Hassell and Brian Eno | Celestial Harmonies 13026 |
Piano Circus | concert grand piano, upright piano, Rhodes piano, harpsichords, vibraphone | 20' 00' | 132 | Recorded in 1990 | Six Pianos / In C, Argo 430380 |
Terry Riley and Friends | saxophones (sopranos, alto, tenor, and baritone), xylophone, synthesizers, voices, flute, viola, violins, trombones, cello, piano, guitars, glockenspiel, drums, marimba, clarinet, accordion, xylophone, bass clarinet | 76' 16' | 108 | Recorded live on January 14, 1990 at the New Music Theatre and Life on the Water, San Francisco | In C – 25th Anniversary Concert, New Albion 71 |
Quebec Contemporary Music Society | flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bassoon, French horns, trumpets, trombone, tuba, harp, percussion, sitar, tablas, violins, viola, cello, double bass, vocal ensemble | 35' 46' | 116 | Recorded live on June 12, 1997 at the Salle Pierre-Mercure | Atma Classique 22251 |
Ictus (with Blindman Kwartet) | percussion, double basses, harp, cello, guitar, piano, accordion, oboe, violin, clarinets, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone | 65' 00' | 130 | Recorded live on May 31, 1997 at Chapelle des Brigitines, Brussels. Slightly overdubbed at Acoustic Recording Studio, Brussels | Cypres 5601 |
Bang on a Can | cello, glockenspiel, vibraphone, bass, mandolin, soprano saxophone, pipa, piano, violin, electric guitar, chimes, marimba, clarinet | 45' 32' | 120 | Recorded live on November 20, 1998 at the World Financial Center, New York | Cantaloupe 21004 |
Terry Riley Repetition Orchestra | keyboards, clarinet, trumpet, violins, cello, fretless baritone guitar, double bass, chime-bells, percussion, voices | 76' 40' | 108 | Recorded live on April 20, 2000 in DOM, Moscow | Long Arm Records 01033 |
The Styrenes | guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, vibraphone | 53' 19' | 120 | Recorded on September 21, 2000 at Unique Studio, NYC (many overdubs) | Enja 94352 |
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O | voices, monster bass, electric guitars, synthesizers, drums, violin, zuruna, tambura, shruti box, vibraphone, glockenspiel | 20' 31' | 92 | Recorded at FTF Studio, Indo-yo and Acid Mothers Temple, 2002 | Squealer 37 |
European Music Project, zignorii++ | violin, viola, violoncello, marimba, electric piano, English horn, clarinets, alto saxophone, electronic arrangements | 60' 48' | 120 | Recorded April 19–22, 2001 at Sendesaal des Funkhauses Köln | Wergo 66502 |
re-sound | flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, voice, electric guitar, electric bass, percussion, keyboards, violin, cello | 57' 00' | Recorded in Australia | Move Records MD 3262[9] (2002) | |
DésAccordes / d-zAkord | classical guitars, electric guitars, electric basses, harp, cellos, percussion, drums, bass | 48' 54' | 120 | Recorded on November 23, 2003 at Espace Culturel du Bois Fleuri, Lormont, France | MUSEA/GAZUL GA8681.AR |
Ut Gret | synthesizer, alto saxophone, vibes, marimba, flute, bass clarinet | 64' 11' | 120 | Recorded live at Tewligans in 2002 | Recent Fossils, Ear-X-tacy Records |
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Percurama Percussion Ensemble | vocals, marimbas, bass marimba, vibraphone, Bali gong | 55' 16' | 116 | Recorded on January 17, 2005 at Focus Recording, Copenhagen | Dacapo 8.226049 |
American Festival of Microtonal Music | just-fretted guitars, viola, harpsichord, kanon, guitar 'pulse' | 23' 11' | 112 | Recorded live as 'In C in Just Intonation,' Terry Riley's reworking commissioned by the AFMM in 1988 | Ear Gardens, Pitch P-200209 |
Oxford Minimalist Ensemble | 45' 09' | Recorded live at Sheldonian Theatre Oxford UK on 11 May 2006 | www.minimalistensemble.co.uk | ||
The New Audience Ensemble | 16' 36' | Live at the Edge, Odessa Mama (2006) | |||
Jeroen van Veen | Piano and other keyboards | 57' 56' | 120 | Recorded at Barbara Church, Culemborg on October 23–28, 2006 (many overdubs) | Minimal Piano Collection, Brilliant Classics 8551 |
GVSU New Music Ensemble | piano, percussion, xylophone, bassoon, accordion, flute, bass flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, cello, English horn, soprano and tenor saxophones, marimba, vibraphone, guitar, trumpet, violin | 20' 43' | The project included remixed versions by 16 other musicians, | In C Remixed, Innova 758 (2009) | |
