Duane Pitre's lyrics & chords

Duane Pitre is an American avant-garde composer and performer. His work often focuses on the tensions between electronic sound and acoustic instrumentation, chaos and discipline, as well as site-specificity and performativity. The composer frequently works with long-tones and utilizes alternate tuning schemes that focus on microtonality, enabling him to explore unaccustomed harmonic intervallic relationships. In recent works Pitre has focused on the liberation within a sound's decay and the space it provides. He has scored works for string/wind...read more