Award-winning erotic video ballet by Janis Mattox featuring dancers Marci Javril and Riccardo Morrison. The just intonation soundtrack features Good Sound Band members Loren Rush and Janis Mattox (enhanced pianos in just intonation), Sussan Deihim (vocals), Daniel Kobialka (violin), Stuart Dempster (garden hose and didjeridu), Pauline Oliveros (accordion in just intonation), Mel Graves (contrabass), and Tim White (saxophone and flutes). (25 minutes, 1992)
Composed by Janis Mattox in collaboration with George Marsh (percussion), Mel Graves (bass), Bob Weir (vocals) and Bob Ernst (vocals). Realized at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, and premiered there in 1984. Featuring computer generated sound created on Stanford's custom built digital synthesizer, the "Samson Box". The first and most powerful digital synthesizer of its kind, the Samson Box was installed at CCRMA in 1978 and retired from use in 1991. (55 minutes)
Includes Memories of Fallen Angels featuring vocalist Sussan Deihim, violinist Daniel Kobialka, Loren Rush and Janis Mattox on two enhanced pianos in just intonation, Book of Shadows-Music for Film, Seven Dances for Innana, and other works featuring members of The Good Sound Band. (75 minutes)
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Composer, pianist, filmmaker, co-founder and co-director of Good Sound Foundation (GSF), and artistic director of The Good Sound Band, Janis Mattox began work at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in 1978 where, over the next few years, she created and produced intermedia work incorporating musical performance, dance, theater and experimental lighting and music technologies. In 1985, with composer Loren Rush, she co-founded GSF, a group of professional musicians, artists and technologists dedicated to revitalizing the experience of live performance. Since that time, her work has centered on just intonation tuning systems, an ensemble of collaborating composer-performers (The Good Sound Band) and advanced digital audio technologies developed by GSF
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