Browse by Label: MODE

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music
Label:	MODE
Format:	3CD
Price:	$46.00
Catalog #:	MODE 003/6CD

Originally released as a 4-LP set on Mode in 1986, finally reissued on CD for the first time. Featured compositions: "Atlas Eclipticalis' (1961, for chamber ensemble); "Winter Music" (1957, for 3 pianos); "Atlas Eclipitcalis" (1961, for orchestra); "Winter Music" (1957, for 20 pianos). "The long awaited reissue of Mode's second LP set, remastered with bonus tracks. Cage's relationship with the Cornish Institute in Seattle dates back to the 1930s, when he taught there and performed as accompanist for many dance pieces. Cornish was also the scene of several of his musical discoveries and innovations. Cage's celebrated return to the Cornish Institute in 1983 led to these recordings of his conducting 'Atlas Eclipticalis' performed simultaneously with 'Winter Music' -- a rare opportunity to hear Cage perform his own works. Two complete 80-minute long performances are presented here, captured live in concert. New 96khz/24-bit mastering made from the original analog tapes. The original liner notes by John Cage and the New Performance Group's Matthew Kocmieroski are supplemented with new essays on 'Atlas Eclipticalis' by Cage's long-time colleague and publisher Don Gillespie, and on 'Winter Music' by Stephen Drury."

Artist:	LACY/JOHN HEWARD, STEVE
Title:	Recessional (for Oliver Johnson) Montreal 20 June 2003
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 004CD

"This live concert is perhaps one of the last recordings from soprano saxophone legend Steve Lacy. Lacy and percussionist John Heward first met in Paris in 1975. Though they remained in regular contact through the years, they did not actually play together until this concert in Montreal on 20 June 2003. Two months later Lacy was diagnosed with cancer, and died in June 2004. Lacy suggested to Heward that he wanted to end this improvisation with the motif Recessional (for Oliver Johnson), as a tribute to Lacy's longtime drummer. The motif appears toward the end of this setlong piece, and lasts until its conclusion. With this release, Mode reactivates its Mode/Avant series, created to explore interesting recordings of music outside of the scope of Mode's basic new music repertoire."

Artist:	MCPHEE/JOHN HEWARD, JOE
Title:	Voices: 10 Improvisations
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 005CD

"Two people on two hot June afternoons. A studio, an experienced and appreciative engineer. A deep need to find music. Total improvisation on larger music that existed, exists and will exist as long as there are voices." - John Heward on recording Voices: 10 Improvisations, in June 2006. "Joe McPhee (pocket trumpet, alto sax). Since emerging on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late '60s and early '70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a conceptualist and theoretician. He has worked with musicians ranging from Peter Brötzmann to Pauline Oliveros. McPhee has recorded for numerous labels including Hat Hut, CjR, Cadence, CIMP Okkadisk, Music & Arts, and Victo. John Heward (drums, kalimba, percussion) is a Montreal-based drummer/painter/sculptor who has quietly become one of the world's leading percussionists working in the field of contemporary improvised music, new music, and avant jazz. He has played with music luminaries including David Prentice, Glenn Spearman, Malcolm Goldstein, Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Lisle Ellis. Paul Bley, Joe Giardullo, and many others, who have sought him out during their Canadian sojourns."

Artist:	SUN RA/STOCKHAUSEN
Title:	Sirius Respect
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 006CD

The Respect Sextet Play The Music Of Sun Ra & Stockhausen. "This CD allows the music of two of the 20th century's musical giants to be heard as they've never quite been heard before. Sun Ra and Stockhausen have a lot in common: mysticism, astrology, a self-constructed cosmology and (intertwining) compositional language, the idea of 'advanced' musical and intellectual work, and an early, involved adoption of synthesizers. In choosing the repertoire, Respect wanted to draw comparisons and contrasts between the two composers and address the questions of how 'space' influenced their work. A truly unique 'crossover' release that is bound to appeal to new music, jazz and improvisation audiences. The Respect Sextet is an up-and-coming young jazz group based in New York and garnering a lot of positive press. Each of the band's six members are individuals with their own projects, writing their own compositions and playing in other bands, from new music groups Argento Ensemble and Alarm Will Sound to the gospel group The Campbell Brothers to Bjorkestra and Cuong Vu's Trio -- a broad spectrum of music. Their previous CDs have included covers of tunes by Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Lee Konitz, Herbie Nichols, Albert Ayler and Misha Mengelberg."

Artist:	BRAXTON & GERRY HEMINGWAY, ANTHONY
Title:	Old Dogs (2007)
Label:	MODE
Format:	4CD
Price:	$48.00
Catalog #:	MODE 009/12CD

"Gerry Hemingway played in Anthony Braxton's classic, long standing quartet between 1983-1994, with Marilyn Crispell and Mark Dresser. This historic set documents their first recorded reunion in 12 years. Released to celebrate Braxton's 65th birthday. These 'studio' improvisations were recorded in August 2007 at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where Braxton is Professor of Music. Each of the four improvisations have their own unique character and instrumental color, lasting approximately one hour each. Extensive liner notes by Graham Lock, who has been writing about Braxton since the late 1980s. This deluxe 4CD set is packaged in a slipcase with a booklet and copious photos of the recording session."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Complete String Quartets Volume 1
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 017CD

Mode is an interesting NY label, perhaps best known for their intention of releasing a recording of every John Cage piece ever composed! An almost complete listing of their CD catalog is listed here. Volume 3 in the Music of Cage series (first 2 volumes are o/p LPs only, awaiting CD reissue). First of 2 CDs containing Cage's string quartets, performed by the Arditti Quartet. Recorded live at Wesleyan, 1988 Beautiful cover art of an original etching by Cage; liner notes by Cage & Arditti. Cage's string quartet works can be dazzlingly abstract and well worth absorption.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Music For Merce Cunningham
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 024CD

2008 repress, featuring a 24-bit Hi-Definition remaster; originally released in 1991. Volume 4 in the Music of Cage series. The first audio document between Cage & Cunningham. It includes a 55-minute piece called "Five Stone Wind" performed by David Tudor (live electronics), Takehisa Kosugi (amplified violin, live electronics, bamboo flute) and Michael Pugliese (clay pots and tapes) as well as a 19-minute version of the classic "Cartridge Music" (same 3 performers, "using phonograph cartridges to play various objects, toys and furniture to create a cosmos of unusual sound" ). Essential.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Complete String Quartets Vol 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 027CD

Repressed, new 2003 24-bit remastering. Volume 5 in the Music of John Cage Series. 2nd volume of String Quartets, performed by the Arditti Quartet. Two pieces are played: "String Quartet in Four Parts" (1950) -- "A pivotal work in Cage's oeuvre, the quartet shows the composer's transition between the rhythmically complex percussion works before it and the extravagant chance works of the 1950s." "Four," from 1990, was composed specifically for Arditti and "opens a world of microtones, the 4 independent players forming constantly shifting textures and harmonies." Extensive liner notes by James Pritchett.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Roaratorio
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 028/29CD

Repressed. Volume 6 of the Music of Cage series. 1987 Performance of this legendary radio-play, featuring the Joyce-inspired text "Writing For the Second Time Through Finnegan's Wake" mixed over a live group of Irish Folk musicians. "Some merely listening to the radio at home wrote to the BBC to complain of a concert which sounded like crossed wavelengths with liberal helpings of static and feedback." Comes with a thick booklet of information and some of the most supremely disorienting music you could desire.

Artist:	WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Bread And Roses
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 043CD

Piano works (1976-1983), performed by Sally Pinkas. "Wolff came to prominence in the 1950s as an associate of John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and the other American experimentalists of that period, later working with Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski. His work has gone through many transformations, including minimalism, interdeterminancy, open form and works connected with political issues... Most of the works are recorded here for the first time, as one of the first all-Wolff recitals to be issued. First in a number of releases of Wolff's music to be presented by Mode."

Artist:	BERIO, LUCIANO
Title:	The Great Works For Voice
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 048CD

1995 release, 2006 remastered edition. A major reissue from Mode with an added world premiere. Added to this reissue is the first recording of 'Quattro Canzoni Poplari,' four arrangements of Italian folk songs which hark back to late medieval Sicilian and Genovese texts and tune. 24-bit remastered sound. First volume in Mode's series dedicated to Berio. Performed by Christine Schadeberge (soprano voice) and Musician's Accord, this consists of works written from '53 to '68, with Cathy Berberian in mind. "Folk Songs" is a suite of 11 songs for flute, clarinet, harp, viola, cello and perc. and was intended to undermine the expectations of the "avant-garde." This is still bound to throw off listeners expecting experimental vocal work, but the following 45 minutes of material is essential work for those interested in the genre. "Sequenza III" is for solo female voice, as a part of Berio's series for virtuosos. "Chamber Music" features sung poems by Joyce, accompanied by clarinet, cello & harp. "Circles" features e. e. cummings texts, accompanied by harp & percussion.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Piano Works 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 050CD

A new recording of "Sonatas And Interludes" for prepared piano, performed by Philippe Vandre. This is the first version to use a Steinway "O"-type baby grand piano (as Cage originally composed and designed the piece for). "Cage's masterwork is quite different -- a big piece with a quiet voice. The prepared piano operates entirely by muting: by attaching objects to the strings of the piano. Cage alters their sounds in various ways, turning the piano into a percussion orchestra akin to a gamelan. The results are different from note to note -- but always quieter than before."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Ensemble Music 1
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 053CD

Five ensemble works, performed by the ST-X Ensemble: "Plekto" (first recording of a recent ens. work), "Eonta (for piano solo, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones -- "like no music before or since: cascading notes like falling stars together with waves of sound from the brass"), "Akanthos" (for soprano and ensemble), "Rebons" (for percussion), "N'Shima" (for 2 amplified peasant voices, 2 amplified horns, 2 trombones, and amplified cello -- "a ritual of chanting voices, singing Hebrew syllables, against a backdrop of roaring brass and solo cello").

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	Aki Takahashi Plays Morton Feldman
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 054CD

2006 repress, new 24-bit hi definition remaster. First release in Mode's Feldman Edition, of shorter solo piano works, performed by Aki Takahashi, recorded 1995. "Morton Feldman's sound-world no longer needs an introduction. Feldman was especially fond of Aki's playing, so much so that he had selected certain works particularly for her. Together they toured this program, with Feldman speaking about the compositions and Aki performing them. The CD contains selections from those recitals as well as works close to Aki's heart, many receiving their first recording and available on CD for the first time. Of particular note is the premier recording of Feldman's earliest published composition -- ILLUSIONS -- which is unique in his oeuvre: it is mostly loud and fast!"

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Ensemble Music 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 056CD

Follow up to Mode 54, recordings by the ST-X Ensemble, with the participation of the composer. Features: first recording of "A La Memoire de Witold Lutoslawski" ("It is a literal monument of sound, comprised of massive blocks of brass arranged as a dirge like fanfare."); "Akrata" (for 8 winds & 8 brass, "classic and seminal Xenakis. The work's skittering, repeated notes and extreme changes of dynamic yield a sense of vast, isolated space"); "Echange" ("a terrifying and mysterious 'concerto' for bass clarinet and ensemble"); "Xas" (for saxophone quartet) & "Okho" (for 3 djembes & bass drum).

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Piano Concertos
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 057CD

Volume 16 of the Complete Cage Works. Includes "Concert For Piano & Orchestra" (performed by David Tudor & Ensemble Modern; "...an ever expanding galaxy of sonic possibilities with the principle of independence"); "Concerto For Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (performed by Stephen Drury); "Fourteen" (perf. by Drury; "the solo piano is not played conventionally, rather its strings are bowed with rosined nylon fishing line, producing an ethereal, mysterious sound.")

Artist:	XENAKIS/VARESE
Title:	Volume 3: Dammerschein
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 058CD

Contains 3 works by Xenakis , including the first recording of a recent large orchestra piece ('Dammerschein' -- "an energy charged, volcanic composition from the first note to the last, its massive contrasting blocks of sound give the aura of light passing through music"); "Persephassa" (for percussion ensemble) & "La Deesse Athena ("a thickly scored chamber work, with the instruments often playing in their most aggressive ranges"). Plus Edgard Varese's "Ameriques" ("for a huge orchestra including 11 percussionists and sirens, was influenced by the urban landscape of NY -- a thing of violent beauty. At the climax, the full power of the orchestra is unleashed in one of the most expansive and impressive passages in the entire orchestral repertoire. A sonic experience richly recorded and guaranteed to blow you out of your seat!").

Artist:	TUDOR, DAVID
Title:	Rainforest (Versions I & IV)
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 064CD

2007 repress, originally released 1998. Two versions of Tudor's electronic environment masterpiece, the first performed in 1968 by Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; the 2nd is an electro-acoustic environment from 1973. "'Rainforest' blends music and sculpture by placing music in space in extraordinary ways. The idea is to channel electronic output through an object rather than through the usual device, a loudspeaker. Dozens of unique and unlikely objects are suspended from the ceiling at about ear level. The space is filled with gentle sounds given off by the vibration of the hanging objects via a contact microphone, fed back into his controls for filtering and mixing, and then redistributed out again to some other object or a conventional loudspeaker. The recycling phenomenon that takes place makes the entire electro-acoustic apparatus of 'Rainforest' an 'ecologically balanced sound system.' The result is a timeless sonic environment full of rich textures offering the listener an infinite variety of aural densities and spatial effects."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	First Recordings: 1950s
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 066CD

"A remarkable discovery of over 75 minutes of Morton Feldman's music. This disc represents 13 unrecorded early works spanning 1950 to 1953, many previously unpublished. Highlights: his only works for magnetic tape, 'Intersection,' realized in 8-channels by Feldman with John Cage and Earle Brown. Considered lost, the work has been restored and presented here for the first time in 40 years. Also: his score for 2 cellos to Hans Namuth's film of Jackson Pollock, presented in its entirety including narration by Pollock himself; the solo piano collection 'Nature Pieces' which combine elements of Feldman's youth with his mature style; previously missing works from the Extensions and Intermission cycles. The performances are superbly played by pianist Philippe vandré and the Turfan Ensemble from Frankfurt."

Artist:	PAPE, GERARD
Title:	Electroacoustic Chamber Works
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 067CD

"Composed between 1993-97, this second volume of works by Pape on Mode continues his richly dramatic style with new compositional turns. Pape sites these compositions as influenced by Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi and Julio Estrada. Indeed, they combine the power of Xenakis with the microtonal explorations of Scelsi. All works, with the exception of 'Le Fleuve', interact the performers with vivid use of electronics and/or tape, many composed on the UPIC computer." "Collection of ensemble/solo pieces (performed by the likes of the Arditti String Quartet, Vox Nova, and Daniel Kientzy) augmented by tapes and sound projection by this VERY post-1950 composer (born in 1955). Pape's more recent projects include 'Feu Toujors Vivant', a piece commissioned by Art Zoyd (!) for 4 samplers and large orchestra, and an opera based on Clive Barker's novel Weaveworld (!!). Extremely pleasant sound-worlds, rife with complex tone-clusters and occasional bursts of ultra-processed sonic-nonsense. Chaotic." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	STOCKHAUSEN/DUSAPIN
Title:	In The Sky I Am Walking
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 068CD

"'In the Sky I am Walking (American Indian Songs)' is an important work in Karlheinz Stockhausen's oeuvre from the 1970s. Scored for a male and female singer, this long song cycle uses texts by Native Americans and incorporates the use of 'unusual vocal sounds' from a palette of vocal timbres developed by the two singers in their years of experience performing new music and meeting singers from around the world, including Native Americans. Stockhausen closely prepared the piece with the singers. Pascal Dusapin is one of France's leading composers. 'Red Rock' is an excerpt from Dusapin's opera Romeo and Juliet scored for vocal quartet playing Native American instruments." Performed by VoxNova.

Artist:	WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Title:	I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 069CD

"Wolff is considered a member of 'The New York School' along with John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor. The superb performances come from The Barton Workshop, an Amsterdam-based ensemble founded by composer-trombonist James Fulkerson. Among the highlights: the 'Serenade' of 1950, an extraordinary individual work from a sixteen-year-old who had just introduced himself to Cage. It intimates the minimalist movement which was to come a decade later. 'For Morty (1987), written in memory of Morton Feldman, used three instruments that have a particular significance in Feldman's work -- the vibraphone, glockenspiel and piano. Its tender fragility reminds one of the unique sensibility of Feldman, while remaining music that only Wolff could have conceived."

Artist:	WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Tilbury Pieces (Complete)
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 074CD

"The works on this disc, volume 3 of Mode's Christian Wolff Edition, belong to his minimalist, and open-form, styles. The 'Tilbury' pieces (1969-70) are named for the pianist John Tilbury, whom Wolff had recently met. 'Snowdrop' (1970), from the same period, was named for the snowdrops among the earliest Spring flowers found in the Vermont countryside where Wolff lives. They attempt to integrate a systematic way of writing with chance and the excitement of early minimalism from Riley, Glass and Reich along with their English counterparts Hobbs, Smith, Nyman and White. A reaction against Serialism, their sound motifs come in fixed cycles, now and again two or more sounds appear at the same time, coincide and collide, making chords. 'Tilbury 5' was written 25 years later at the request of the performers Roland Dahinden (trombone, melodica), Hildegard Kleeb (piano) and Dimiris Polisoidis (violin, viola)."

