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Artist:
VA
Title:
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 1
Label:
CENTAUR
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
CRC 2029CD
First volume in this series, originally released in 1988. Featured works: "Sinfonia Concertante: A Mozartean Episode", "Sonata Concertante" for piano and computer music on tape by Larry Austin; "Peninsula" for piano and computer music on tape by Thomas Clark; "Fluud for dual Synclaviers" by Jerry Hunt; "Dulcimer Dream" for amplified piano by Phil Winsor.
Artist:
VA
Title:
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 2
Label:
CENTAUR
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
CRC 2039CD
Originally released in 1988. Featured works: "GOLEM I" for computer music performance system by Richard Teitelbaum; "Lady Neil's Dumpe" for Yamaha TX816 MIDI rack and Macintosh Plus computer by Martin Bresnick; "What Is The Use?" for computer performance system by Neil B. Rolnick; "Kaleidocycles" by Rick Baitz; "Syntax for Synclavier" by Scott Lindroth.
Artist:
VA
Title:
CDCM Computer Music Vol. 5
Label:
CENTAUR
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
CRC 2076CD
..
Inner Voices: Music From The Winham Laboratory At Princeton University
. Originally released in 1990. Featured works: "just-more-idle-chatter" (1987) by Paul Lansky ; "Approximate Rhythms" (1989) by Brad Garton; "Elmore (1987) by Andrew Milburn; "Night Machines" (1987) by Martin Butler; "Still Life With Piano" (1989) by Frances White; "Contraption" (1988) by Alicyn Warren; "Wasting" (1987) by Brad Garton, Paul Lansky, Andrew Milburn.
Artist:
IVES, CHARLES
Title:
Universe Symphony
Label:
CENTAUR
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
CRC 2205CD
1994 release. "Performed by the Cincinnati Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted by G. Samuel, this includes several of Ives' compositions that have been re-constructed from his complex sketches and notes. The brilliant pianist John Kirkpatrick (largely responsible for Ives' initial fame through his performance of the
Concord Sonata
in the 1930s) worked on several of the pianoworks, and composers Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison collated and completed the score of the
Symphony No. 4
in the 1950s, while composer Larry Austin spent over 20 years to realize and complete the myriad materials for the
Universe Symphony
. Ives actually left a note inviting other composers to add to the work following his initial ideas. Approximately the first 15 minutes of this almost 40-minute work is given to the idea of the slowly growing and evolving 'life pulse,' music in which 20 percussionists play to an elaborate electronic 'click track' fed to them via headphones in order to coordinate the simultaneous 12 different prime number meters -- a massive rhythmic sound (paced at long intervals by the sound of a solo chime) and the first of three musical macro-layers. The other two layers are the Heavens for four orchestras, each in different meters and tempos, and the Earth with its 'Rock formation' and 'Earth chord' orchestras. These orchestral layers appear in different combinations within the three sections or movements. The second and third movements are the most similar to the 'Ives sound' of orchestrally dense works like the
Fourth Symphony
or the
Robert Browning Overture
, and sweepingly dramatic with an almost indescribable emotional flow. In the climax of the work all of the material sounds rush headlong to the heavens into silence broken only by the sound of one solitary chime."
Artist:
AUSTIN, LARRY
Title:
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 35
Label:
CENTAUR
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
CRC 2830CD
2006 release. Featured works: "Ottuplo!" (1998-2000); "Adagio: Convolutions on a Theme by Mozart" for clarinet and computer (2004-05); "RomaDue," electronic music on tape (1965, rev. 1997); "Tableaux: Convolutions on a Theme" for alto saxophone & octophonic computer (2003-04); "Art is a self-alteraton is Cage is..." for solo contrabass and fifteen recorded contrabasses on tape (1982-83, rev. 1993); "Threnos" for bass clarinet, real and virtual, in memory of the victims of September 11, 2001 (2001-02); "Les Flutes de Pan: Hommage à Debussy" for flute and octophonic computer music (2005-06). Performed by The Smith Quartet; F. Gerard Errante, clarinet; Stephen Duke, alto saxophone; Robert Black, contrabass; Michael Lowenstern, bass clarinet; Jacquiline Martelle, flute (piccolo). "Larry Austin (b. 1930, Oklahoma), composer, was educated in Texas and California, studying with Canadian composer Violet Archer (University of North Texas), French composer Darius Milhaud (Mills College), and American composer Andrew Imbrie (University of California-Berkeley). He also enjoyed extended associations in California in the 'sixties with composers John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and David Tudor."
Artist:
VA
Title:
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 37
Label:
CENTAUR
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
CRC 2938CD
...
Music From The Timara Studios Oberlin Conservatory Of Music
. Featured works: "Piano Piece For Prepared Piano And Stereo Tape" (1969) by Olly Wilson; "Jabber For Computer Recorded Sound" (2006) and "To The Edge, Algorithmic Compositions For Solo Marimba" by Gary Lee Nelson. "Zephyr's Lesson For Flute, Violoncello, Percussion And Stereo Tape" (1984) by Conrad Cummings. "The Death of the Moth For Chamber Ensemble And Stereo Tape" (2003) by Tom Lopez. "Seven Sides Of A Crystal For Piano And Stereo Tape" (1984) by Edward J. Miller. "Samadhi For Stereo Tape" (1978) by Dary John Mizelle. Featured performers: Thomas Fosnocht, piano; Elise Roy, flute; Steuart Pincombe, cello; Jennifer Torrence, percussion; Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble/Tim Weiss; Peter Takacs, piano; Deborah Sunya Moore, marimba.
Artist:
VA
Title:
Minimamachta
Label:
CENTAUR
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
CRC 2983CD
Featured works: Philip Glass (1937):
Opening
;
Facades
;
Dance VIII
;
Metamorphosis IV
; Matteo Sommacal (1977):
Andrea
;
Le Ragioni Dimenticate
;
Nessuno Ascolta il Cane di Ceramica
;
Counter Rotation in Vacuum
; Wim Mertens (1953):
Close Cover
;
4 Mains
;
Gentleman of Leisure
. Performed by Piccola Accademia degli Specchi: Alessandra Amorino, flute/piccolo; Assunta Cavallari, piano; Donato Cedrone, cello; Claudia Di Pietro, alto/soprano saxophone; Valerio Marchitelli, violin; Giovanni Rosati, piano, musical director. "The Piccola Accademia degli Specchi (Little Academy of Mirrors) is a chamber ensemble in Rome, central Italy. Founded in the late 2000, it is specialized in the performance of contemporary classical music, with particular attention to the so-called minimalist music."
Artist:
CONGO, DAVID
Title:
Fusions - Electroacoustic Music
Label:
CENTAUR
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
CRC 3017CD
"
Fusions
, the principal work on this disc, started out as a five movement electronic music piece created on Multi track reel to reel tape. The original quadraphonic version was 'scored' for recorded piano and percussion as well as electronic sounds. Standard techniques using multiple tape decks were used to create the final master tape.
Fusions
has been revised several times to include more advanced electronic music technology. In addition to much of the original sound material, this version includes sampled acoustic string, woodwind and brass instruments. David Congo (b.1952) has written works for both acoustic & electroacoustic instruments for more than thirty years."
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