Orkest de Volharding | 51' 36' | 108 | The Minimalists, Mode 214/215 (2009) | ||
Hans Balmer | Flutes (overdubbed) | 40' 04' | 124 | Minimal Flute, Fontastix (2009) | |
Salt Lake Electric Ensemble | Laptop orchestra with percussion | 65' 56' | 85 | Laptops recorded live Feb. 3, 2010 in Salt Lake City, acoustic instruments overdubbed Feb/Mar 2010 | sleearts.com (2010) |
GVSU New Music Ensemble | Piano, Percussion, Flute, Cello, Accordion, Violin, Clarinet, Bass, Saxophone, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Trumpet. Featured Guest Dennis DeSantis on laptop and effects. | 61' 28' | 124 | Recorded live on November 8, 2009, at Le Poisson Rouge, New York City | Terry Riley: In C Ghostly International GI-108 (2010) Limited Edition CD + Digital Download |
Invisible Polytechnic | Analogue modular synth 'pulse', organ, piano, marimba, percussion, violin, viola, hurdy-gurdy, harp, bass guitar, oboe, daegeum, bassoon, voices | 45' 40' | 115 | Recorded at Hatchlands Park, Surrey, and Them Usem, London | Junior Aspirin Records (ASP020, 2011) |
Anton Glushkin and friends | Piano 'pulse', guitar, electric guitar, 2 violins, viola, cello, balalayka, balalayka-contrabass, flute, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, bayan, harp, harpsichord, synthesizer, percussion | 51' | 110 | Recorded live on March 17, 2012, at museum of contemporary arts 'Erarta', St. Petersburg, Russia | Hands For Friends studio |
Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra | Saxophones, snare drum | Recorded December 2010, Brooklyn, New York | Living Records (2012) | ||
University of Lethbridge Electroacoustic Ensemble | clarinet, alto saxophones, voices, electronic bells, DTX electronic drums, MIDI sequencer, CDJ-2000 turntable, iPad, piano, Minimoog Voyager, microKorg XL, keyboards, acoustic guitars, electric guitar, bass guitar (Ableton Suite and Logic Pro controlled by iPad and keyboards) | 41'13' | 96 | Lethbridge, Canada, April 2013 | Digital Audio Arts University of Lethbridge |
PressingPlay laptop Orchestra | Ableton Live 8, APC40, Kore 2 | 23'52' | 128 | June 2013 | Recorded live at PlonkPlonk Records in June 2013 |
Adrian Utley's Guitar Orchestra | Electric Guitars, Organs, Bass Clarinet, Percussion | 61'24' | Recorded live at St. George's hall, Bristol, 6 February 2013 | Released by Invada Records on 14 October 2013 | |
Haanwijk Guitaret Ensemble | 21 Hohner Guitarets | 19'47' | Released April 2014 | ||
Africa Express | balafons, baritone-guitar, calabash, djembe, flutes, guitars, imzad, kalimbas, kamel n'goni, koras, melodica, percussions, violin, vocals | 40'45' | 130 | Recorded at Maison des Jeunes, Bamako and Studio P5, Berlin | Released February 2015 |
Fighting Windmills + Sethstat | clarinet, soprano saxophone, trombone, percussion, electronic percussion, analogue synthesizer, modeling synthesizer, electric guitar, electronics, bass guitar, contrabass | 78'41' | (variable) | Performed without pulse in a varying, free-flowing tempo. Recorded live at Kino Frosina, MKC – Skopje, Macedonia, December 16th 2016. | Released by PMG Jazz on July 5th 2018 |
dBs Music | Synthesizer Orchestra | 53'50 | 85 | Recorded at dBs Bristol | Performed December 2018 [10] |
Impact on other music[edit]
Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble produced an album of remixed versions of In C. A discussion of the In C remixing project including music played from three of the remixed versions can be heard in Radiolab's podcast on In C from December 14, 2009.[11] The remixers included Jad Abumrad, Mason Bates, Jack Dangers, Dennis DeSantis, R. Luke DuBois, Mikael Karlsson/Rob Stephenson, Zoë Keating, Phil Kline, Kleerup, Glenn Kotche, David Lang, Michael Lowenstern, Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), Nico Muhly, Todd Reynolds and Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR).[12]
References[edit]
- ^Riley, Terry, 'In C: Performing Directions', from the score for In C, 1989, Celestial Harmonies
- ^Christopher Bonds, The Musical Impulse, second, revised edition (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 1994): 345. ISBN9780840398024
- ^'A guide to Terry Riley's music' by Tom Service, The Guardian, 29 January 2013
- ^Honigmann, David (October 7, 2013). 'In C, Barbican, London – review'. Financial Times.