Artist:	KAVINA, LYDIA
Title:	Music from the Ether: Original Works for Theremin
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 076CD

New 24-bit audiophile remastering of this CD from the original session recordings, first released in 1999. "Russian Theremin virtuoso Lydia Kavina presents the FIRST RELEASE EVER dedicated to ORIGINAL compositions for the instrument -- spanning the 'golden age' of the Theremin from its invention in the 1920s to contemporary works. One of the first attempts to unite music and scientific technology in the 20th century, the Theremin is considered to be the ancestor of modern electronic musical instruments. Its evolution from scientific curiosity to virtuoso classical instrument (played by Clara Rockmore in Caregie Hall) to 'instrument of the future' (according to Cage, Varèse, Grainger and others) to Hollywood sound effects (played in soundtracks to Spellbound, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lost Weekend) to rock-and-roll instrument (used by the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and others) has been well-documented. Lydia Kavina is the world's leading Thereminist today. The granddaughter of Leon Theremin's first cousin, she was the inventor's last protégée. She began studying the instrument with him at the age of nine, and was concertizing by age fourteen. Since then, Kavina has given over 500 concerts."

Artist:	CZERNOWIN, CHAYA
Title:	Afatsim (Chamber Music 1988-96)
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 077CD

"Czernowin's sound occupies a unique world. Often many instruments are used to become one 'composite' instrument. Time is slowed down, so that the slow flow of sound enables one to perceive the smallest details of a texture or a sound. The resulting music can feel fluid, dense or agitated, at times echoing that of Xenakis and Ferneyhough." Performed by Arditti Quartet, Harvey Sollberge, Mayumi Miyata (Japanese mouth organ), John Fonville (flute), etc.

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Complete Works for Piano Solo
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 080CD

2006 repress. 24 bit remaster. "Xenakis' piano music is among the most powerful and virtuosic of the latter part of the 20th century. Full of dynamic energy and color, the works can evoke the sonic equivalent of an exploding cosmos or a mysterious, foggy world of mists through which glimpses of form and light can be perceived. At the hands of Aki Takahasi, they come alive with a special vitality. Of Aki's playing of 'Herma', Xenakis wrote in 1973: 'It was a difficult work and according to my French musician friends, unplayable. They thought it would need at least 1 year of work and advised me to rewrite it for at least two or three players and two pianos. Indeed, it introduced an expansion of the hands all over the keyboard simultaneously. When I first heard Aki play it in Paris last Fall at her Musée d'Art Moderne recital I was, in spite of my skepticism, conquered by her play. There was no problem with the huge technical difficulties. A tender and warm musicality irradiated through the piece in a bright, sparkling and powerful performance.' the breathtaking performances in audiophile quality sound make this one of the great Xenakis -- and new music -- recordings of all time." This Reissue now contains an added piece: the first recording of Xenakis's 12 minute '6 Chansons,' charming early miniatures written while Xenakis was studying in Paris with Messiaen and Milhaud. They provide a glimpse at Xenakis's early musical interests, influences and roots, documenting a distinct kinship with the piano music of Debussy and Bartók. 24-bit audiophile remastering.

Artist:	FERRARI, LUC
Title:	Volume 1: Chansons Pour Le Corps
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 081CD

2007 remastered reissue version; originally released in 1999. Includes "Chansons Pour Le Corps" (1988-94; for voice, clarinets, percussion, piano and synthesizer; Elise Caron, voice), and "Et Si Tout Entière Maintenant" (1986-87; symphonic tale for voice, orchestral sound and tape; with texts by Collette Fellous; Anne See, voice; Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique; Yves Prin, conductor). "The works on this disc show a combination of Ferrari's musique concrete and instrumental styles. The point of departure for 'Chansons Pour Le Corps' was a series of spontaneous interviews with women on the subject of female form which Ferrari recorded in the Jardin du Luxembourg. It's a great image, a young woman out for a Sunday afternoon stroll approached by a man wondering if she might allow him to record her talking about various intimate parts of her body. The interviewees were invited to speak about their eyes, hands, breasts and sex, and those who accepted did so with extraordinary candor. Novelist and radio presenter Colette Fellous was then asked to write texts based on the tapes to be set for soprano and ensemble interspersed with extracts from the original interviews. 'Et Si Tout Entière Maintenant' a 'symphonic tale' for voice, orchestral sound and tape is an extraordinary work. The orchestral score was performed, recorded and then treated electronically in his studio, though the orchestra is never deformed beyond all recognition. This is incorporated into the piece along with the authentic sounds of the Swedish icebreaker and its crew, and Fellous' spoken text. What results is typical Ferrari genre blending, inhabiting a region somewhere between fact and fiction, documentary and poetry, orchestral and electronic music."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	Complete Works for Violin & Piano
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 082/83CD

Repressed for the first time in a number of years. "Here, collected for the first time, are all of Morton Feldman's compositions for violin and piano. It is also a kind of walk through his compositional development, from the Webernesque early 'Piece for Violin and Piano' (1950); through the experiments with graphic notation in 'Projection 4' (1951); followed by an excursion into the jungle-like density of David Tudor's energy in 'Extensions 1' (1951); to the cryptic notational riddles of 'Vertical Thoughts 2'(1963); from the dry carpet-dusting 'pring of Chosroes'(1977) to the extended sound canvas of the late Feldman in 'or John Cage'(1982). He remarked with an eye twinkling: 'My music is just like Webern. Only a little bit longer.'"

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Cage Performs Cage: The Text Pieces I: The Artists Pieces
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 084/85CD

"Cage's reading of his text pieces was legend -- as recited in his unique, gentle voice -- often had a 'musical', soothing quality. And just as often, a humorous side. These are not stories in the traditional sense with a plot; rather they are based on mesostics. Basically, a mesostic uses a person's name or word as a vertical center for each stanza of the text. Cage would then choose texts and, using chance operations, search them for sentences containing a letter of this word. Each subsequent line of the stanza would have to contain the next letter of the word, and would be aligned underneath until the complete word was composed to form one stanza. The process would then be repeated over and over until the writing was completed (based on the parameters Cage would select for that work). In this way, Cage would be able to write something relevant about that person without knowing what he was going to say. This first set of Cage Performs Cage centers around mesostics for his friends and associates; the artists Jasper Johns and Morris Graves. And, in the 'Series re Morris Graves', we get the rare opportunity to hear John Cage sing." Volume 20 of The Complete John Cage Edition.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Orchestral Works, 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 086CD

Includes "Etcetera: For Chamber Orchestra With 3 Conductors" (1973), "Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras: For Large Orchestra Divided Into 4 Smaller Ensembles With Their Own Conductors" (1986). "The first recording of two major orchestral works by John Cage, recorded under the composer's supervision at the New England Conservatory's John Cage festival in 1991. These works are about 'multiplicity' -- of performing options, of ensembles, of conductors; tape music or live music, standard or unconventional notation, repetition or non-repetition. Each piece also contains a tape recoding of the environment where the work was created -- in the country for "Etcetera", the city for 'Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras'. The ensembles are directed by Cage specialist Stephen Drury." Volume 21 of The Complete John Cage Edition.

Artist:	NONO, LUIGI
Title:	Vox Nova
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 087CD

"Mode's new edition focusing on the work of Luigi Nono will include not only the notated works, but also recreations of his later pieces. These works, mainly from the mid-sixties and on, and including 'A Floresta E Jovem E Cheja De Vida', were orally transmitted 'interactive' compositions -- in many cases without a completed score. Created with Nono's preference to experiment with certain musicians and sound engineers, they often made use of live electronics to achieve a unified, constantly mobile sound world. the vocal works on this disc come from both stages of Nono's oeuvre, and are of a decidedly political bent. All feature extended vocal techniques, using different mouth positions to produce a wide range of vocal colors which often transcend the meaning of the words."

Artist:	FELDER, DAVID
Title:	A Pressure Triggering Dreams
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 089CD

"Six Poems from Neruda's Alturas" (1992-1993), recorded by the June in Burralo Festival Orchestra, Magnus Martensson, conductor; "Coleccion Nocturna" (1982-1983) Jean Kopperud (clarinet and bass clarinet), James Winn (piano, 4-channel tape);"A Pressure Triggering Dreams" (1996-1997), performed by the June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra, Harvey Sollberger (conductor), David Felder (electronics). "Each of these fairly large works, between eighteen and twenty-five minutes in duration, has some relationship to the poetry of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, or to a brief, provocative phrase coined by Nietsche."

Artist:	KOONCE, PAUL
Title:	Walkabout & Back
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 090CD

"Have you ever experienced those remarkable moments when everyday sounds, similar in structure but different in function, coincide -- the phone that rings through the trill of a Mozart piano cadence; the baby whose cry follows the meandering squeak of a nearby door? It has been with an ear turned toward these moments -- their magic and the insight they give us into sound and representation -- that Paul Koonce composed the works in this collection. These works were all created out of recorded materials, using collage and various computer manipulations to create a unique and evocative sound world."

Artist:	SAARIAHO, KAIJA
Title:	New Gates
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 091CD

"Kaija Saariaho (born 1952) is the most successful of contemporary Finnish composers. She studied in Freiburg, and finally settled in Paris, at IRCAM, the center for computer music. Tracks include: 'Cendres' (1991/6) for flute, harp and viola; 'Grammaire des Reves' (1998-9) for soprano, contralto, 2 flutes, harp, viola, cello; 'Solar' (1993) for flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, 2 percussion, harp, piano/sampler, synthesizer, violin, viola, double bass; 'New Gates' (1996) for flute, harp, viola."

Artist:	SCELSI, GIACINTO
Title:	The Piano Works 1
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 092CD

Performed by Louise Bessette (piano). "This marks not only the first volume in Mode's new Scelsi edition, but also the initial disc of the traversal of his piano works. Written in 1939, Scelsi's 'Second Sonata' was premiered by Yvar Mikhashoff in London (1979). Marking a new compositional direction, Scelsi suspended thematic development and frequently introduced various kinds of repetitions: reiterated single tones, chords, and patterns, often suggesting the sounds of bells or Oriental gongs. Scelsi characterized 'Ttai' as 'a succession of episodes alternately expressing Time and Man, as symbolized by cathedrals or monasteries, with the sacred sound of Om'. Emphasizing the suite's calm, meditative and mysterious character, Scelsi wondered if this piece should be played at concerts at all, and advised in its preface: 'This suite should be listened to and played with the greatest inner calm. Nervous people stay away.' It features low contrasting musical material, repetitive elements, stationary tones and chords, and blurred sounds due to the frequent use of both pedals. The music manifests both constant flow and inertia, and since Scelsi rarely used bar-lines, it seems to unfold in an almost unrestrained manner."

Artist:	VALVERDE, GABRIEL
Title:	Luminar
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 094CD

"Gabriel Valverde is internationally recognized as one of Argentina's leading composers, noted for his strong electronic pieces (most created using traditional analog tape resources) and instrumental works. This is his first monograph disc, and a great opportunity to sample this special composer's voice. The CD's title, Luminar (taken from the second movement of the orchestral work Espacios Inasibles), aptly describes Valverde's unique sound: a luminous kaleidoscope of colors and shifting masses of sound which often resonate towards -- and from -- silence."

Artist:	SUBOTNICK, MORTON
Title:	Vol. 1: Electronic Works
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD-AUDIO
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 097DVD

"Touch (1969, first discreet 4-channel release); A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (for 8-channel tape, 1978, first release of the complete version); Gestures: It Begins with Colors (for 5.1 surround sound, 1998-2000, first recording); Joan LaBarbara, voice. Plus video interviews and interactive DVD-ROM. Experience Multi-channel electronic works in 5.1 Surround Sound. Immerse yourself in the classic multi-channel works Touch and A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur -- both remastered from their original analog tapes, and Subotnick's latest electronic work Gestures (featuring new music vocalist Joan LaBarbara). DVD allows you to experience these works as they were 'spatially' intended in your own home -- in high-definition sound. Special features: the early works were remixed to 5.1 Surround Sound under the composer's supervision. Gestures was composed specifically for the 5.1 medium. Touch, originally commissioned by Columbia Records for the Quad LP, appears for the first time as a 4-channel discreet version. A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur is reissued for the first time since the original LP. This also marks the first release of the complete 28 minutes version."

Artist:	XENAKIS/UPIC/CONTINUUM
Title:	Electroacoustic & Instrumental Works From CCMIX Paris
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 098/99CD

"This 2-CD collection documents more than 20 years of works composed on the unique computer music system called UPIC, and the evolution of the computer music center founded specifically to promote it -- Les Ateliers UPIC, now called CCMIX. The UPIC system was conceived by Iannis Xenakis in the early 1950s; the first version of UPIC was built hy Xenakis' research center, the CEMAM, in the late 1970s, and the system continues to be developed to this day. Instead of a keyboard to perform the music, the UPlC's performance device is a mouse and/or a digital drawing hoard. These are used to trace the composer's graphic score into the UPIC computer program, which then interprets the drawings as real time instructions for sound synthesis -- the composition/performance of a graphic musical score and real-time sound synthesis are unified by the UPlC's approach." Composers include: Iannis Xenakis (featuring the 8-channel tape piece "Polytope de Cluny" from 1972), Brigitte Robindoré, Jean-Claude Risset, Nicola Cisternino, Julio Estrada, Daniel Terrugi, Takehito Shimazu, Curtis Roads, Gérard Pape.

Artist:	COWELL, HENRY
Title:	Dancing With Henry
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 101CD

"Some of the most revered compositions of the twentieth century arose from the collaboration of composers and choreographers. Henry Cowell sought solutions that would treat both art forms with equal respect. Works on this disc -- the majority of which are recorded for the first time, many from unpublished manuscripts -- were composed for Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman (Dance of Sport), Bonnie Bird, and Martha Graham (Heroic Dance and Suite for Woodwind Quintet)."

Artist:	SCELSI, GIACINTO
Title:	Music For High Winds
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 102CD

"Ixor" (1956, for clarinet), "Suite" (1953, for flute + clarinet), "Pwyll" (1954, for flute), "Tre Pezzi" (1954, for Eb clarinet), "Rucke di Guck (1957, for Piccolo + oboe), "Preghiera per un' ombra (1954, for clarinet), "Ko-Lho" (1966, for flute + clarinet), "Three Latin Prayers" (1970, for Eb and A clarinet). "This recording presents pieces for woodwind instruments played solo or in duo. The majority date from the 50's, when Scelsi abandoned his classical and 12-tone training to undertake a relentless and solitary quest toward the interior of musical sound. The listener will notice elements such as conflicting harmonic centers, sustained notes, brief frenetic passages, tempo changes by section, and tremoli, that are reinforced by constant dynamic activity, to create a characteristically heady, non-static quality."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	The Straits of Magellan - Indeterminate Music
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 103CD

"A unique collection of Feldman's 'indeterminate' works; incorporating new types of notation (including graph scores) and involving a considerable degree of indeterminacy in regard to pitch, dynamics, etc. This is the first time the complete Durations and Projections series have appeared on a single disc. It is a rewarding experience to hear the Durations and Projections played together, imparting a sense of Feldman's mastery of instrumentation and timbre while savoring the metamorphosis of its shifting colors, weights and densities of sound. The Two Pieces (first recording) reveal techniques which evoke a piano's resonance, as Feldman uses chords in which most tones immediately fade after their entrance, leaving only one or two sustained tones. The Straits of Magellan focuses on static the and 'vertical' experience, as well as on the constantly changing and fluctuating density of their sonic events allowing one to relish the subtlety and sensuousness of this music which startlingly also conveys a jazzy character. The superb performances, recorded in Germany, are by acclaimed pianist Philipp Vandré and the Turfan Ensemble."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	A Cage Of Saxophones I
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 104CD

The Works for Saxophones 1, performed by Ulrich Krieger. "Between 1983 and 1991 John Cage wrote three pieces specifically for saxophone or including saxophones, Four5, Five4 and Hymnkus, which are combined here for the first time on one CD. In addition, Cage authorized Ulrich Krieger's arrangement for saxophone of Ryoanji. Krieger also made a saxophone arrangement of Five, one of the few compositions from this period performable on any instruments. Krieger is joined here by a top group of German new music performers, including noted pianist Mario Bertoncini."

Artist:	SPEACH, BERNADETTE
Title:	Reflections
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 105CD

"Speach, a student of Morton Feldman, often captures the suspended dynamism and coloristic vision of her mentor but the work is further infused with her own considerable musical personality. It deftly bridges new music, jazz and an appealing, easily enjoyed sensibility -- bursting the bonds of postminimalism to evoke a thoughtful, introverted romanticism. Reflections consists of recent compositions. Les ondes pour quatre was written for the Arditti Quartet at the request of Irvine Arditti. When It Rains...Lleuve showcases the pianistic and vocal talents of regular Speach collaborator Anthony de Mare."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Works for Piano 4
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 106CD

"Until recently at Cage's publisher in New York, C.F. Peters, there was a box of works which Cage had held off publishing or had simply forgotten about. Among them were the dance pieces, Triple Paced and Ad Lib, Jazz Study and the film score, Works of Calder, all composed between 1942 and 1950. At Peters' request, Margaret Leng Tan was enlisted to edit these works as part of a new volume of Cage's piano pieces -- they have been recorded here in conjunction with that publication."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	The Barton Workshop Play Voices & Instruments
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 107CD

"This CD is comprised of works from Feldman's Early Period (late 40's until the late 60's) and Middle Period (late 60's/early 70's until the early 80's). In the beginning, like all young creative artists, Feldman was working through alluring influences as well as the influence of his teachers, towards the moment when he would find his personal creative voice. With the exception of the vocal solo Only, this disc documents all the earliest works that Feldman chose to publish. Journey to the End of Night (1949) shows unmistakable influences from his study with Stefan Wolpe, yet it also shows a clear command of this musical language. This dramatically clear and forceful work -- with extremely high vocal writing -- is set to texts extracted by Feldman himself from the long novel of the same title by Céline. In 1957, Feldman began to use repetition of material to make a homogeneous texture, static yet with small degrees of movement. By the early 1960's, he created timbral ambiguity by having all instruments play very softly, with a minimum of attack."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Orchestral Works 3
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 108CD

"Cage scored 108 for the largest number of players in any of the Number Pieces -- its duration of 43'30" makes an oblique reference to his groundbreaking 4'33' (1952). 108 can be played on its own or with either of two solo works from the same year, One (for cello) and One for the sho, a mouth organ with bamboo pipes that acts as one of the harmony-producing instruments in Japanese gagaku. Both solo works were composed for artists very important in Cage's final years -- cellist Michael Bach and Mayumi Miyata, who had pioneered the sho as a contemporary concert instrument. When One? is performed with 108, it becomes a concerto but a very unusual one, and a fine example of Cage's aesthetic. The orchestra disappears entirely in two sections of the piece, but not to herald a grand cadenza: the sho music continues much as it had before, a quiet, serene, almost timeless utterance. Indeed, the regal simplicity of the sho makes it an ideal instrument for Cage, who tried to make his final work like writing on water -- an action, incomparably graceful, that would leave no traces."

