Peter Armstrong
"Too bad serialism got stuck with a 12-tone system."
"PIRRI, eh? And what's with the other 358 degrees?"
"Whadya mean, 'Octaves don't refract'?"
"And a 1,1,2 for Fibonacci: all valiant dabblers, we!"
These quotes touch respectively on concepts underlying most of Peter Armstrong's works: prime-number octave dimensions for a generalized multiplicative transform; full-circle incremental X/Y matrix rotation as an integral series form generator; octave offsets by interval class for a systematic pitch-class series registrator; and (a separate preoccupation) organic musical embodiment of additive integer sequences.
Usually created algorithmically (with APL or J) and often realized as digital-audio scores, Armstrong's music includes: Noitnevni-Trap-2 and Cycles for Synclavier ('86); KRIKOI: 4 Pieces on the Opening of Schoenberg's Opus 33a, for Csound or Duo-Piano ('92); Partita Traverse for Flute Solo, after Bach ('93); Krikos Epilog, for Piano ('93); Additudes!: Fibonacci/ Lucas Mod Cycles set in the Order-21 Perfect Square, for Csound ('05). His music has won awards through CCI, CMS and ARTSPACE, and is represented by BMI.
Formerly active as a pianist, late-Busoni champion, university piano/theory professor, Forth shop games audio programmer, and past president of the Studio of Electronic Music Inc. (SEMI), Dr. Armstrong works currently as a computer systems administrator with the federal judiciary in Connecticut.
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