The Visibility of Thought
Muhal Richard Abrams
Duet for Contrabass and Piano, Duet for Violin and Piano, Baritone Voice and String Quartet, Piano Duet #1, The Visibility of Thought, Piano Improvisation Muhal Richard Abrams, Thomas Buckner, Philip Bush, Jon Deak, Mark Feldman, Joseph Kubera, ETHEL: Ralph Farris, Dorothy Lawson, Todd Reynolds, Mary Rowell
Iris
Evidence
IRIS, the second CD release from the duo Evidence (Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood) on the Deep Listening label, is also their first video release. The DVD has the same sonic material as the music on the CD, but it features video pieces by the duo's favorite live-video performers, including Benton-C Bainbridge, Betsey Biggs, Fi$h2000, Madeleine Gallagher, Dawn Haleta, David Lublin, Jonathan Lee Marcus, Olivia Robinson, skfl, Diana Reed Slattery, Jack Turner and Walter Wright. These pieces emphasize the spontaneity of the artists' live performances, the practice of using "found" materials, and suggest the emergence of a regional aesthetic stemming from the recent hotbed of media performance centered around Troy, New York.
Stephan Moore is a composer, improviser, audio artist, sound designer and software programmer from Marquette, Michigan, currently based in New York City. His work is grounded in the collection and investigation of environmental sound recordings and a fascination with the perception and properties of acoustic environments. Performances and installation artworks make use of multi-channel arrays of his Hemisphere speakers. He maintains several ongoing collaborations with diverse musicians, live-video artists and choreographers. He is currently the Sound Supervisor of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Scott Smallwood was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up at 10,000 feet in elevation in the Colorado Rockies. When Smallwood was 10 years old, his father gave him a cassette tape recorder, and ever since he has been fascinated by the possibilities of recorded sound. His work deals with real and abstracted soundscapes based on a practice of listening, improvisation, and phonography. Ranging from sonic photographs, studio compositions, instrumental pieces, and improvisations, the resulting pieces are often textural, always mindful of space and subtlety.
This release contains both a CD and DVD.
Beachcombers
Larry Austin
Live-electronic music for four musicians and tape, commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation for performance with the dance work and film, Coast Zone. Choreographed by Merce Cunningham and first performed by John Cage, voice; Martin Kalve, koto; Takehisa Kosugi, violin; and David Tudor, electronics.
Score and 6 performance audio cassettes
A Northern Suite/Night Peace
John Luther Adams
Tone paintings of Alaska and Okefenokee Swamp, performed by the Arctic Chamber Orchestra and the Atlanta Singers. Recorded on the New Albion CD.
"No, not that John Adams. This one is from Alaska and his music is appropriately icy, distant and spacious." John Schaefer, New Sounds
Forest Without Leaves
John Luther Adams
A collaboration with Alaskan poet, John Haines, performed by the Arctic Chamber Orchestra and Choir. "...a work which is both moving and coherent, with a message whose time has come." Chorus!
KA-GU-LA: Ritual of the Wind
Michiko Akao
Akao observes that "performing artists blow a new wind through closed societies. They are the modern-day shamans who use their bodies as the medium to link people to the natural world." Yokobue (transverse bamboo flutes) master, Michiko Akao, and percussionist, Midori Takada, perform music evocative of ancient Japanese traditions - from folk songs to the kagura, the rites of music and dance used to invoke the presence of deities and from which form emerges the very basis of Japan's performing arts. Distributed by Deep Listening® Publications.
HI-KA-LI: wind reflections
Michiko Akao
Continued explorations into the mythic origins of the sound of the yokobue, the family of Japanese transverse bamboo flutes. Five commissions (and premieres) of music from 1982 to 1991 with Akao on flutes, Nachiko Maekane, percussion, Carl Stone, electronics, and Kodo on Japanese drums. Featured composers are Masanori Fujita, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Isao Matsushita, Carl Stone and Maki Ishii. Distributed by Deep Listening® Publications.
KI-NO-KOE: voice of tree
Michiko Akao
Akao's most recent recording includes works by Michiko Akao, Somei Satoh, Akira Nishimura, Haruna Miyake and Teizo Matsumura. An exceptional release featuring compositions still very new and relatively obscure to listeners outside of Japan. Distributed by Deep Listening® Publications.
Peachy Keen-O
Beth Anderson
This CD has pieces with an auctioneer, a Kentucky farm with birds & clover, a jazz dancer, a quivering, vibrating, sexually tinged piece full of women saying supplication, a saint dying in flames, a drum piece about frustration, mother/daughter miscommunication, a pipe organ, and punk rap with overtones of yoga. Many of Anderson's compositions from 1973-1979 use words or parts of words to make either all or part of the music. Sometimes the music is derived from the words. Some of it is considered to be part of the genre known as text-sound.
Savage Songs (Works from 1961-1970)
Jorge Antunes
"Pequena Peça para Mi bequadro e Harmônicos" (1961); "Valsa Sideral" (1962); "Música para Varreduras de Freqüências" (1963); "Fluxo Luminoso para Sons Brancos I" (1964); "Contrapunctus contra Contrapunctus" (1965); "Três Estudos Cromofônicos" (1966); "Canto Selvagem" (1967); "Movimento Browniano" (1968); "Canto do Pedreiro" (1968); "Cinta Cita" (1969); "Auto-Retrato sobre Paisaje Porteño" (1969/1970); "Historia de um Pueblo por Nacer or Carta Abierta a Vassili Vasilikos y a todos los Pesimistas" (1970)