Artist:	WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Look She Said
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 109CD

"This disc collects all of Wolff's large body of works for the bass, including a piece for solo electric bass guitar. Two of the works were written specifically for Robert Black, who prepared these pieces with Wolff. The composer attended all of the recordings sessions. Two works are for solo bass: String Bass Exercise out of 'Bandiera Rossa' (written for Fernando Grillo), and Look She Said (written for Robert Black), which is based on folk and fiddle tunes, including one movement where the bassist is asked to sing along with the harmonics being played. It is a tribute to Laurie Anderson."

Artist:	GARLAND, PETER
Title:	Another Sunrise
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 110CD

"Peter Garland's music is a unique mixture of minimalism with influences from South/Central America, Asia and Native Americans; along with American mavericks Cage, Partch, Harrison, Cowell, and Varése -- while being uniquely American. The works on this record share a special meditative, and at times ecstatic, spirituality. Born in 1952, he studied with Harold Budd and James Tenney. Garland has a long artistic association with the performers on this disc. Essential Music's percussive talents present this music's exotic and brilliant sound in an authoritatively persuasive way. The recordings are composer supervised."

Artist:	ZIMMERMANN, WALTER
Title:	Schatten der Ideen
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 111CD

"The influence of two American composers -- John Cage and Morton Feldman -- has been decisive on Walter Zimmermann (b. 1949). With Cage, it was his music from the late forties -- works like the String Quartet, the Suite for Toy Piano and the Six Melodies -- that caught his attention: works underpinned by precise numerical construction, yet with an engaging directness of expression. Feldman has been an inspiration to Zimmermann's lyrical impetus, and Cage to his constructivist urges. Yet the two do not always co-exist comfortably, and it is partly the constant conflict and confrontation of the two which ensures that, far from being a 'displaced American', he is a quintessentially mid-European creator. The result is a totally individual sound; 'detached' in tone, yet often strangely touching. Its sparse, yet highly precise notation actually makes great demands on the performer, and the resulting 'introverted virtuosity', as Zimmermann calls it, remains a hallmark of his music."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	String Quartet No. 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	5CD
Price:	$57.00
Catalog #:	MODE 112CD

"Feldman's monumental String Quartet No.2 is in one unbroken movement. The FLUX Quartet performance is complete, lasting a total of 6 hours 7 minutes and 7 seconds. Available in 2 Editions: a 5-CD set OR complete and uninterrupted on 24-bit audio DVD! In the 1970s Feldman took up the study and collecting of antique Turkish rugs, a highly evolved and exquisite folk art. The rugs are intricately patterned, symmetrical in basic design but with constant variation and displacement in the detailed execution of that design; strikingly and subtly colored, including fine variegations of principal colors resulting from the dyeing process. Analogies are clear to Feldman's music as it takes up large-scale patterning, partly working with his familiar subtle gradations of rhythm and instrumental color and ostinati, loops or extended repetitions of a sounds, partly -- and especially in this second string quartet -- continually finding new and surprising qualities of color. There are a number of sounds in this piece unlike anything one has heard from a string quartet. One can experience the work uninterrupted complete with no need to change discs on the DVD Edition."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Works For Violin 5
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 118CD

"Irvine Arditti continues his acclaimed traversal of the complete music for violin by John Cage. This disc contains music from two different periods of Cage's composition.The Chorals have their origins in Erik Satie's Douze petits chorals, dating from Satie's years of study at the Schola Cantorum (1905-8). Its notation calls for precise microtonality, and demonstrates Zukofsky's suggestion 'to make a continuous music of disparate elements, single tones, unisons, and beatings'. 'One' is, perhaps, the most unusual of Cage's violin works. The first note, a single F, is sustained for an extremely long duration. This note is followed, after a short silence, by another F, and then another! Other notes appear eventually, but the result is one of the listener losing all sense of relating one to another, verging on a kind of trance."

Artist:	BANCQUART, ALAIN
Title:	Livre du Labyrinthe
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 120/21CD

"French composer Alain Bancquart (b.l 934) is one of the leading composers of microtonal music in Europe. Labyrinthe du Minotaur explores the myth of the Minotaur and the labyrinth. This large scale piece constantly delves into microtonal and harmonic relationships along with a lyrical polyphony. It is based on texts by his wife, author Marie-Claire Bancquart. The ensemble is comprised of leading European performers including PierreYves Artaud (flute), Pascal Galloi (bassoon), Carol Robinson (clarinet), vocal ensemble Voxnova, Martine Joste (piano), Gerard Pape (sound-projection), Nicholas Isherwood (bass), and Roland Auzet (cymbalum), among others."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Works For Piano 5
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 123CD

"Haydée Schvartz (piano); Jack Bruce (vocals). 'Four Walls' (1943-44), 'Soliloquy' (1945), '3 Easy Pieces' (1933). 'Four Walls'is a powerful and pivotal work in Cage's oeuvre. This large-scale piece was written as a 'dance-drama' with text and dance by his long-time collaborator Merce Cunningham. Cage said that 'Four Walls' deals with the 'disturbed mind.' This feeling is accentuated by the dramatic music, whose use of repetition, intense ostinatos, and silence evokes at times a harrowing closed-in sensibility. 'Four Walls' shows Cage's seminal ideas on silence, repetition and gradual change, as well as influences of Eastern philosophy and music -- its use of repetition foreshadows later minimalist music."

Artist:	LUCIER, ALVIN
Title:	Navigations For Strings/Small Waves
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 124CD

"'Navigations for Strings': For String Quartet. 'Small Waves': For String Quartet, Trombone, Piano and Two Water Pourers. The Arditti Quartet: Hildegard Kleeb, Roland Dahinden. Alvin Lucier (b. 1931) has been a pioneer in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers' physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. 'Navigations for Strings' (1991) consists of 4 tunes, for which a long stream of continually changing melodic and instrumental combinations occur. In 'Small Waves' (1997), six glass vessels, some partially filled with water, are mounted on pedestals scattered around the performance space. Microphones are inserted into the mouths of the vessels, then routed through corn compressor-limiters to amplifiers and monitor speakers. During the course of the performance, the volume levels of the amplifiers are raised and lowered, causing feedback at pitches determined by the size and shape of the containers and their proximity to the loudspeakers. Both works are remarkable microtonal musical experiences."

Artist:	COLGRASS/GUNTHER SCHULLER, MICHAEL
Title:	Déjà Vu
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 125CD

"Michael Colgrass and Gunther Schuller have led lives musically rich in the varied influences -- performing music of the 19th century tradition, embracing the 20th century innovations of both the academy and the avant-garde, and the exploration jazz and ethnic music. They are composers who enthusiastically cross musical genres and cultures, combining the elements they discover into works of great color and energy. The three works on this disc represent extraordinary contributions to the repertoire of wind ensembles and wind orchestras."

Artist:	WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Pebbles: Complete Works for Violin & Piano
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 126CD

(Written for Sabat/Clarke); Duo for Violinist and Pianist (2 versions) -- Sabat/Clarke Duo. Composer supervised recordings. "Duo for violinist and pianist (1961) has structural parts which are repeatable and whose sequence is determined by cues -- a particular sound (e.g.) high violin pizzicato, very quiet low register sound on piano, or length of silence -- which, as a player, reaches the end of a structural part, determines what part must directly be played next. Each player, under determined conditions, proceeds independently (there is no fixed score relating to the two instruments). The cues from the one player to the other occur in the process of playing; neither players knows when what she plays will function as a cue, i.e. cannot control where the other player will play. The material of the structural parts is flexible and, if repeated, variable. Within time spaces (e.g. 4 seconds, 1/2 second, etc.) sounds may be chosen from variously specified sources, collections of pitches, dynamics, ways of playing and combined and distributed variably. There are also places in the music where individual sounds are coordinated between the players, for instance, violin plays a sound that must be sustained till the piano's next sound is heard (which is not for the violinist predictable), or the pianist must wait until the next sound from the violin ends, then play directly after. This may sometimes result in an impasse: piano cannot play until the violin stops playing while the violin cannot stop until the piano plays. This can be taken as the end of the piece's performance, as it is on this recording for the two versions of the piece played, in one case the impasse not happening till after some time, in the other coming much sooner. I think of the music of the Duo as resulting from the conditions of the piece's being performed, both fluid and requiring a highly focused and flexibly alert attention."

Artist:	KAGEL, MAURICIO
Title:	Transicion II/Phonophonie
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 127CD

"'Transicion II': for piano, percussion & 2 magnetic tapes (1958-9). 'Phonophonie': 4 melodramas for two voices & other sound sources (1963-64). 'Transicion II' was an early exploration of what 'live electronics' are now being used to achieve. The score is in individual pages which can be placed in any order by the performers. Repetition of any of the musical material is not allowed -- instead, as the players continue to perform in the present, the tapes can recall music already played. In addition, the tapes can be manipulated to change timbre and frequencies in order to make recognition of the original sounds impossible. For this recording, the modern technology of live electronics is used in place of the analogue tape loops. This allows the electronic technician to become an actual third performer -- creator of the 'tapes' and in charge of the sound direction. "'Phonophonie' is intended to be the portrait of an anonymous 19th century singing actor, captured at the moment of his vocal decline...", to quote Kagel. Conceived as a melodrama, the singer reacts with the other sounds as well as having to rapidly switch between four roles: the singer, the mimic, the ventriloquist and, in addition, the deaf-mute. The dramatic function of this dissociation is redefined over the course of a lengthy series of schizophrenic dialogues and 'trialogues' between the persona of the singer and his disconnected parts."

Artist:	CARTER, ELLIOTT
Title:	Quintets and Voices
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD-AUDIO
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 128DVD

First Recordings: Quintet for Piano & Strings (1997), Fragment for String Quartet (1999) With: Quintet for Piano & Winds (1991) - Steve Taylor, oboe. Charles Neiditch, clarinet., William Purvis, horn., Frank Morelli, bassoon., Syringa (1978) for Soprano, bass and ensemble; Tempo e Tempi (1998) for soprano, violin, oboe, clarinet and cello; Retrouvailles (2000) for piano solo - The Arditti Quartet, Ursula Oppens. Piano, Lucy Shelton, soprano, Andre Solomon-Glover, bass, Ensemble Sospeso, Stefan Asbury and Jeffrey Milarsky, conductors. "An American master in 24-bit. 96khz sound, available on DVD. Released to celebrate the 95th birthday of Elliott Carter this year -- an amazing figure who remains one of America's most active and vital composers. This collection combines two of his quintets with two major works for voice(s) and ensemble, and two recent, extraordinary miniatures." NTSC, 80 min.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Variations I-III
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 129CD

'Variation 1' (1958), 'Variation II' (1961), 'Lecture On Nothing' (1959), 'Variation III' (1962-63). Performed by the Motion Ensemble. "John Cage's 'Variations' are from his most experimental period. They are graphically notated pieces which allow the performers to create their own scores within specific guidelines. 'Variations I, II, and III' are scored for any number of players and any sound producing means. The goal of this project is to produce a document in sound of Cage's musical philosophy, which allows for aesthetics that are rather independent of those in traditional western music. Each piece is presented here in a very different manner. The realization of 'Variation I' uses traditional instruments in combination with typical 'Cagean' toys and gadgets (eg. whistles, squeaky toys, etc.) that were common to many Cage-supervised orchestra pieces. 'Variation II' introduces the idea of simultaneous performance with the addition of 'Lecture on Nothing' (as an 'instrument' for the Variations II score) as well as featuring extensions of the traditional violin and double bass sounds. Finally, 'Variations III' uses only electronic instruments to bring the spectrum of sounds as far from the traditional instruments as possible."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	From Zero
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 130DVD

"Four films on John Cage by Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver. 84 minutes (plus extras). DVD only release with bonus extras of 'Making of' film and interviews. A Major film on John Cage by renowned Dutch director Frank Scheffer in collaboration with Cage's associate Andrew Culver. The group of films, entitled From Zero are: '19 Questions': Cage answers 19 questions on a variety of subjects, using chance operations to determine the duration of his colorful and often witty answers. 'Fourteen': The acclaimed Ives Ensemble perform Cage's piece of the same name. Filmed with multiple cameras using chance operation to determine the position, angle, focus and aperture settings of each shot. 'Paying Attention': Agreeing on a predetermined duration, Scheffer worked with the video portion and Culver the audio from an interview with Cage. 'Overpopulation and Art With Ryoanji': The audio combines Cage's spoken performance of his text Overpopulation and Art simultaneously with his Ryoanji four voices and percussion."

Artist:	NIBLOCK, PHILL
Title:	Disseminate
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 131CD

'Disseminate Ostrava': For orchestra; Ensemble OCNM, conducted by Petr Kotik. 'Kontradictionaries': For trio with electronically sampled sounds; The Kontra Trio. 'Disseminate Q-02': For ensemble, Q-02 Ensemble. First Recordings. "Phill Niblock (born in Indiana, 1933) is a seminal figure in 'drone' music who crosses the Downtown and Improv scenes. A characteristic of Niblock's drone style is its subtle, gradual alteration of pitch which leads one to loose a sense of 'time' and draws one deeper and deeper into the sound itself. The remarkable thing is that Niblock achieves this effect by almost always using traditional acoustic instruments. Niblock is an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, video and computers; he initially was trained in the visual arts and worked as a photographer; he takes inspiration from minimal artists, including Rothko, Judd and Andre.

       'Disseminate Ostrava': In this orchestra piece, the players read from a conventional score. There is no after-recording manipulation of the material. The recording comes from the Ostrova Days Festival in the Czech Republik, where the 41-piece Ensemble OCNM is supplemented by members of the Janacek Philharmonic.

       'Kontradictionaries': This work was written for the Kontra-trio. The trio (formed in 1992) of Bischof, Mejer and Bachmann concentrates on the sound of low wind instruments. The three wind contrabasses are used as sources for acoustic phenomena. Here, the musicians recorded 'samples' of the notes in a recording studio. Niblock then edited the samples, mode pitch shifts of them, and combined this material in a multi-track score. There is no manipulation of the sound of the instruments, the combination of the different microtonal pitches and timbres of the instruments modifies the sound. The musicians later added 'live' parts to the Niblock multitrack-mixed-to stereo recording.

       'Disseminate Q-02': Written for the Belgian ensemble for contemporary and improvised music, Q-02. The work creates a haze of slowly shifting, vibrating sounds."

Artist:	SUBOTNICK, MORTON
Title:	Vol. 2: Electronic Works - Sidewinder/Until Spring
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 132CD

"Sidewinder" (1971) - new surround mix with liquid light show by Tony Martin. "Until Spring" - new surround mix. "Morton Subotnick was a phenomenon in the late '60s, the first composer to write substantial works for synthesizer that had a wide audience. He has been mentor to generations of composers, and his influence is so pervasive that it would be impossible to trace completely -- the electronic movement, for one, reveres him. This release brings together two of his classic analog electronic works which were previously only available on LP."

Artist:	SUBOTNICK, MORTON
Title:	Vol. 2: Electronic Works - Sidewinder/Until Spring
Label:	MODE
Format:	2DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 132DVD

Double DVD version featuring video interviews and documentary. One disc is a DVD-Video disc (with music and videos, playable on any DVD player); the other is a DVD-Audio disc (requires a DVD-Audio player, with surround-sound and stereo mixes). 48/24 bit Hi-definition; DTS Surround Sound. "Subotnick's music of this period projects and unmistakable sonority and style, like nothing else heard before or since. 'Sidewinder' unfolds in seven sections, each articulated by a specific vocabulary: rattles, drones, bouncy tones, sparse bloops, flutters, and howls over filtered noise." -- Curtis Roads.