In C – probably the second-best-known aleatory classic – is less a score than a set of instructions
- ^This direction seems to be in the original score, but is not in the OtherMinds CC-licensed score.
- ^Andrew Ford (May 6, 2012). 'Steve Reich – rhythm and minimalism'(interview). The Music Show. ABC Radio National – via YouTube.
Steve Reich turned his back on Serialism back in the late 60s. He'd heard John Coltrane's free jazz and following a trip to Ghana in the early 70s he decided rhythm was more important than melody. So Minimalism was born in uptown New York. Reich is in Australia talking to loads of fans and listening to his seminal works Drumming, Clapping Music, Different Trains and Vermont Counterpoint which are being performed in Sydney and Melbourne.
[dead link] - ^Programme for the Cornelius Cardew Ensemble, Royal Institute Galleries. (1968)
- ^Anderson, Virginia (18 November 2013). 'Systems and Other Minimalism in Britain'. In The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music, ed. Keith Potter, Kyle Gann, and Pwyll ap Siôn. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
- ^Move Records MD 3262 re-sound: In C
- ^https://insider.dbsmusic.co.uk/video-a-day-recording-with-portisheads-adrian-utley-at-dbs-music
- ^Radiolab, 'In C', December 14, 2009
- ^'In C Remixed'. GVSU New Music Ensemble. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
Further reading[edit]
- Carl, Robert. 2009. Terry Riley's in C. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-532528-7doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325287.001.0001
- Reed, S. Alexander. 2011. 'In C on Its Own Terms: A Statistical and Historical View'. Perspectives of New Music 49, no. 1 (Winter): 47–78. doi:10.7757/persnewmusi.49.1.0047
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In telecommunications, the carrier-to-noise ratio, often written CNR or C/N, is the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a modulated signal. The term is used to distinguish the CNR of the radio frequency passband signal from the SNR of an analog base band message signal after demodulation, for example an audio frequency analog message signal. If this distinction is not necessary, the term SNR is often used instead of CNR, with the same definition.
Digitally modulated signals (e.g. QAM or PSK) are basically made of two CW carriers (the I and Q components, which are out-of-phase carriers). In fact, the information (bits or symbols) is carried by given combinations of phase and/or amplitude of the I and Q components. It is for this reason that, in the context of digital modulations, digitally modulated signals are usually referred to as carriers. Therefore, the term carrier-to-noise-ratio (CNR), instead of signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) is preferred to express the signal quality when the signal has been digitally modulated.
High C/N ratios provide good quality of reception, for example low bit error rate (BER) of a digital message signal, or high SNR of an analog message signal.
Definition[edit]
The carrier-to-noise ratio is defined as the ratio of the received modulated carrier signal powerC to the received noise power N after the receiver filters:
- .
When both carrier and noise are measured across the same impedance, this ratio can equivalently be given as:
- ,
Ninite machine. where and are the root mean square (RMS) voltage levels of the carrier signal and noise respectively.
C/N ratios are often specified in decibels (dB):
or in term of voltage:
CNR measurements and estimation[edit]
The C/N ratio is measured in a manner similar to the way the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) is measured, and both specifications give an indication of the quality of a communications channel.
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In the famous Shannon–Hartley theorem, the C/N ratio is equivalent to the S/N ratio. The C/N ratio resembles the carrier-to-interference ratio (C/I, CIR), and the carrier-to-noise-and-interference ratio, C/(N+I) or CNIR.
C/N estimators are needed to optimize the receiver performance.[1] Typically, it is easier to measure the total power than the ratio of signal power to noise power (or noise power spectral density), and that is why CNR estimation techniques are timely and important.
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See also[edit]
- Carrier-to-receiver noise densityC/N0
- Eb/N0 (energy per bit relative to noise power spectral density)
- Es/N0 (energy per symbol relative to noise power spectral density)
- Signal-to-interference ratio (SIR or S/I)
- Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR or S/N)
- SINAD (ratio of signal-plus-noise-plus-distortion to noise-plus-distortion)
References[edit]
- ^Islam, A. K. M. Najmul; Lohan, E. S.; Renfors, M. (Mar 2008). Moment based CNR estimators for BOC/BPSK modulated signal for Galileo/GPS. pp. 129–136.
External links[edit]
- Digital Transmission: Carrier-to-Noise Ratio, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, and Modulation Error Ratio at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-03-04)
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