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Organized Pitches Occurring In Time consists of two twenty-five-minute pieces of music, both spawned from Duane Pitre's conceptual composition/score Ensemble Drones. With a form reminiscent of works by La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music and tonality touching on the floating works of Terry Riley, these are aural tapestries based on a minimal tonal palette, with their instrumentation consisting of guitars, alto saxophones, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, tone generator, and pump organ. After Duane Pitre's departure from San Diego's Camera Obscura in Summer 2000, he started the project known as Pilotram. In September 2004 Pitre moved to Brooklyn and began in-depth studies of music and sound, including the physics of sound, the involvement of mathematics in tuning and temperament, the ancient tuning system of Just Intonation, and other microtonal tuning systems, as well as the minimalist composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich. 2006 found Pitre heading back to San Diego to focus on his solo works, and also marked the transformation of his performance/recording title from Pilotram to Duane Pitre/Pilotram; 2007 will see further title transformation to Duane Pitre, shedding the Pilotram moniker altogether.