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Charlemagne Palestine Solo Pipe Organ concert at Hollywood Methodist Church Recorded excerpt February 14, 1998 1:15 AM - 2:30 AM. Beyond the Pink performance festival. Essential early Minimalist, Charlemagne Palestine creates his composition Shlongo!!! Daluvdrone by inserting pieces of folded paper between the organ keys in order to create sustained resonant over-tones. Mr. Palestine's notes from the Beyond the Pink festival program further elucidate this technique, 'a continuous vibrating herd of organ pipes in big resonant cathedral was the basic premise for meditative sound environments that was to become the spectral continuum that was to become search for the golden sound that was to become Shlongo. I began my investigation pipe by pipe creating sonorities putting small folded paper nuggets between the keys a continuous sound object starting with a fundamental then a perfect fifth then the octave above and gradually building enormous sonorities over several hours with tens then hundreds and then thousands of overtones interacting with the beats creating a rhythmic fabric of overwhelming complexity. Like the smooth glassy surface of a body of water, Shlongo!!! Daluvdrone appears deceptively simple at first; a continuous drone the waves unceasing throughout. But as the listener become fully immersed into its aural depths, strange shifts and subtle nuances of sound become readily more apparent. Mr. Palestine has created a meditative sound environment that is active not passive; a running stream of resonant sonority. In addition to this current of sound, the resonant tones echo in the apse of the Hollywood Methodist Church in such a way that one can hear the architecture. The organ tones play the solid structure much in the same way a brook cascades across boulders and rocks. As Heraklitus said some 2,500 years ago, 'You never step twice into the same river," so too does this recording spring anew upon each successive listen.