Acoustic improvisations featuring multi-instrumentalist Hal Rammel and guitarist John Corbett. Along with the vast array of Corbett's various guitar preparations, the instrumentation includes musical saws, gopychand, guica, and a number of custom designed, custom built instruments by Rammel (like the triolin and the single-string snath.) "To me, this disc contains some of the most exciting and valuable improvised music coming from America. The sensitivity of interaction and the obvious listening-to-each-other is really breathtaking." Radu Malfatti, liner notes to The Devil's in the Details
Electroacoustic improvisations and compositions performed on the electroacoustic sound palette designed and built by Rammel in 1991. States Rammel, "Sound palette improvisation hungers for this world in motion, an animate landscape of accelerated growth, sudden decay, unexpected dissolves, arrivals and departures, with a vivid sense that the visible and the invisible have exchanged places."
Acoustic improvisations by violinist Terri Kapsalis, guitarist John Corbett. and multi-instrumentalist Hal Rammel, including texts by Terri Kapsalis.
Item Number RH-CD-3; Compact disc $14.00
Acoustic duet improvisations, featuring Swedish improvisor Johannes Bergmark and Hal Rammel, both playing instruments designed and built by Rammel.
Electroacoustic sound pallete improvisations from 1992 recorded at Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio.
Afterthought
(sonance in limbo) on The Aerial: Issue #6Besides Rammel, collection also includes works by Carter Scholz, Ellen Band, Ricardo Dal Farra, Larry Polansky, John Duesenberry, Robert Carl, Mary Jane Leach, Stephen Dressler, Yat-Kha and Frances White.
Item number COMP-CD-6; CD $16.00
Experimental multi-instrumentalist, composer/improvisor, author and visual artist, Hal Rammel has been designing and building musical instruments since 1977. He has performed with Russell Thorne, Davey Williams, LaDonna Smith, Jack Wright, Johannes Bergmark, Steve Nelson-Raney, Susan Rawcliffe, Terri Kapsalis and John Corbett. As an author and graphic artist, his work has appeared in the pages of Experimental Musical Instruments, the improvisor, Cultural Correspondence and Arsenal. He resides in southeastern Wisconsin where he teaches musical instrument invention at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Milwaukee's A.E. Burdick Elementary School. He is the radio host of Alternating Currents in 20th Century Music on WMSE-FM in Milwaukee.
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