Artist:	WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Title:	(Re):Making Music, Works 1962-99
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 133/34CD

'Violist Pieces' (1997) - for viola; 'Kegama' (1991) - for ensemble; 'Peace March 1' (1983-4) - for flute; 'Peace March 2' (1984) - for ensemble; 'Emma' (1989) - for viola, cello & piano; 'Digger Song' (1988) - for violin, viola, cello, percussion; 'From Leaning Forward' (1988) - for ensemble; 'Three Pieces' (1979-80) - for violin & viola; 'For 5 or 10 Players' (1962) - 2 versions; 'Exercise(s) (15,16,17, 18)' (1975); 'Dark as a Dungeon' (1977) - for clarinet; 'Schoenen met veters' (1999) - for ensemble. "The scores presented on this 2-CD set cover 37 years of Christian Wolff's composing, and present many different musical surfaces and syntaxes. The early 'For 5 or 10 People' is a graphic score from Wolff's most experimental period. It is presented twice, once for 3 players and again for 10 players. Since the 1970's, Wolff has chosen songs from the political protest movement as starting material for many of his works. These authoritative performances are by The Barton Workshop and James Fulkerson, who have had a long tradition of playing Wolff's music. Mostly first recordings."

Artist:	SATOH, SOMEI
Title:	From the Depth of Silence: Orchestral Music of Somei Satoh
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 135CD

'From the Depth of Silence': for two tubular bells and orchestra; 'Burning Meditation': for baritone and string orchestra; 'Kyokoku': for baritone and orchestra; 'Kisetsu': for orchestra. "Somei Satoh has emerged as one of Japan's most highly acclaimed composers. Filtered through Toru Takemitsu's cross-cultural prism, his work shares similarities with the post-Minimalism of composers such as Arva Pärt and Henryk Gorecki as well as the sacred music of iconoclasts such as John Tavener. All this to say that Satoh's music is dramatic, powerful and unabashedly gorgeous without descending to melodrama and the wearing of his heart on his sleeve. This disc marks the first recording of Satoh's music for orchestra."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	Triadic Memories
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	MODE 136CD

Performed by Marilyn Nonken, recorded 2003. "The place Triadic Memories takes us is full of illusions, not only of function and direction but also of timelessness and stasis. This almost 90 minute, single movement work for solo piano is available in two formats: as a specially priced 2-CD set and complete and uninterrupted on one DVD-Audio. There is no indication of tempo. For this recording, Ms. Nonken chose a steady eighth-note pulse throughout that approximates the heart rate at rest. Unfolding in time at this rate, the work's geography its rapturous peaks and long, low valleys is brought into relief. Of Ms. Nonken's October 2003 performance of Triadic Memories, John Rockwell wrote in The New York Times:'Ms. Nonken played it with a relaxed, almost rubber-wristed calm, caressing the keys without losing rhythmic definition. A lovely performance of a lovely piece'."

Artist:	ECKARDT, JASON
Title:	Out of Chaos
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 137CD

"An American who came of age in the late 1980s, Jason Eckardt's music captures the essences of the genres that led him first to performance (as a guitarist), and then to composition: heavy metal and art rock, jazz, gagaku and p'ansori, the Second Viennese School, American post-serialism, and the new complexity. It evokes the power of inspired, virtuosic improvisation, the incisiveness of classical ensemble playing, and the raw expressivity of ethnic music. The first complete CD of young, New York based composer Jason Eckardt's music. All first recordings."

Artist:	DAHINDEN, ROLAND
Title:	Silberen
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 138CD

'Silberen' (2000): for piano and string quartet; 'Lichtweiss' (1996): for solo vibraphone; The Arditti Quartet: Hildegard Kleeb, piano; Bernd Thurner, vibraphone. "As a composer, Dahinden is influenced by John Cage, Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier. His works are often influenced by works of art. Built in as movements, every time in a different instrumental combination, 'silberens' tonal material is highlighted from a different side, as if one were walking, in a circle, around a sculpture. The piano, setting its tones with the echo of the open pedal; and the quartet, which is able to modulate its sounds, creates an interior to the wide sound space of the piano. This is quiet music that is full of subtle changes."

Artist:	DURAND, JOEL-FRANCOIS
Title:	La Terre et le feu
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 139CD

"This disc of French composer Joel-François Durand's music amplifies his ongoing interest in the classical 'four elements': air, earth, fire and water. The oboe concerto, La terre et le feu features a hallmark of Durand's work: rising figures that gradually strain upwards. The title of the solo organ piece 'Les raisons des forces mouvantes' comes from a treatise by Salomon de Caux, published in 1615, which concerns itself with scientific experiments based on the four elements."

Artist:	HARRISON, LOU
Title:	For Strings
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 140CD

Features: "Suite No. 2 for Strings" (1948); "Suite for Symphonic Strings" (1960); "Concerto for Pipa with String Orchestra" (1997). Performed by: Wu Man (pipa) & the New Professionals Orchestra. "The present recording traces the development of Harrison's creativity over a half century -- from 1948 to his last large-scale composition (1997). Harrison had been interested in Asian music since his early years. The late 'Concerto for Pipa' is a model of Harrison's trans-ethnicism, evoking the many influences that had attracted him over a half century. The work ends with an extended, medieval-inspired estampie, a virtuoso tour-de-force for soloist and orchestra."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	One8
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 141CD

"Cage's 'One8' was composed for cellist Michael Bach, an artist who had a very important place in Cage's late work. Its duration of 43' 30" makes an oblique reference to Cage's groundbreaking 4'33" (1952)." "Using both standard and curved bows, he made his way through Mr. Cage's 43-minute sequence of sustained notes, sustained chords, progressions of chords, and eerie, high-pitched harmonics with a sense of serenity that invited a listener to regard the work not as a collection of disparate, disjointed sounds, but as an other-worldly ritual." -- The New York Times.

Artist:	CRUMB, GEORGE
Title:	Makrokosmos I & II
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 142CD

Regular CD version (also available as a 5.1 DVD-A release). 24 fantasy pieces after the Zodiac for amplified piano. Margaret Leng Tan, piano. Crumb's Makrokosmos I & II were written to expand the world of color and sonic possibilities which a single piano and pianist could create In addition to playing the keyboard, the pianist is required to strum and pluck the strings; apply glass tumblers and paper to the piano interior; as well as chant, whistle and whisper -- to create a work at times pastoral, mysterious, jubilant, dark, otherworldly and terrifying. Pianist Margaret Leng Tan -- considered the leading exponent of 'extended' piano techniques -- is at her best with this music.

Artist:	CRUMB, GEORGE
Title:	Makrokosmos I & II
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD-AUDIO
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 142DVD

Crumb's Makrokosmos I & II were written to expand the world of color and sonic possibilities which a single piano and pianist could create. In addition to playing the keyboard, the pianist is required to strum and pluck the strings; apply glass tumblers and paper to the piano interior; as well as chant, whistle and whisper -- to create a work at times pastoral, mysterious, jubilant, dark, otherworldly and terrifying. Special DVD Features: The complete performance filmed by Hong Kong director Evans Chan, Interview of George Crumb & Margaret Leng Tan by Don Gillespie, long-time friend and Crumb's publisher, Recorded in 5.1 Surround Sound plus alternate PCM-stereo track, Full 96-khz/24-bit audio. Region 0l Total running time approx. 110 minutes; additional DVD Audio Surround Sound: 65 minutes. [also be available on conventional CD].

Artist:	SCELSI, GIACINTO
Title:	The Piano Works 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 143CD

Performed by Stephen Clarke, piano. "Mode's Scelsi Edition continues with the second volume devoted to his piano works, consisting of two works from different periods in Scelsi's oeuvre. 'The Suite No. 2' is one of the earliest of Scelsi's published piano works. A highly virtuosic and expressive work, this Suite receives its first recording here. Written in 1955, 'Action Music' is among Scelsi's last piano works. 'Action Music' was premiered by Geoffrey Douglas Madge in 1986 in Darmstadt. The title 'Action Music' points to the high energy and physical and gestural elements of the music. The work's vigorous character is underscored by predominantly fast tempi and directions for playing, including violento, con fuoco, martellato, fragroso (deafening!) and come percussione. In 'Action Music' the performers are asked to play the piano in unusual ways by using their palms parallel to the keyboard, and employing fists and forearms to perform single pitches, chords, clusters and glissandi."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776/Cheap Imitation
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 144/45CD

Volume 33 of Mode's Complete John Cage Edition. Features 2 long works: "Cheap Imitation" (1977, for solo violin; performed by Irving Arditti); "44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776" (1976, for string quartet, performed by Arditti Quartet). World Premiere Recording of "44 Harmonies" which is 103 minutes long. "Irvine Arditti completes his complete traversal of Cage's works for solo violin with 'Cheap Imitation' in this set. In 1969, John Cage transcribed a two piano version of Erik Satie's 1918 music drama 'Socrate' to accompany Merce Cunningham's choreography 'Second Hand'. At the last minute, the French firm that held the copyright to Satie's score refused to allow the performance. With an ingenious rewriting, Cage retained the rhythmical architecture of the musical lines, but replaced each note with a new tonal value, creating a melodically original work with an identical rhythmic structure."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	Composing By Numbers - The Graphic Scores 1950-67
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 146CD

Performed by The Baron Workshop. "When Feldman met Cage in the winter of 1949, they quickly established a friendship based upon a similarity of intent and a mutual respect for the work each was doing. Soon thereafter, Feldman showed a string quartet he had been writing to Cage. Cage's enthusiasm for this work, and delight in Feldman's being unable to explain 'how' he had written it, gave Feldman an all important 'permission' to follow his intuition. This period of time marks the beginning of Feldman's 'graph music', so named because it was written on graph paper, but also because it is part of a larger movement in 20th century music during which music notation departed from the traditional staff notation and began to incorporate a great deal of graphic symbols. In these 17 works, Feldman was working towards a vision of plasticity and freedom. One hears in these works the micro-polyphony of later Ligeti, noise which he later rejects, and often a ferocity within the sound/performance --characteristics which he eschewed in his later work. Of the 17 works he composed in the graphic style, this recording offers a total of 13 of them." 'Projection' (complete), 'Intersection' (complete), 'Marginal Intersection', Out of 'Last Pieces', 'The Straits of Magellan', 'In Search of an Orchestration'.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Works For Piano 6
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 147CD

6th volume Mode's continuing series. Features: "Music Of Changes" (1951); "Suite For Toy Piano" (1948); "Seven Haiku" (1952); performed by Martine Joste (piano, toy piano), recorded 2003. "This disc collects three early piano works of John Cage, including his classic work for toy piano and early works composed using chance. 'Music Of Changes' is a seminal piece in 20th century composition because it is the first work to be fully composed using chance operations. The title makes reference to the ancient Confucian book the I-Ching which, together with lectures by the Japanese Zen master Suzuki, introduced Cage to the concepts of chance. The title also makes reference to Cage's change in musical direction with this work. Cage prepared charts of squares which indicated numbers for tempo, dynamics, sounds, duration, rests and overlapping of material. He then used chance operations based on these numbers to compose a piece -- devoid of personal choice and influences -- which was then conventionally notated. The element of noise is also introduced into the composition, with indications for sound to be made by closing the piano lid, pedal noise, playing inside the piano, knocking under the keyboard, etc."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Electronic Music 1: La Legende d'Eer
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 148CD

Crucial reissue of the most important, sonically devastating Xenakis electronic work (previously issued by the now defunct Montaigne label). "New stereo mix from the original master tape. La légende d'Eer is a powerful 7-channel electroacoustic composition which Xenakis created in 1977-78 to be played in 'Le Diatope,' a curvaceous architectural construction designed by the composer, together with a visual component including laser lights. This 'multi-media' work was composed for the opening of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where it was performed for three months and seen by thousands of people. The sound materials of a La légende d'Eer stem from three sources: instrumental sounds, noises, and electronically generated sounds. The work suggests an initial departure, a journey, and a final return. Xenakis surrounds the work with a compilation of five texts, reflecting or reacting upon each other across the distances in time, space, and culture which separate them. This new stereo mix was created by Gerard Pape -- director of Xenakis' CCMIX studio in Paris -- from the original analog master tape. The analog master was transferred at high-resolution 96khz/24-bit sound for the optimum quality, revealing details not heard in the previous stereo CD release." Richard Scott's review in The Wire hardly exaggerates: "It is difficult to think of another contemporary composition which carries the sheer force of 'The Legend of Eer.' It is a gigantic, awesome, staggering piece; certainly I haven't heard anything to touch it with electronic music's short, if dense, history."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	La Legende d'Eer
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD-AUDIO
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 148DVD

Special DVD Features: This new mix was created by Xenakis' associate Gerard Pape from the original analog master tape, transferred at high-resolution 96khz/24-bit sound for the optimum quality. Use of the original master tape restored almost 2 minutes and 30 seconds to the piece, released here for the first time. The performance of La Légende d'Eer is shown with a film by Bruno Rastoin, comprised of 350 stills made during the original performance of the work at the 'Diatope.' This is the ONLY visual documentation made of the historic event. 60-minute interview of Iannis Xenakis by musicologist Harry Halbreich. 5.1 Surround Sound in Dolby Digital and additional DTS. Dedicated stereo mix presented in 96-khz/24-bit PCM. Subtitles: French, German, Spanish. Playable on ALL NTSC capable DVD decks and computers."

Artist:	PAREDES, HILDA
Title:	Listen How They Talk
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 149CD

...Chamber Music 1998-2001. Performed by Arditti Quartet & others. "One of Mexico's leading composers, Hilda Paredes went to London at age 21 where she studied with Peter Maxwell Davies and Richard Rodney Bennett. Parades says that the longer she has been away from Mexico, the more she has felt drawn to it. For her, 'Mexico' means not the territory immediately beneath the US border, but the far south of the country -- the home of the ancient Mayan cultures. Significantly, most of her titles are not in Spanish, but in Mayan (a language her grandfather still spoke). Folkloric rhythmic stereotypes, such as one finds in the music of Revueltas, play little role here. Rather, the Mayan influence is a sense of the mysterious -- her string writing in particular evokes a world of mysterious, twisting tendrils, of slippery, sensuous undergrowth. This is fused with 'rhythmic' elements influenced by Indian music, which she learned about in England."

Artist:	ZIMMERMANN, WALTER
Title:	The Echoing Green
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 150CD

... Chamber Works 1986-89. HCD Ensemble (Frankfurt), with Michael Bach, cello. "Like Morton Feldman, whose music he acknowledges as an influence, Zimmermann (b.1949) is fascinated by the relationship between painting and music, and how material of an apparently simple nature played by apparently 'normal' instruments is capable of almost infinite subtlety. Frankfurt's HCD Ensemble are also members of Germany's infamous Ensemble Modern. They are joined here by the superb cellist Michael Bach."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Music for Strings
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 152CD

"Syrmos" (1959, for 18 strings); "Aroura" (1971, for 12 strings); "Analogique A+B" (1958, for 9 strings & tape); "Voile" (1995, for 20 strings); "Ittidra" (1996, for string sextet); "Theraps" (1975-76, for solo contrabass). Performed by Ensemble Resonanz with Johannes Kalitzke (conductor). "This CD brings together all of Xenakis' chamber music for strings for the first time (with the exception of the string quartets). The music spans almost 30 years. Many first recordings. These visceral, sonically bold works explore the many possibilities of writing for strings, including dramatic glissandi and extended techniques."

Artist:	ADAMS, JOHN LUTHER
Title:	Strange and Sacred Noise
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 153CD

Performed by Percussion Group Cincinnati. "John Luther Adams is an Alaskan composer. For Adams, Alaska is not a catalog of ideas and sounds, instead, Alaska is a provocation. For all of its enormity, Alaska leans inward towards essential qualities and purified forces. In Adams' music we find this same sense of space and the same tendency inward towards the purified. His is an intimate and focused music that reverberates in a large space. Strange and Sacred Noise is a monumental work for percussion quartet in nine movements."

Artist:	MIKHASHOFF, YVAR
Title:	Opera: Virtuoso Fantasies, Paraphrases & Transcriptions
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	MODE 154/55CD

"Piano transcriptions of some of the most beautiful music ever written. Yvar Mikhashoff's inspiration to make opera transcriptions in the grand style of Liszt came from none other than John Cage. Cage's Europera 5, written for Mikhashoff in 1991, required him to play six operatic excerpts at the piano, each a specified length with certain dynamic requirements. Finding appropriate ones in the existing repertoire was difficult, and so Mikhashoff eventually decided to draw on his experience as an opera and lieder coach in Austria to experiment with arias he knew and loved." Composers: Giuseppi Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Vincenzo Bellini, Claude Debussy, Alban Berg, Sylvano Bussotti, Kevin Volans.

Artist:	WOLPE, STEFAN
Title:	Wolpe In Jerusalem (1934-1938)
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 156CD

"Passacaglia, op. 23" (1936-37) for orchestra: The WDR Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Kalitzke, conductor; "Incidental Music" for Molière's 'Le malade imaginaire' (1934) for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass; "Three Smaller Canons, op. 24a" (1936) for viola & cello; "Hexachord Suite, op. 24b" (1936) for oboe & clarinet; "Concerto for Nine Instruments, op. 22" (1937) for clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello & piano, ensemble recherche, Werner Herbers, conductor.

