2013 - Present. Expanding concepts with the Kyma System
During this period McLean's creative work in music consisted exclusively of his adopting the Kyma System--an all-inclusive creative tool incorporating all of the elements of previous developments including modular, MIDI, waveshaping, sampling, digital processing and sequencing, and a comprehensive set of modification tools such as vocoder, eq, etc. This provided a richness and flexibility previously unseen in his work. Many of these works also included video elements produced by various means including video and video processing tools. Other works featured guest artists to accompany his music. This only goes up to 2019. For Bart's later KYMA works go to his playlist at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3ACAB7BAD86CE7B4
Access:
McLean's views on how a composer should be compensated for his/her work have changed over the years. During these early years McLean eagerly sought and was successful in securing publishers, namely Broude Brothers and European-American, who published and distributed his and Priscilla's work. Beginning in the early 1980's, when McLean and wife Priscilla were embarking on a full-time career as professional composer/performers outside the university, their strategy changed in that they withdrew all of their works from publishers and became their own publisher by starting MLC Publications. By the time of their semi-retirement from full time touring with the McLean Mix (2013), their current focus has been on building a legacy access situation where anyone can listen to, watch, or download their scores for free from various sources. This web site is the culmination of this focus, and is designed for easy and free access for (mostly) all of their music. The user may simply pull down the appropriate work from the header menu and download, listen, or watch the work with score on YouTube.
FOR MOBILE DEVICES:
Everything is accessible:
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Click on menu bars at top. This will open main page for that menu item.
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For sub pages (each of which features one composition) click on the + sign to the left of the main menu.