JOEL CHADABE

After Some Songs

New release/re-issue, on Deep Listening® Label, of 1988 recording by Intelligent Music in which Chadabe uses the screen controls of Intelligent Music's M (running on a Macintosh computer) with sounds produced by four Yamaha TX-7 synthesizers. After Some Songs refers to six of the pieces in the recording which are compositions inspired by jazz classics: .Echoes of Brazil, (after Corcovado), Elusive Lady, (after Stella By Starlight), Valentine (after My Funny Valentine), Many Mornings, Many Moods (after In A Sentimental Mood) You (after There'll Never Be Another You), and Spring (after It Might As Well Be Spring). Performers include Chadabe on electronics and Jan Williams on percussion, with Bruno Spoerr, saxophone, and Reto Weber on udu drum. Other pieces include a A Touch of Africa and Another Approach to Rhythms. Wonderfully buoyant performances! The CD is an updated version of the original 1998 recording.

Item number DL-CD-1; Compact disc $16.00
Item number CJ-C-1; Cassette tape (1988 Version) $9.00

Modalities on CDCM Computer Music Series, Vol. 7

Also included areVocal Chords and A Robert Johnson Sampler,Neil B. Rolnick; Child and the Moon-Tree, Julie Kabat; A Little Night Music and Demons of the Night, Barton McLean; and Pauline Oliveros' Lion's Tale. (1990)

Joel Chadabe

Joel Chadabe is an internationally recognized pioneer in the development of interactive music systems. As composer and performer, he has concertized worldwide since 1969 with Jan Williams, percussionist, and other musicians. He is listed in the International Who's Who of Musicians and the Who's Who in American Music. His articles on electronic music have appeared in Computer Music Journal, Contemporary Music Review, Electronic Musician, Perspectives of New Music, Electronic Music Review, Melos, Musique en Jeu, and many other journals and magazines. Several of his articles have been anthologized in books by the MIT Press and other publishers. His music is recorded on CDCM, Centaur, Lovely Music, Opus One, CP2, and Folkways labels. He has received awards, fellowships, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright Commission, SUNY Research Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. He has been President and Chairman of Composers' Forum, Inc., in New York City. He is currently on the faculties of the University at Albany and Bennington College; President of Intelligent Music, a research and development company; and founder and President of Electronic Music Foundation. Mr. Chadabe has a B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.M. degree from Yale University.

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