Artist:	CAPPELLI, MARCO
Title:	Extreme Guitar Project: Music from Downtown NYC
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 157CD

"During May and June 2002, Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli spent time in New York City. While there, Cappelli became involved with the NYC avant-garde scene -- internationally known as Down Town Music -- in which composers / improvisers coming from avant-garde jazz, experimental rock, as well as from academic music, created a common musical language. These experiences and influences inspired Cappelli to a new idea and concept: to make a 'musical photograph' of the Down Town musical scene through the commission of guitar pieces. And so, the concept of 'extreme guitar' was born. Inspired by both the unusual possibilities of Cappelli's guitar playing as well as the proposal to use a mixture of writing techniques (from rigorous written structures to free improvisation), 10 leading Down Town composers wrote for him. These works receive their first recordings here." Artists: Anthony Coleman, Nick Didkovsky, Erik Friedlander, Annie Gosfield, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, David Shea, Elliott Sharp, Mark Stewart, Otomo Yoshihide.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Works For Piano 7
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 158CD

Performed by Margaret Leng Tan (piano, prepared piano). Features: "Chess Pieces" (1944; first recording); "Sonatas & Interludes" (1946-48; for prepared piano); plus Vittorio Rieti's "Chess Serenade" (1944, first recording). "In 1944, John Cage was invited to participate in 'The Imagery of Chess' exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City. The artists included Calder, Noguchi, Motherwell, Breton, Duchamp, Ernst, Man Ray, Tanning and other leading surrealists. Cage contributed a painting entitled 'Chess Pieces.' It was purchased at the show and went into a private collection. For decades it was deemed lost and was (almost) forgotten by Cage aficionados and scholars. Re-assembling the original artworks for 'The Imagery of Chess Revisited' show (2005-06) at the Isamu Noguchi Museum in New York led to the tracking down of the Cage painting. Cage expert Margaret Leng Tan set about transcribing the music in the painting into a playable score which receives its premiere recording here. 'Chess Pieces' is from 1944, an emotional and creative year for Cage; besides echoes of Satie, 'Chess Pieces' contains prophetic touches of minimalism and has features in common with his monumental piano piece, 'Four Walls,' from the same year."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Works For Piano 7
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD-AUDIO
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 158DVD

DVD-audio version in 5.1 surround sound. With 3 additional documentary videos: John Cage's Prepared Piano (an insightful look at the history of the prepared piano narrated and performed by Ms. Tan); CAGE: Music/Art/Chess (a visit to 'The Imagery of Chess Revisited' exhibit at the Isamu Noguchi Museum with curator Larry List and Ms. Tan). John Cage's Box Of Preparations. The DVD-audio features the same music as on the CD version, but in 24-bit surround sound DTS and Dolby Digital surround. Dedicated 24-bit stereo mix. 'Chess Pieces' is presented with full performance video. Region 0, NTSC, Total running time approx. 172 mins.

Artist:	SCELSI, GIACINTO
Title:	The Piano Works 3
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 159CD

Performed by Aki Takahashi, piano; 2005 recordings. "Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) wrote one of the largest sets of piano music in the 20th century. Scelsi was a virtuoso pianist, and even his most experimental compositions in this genre show a marked pianistic conception. Largely ignored during much of his life, Scelsi was basically only 'discovered' in the 1980s. Though a recluse in his later years, there were some artists who worked with Scelsi and gained special insight into the spirit of his compositions. Renowned contemporary music pianist Aki Takahashi was one of these musicians. The program Ms. Takahashi has selected for this recital is largely made up of works which she prepared with the composer. It includes one of Scelsi's greatest piano pieces, the Quattro Illustrazioni -- a tour-de-force of exotic, erotic illustrations depicting the different incarnations of Vishnu. Also available on surround-sound DVD."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	A Cage Of Saxophones 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 160CD

The Works for Saxophones 2, again performed by Ulrich Krieger. "Ulrich Krieger follows up his successful A Cage of Saxophones 1 volume with the second installment of Cage works for saxophone(s), spanning a period of over 50 years. For this volume, Krieger combines works specifically composed for saxophone with works of no specified instrumentation that are suited for saxophones and winds. This CD collects three rarely heard early works, all written without indications for specific instruments. Krieger has arranged them here for his ensemble of saxophones and other instruments. For the middle period works, Krieger has excerpted the solo instrumental parts related to saxophones from the scores to Concert for Piano and Orchestra and Atlas Eclipticalis -- Cage permitted the option for the various instrumental parts to be performed as solos. The late works are covered by Two, originally composed for flute and piano, here premiered in the Cage-sanctioned version for saxophone."

Artist:	BERIO, LUCIANO
Title:	The Complete Sequenzas & Works for Solo Instruments
Label:	MODE
Format:	4CD
Price:	$47.00
Catalog #:	MODE 161/63CD

"Luciano Berio greatly enriched the repertoire for solo instruments and voice with his series of sixteen Sequenzas and works such as 'Psy,' 'Gesti,' 'Rounds' and 'Fa-Si.' Written between 1958 and 2002 and spanning almost five decades of Berio's creative career, these solo compositions reflect some of his most crucial aesthetic ideas and compositional techniques." Features: The first complete recording of the Sequenazs; The first complete recording of the alternate Sequenazs; Plus all of Berio's works for solo instruments; An international all-star cast of performers: Paula Robison, flute; Susan Jolles, harp; Isabelle Ganz, voice; Aki Takahashi, piano; Stuart Dempster, trombone; Rohan De Saram, cello; Ulrich Krieger, soprano saxophone; Irvine Arditti, violin; Seth Josel, guitar; Noriko Shimada, bassoon; Stefano Scodanibbio, double bass. Deluxe package with 104 page booklet of notes.

Artist:	HODGKINSON, TIM
Title:	Sketch of Now
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 164CD

"Tim Hodgkinson co-founded the politically and musically radical free-jazz/progressive rock group Henry Cow in 1968, which also featured guitarist Fred Frith. He regards his membership in this group, with the opportunity to work closely and collectively with other instrumentalists in developing new sound worlds, as the foundation of his musical education. In addition to composing, Hodgkinson continues to perform as an improviser (clarinets, saxes and keyboards) and considers the practice of improvisation as an important aesthetic form in contemporary music. This disc explores Tim Hodgkinson's other side as a composer, and also as a soloist, of recent compositions for ensembles (2001-2004). The works explore a variety of processes and influences -- Korean and ritual Siberian music, improvisation, the actual use of musique concrete, and combinations/ transformations of acoustic instruments with electronics and tape."

Artist:	ARDITTI QUARTET, THE
Title:	Mexico: New Music for Strings
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 165CD

"This recording features six of the most inventive younger composers (born between 1957 and 1977) in Mexico's contemporary music scene. Irvine Arditti and the Arditti Quartet gave the first performances of many of these works for string quartet or solo violin. The works were recorded in 2002 during the first Radar festival." Composers featured: Juan Felipe Waller, Hebert Vázquez, Germán Romero, Iván Naranjo, Rogelio Sosa, Hilda Paredes.

Artist:	DALLAPICCOLA & PETRASSI
Title:	Musica da Camera
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 166CD

"Luigi Dallapiccola and Goffredo Petrassi are often considered the 'Heavenly Twins' of 20th century music in Italy. While it is true that they were born in the same year (1904), and together provided the driving force for new Italian music, each composer has his own unmistakable musical and poetic identity. This CD, performed by Ensemble Dissonanzen, Naples' premier new music ensemble, alternates compositions by Petrassi and Dallapiccola, making for a study of contrasts and comparisons. Petrassi's 'Dialogo Angelico,' is an ethereal watercolor heralding the sound of his future music. It is imbued with a free flowing Stravinsky-like neomodality, serenely rhythmical and diatonic. 'Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera' features eleven perfectly-crafted miniatures, representing a minuscule amalgam of the Art of Fugue and the Musical Offering, with canons in the style of Bach and the Flemish school."

Artist:	PAPE, GERARD
Title:	Ascension to Purgatory
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 167CD

"This is Pape's third monographic CD with Mode Records. Whereas his last Mode CD (Electroacoustic Chamber Works, released in 1998) presented his ground breaking works of 1993-1996, this new CD presents a selection of his more recent pieces composed from 1998 to 2004. While Pape continues his fascination with composing with chaotic sound in 'Le Fleuve du Désir IV' and 'Weaveworld Prologue,' it is his new approach to composing with packets of granular time that predominates on this CD. In 'La Naissance du Son,' sound is born from pulsating rhythmic noise that gradually attains discernible timbre and pitch. 'For Maurizio' is the first piece in which Pape explores temporal flow in composition as deriving, not from fixed durations or steady beat, but rather as a consequence of composing continuously speeding up and slowing down scales of tempo pulsations -- regulating the speed of pulsating/oscillating sound elements." As performed by Irvine Arditti, Roland Auzet, Maurizio Barbetti, Rohan de Saram, Nicholas Isherwood, Armelle Orieux and Janet Pape.

Artist:	CACIOPPO, GEORGE
Title:	Advance of the Fungi
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 168CD

"The music of George Cacioppo (1927-84) is important in the history of 20th century music composition as the missing link between the American 'sound based' music of the 1960s with the 'sound centered' musics of Giacinto Scelsi and his disciples, the French spectral composers, Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey. Critical of serial music and academicism's failure to take into account the nature of sound itself, Cacioppo was inspired by radical composers such as Varèse, Cage and Feldman, and produced the American equivalent of the 'sound centered' compositions of Giacinto Scelsi in Italy. Cacioppo created a distinctly new 'sound based' approach to harmony where there is a continuous transformation of 'pure' tones into clusters and then into 'noise.' or the contrary. On the other hand, Cacioppo treats time in a very supple manner -- the temporal flow is rather slow and unmeasured in order to allow his sounds to breathe as freely as possible, or as Cage said 'to let the sounds be themselves.' This marks the first collection on CD of Cacioppo's unique music. Liner notes by Cacioppo's colleague Gordon Mumma and Gerard Pape."

Artist:	CZERNOWIN, CHAYA
Title:	Pnima...ins Innere
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 169DVD

"Pnima...ins Innere is more than an opera or music theater piece about the Holocaust. It is a piece that deals with the way we react to a traumatic experience. Pnima is an attempt to create a different kind of music theater. No traditional libretto, no plot, only mental situations. No singers who are actors, it is a non-verbal, non-narrative experience. On the stage are two actors who do not sing or speak, on the sides of the stage are the vocal and instrumental soloists. It is based on a novel by an Israeli author David Grossmann, See Under: Love. The book deals with the Holocaust from the point of view of the second generation to the children of the survivors, who cannot touch this horrible experience but are forced to encounter its constant but hidden presence. The opera is a journey into the psychology of a boy encountering his grandfather who survived the Holocaust, but is crazy, eccentric, and is withdrawn in the traumatic experience, unable to talk or to live anything else." Region 0, 24-bit PCM Stereo; NTSC; Aspect ratio: Standard 4:3; 1 hr 32min; Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish. Special feature: 27-minute interview with the composer.

Artist:	CRUMB, GEORGE
Title:	Music for a Summer Evening/Black Angels
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 170CD

"This CD combines two classic Crumb compositions of the 1970s expertly performed by members of The Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic under the direction of conductor Juan Pablo Izquierdo. 'Black Angels' for string quartet was written as a response to the Vietnam War. The work draws from an arsenal of sounds including shouting, chanting, whistling, whispering, gongs, maracas, and crystal glasses. 'Music for a Summer Evening' is scored for the classic Bartok combination of two pianos and two percussionists, here performing on a vast array of instruments. The pianists are also required to use extended techniques and preparations, which together with the percussion, create a unique sound world."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Percussion Works
Label:	MODE
Format:	3CD
Price:	$48.00
Catalog #:	MODE 171/73CD

Performed by the percussion ensemble red fish blue fish, directed by Steven Schick. "The first complete set of Xenakis' percussion ensemble, percussion duos, and solo percussion works. As Steven Schick states in his comprehensive essay accompanying this set, Xenakis was the 'progenitor of modern percussion music.' Of course, Iannis Xenakis did not create percussion music, his first major contribution to the percussion repertory came more than three decades after the American percussion revolution of Edgard Varèse, John Cage and Henry Cowell. But as Jorge Luis Borges said of Kafka, he was so important that he influenced even those who came before him. Indeed, our early 21st century ear for percussion music has been so tuned by the music of Xenakis that we cannot fail to understand the first cacophonous noise constructions of Varèse's 'Ionisation' (1931) and Cage's 'First Construction' (1939) through the retro-lens of the raw and terrifying noises in Xenakis' percussion works. 24-bit audiophile recordings. Available as a 3CD set or specially priced single DVD-A release (forthcoming)."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	One11 and 103
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 174DVD

"John Cage has always linked various media and tried out new techniques in his work -- in addition to music he was a writer, artist, painter, philosopher and more. He never lost the will to try out new experiments: 'I am quite old now, and so when I have the opportunity to do something I take it immediately, rather than hesitating, as I don't have much time left.' Cage said this about his first and only film -- One11 --produced in the year he died. He started to address the perception of emptiness and at the same time the random quality of what happens in a prescribed space as early as 1952 in his piece '4:33,' which consisted entirely of silence. Forty years later he said: 'Of course the film will be about the effect of light in an empty space. But no space is actually empty and the light will show what is in it. And all this space and all this light will be controlled by random operations.' This simple concept was implemented professionally and with a great deal of technical input in a Munich television studio under the direction of Henning Lohner. The film One11 and the musical piece ('soundtrack') 103 run in parallel, without relating directly to each other, but each has 17 parts. Each of the parts is based on approx. 1200 random operations devised by a computer and determining how the lighting is controlled and the movements of a crane-mounted camera. The result, aided by the distinguished cameraman Van Theodore Carlson, is a film entirely without plot or actors, which Cage hopes will enable viewers to find themselves. New high-resolution digital transfer from the original film print." One11 (1992) -- a film without subject by John Cage, produced and directed by Henning Lohner with 103 for large orchestra (1992) -- the WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln. Additional features include: a choice of two orchestral soundtracks; The Making of One11: 1 43-minute documentary on the creative process and realization of the film made for television by Henning Lohner at that time -- with new narration by Joan La Barbara; Interview with Van Carlson & Henning Lohner discussing their work with Cage and the film, the technical challenges, and more. Filmed for this DVD in 2006 (33 minutes). Region 0, NTSC; Total running time: 2 hrs 46 mins; 2.0 24-bit PCM stereo; aspect ratio: standard; subtitles: English, German, French.

Artist:	DAHINDEN, ROLAND
Title:	Flying White
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 175CD

"For his third CD on Mode, composer, trombonist, improvisor Roland Dahinden explores the string quartet medium. Each work is dedicated to and influenced by a major visual artist. Dahinden's four works refer to images by artists, but at the same time avoids illustrating it in a literal way. The sounds move through space thanks to a dynamic binaural system recording. Listening with stereo loud speakers, you find yourself towards the periphery of the space, listening with head phones, you are in the centre of the space."

Artist:	SCELSI, GIACINTO
Title:	The Orchestral Works 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 176CD

"The first recording of his 32-minute grand cantata 'La Nascita del Verbo.' Steeped in chromaticism, with hints of Scriabin and a sea of percussion, 'Nascita' boasts a vast double fugue (one of the most imposing in the history of music) and a forty-seven voice canon in twelve keys. This work, 'truly written in blood,' left Scelsi 'in a deplorable state, afterwards he stopped composing for several years. One of Scelsi's infamous pieces are the 'Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola).' Ear piece is limited to one pitch with micro-fluctuations of sound (vibratos, slurs, spectral changes, tremolos...). Because of the nearly total abandonment of harmonics, the listener concentrtates on new sonorous subtleties, on the orchestra's timbre as a whole. In 1966, he completed the ferocious, tormented, complex 'Uaxuctum.' The myths and mysteries of this Mayan city is reflected in Scelsi's compositional process: new instrumental and vocal techniques (breathing noises, nasal sounds, muted or inhaled gutturals...), rhythmic incantations, a petrified flow of time. Few woodwinds, a string section consisting of six double basses, lots of brass, and, in addition to a timpanist, no less than seven percussionists! Hi-resolution 48khz/24-bit recording."

Artist:	BRYARS, GAVIN
Title:	The Marvellous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Early Years
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 177CD

Performed by Seth Josel, Ulrich Krieger and others. "Gavin Bryars' (b.1943) music, post 'The Sinking of the Titanic' and 'Jesus' Blood...,' is well-known and often performed today. Less known are the earlier works featured on this CD, created during the years 1969-'7I. At that time, Bryars became associated with Michael Nyman, John Tilbury and Brian Eno -- marrying ideas from Cage, Fluxus, free improvisation and experimentalism. Some of these works appeared on Eno's avant-garde Obscure label in the mid-1970s. The notation of Pre-Mediaeval Metrics consists of pairs of phrases arranged in four columns on eight pages. Each phrase is made up of four symbols, either dashes ('an appreciable duration (at least one second)', instructs the score) or dots ('as short as possible'). Instrumentation is free but all instruments use only one sound throughout. 'Made in Hong Kong' is scored for '...toys, mechanically operated, manually operated, toy sustaining instruments and any other considered usable.' Its humorous and cacophonous sound is an homage to the countless toys for children, commonly made at that time in Hong Kong. In '1, 2, 1-2-3-4,' the musicians listen to the same music on individual cassette tapes through headphones, playing along with what they hear rather than responding to each other. The audience hears the collective product of this private listening. In this realization, the performers respond to a collection of songs by The Beatles! 'The Squirrel and The Ricketty Racketty Bridge' was written for guitarist Derek Bailey. The guitarist has to play two guitars simultaneously, placed flat on their backs, using a hammer technique which produces a pair of notes with the side of the finger. One hand plays constant quavers. like a bassist in conventional jazz, with two fingers across pairs of frets while the other plays isolated notes and phrases, like a lazy soloist. Liner notes by Christopher Fox with Gavin Bryars."

