2. Adagio I

Adagio I is the second movement of Night Labyrinth, a work of MIDI chamber music for three performers, each playing modules of a Yamaha TX816 synthesizer. It is one of three tape interludes which set off the live portions of the work in a dramatic way with denser richer orchestration. Indeed, it is perhaps the most orchestral in conception of all the movements, both in its density of texture and in some of the sounds it uses. However, the passage work heard using these sounds would often be impossible to achieve in an acoustic orchestra, as would some of the timbral combinations.

6. Adagio III

Adagio III is the penultimate movement of Night Labyrinth (1988). The latter work, lasting about an hour and a quarter, is made up of four “live” movements which are played on MIDI synthesizers, and three interludes for tape, of which Adagio III is the last and the longest and the most introspective of these interludes. It was composed in the form of several superimposed improvisations, which were recorded and subsequently refined used a MIDI sequencer. Finally, the whole work was transferred to magnetic tape.

Source: CECG/GEC, 1989