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Maggi Payne - Heat Shield

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Heat Shield, 8/18/2018 10:00 (stereo and four channel)

As I was refining my final mix and searching for a title, I came upon an article in Science News describing the Parker Solar Probe and its imminent launch. The 8/12/18 launch date beat the completion of my work by six days, which was fitting since Heat Shield materializes while in an imagined outer space. References to the scorchingly close solar flybys occur in the middle and final sections of the work, as the solar probe will experience 2500 degree Fahrenheit temperatures and will be protected by two light weight heat shields, each consisting of two superheated carbon-carbon composite panels with a carbon foam core between them. In Heat Shield these close encounters are represented by powerful crackles and pops that occur as a result of shifting phase relationships among the several oscillators I used in the making of the work. 

I created all sounds except one, a cricket that appears briefly at :29, using the Moog IIIP synthesizer at Mills College.

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from San Francisco Tape Music Collective, released June 8, 2020

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