Artist:	LUCIER, ALVIN
Title:	Ever Present
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 178CD

Awesome collection of new, post-2000 works by Lucier. It's a been a long time since "I Am Sitting In A Room" for sure, but the dude clearly understands how to fill a room with sound as well as most anyone alive. "Alvin Lucier's (b. 1931) works on this CD, for solos and trios, continue to explore his unique sound world, exploration of microtones, and use of unusual instrumentation. 'Piper' is probably one of the few avant-garde pieces composed for the bagpipe. The piper is asked to walk slowly around the performance space, sounding his instrument as he does so. From time to time he detunes the chanters, creating beating patterns of slightly varying speeds and minor spatial disturbances (imaginary dopplers). In 'Fan,' four koto players play a long series of plucked tones over a 12-minute time span. During the course of '947,' four pure tones are sounded in all their combinations. In 'Silver Streetcar,' the player dampens the triangle with the thumb and forefinger of one hand while tapping the instrument with the other. Ever Present is inspired by Robert Irwin's garden at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Four first recordings."

Artist:	BROWN, EARLE
Title:	Tracer: Chamber Works 1952-1999
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 179CD

Regular CD version (also available on DVD). "Earle Brown (1926-2002) first encountered the work of Alexander Calder in 1948, whose mobile sculptures Brown saw as a visual embodiment of the variable (impermanent) aesthetic that he was striving to create. This 'Calder aesthetic' stayed with Brown throughout his several stylistic shifts. Whether he was writing twelve-tone serial music ('Music for Violin, Cello, and Piano'), conceptual graphic scores ('Folio and Four Systems,' and 'For Neil'), composing material/open form scores ('String Quartet,' 'New Piece' and 'Tracer'), or 'spontaneously composed' music: ('Special Events'), all of his music shares Calder's sense of integral but 'floating' variations. Brown belonged to a group of composers that today is referred to as the The New York School (the group active in New York in the 1950s that included Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff.) The works recorded on this disc represent several of Brown's compositional styles. At least one piece was selected from every decade of his career, from the 1950s to the 1990s. The ensemble size varies from one player to fourteen. Performers include Christian Wolff and Joan La Barbara, both of whom knew and worked with Brown for many years. The classic tape piece 'Octet' is presented in new high-resolution transfers from the analog tapes, remixed for this release. Three first recordings. Original 96khz, 24-bit recording."

Artist:	BROWN, EARLE
Title:	Tracer
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD-AUDIO
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 179DVD

DVD version. This version features DVD-audio with accompanying full video for each piece. "Earle Brown (1926-2002) first encountered the work of Alexander Calder in 1948, whose mobile sculptures Brown saw as a visual embodiment of the variable (impermanent) aesthetic that he was striving to create. This 'Calder aesthetic' stayed with Brown throughout his several stylistic shifts. Whether he was writing twelve-tone serial music ('Music for Violin, Cello, and Piano'), conceptual graphic scores ('Folio' and 'Four Systems,' and 'For Neil'), composed material/open form scores ('String Quartet,' 'New Piece' and 'Tracer'), or 'spontaneously composed' music ('Special Events'), all of his music shares Calder's sense of integral but 'floating' variations. Brown belonged to a group of composers that today is referred to as the 'The New York School' (the group active in New York in the 1950s that included Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff.) The works recorded on this disc represent several of Brown's compositional styles. At least one piece was selected from every decade of his career, from the 1950s to the 1990s. The ensemble size varies from one player to fourteen. Performers include Christian Wolff and Joan La Barbara, both of whom knew and worked with Brown for many years. Several works call for spatialized ensembles spread throughout the hall, perfect for the surround-sound medium. The classic tape piece 'Octet' is presented in new high-resolution transfers from the analog tapes, remixed for this DVD. Many first recordings. This is the first DVD of Earle Brown's music. Hi-resolution 24-bit 5.1 surround recording in 24-hit DTS and Dolby Digital. Dedicated 24-bit PCM stereo mix. NTSC format, Region 0."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Complete Short Works For Prepared Piano
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$33.00
Catalog #:	MODE 180/81CD

Performed by Philipp Vandré, recorded 2001/2. "The complete short prepared piano works collected on two CDs. John Cage's works for prepared piano expose his earliest experimentations in finding new and exotic sounds. Brief and attractive, they are among his most accessible work. This release marks the first time all of his short works for prepared piano have been made available in one set. All the prepared piano works are included aside from the magnum opus, 'Sonatas and Interludes.' Pianist Philipp Vandré has recorded 'Sonatas and Interludes' for Mode to great critical acclaim, including the recommended performance of the piece from Gramophone Magazine. Liner notes by Cage scholar James Pritchett." Volume 37 in Mode's Complete John Cage Edition.

Artist:	CLEMENTI, ALDO
Title:	Works With Guitar
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 182CD

"Like his near contemporary Franco Donatoni, Aldo Clementi (b.1925) is an Italian composer who has had a very fruitful association with that most Italian of instruments, the guitar. Both Clementi and Donatoni shared similar paths in their compositional development: the early influences of major early 20th-century composers through the adoption and later rejection of serialism and the Darmstadt courses they both attended, culminating in their very individual mature styles. Clementi's recent pieces are influenced by visual artists, particularly the intricately recursive figures in the lithographs of M.C. Escher and the richly repetitive surfaces of the paintings of the contemporary Italians Dorazio and Vasarely. Clementi saturates the aural surface of his works with repetitive moving lines whose motion becomes subsumed into an aural stasis -- mechanisms that appear to go nowhere and inevitably fold back upon themselves, seemingly collapsing into negativity and decay that nonetheless project a compelling sonic sensuality. This is the first complete CD devoted to Clementi's compositions involving the guitar. All first recordings."

Artist:	REYNOLDS, ROGER
Title:	Whispers Out of Time (Works for Orchestra)
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 183CD

"Roger Reynolds' (b.1939) music is a bit of a paradox: intimate in detail, while on a broader scale it is epic. It fits well with the music of his friends: Toru Takemitsu and Iannis Xenakis. The three works on this disc were composed over a four-year period (1987-1990). All first recordings, and the first complete disc of Reynolds' orchestral music. 'Symphony[Myths],' dedicated to Takemitsu, is for large orchestra: woodwinds in fours, piano, harp and an extended percussion section. It is seemingly 'about' pairs of almost mythic rocks in Japan and Greece -- translated across the span of a work that gradually subverts their hardness and immobility in the very slow and sometimes subtle manner that water erodes soil. 'Whispers Out of Time' draws its inspiration from John Ashbery's extended poem, 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.' It is scored for a string orchestra consisting of violin, viola, cello and contrabass soloists placed in front of an orchestra consisting of 8 violins, 6 violas, 5 cellos and 4 contrabasses. 'Symphony[Vertigo],' dedicated to the composer's friend and colleague, Charles Wuorinen, is a shifting kaleidoscopic array of sounds. Scored for full orchestra with woodwinds in threes, piano, harp and three percussionists, the orchestra is significantly supplemented by the use of quadraphonic computer processed sounds."

Artist:	WHITE, FRANCES
Title:	Centre Bridge: Electroacoustic Works
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 184CD

"Much of Frances White's music is inspired by her love of nature, and her electronic works frequently include natural sound recorded near her home in central New Jersey. This is the first complete disc of White's electroacoustic works, both with or without instruments. This disc is titled Centre Bridge because it has inspired two of the works contained on it. But beyond this, it is because the role that the bridge has played in White's work is so characteristic of her music. Her music is about listening deeply: encountering sound in the world (especially the natural world) and immersing herself in it. From this experience, she develops an image from it through intuition. It is this image, drawn from experience, that she then brings out again into the world through her music. To engage her work is to take a walk with her through her inner and outer sense of sound." Includes the piece used in Gus van Sant's Paranoid Park.

Artist:	TENNEY, JAMES
Title:	Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 185CD

Performed by The Barton Workshop, recorded 2007. "James Tenney (1934-2006) was probably the first composer to develop an aesthetic for computer music, realizing that electronic music almost forced the composer to accept noise as 'music' and to abandon the idea of absolute control over a composition. He came to accept Cage's passion for randomness, but from a different angle: computer music can be 'unpredictable' (rather than random). This CD looks at how Tenney persistently asked two questions: 'What if?' and 'How does it work?' Entitled Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy, it brings an understanding of Tenney's exploration of the act of listening and the factors of composition, of how materials can be assembled, how a composer creates musical continuity. It contains tour solos for flute and clarinet which are taken both from some of this earliest works, 'Poem' (1955) and 'Monody' (1959) and from relatively late in his career, 'Seegersong #1 & 2' (1999). The CD features Tenney's 'Ergodos' compositions (forerunners of minimal music or drones) -- instead of a fixed object, the listener hears a process and assembles his own experience from the sounds which have enveloped him. The reel-to-reel source tapes for 'Ergodos I' and 'II' are unique in that they may be played in either direction, beginning and ending at any point and/or with any number of super-impositions of parts (channels). On this CD, both 'Ergodos' tape pieces are presented along with the tape and its 'String Complement,' 'Instrumental Responses' (1O performers) and also with a percussion soloist ('Percussion Response'). Like so many of Tenney's pieces, these works walk a line between the composer's input and the choices of the performers in order to come to fruition. Tenney's conscious inclusion of the performer's input is a consistent characteristic of his music and remains a factor which distinguishes him from many other composers."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Number Pieces 4
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 186CD

Performed by Trio Dolce (on 3 recorders), recorded 1998. "The first recording of Cage's large scale composition for 3 recorder players. The Trio Dolce wrote Cage for permission to perform 'Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment' on three alto recorders, one octave higher than the prescribed range. In a letter from March 1987, Cage replied: 'Of course you may use the 3 alto recorders. I am glad that you are playing that piece.' They performed it on July 1988 with Cage in attendance. Cage's enthusiastic reaction to this performance encouraged Trio Dolce to ask Cage if he would consider writing a work for them which 'could take into account the ranges of the recorders' the Trio then owned. Upon meeting the members of the Trio during his residency at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in November 1988, Cage agreed to write a work for the Trio. 'Three' was completed in July 1989 and dedicated to Trio Dolce, who premiered it in July 1990 in the presence of the composer during a concert at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. The performance instructions state that the indication 'as legato as possible.' It requires great virtuosity and breath control, while at the same time changing recorders and maintaining a continuous legato, resulting in a sometimes fragile balance between the durations and dynamics." Volume 38 in Mode's Complete John Cage Edition.

Artist:	DE ALVEAR, MARIA
Title:	Asking
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 187CD

"'Asking' is a large-scale work for solo piano that is a meditation and reflection on all of the meanings of the word 'Asking.' 'Asking' was specially composed for Eve Egoyan. As with many of de Alvear's pieces for piano, it is based on a open structure that requires the pianist make many little and big decisions while playing, so the work itself is asking questions of the pianist. De Alvear says: 'The dialogue between the interpreter and the music is one of the main concerns in my music. It is very important for a work to focus, like a mantra does, the thinking energy of the pianist interpreting the score, so that there is enough space for the inner being of the interpreter to open up and blossom."

Artist:	SCELSI, GIACINTO
Title:	The Works For Double Bass
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 188CD

Performed by Robert Black. "This disc contains the first complete recordings of Scelsi's music for double bass. Volume 7 in Mode's acclaimed Scelsi Edition. Scelsi's infamous 'KO-THA I, II, Ill' -- for string instrument played lying on its back in a percussive manner -- is presented for the first time in an adaptation from the original for guitar by legendary bassist Fernando Grillo. Robert Black, internationally known as one of the leading bassists of our time, has also collaborated or performed with a diverse number of musicians from DJ Spooky to Meredith Monk to Cecil Taylor, and is a regular member of the Bang On A Can All-Stars."

Artist:	AUZET, ROLAND
Title:	Percussion(s)
Label:	MODE
Format:	3CD/DVD/Book
Price:	$80.00
Catalog #:	MODE 189/92CD

"A new concept of a musical textbook with 3 CDs and video DVD in a deluxe slipcase edition. Inactuelles is a unique collaboration between Mode and the Parisian art-book store Tschann to combine CDs and video DVDs of musical performances with an informative musical textbook. Percussion(s) is the first volume of Inactuelles: an incredible survey of music for percussion in the 20th and 21st century -- performed by the great French percussionist Roland Auzet. Inactuelles translates as 'Untimely': a collection of CDs/DVD/book packages that represent the most original in recent new music without concessions to style. That which is truly original -- a unique approach to composing musical sound -- transcends fashion, technical and aesthetic concerns and becomes 'timeless'... Inactuelles. The Music: Recordings of 13 works, including 7 world premieres. 3CDs and a DVD of studio recordings by virtuoso French percussionist/composer Roland Auzet for percussion solo (Xenakis, Taira), for percussion and voice (Xenakis, Pape), for percussion and ensemble (Xenakis, Milhaud, Alsina), for percussion and electronics (Auzet, Bancquart, Campion, Jodlowski, Tanaka). A DVD of Auzet's performance of Xenakis' Psappha and Rebonds by filmmaker Jacques Goldstein. Performers include vocalists Nicholas Isherwood, Janet Pape and Armelle Orieux, Ensemble FA, Ensemble Musique Aujord'hui, conductors Jean-Marie Adrien, Alain Bancquart and Domnique My. And the 5OO+ page book: A book (in English and French) by French musicologist Pierre-Albert Castanet, Percussion(s): Gesture and Spirit, which discusses the history of percussion music including interviews with Auzet about interpretation and performance of percussion music, especially the works and the composers recorded in this set." Region 0; NTSC & PAL; PCM Stereo; Aspect Ration: 16:9 Anamorphic; Running time: 24 min 43 sec.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Number Pieces 5
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 193CD

"Two2" (1989) for two pianos; performed by Rob Haskins and Laurel Karlik Sheehan, pianos. "Laurel Karlik Sheehan gave the Canadian premiere of 'Two' with Jack Behrens in 1990. Rob Haskins is a respected Cage expert and scholar. Together they bring an authority and expertise to this performance of 'Two.' In most of the Number Pieces, all the performers have some freedom through Cage's use of time brackets, and flexible measures that show a range of possible starting and ending times. The time bracket system of notation used in these works allow a certain amount of flexibility in the performance: individual notes or chords may always occur in the same general time frame, but their specific order and duration varies slightly and unpredictably from performance to performance. In this way, Cage could create a new kind of harmony of '...several sounds... being noticed at the same time.' Cage based 'Two' on renga, a Japanese poetic design of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables expressed at least 36 times. Each line of music is divided into five measures, just like the five lines of the poetry. The first measure contains five separate musical events -- chords or single tones, usually shared between the two pianists -- which correspond to the five syllables of the first line; the second measure has seven events, and so on. There are a total of 36 such five-measure sections in the piece. While the pianists can take any amount of time to perform each measure, each pianist must wait until both have finished the same measure before proceeding to the next. Given this flexibility, Haskins and Karlik Sheehan's performance is the longest of the recordings to date -- emphasizing the sense of spaciousness and interest in harmony that marks many of Cage's late pieces. Liner notes by Rob Haskins. 96khz, 24-bit high definition recording."

Artist:	LENG TAN, MARGARET
Title:	Sorceress of the New Piano
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 194DVD

"Strumming the strings of a grand piano like a harp and performing Beethoven on toy piano are among the surprising scenes in Evans Chan's documentary, Sorceress of the New Piano (2004), which celebrates the trans-cultural career of Singapore-born, New York-based pianist Margaret Leng Tan, hailed by The New Yorker as 'the diva of avant-garde pianism.' The film traces Tan's quest for a new pianistic language, performing ground-breaking works by masters Henry Cowell, George Crumb, and her longtime mentor John Cage, as well as by maverick composers of the next generation: Philip Glass, Tan Dun, Somei Satoh, Ge Gan-ru, Toby Twining, Lois V Vierk, Raphael Mostel, Guy Klucevsek, Stephen Montague, and Jed Distler. Featured performers and critics include Joan LaBarbara, Edward Rothstein (The New York Times), Mark Swed (Los Angeles Times), and Joshua Kosman (San Francisco Chronicle) share their thoughts on Tan's artistry and musical lineage. Incorporating vintage footage of Merce Cunningham's dance, Jasper Johns' art, and a Marcel Duchamp film; Sorceress also highlights Tan's latest transformation as the champion and pioneer of new repertoire for the toy piano. Bonus Film: The Maverick Piano (2006) is an excursion into the sonic world of the avant-garde piano, as Margaret Leng Tan gives complete performances of 6 works by Cage, Satie, Ge Gan-ru (China), and Toby Twining (USA)." Region 0, NTSC format. Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish. Sorceress (92 min); Maverick (50 min). 2.0 PCM stereo.

Artist:	HARRISON, LOU
Title:	Por Gitaro: Suites For Tuned Guitars
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 195CD

John Schneider (guitars); with Just Strings: T.J. Troy, Gene Sterling and Erin Barnes (percussion). "Even though Lou Harrison rhapsodized about the 'dulcet tones' of the guitar, for much of his career, he refused to write for it. The problem was that the guitar's straight, fixed frets resulted in the tuning system known as equal temperament, while Harrison preferred the crystalline purity of harmony found in the types of tuning known as just intonation. In the 1970s, Harrison learned of a guitar with removable fingerboards, allowing the player to simply swap out fingerboards refretted with different tunings. Energized by this innovation, Harrison completed the first works for just-intoned guitar: the 'Serenade for Guitar and Optional Percussion' in 1978. He began the next work in the series, the 'Ditone Suite,' but grew impatient trying to acquire the necessary fingerboards. Two and a half movements into the suite, he reluctantly turned away from his ambitious guitar project, adapting the 'Ditone Suite' movements for his 'String Quartet Set.' In 1981, the guitarist John Schneider met with Harrison and played his first arrangements of his harp works for just intonation guitar. With Harrison's authorization and encouragement, Schneider began adapting some of Harrison's other works into suites. This is the first complete recording of the reconstructed 'Suites' and of the 'Ditone Set' and the first recording of 'In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel' in the version for guitar and gamelan. The recordings were made in Harrison's straw bale house in Joshua Tree, California, where the house's main hall was intended for musical performances."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Kraanerg
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 196CD

"Kraanerg is one of Xenakis' most popular -- and infamous -- works. A visceral and highly charged score for woodwinds, brass, and strings along with quadrophonic tape. The title, 'Kraanerg,' is a composite of two Greek words: 'kraan,' meaning to perfect, to accomplish; and 'erg,' signifying energy. Commissioned for the gala opening of the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa, Canada in 1968, 'Kraanerg' originally was the score to a ballet choreographed by Roland Petit with 'op-art' sets by Victor Vasarely. According to Xenakis' program notes, the title also referred to the 'current youth movements' -- 1968 was a significant year in modern social history -- and to his utopian vision of the upcoming 'biological struggle between generations unfurling all over the planet, destroying existing political, social, urban, scientific, artistic and ideological frameworks on a scale never before attempted by humanity.' This powerful statement can be felt in the music. The dramatic 4-channel tape is derived from a recording of the orchestra, transformed and distorted. Its sonic textures kaleidoscopically expand the range of expression while at the same time remaining connected to the instrumental material. The 4-channel tape has been restored for this release from high-resolution transfers of the analog masters by German electronic composer Daniel Teige -- revealing greater details in the texture and a wider dynamic range than previously heard on any 'Kraanerg' recording. 96khz/24-bit high resolution recording. Liner notes by composer James Harley. Also available as surround-sound video DVD (MOD-DV-D196)."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Kraanerg
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD-AUDIO
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 196DVD

DVD-audio version. "Special DVD feature: full 77-minute performance video including specially created visuals for the tape interludes by director Tim Chu. 35-minute interview on Kraanerg with Xenakis experts Gerard Pape and James Harley, writer Francoise Xenakis (the composer's widow), and dancer Veronica Tenant (who danced in the 1968 premiere). Additional Interview with Daniel Teige on the restoration of the analog tape." Region 0, NTSC format. Run Time: 131 Minutes. 5.0 Surround, Dolby Digital and DTS.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	MODE 197DVD

"Director Henning Lohner worked with John Cage during his later years, including collaborating with Cage on his only film, One11. During that time, Lohner filmed interviews and footage with Cage, and after Cage's death decided to assemble some of it into this unique 'composed film' based on musical principles. The film also features 42 personalities -- from the well known (actors, architects, artists, choreographers, composers, theoreticians, writers) to the unknown (like street cleaners and market vendors) -- in conversation with each other. The result is an unexpected and fascinating combination of intellectual thought, viewpoints and opinions. The Revenge of the Dead Indians is neither documentary nor feature film. The thematic story development is a combination of 'found' video and audio landscapes along with theatrically-directed readings and interviews. Each scene of the film is complete in itself as its own narrative entity, yet simultaneously contributes to the linear progression of the story line. Lohner's goal was to honor the creative credo of composer John Cage, to whom the film is dedicated. Attention is paid to 'forgotten' landscapes: places we overlook because they are the everyday and the ordinary. Concert performances incorporated in the film were recorded live during the 'Musicircus' homage at Symphony Space in New York, November 1, 1992, and at the John Cage music festival at the 'Akademie der Schönen Künste' in East Berlin, August 1, 1990. This sound and visual material was edited to more than 1200 cuts before the final film length of 130 minutes was reached. The shortest scene has the duration of exactly one frame, the longest scene has the duration of exactly 4 minutes, 33 seconds." NTSC format DVD, region 0. Total time: 2 hours, 53 minutes.

Artist:	DENYER, FRANK
Title:	Silenced Voices
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 198CD

Elisabeth Smalt, viola; The Barton Workshop. Frank Denver's music doesn't adhere to any easily defined aesthetic prescripts, and the four recent works on this disc resist categorization and ready comparison to the work of other composers. The music on this CD is far from abstract, and the titles of the four works suggest as much -- being rich in imagery and association and yet resistant to simple narrative interpretation. Sonically the four works share a common sense of intimacy. They inhabit an extremely quiet sound world. They place as great an importance on the level of nuance -- in the strange quality of a particular microtonal interval, or a delicate shading of timbre, or a novel combination of instrumental and vocal sound -- as they do on long melodic lines or large-scale formal structures. In these pieces there are resonances (both sonic and associational) of sounds from the real world, or perhaps from dreams: breathing sounds (sometimes calm, sometimes sharp and disturbing intakes of breath); footsteps; knocking sounds; a crow call. These sounds exist on a kind of threshold, not immediately registering as music, and they subtly dislodge our listening from its familiar habits. The conventional instruments used here violin, viola, flute, clarinet hardly ever sound as they normally do, largely because the sounds they make are so soft, so disembodied, that they seem like voices of a post-Holocaust civilization. Occasional fragments of melody drift past, seeming at times like imperfectly remembered snatches of something familiar. All four works present combinations of instruments that have rarely if ever been heard together before, offering totally fresh sonic images."

Artist:	KAVINA, LYDIA
Title:	Spellbound! Original Works For Theremin
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 199CD

"As a follow-up to her first CD of original theremin works, Music From the Ether, Lydia Kavina returns with her first recordings of major works for Theremin and ensemble. The first recording of Miklos Rosza's chamber version of music from the Hitchcock film Spellbound. Three premiere recordings of works by Howard Shore, Olga Neuwirth and Christian Wolff. Two premiere recordings of graphically notated works for multiple Theremins by Percy Grainger. Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore (Lord Of The Rings) created his suite from the movie Ed Wood especially for Kavina, who performed on the original movie soundtrack. Leading Austrian composer Olga Neuwith created this suite from her opera Bahlaams Fest for Kavina, who performed in the opera's premiere. Christian Wolff wrote 'Exercise 58' especially for this project. Shore and Wolff supervised the recording and rehearsal of their works. This program was premiered at the 2000 Lincoln Center Summer Festival to a sold-out audience and received rave reviews. Liner notes by Theremin expert Olivia Mattis. Original 96khz/24-bit high definition recording. Enhanced CD features a 16-minute video documentary from the recording sessions, including interviews with Kavina, Shore and Wolff."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Cage Performs Cage: Empty Words With Music For Piano/One7
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 200CD

Featured works: "Empty Words (1973-74) with Music For Piano (1953)" and "One7" (1990). Performed by John Cage and Yvar Mikhashoff (piano). "Mode celebrates its 200th release with a special installment in its John Cage Edition works performed by John Cage himself, released for the first time. These recordings were made in Buffalo, New York in April 1991. Cage and Mode Records were in Buffalo to work on the premiere of his 'Europera 5,' which he wrote for Yvar Mikhashoff, a longtime collaborator and specialist in New Music. Cage and Mikhashoff had performed this special duet of 'Empty Words' simultaneous with 'Music For Piano' in concert several times, and decided to make this recording, without an audience, especially for Mode. The single sounds of 'Music For Piano,' many of them quiet, make for a beautiful counterpoint with the mysterious and somewhat lonesome voice of the elderly Cage. As part of the events surrounding 'Europera 5,' Cage gave a performance of the solo piece 'One7,' recorded in a live performance here. Like most of the other 'Number Pieces,' 'One7' is written in what Cage called time brackets, flexible measures whose start times and end times are specified. In this work, the performer has more freedom in that Cage gives no specific content for these time brackets, but rather a series of 10 numbers from 1 to 12 (1 and 10 do not appear) which represent sounds that performer chooses himself. 21. "

Artist:	NEWMAN, CHRIS
Title:	Piano Sonatas
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 201CD

Performed by Michael Finnissy, piano. "Chris Newman is a contemporary composer, painter, author and artist in Berlin. This is the first of Newman's Piano Sonatas, a large and important aspect to his work. The renowned British virtuoso and composer Michael Finnissy performs the four sonatas here. Newman and Finnissy have been collaborators for over a quarter century, ensuring definitive performances. Composer-supervised recordings. Michael has this to say about Chris Newman's Sonatas: 'Newman's music takes on more of the world than music usually does. It's also a lot more raw and loose-limbed than most new music is. An Art that seems lived at first-hand ... an energy and intensity that is more than merely sound. Chris loves composers like Machaut, Schubert and Mussorgsky -- and it's plain enough to hear them in his music. ...the titles (Sonatas, and there are Symphonies and String Quartets too) suggest the presence of abstract thought, and Newman works caringly, adroitly and with precision and detail. These pieces do not happen by accident. There is a Newman sound to be 'achieved' on the piano: very evenly balanced voicing between the hands, somewhat hard-edged -- on the whole reaching for each note as if it were virtually unpremeditated and unexpected."

Artist:	HENZE, HANS WERNER
Title:	Musica Da Camera: Ensemble Dissonanzen
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 202CD

"The selections of chamber music on this CD by Hans Werner Henze (b.1926) tend toward his lyrical side, and with an emphasis on compositions derived from his theater pieces. The CD's repertoire especially suits the Naples-based Ensemble Dissonanzen, featuring the talents of its guitarist, Marco Cappelli. The 'Sonatina for Flute and Piano' was written in 1947, its style owing something to both Fortner (Henze's teacher in Heidelberg at this time) and Hindemith. 'Boulevard Solitude,' composed in 1952, established Henze as one of the leading composers of his generation, particularly in the field of music theatre. 'Ein Kleines Potpourri' was concocted from the opera for chamber ensemble, The driving 'Perpetuum Mobile' movement is a transposition of the opera's savage Intermezzo. The 'Drei Tentos' are from Kammermusik for tenor, guitar and octet composed in 1958, when Henze, who had been living in Italy for years, spent some time in Greece. Here, fragments of Holderlin's text are evoked without being enunciated. The kaleidoscopic 'Carillon, Récitatif, Masque' is scored for the unusual plucked trio of mandolin, guitar and harp. 'Toccata Mistica' is one of only a handful of works Henze composed for piano. Its fluid, impetuous tidal waves of sound allude to a disfigured seascape, with the grand piano cast adrift like a raft amid the breakers. The seven 'Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesänge' are derived from Henze's stays in Styria, an Austrian region where folksongs feature the bassoon. Here the folksong melodies are transformed verse by verse and influenced by a complex harmonic and contrapuntal texture in which the guitar accompaniment plays a key role."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Electronic Works 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 203CD

"Featured pieces" "Polytope de Cluny" (1972, for 8-channel tape); "Hibiki hana ma" (1969-70, for 16-channel tape); "Fer Chaud" (1957, original film soundtrack). "Mode continues its Xenakis Edition with the second volume dedicated to his electronic works, again restored from the best quality source materials. New high-resolution transfers were made of 'Polytope de Cluny' from the original analog master tapes. 'Hibiki hana ma' has been restored from the existing digital masters. 'Hibiki hana ma' was created for the Expo 1970 World's Fair in Osaka, Japan, where it was experienced by thousands. It was designed to be played on a tape loop in a hall which boasted state-of-the-art acoustic equipment, with some 700 speakers scattered under the floor plus 128 surface and suspended speakers symmetrically distributed throughout the pavilion's amphitheater. Both works have been remixed to stereo by Gerard Pape, who worked closely with the composer as the former director of Xenakis' CCMIX studio in Paris. The experimental film Fer Chaud (1957), directed by Jacques Brissot and Nicolas Schoeffer, focused on the work of Op-Art artist Victor Vasarely. It featured a musical score for ensemble by Xenakis. This score is unique to the film and has never been published elsewhere. It has been carefully remastered from the film soundtrack and presented here." Also to be released on DVD-audio format.

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Electronic Works 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD-AUDIO
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 203DVD

"Mode continues its Xenakis Edition with the second volume dedicated to his electronic works, again restored from the best quality source materials. Both works are commercially released in Surround Sound for the first time. New high-resolution transfers were made of 'Polytope de Cluny' (1972-74) from the original analog master tapes. 'Hibiki Hana Ma' has been restored from the existing digital masters. 'Hibiki Hana Ma' was created for the Expo 1970 World's Fair in Osaka, Japan, where it was experienced by thousands. It was designed to be played on a tape loop in a hall which boasted state-of-the-art acoustic equipment, with some 700 speakers scattered under the floor, plus 128 surface and suspended speakers symmetrically distributed throughout the pavilion's amphitheater. Both works have been remixed for Surround DVD by Gerard Pape who worked closely with the composer as the former director of Xenakis' CCMIX studio in Paris. Dedicated stereo 96khz/24-bit high resolution mix included. Also available on CD (MODE 203CD). Special DVD features: The first commercial release of the experimental film Vasarely, directed by Jacques Brissot and Nicolas Schoeffer, from 1957. The music to this film, focusing on the work of Op-Art artist Victor Vasarely, was scored by Xenakis. This score for ensemble by Xenakis is unique to the film and has never been published elsewhere. The film has been restored and the audio remastered from a 16mm film print for this release. Run time: 51 minutes. Region 0, NTSC. 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital, and DTS. Aspect ration: 4:3, color and b&w. Essays by Sharon Kanach and Makis Solomos."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	49 Waltzes For The Five Boroughs
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 204DVD

"A complete video realization by Don Gillespie, Roberta Friedman, and Gene Caprioglio. Cage's 49 Waltzes For The Five Boroughs gives its executants no clues about how they might perform it. Originally created as an invitation by Rolling Stone magazine in 1977, as part of a gala issue celebrating the magazine's recent move from San Francisco to New York, which featured literary and art contributions honoring its new home. Cage constructed his 'waltzes' as a series of 49 multi-colored triangles superimposed on the Hagstrom map of New York City, each point derived by the use of chance operations. The finished composition is a design of singular beauty. Cage was an inveterate New Yorker, and even after his death in 1992 his most unequivocal composition about the city, the 49 Waltzes remained totally neglected. Wanting to celebrate Cage's memory, Don Gillespie (who worked with Cage at his publisher, C.F. Peters) decided to collect the sights and sounds from all the locations specified in 49 Waltzes. This ambitious project of filming Cage's 147 specific locations in New York's five boroughs took a year to complete (1994-1995). It is a film whose subject is the unintentional music made by people, birds, planes, automobiles, police and fire sirens, and countless other debris of sounds. Tidbits of hectic Manhattan contrast with glimpses of quiet outer borough streets, parks and cemeteries. Deciding that two hours was an optimal length, composer Andrew Culver was asked to determine the durations of the 147 locations. Using Cage's computerized I Ching software, Culver arrived at a string of durations ranging from 16 seconds to 3:44. The results proved tantalizing and also somewhat frustrating, since some of the most interesting locations were very brief and some of the more prosaic were lengthy, forcing one to accept their ordinariness. The film is also an amazing video time capsule document of a New York that has long changed, disappeared and evolved. The video and the audio has been restored for the DVD release, and this is the first time that all of the waltzes are shown in their full duration with previously-cut footage (due to time constraints) restored. Additional features: Actual waltz location viewing, a 16-page booklet with an essay by Don Gillespie and a complete list of each Waltz location; bonus audio realization of 'Waltz #9,' recorded by Gillespie in March of 1979. Region 0, NTSC format DVD. Total running time: 2 hr, 7 mins (Feature: 122 minutes, Waltz #9: 6 minutes); Production year: 1994. Aspect ratio: 4:3. 2.0 Dolby stereo. Liner notes: English, German, French."

Artist:	CARDEW, CORNELIUS
Title:	Treatise (Prague Version, 1967)
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	MODE 205CD

Featured work: "Treatise (Live Recording, Prague 1967)." Performed by: QUaX Ensemble (Petr Kotik, Director). "This performance of Cardew's monumental 193-page graphic score 'Treatise' was recorded live in Prague in 1967 by the Czech QUaX Ensemble, directed by composer/flutist/conductor Petr Kotik. This historical recording offers a unique perspective to hear 'Treatise' as interpreted by Cardew's contemporaries. Kotik met Cardew in Warsaw in 1962, and they began exchanging scores by mail, including 'Treatise,' which was a work in progress. Upon meeting again in London (1966), Cardew provided Kotik with additional portions of the score and insights. Fresh from this encounter, Kotik started the QUaX Ensemble upon his return to Prague in 1966. The first thing QUaX did was to rehearse 'Treatise,' working through the pages Kotik had: 'The piece was very important for getting all of us together, musically speaking, besides having a lot of fun working out individual pages by having all the musicians contribute ideas and suggestions. We worked regularly over a long period of time, ending up with a 2-hour version of the piece -- only performed once, at the concert on October 15, 1967 in Prague.' It is presented here. Cardew said: ''Treatise' is a continuous weaving and combining of a host of graphic elements (of which only a few are recognizably related to musical symbols) into a long visual composition, the meaning of which in terms of sound is not specified in any way. Any number of musicians using any media are free to participate in a 'reading' of this score, and each is free to interpret it in his own way.' Liner notes by Petr Kotik and Cardew's friend and colleague John Tilbury. Tilbury says of this performance: 'There is much to admire in this 1967 version of 'Treatise' by the QUaX Ensemble from Prague: the feeling of spontaneity, its uninhibitedness, the rough-hewn sounds, the accidental, the half-intended, the blurred.' High resolution 96khz, 24-bit remastering from the original analog tape."

Artist:	ABLINGER, PETER
Title:	33-127
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 206CD

"From orchestral works to installations, Peter Ablinger's oeuvre explores the differences between reality and our perception of reality. In '33-127' (for electric guitar and CD), Ablinger confronts the rational, human division of sound into musical scales with the complex acoustical reality of any given moment -- its 'noise.' In each of the 95 pieces that make up 33-127, these two realities come face to face again and again: scale, noise, scale; scale, noise, scale... In each piece, a scale descends, with gentle and unpredictable irregularities of both rhythm and pitch, from the top of the electric guitar's range to the bottom. The sound of the instrument is clean, clear, and precise. At some point in each of these tranquil, neutral scales -- all but one of them, anyway -- a cacophony of recorded street noise bursts in, which the guitar, now louder and rougher in tone, doubles, playing an orchestrated spectral analysis of this recorded noise. Just a moment of this though, or a few seconds; then the scale resumes as if nothing has happened. This common use of scales in Ablinger's music is perhaps influenced by his background in graphic design, including his studies with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, who composed many graphically notated scores. The basicness of a scale, like a stroke from a pencil, functions as a degree zero of human making. Noise, or rather, 'rauschen' (the German term) has been a prominent part of Ablinger's music for more than 20 years. For Ablinger it is never simply a matter of mastering or claiming noises for musical purposes, but rather of acknowledging and confronting the place of all sounds in the general 'noise' of reality. In '33-127,' the guitar is neither the soloist nor the protagonist. It and the 'rauschen' are equals in seemingly endless near-repetition, building up to a sublime incomprehensibility."

Artist:	KNOX, GARTH
Title:	Viola Spaces
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 207CD

"Garth Knox is known as a viola player and a champion of new music, having played with the Arditti Quartet and the Ensemble Intercontemporain for seven years each before emerging as a soloist on both viola and viola d'amore in recent years. On this CD we hear not only his distinctive performing style but also his original compositions. In each of the eight studies that make up Viola Spaces, the music is based on a simple concept: a particular way of causing the strings to resonate. Although conceived as a series of concert studies, these pieces soon take on a life of their own, creating vast musical (viola) spaces to which you can bring your own stories and pictures. From a clearly defined constraint, the music bursts out of the instruments. These techniques include studies in sul ponticello, glissandi, tremelo, etc., but all the while entertaining to listen to. In addition to the viola ensemble etudes, the CD features Knox's compositions 'Jonah and the Whale' for the unusual duo of viola and tuba, and 'La Valse De La Vineuse' for clarinet, violin, viola and cello."

Artist:	FINEBERG, JOSHUA
Title:	Empreintes, Veils, And Shards
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 208CD

"Since the beginning of his compositional career, Joshua Fineberg (b. 1969) has been fascinated by the possibility of transferring the organizing power of tonality into fresh new sound worlds. He takes advantage of research in acoustics and psychoacoustics to craft a musical language which explores the inner world of sounds through careful analysis -- both by ear and with computer software -- and uses their internal structure as a starting point for the invention of harmonies and musical forms, lending his compositions a rare immediacy. A composer of the 'spectral school,' Fineberg studied in Paris with Tristan Murail and took a composition and technology course at IRCAM. He taught at Harvard for seven years, and is now professor of composition and the director of the electronic music studios at Boston University. Created at IRCAM in Pais 'Empreintes' uses live electronics to process each of the 14 individual instruments, at times creating a halo around the music while playing with the boundary between natural and artificial sounds. The title 'Veils' refers to the Tibetan Buddhist belief that for the unenlightened, true reality is obscured by a veil (or series of veils). The continuous resonance of the piano (the sustain pedal is depressed throughout the piece) creates a veil. To experience the 'real music' of the work, we must hear beyond the 'veil' of the active surface to the slower and more mysterious evolution of the instrument's resonance. In 'The Texture of Time,' Fineberg develops his use of live electronics begun in 'Empreintes.' Here all of the electronics come from one speaker set at the flutist's feet -- the result is that the flute and the electronics blend together, seemingly coming from a single source."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Complete String Quartets: ST/4; Tetras; Tetora; Ergma
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 209CD

Performed by the JACK Quartet. "Featuring: The first complete recording of Xenakis' string quartets; the first new recording of Xenakis' first three quartets since 1994; the only available recording of Xenakis' last quartet, 'Ergma,' from 1994. The first commercial release by the JACK Quartet, a young New York/Boston based group that has been garnering high praise for their performances of complex and challenging new music. The members of the quartet met while attending the Eastman School of Music, New York. The quartet has since studied closely with the Arditti Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Muir String Quartet, and members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain." 'The Jack Quartet, an ensemble of young string players devoted to contemporary music, played the Le Poisson Rouge in October. I would never have expected to see a crowd at a downtown nightclub erupting with whoops after performances of four hypercomplex, cutting-edge string quartets by Iannis Xenakis. But in this setting these dense and kinetic works came across to this open-minded audience as just more hip, wild, out-there contemporary music.' -- Anthony Tommasini, New York Times. High resolution 24-bit recording. Liner notes by James Harley."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Complete String Quartets: ST/4; Tetras; Tetora; Ergma
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 209DVD

"This release marks the first complete recording of Xenakis' four string quartets. The studio recording process was artfully and dynamically captured by a multiple camera shoot. Each quartet is given its own visual treatment. This body of work represents one of the most important contributions to music for strings of the post-World War II era. Xenakis went beyond the influence of Bartók (and others) to create a completely new sound for strings -- in effect, turning them into new instruments. Each work is extremely challenging to perform, as each calls for new modes of playing, both individually and as an ensemble. Filmed in high definition video, widescreen format. Liner notes by James Harley. 48 kHz/24-bit high resolution 5.1 surround sound recording." Region 0, NTSC; aspect ratio: 16:9; duration approximately 60 minutes.

Artist:	LIANG, LEI
Title:	Brush-Stroke
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 210CD

"Lei Liang (b.1972) began his musical studies in China, completing them in the USA. His music aims at a deeper philosophical engagement with musical sound as a tool for reflection and contemplation, while resisting exoticized and formulaic treatment of Asian musical elements. Liang's music is deeply philosophical, yet sensual, evocative, yet abstract, and disciplined, yet spontaneous. Written for the Arditti String Quartet, 'Serashi Fragments' is a tribute to the Mongolian chaoer (fiddler Serashi (1887-1968). In this highly virtuosic piece, Liang deploys a wide range of articulation for string: pizzicato sul pont, stacatissimo, Bartok pizzicato, glissando, harmonics, and glissando harmonics. In 'Some Empty Thoughts of a Person from Edo,' Liang expands the timbral possibilities of the harpsichord through introducing 'lute stop,' clusters formed by the palm and fingers of each hand, along with other extended devices. A plucked passage with arpeggiated chords is reminiscent of the Japanese koto. 'Memories of Xiaoxiang' for saxophone and tape presents a personal commentary on Liang's cultural past, including field recordings in the tape part. In 'Praise of Shadows' for solo flute is a piece that invites philosophical contemplation on the duality of light and shadow, embodied by the barely audible partials in the multiphonics, whistling tones, or the downward portamento Liang often uses to end a phrase. Brush-Stroke allows the listener to be immersed in the transience of each sound as it comes into being and passes away. It is reminiscent of Japanese gagaku and Korean Aak court music."

Artist:	O'DONNELL, HEATHER
Title:	Responses To Ives
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 211CD

"Responses To Ives was conceived in 2003 by pianist Heather O'Donnell as a way to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of Charles Ives's death (May 19, 2004). She approached composers spanning a generation, known to have strong affinities for Ives and asked them to write a 'musical reflection' on the presence of Ives in their lives and work. The set was premiered at the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin in 2004 in the midst of a twelve hour extravaganza of Ives. In the months following repeat performances took place in South Africa, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the U.S. The CD includes the first recording of Ives' 'London Bridge is Falling Down.' O'Donnell intersperses short, and often less known, works of Ives with the contemporary composers' 'responses,' all of which are first recordings. The 'responses' could not be more varied from each other - from introspective to virtuosic to meditative to extended techniques." Featured works: Charles Ives (1874-1954) -- "London Bridge Is Fallen Down!" (Burlesque Harmonization), first recording. Study No. 21: "Some Southpaw Pitching." "Set of Five Take-Offs." "From Four Transcriptions from Emerson:ii. Moderato; iii. Largo." "Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830's and 1840's." "The 'Responses.'" Walter Zimmerman (b.1949) -- "The Missing Nail At The River" (for piano & toy piano). Michael Finnissy (b.1946) -- "Song of Myself." James Tenney (1934-2006) -- "Essay (after a sonata)" (for inside-piano). Sidney Corbett (b.1960) -- "The Celestial Potato Fields" (in memoriam Charles Ives). Oliver Schneller (b.1966) -- "And tomorrow?" (for piano and electronics)."

Artist:	REYNOLDS, ROGER
Title:	Epigram And Evolution: Complete Piano Works
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	MODE 212CD

"These piano pieces were written at every turning point in Roger Reynolds' creative life, marking his evolution. The music is driven by relentless attacks toward catharsis, but also bittersweet chords, and trembling, rolling, wandering or sweeping masses of sound. We feel as though we are being pushed around by forces beyond human imagination. This sense of being carried away by an uninterrupted undercurrent may be the image of the world we live in. The featured pianists are the legendary Yuji Takahashi (who also contributed a rare new recording for the set), and contemporary music specialists Eric Huebner and Marilyn Nonken. This specially priced 2-CD set combines new recordings with reissues of classic analog performances. 'Epigram and Evolution,' Reynolds' earliest piano work was premiered at the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor by Robert Ashley. Reynolds moved to Europe in 1963, and 'Fantasy for Pianist' marks the change of intellectual climate. Premiered at the Warsaw Autumn Festival by John Tilbury, it begins with a chordal whirlwind over explosive blasts, leading to asynchronous tapping, resonance, and whirls. Experimental ways of playing are applied on the piano strings: plucking with a pick, wound string rasps, and harmonics produced by touching nodes on the struck strings. 'Traces' uses six loudspeakers surrounding the audience with amplified instruments and ring-modulated resonances. The piano part is 'traced' by a flute and cello involving timbre manipulation, with electronic shadows over them. 'Less Than Two' was written for pianists Gilbert Kalish and James Freeman, and percussionists Ray DesRoches and Richard Fitz, as a companion piece for George Crumb's 'Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening).' It was premiered, along with the Crumb piece, at The Library of Congress in 1979. Reynolds' architectural complexity culminates in 'Variation': a single movement following a preliminary graphic scheme, it allows room for playful and expressive flexibility left to the performer. It was premiered by Aleck Karis. 'imagE/piano' and 'imAge/piano' are a part of recent project of writing pairs of short, complementary pieces for different instruments. The E in 'imagE' stands for 'evocative' and A in 'imAge' for 'articulate,' involving a composing technique based on montage and editing. Liner notes by Yuji Takahashi."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	Trio
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 216DVD

"The recording sessions were filmed and directed by Tim Chu in High Definition Video, widescreen format. The intimate video allows the viewer to enjoy the subtle interplay of the performers. The DVD format allows the 105-minutes of the Trio to be enjoyed continuously on one disc without a break. DVD Bonus: Video essay on Feldman and the Trio by the noted German composer and Feldman expert Walter Zimmermann (31 minutes). Recorded in hi-definition 96khz/24-bit sound; DVD presented in surround as Dolby and DTS." Region 0, NTSC rormat; aspect ratio: 16:9.

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Works With Piano
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 217CD

"Aki Takahashi follows up her acclaimed first disc of Xenakis piano works (which won the 'Diapason d'or' in France) with this second volume -- this time works for piano with instruments. She is joined by an all-star cast of players: Rohan de Saram (formerly of the Arditti Quartet), the JACK Quartet, and the Callithumpian Consort conducted by Stephen Drury. All works are underrepresented in current recordings or difficult to find at all. The legendary Eonta -- a blistering work with one of the most difficult piano parts ever written -- receives its first new recording in over 10 years. The brass writing specifies spatialized movement for the brass players -- including playing directly into the piano for its resonance -- both dramatic to see and hear. Akea 1968, written for Claude Helffer and the Arditti Quartet, is not a typical addition to the romantic tradition of the piano quintet. It signaled the beginning of a more inward, reflective phase of Xenakis' output. Morisima/Amorsima was composed with the aid of a computer in 1962. This is the only readily available recording. Paille In The Wind (1992) for piano & cello performed with Rohan de Saram. This is the only available recording."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Works With Piano
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 217DVD

Featured works: Eonta (1963) for piano, 2 trumpets & 3 trombones; Morsima-Amorsima (1962) for piano, violin, cello & double-bass; Akea (1986); Paille In The Wind (1992). "Aki Takahashi follows her critically acclaimed first volume of Xenakis' piano works (on MODE 080) with a recital of works for piano and instruments. All of these works are under-represented in the Xenakis discography. Ms. Takahashi is joined by superb players including Stephen Drury's Callithumpian Consort, The JACK Quartet, and Rohan de Saram (formally of the Arditti Quartet). Recorded in hi-definition 96khz/24-bit sound; DVD presented in surround as Dolby and DTS. The visuals are dynamically directed by Tim Chu, shot in widescreen HDV." Region 0, NTSC format; 53 minutes; aspect ratio: 16:9 widescreen; color.

Artist:	OLIVEROS & IONE, PAULINE
Title:	Njinga The Queen King: The Return Of A Warrior
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 220DVD

"Njinga The Queen King is a collaborative effort between writer/director Ione and composer Pauline Oliveros, which they refer to as 'a play with music and pageantry.' It is based on historical facts. This fully staged 'pageantry' with a large cast weaves the plot around singing, acting, music -- including ethnic music and percussion, electronic and dance. Njinga ruled 17th century Ndongo -- now Angola -- as a 'king' because tribal custom forbade her to rule as a woman. A skilled diplomat and fierce warrior, Njinga kept the Portuguese at bay from Ndongo for the 40 years of her rule. Flowing freely between time periods, Njinga traces the diaspora of Njinga's people to Brazil and the United States, linking the ancient warrior's life to that of a contemporary African-American woman who has lost touch with her heritage. Oliveros' score, and the use of electronics and spatialization, provides an environment for the traditional African music, heightening the drama. This recording is based on the BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Next Wave Festival performances of 1993. In addition to Olveros' music and sound design, Njinga incorporates traditional Kongolese music arranged by Titos Sompas, and Brazilian music arranged by Nego Gato." Region 0, NTSC format; Run time: approx. 3 hours, 10 minutes; aspect ratio: 4:3 and 16:9; color; Dolby 5.1 surround.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	A Cage Of Saxophones 3 & 4
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	MODE 222CD

"Ulrich Krieger completes his A Cage Of Saxophones survey of Cage's works composed for saxophone, or which can be played on any instrument or instruments. For this volume, Krieger combines works specifically composed for saxophone with works of no specified instrumentation that are suited for saxophones and winds. Most of these are 'indeterminate' works, which require the performer to create the realization based on materials supplied by Cage. In some situations, Krieger used Cage's compositional 'tools' to create his own parallel works. The set includes the only available recording of 'Party Pieces,' composed in collaboration with Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison and Virgil Thomson. One composer would write a bar of music plus two notes, folded the paper at the bar, passing it to the next composer, who would use the two notes as a base for continuing the composition. Composed for any melody or keyboard instruments, Krieger has made a realization for saxophone quartet. Acclaimed German saxophonist Ulrich Krieger studied classical/contemporary saxophone, composition, and electronic music at the Hochscule der Kunste (Berline) and the Manhattan School of Music (New York). He currently tours with Lou Reed in the Metal Machine Trio and is a professor at CalArts University. He worked with leading artists such as La Monte Young, Phill Niblock, David First, Lee Ranaldo, Elliott Sharp, Mario Bertoncini, Merzbow, and many others."

Artist:	CLEMENTI, ALDO
Title:	Works With Flutes
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 224CD

Performed by Roberto Fabbriciani (flutes) and Alvise Vidolin (electronics). "The release of this CD in 2010 celebrates Aida Clementi's 75th birthday. Clementi is one of the remaining living composers of the avant-garde generation, which included Berio, Nona and Maderna. This disc of Clementi's works for flute are performed by one of his long-time collaborators, Roberto Fabbriciani. Many of these works utilize Clementi's signature explorations of the cannon form, acoustic illusions inspired by his fascination with the optical illusions in absurd spaces created by Escher. This is the first complete CD devoted to Clementi's compositions for flute. Fabbriciani is one of the world's leading flutists in new music, some of these works were written for or dedicated to him. Liner notes by Gianluigi Mattietti. A virtuoso performer, Roberto Fabbriciani is a noted innovator of flute techniques through his personal research of the instrument's sonorous possibilities. He worked closely for many years with Luigi Nono in the experimental studio of the SWF in Freiberg, blazing new and unusual sounds in music. He has collaborated with, premiered or had dedications from major composers of our time, including: Berio, Cage, Dallapiccola, Donatoni, Dallapicolla, Ferneyhough, Krenek, Kurtag, Ligeti, Messiaen, Morricone, Petrassi, Rihm, Rota, Scelsi, Sciarrino, Stockhausen, and Takemitsu."

Previous Page Index of Labels Next Page

Artist:	SCHVARTZ, HAYDEE
Title:	New Music From Europe and the Americas
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 031CD

Artist:	NEWBAND
Title:	Play Microtonal Works 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 033CD

Artist:	LEBARON, ANNE
Title:	The Musical Railism of...
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 042CD

Artist:	RAICKOVICH, MILOS
Title:	New Classicism
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 045CD

Artist:	CURRAN, ALVIN
Title:	For Cornelius
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 049CD

Artist:	DAHINDEN TRIOS, ROLAND
Title:	Naima
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 062CD