Browse by Artist: BEHRMAN, DAVID

Artist:	BEHRMAN, DAVID
Title:	On The Other Ocean
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1041

"1996 CD reissue of a 1978 LP. "'On the Other Ocean' is an improvisation by Maggi Payne and Arthur Stidfole centered around six pitches which, when they are played, activate electronic pitch-sensing circuits connected to the 'interrupt' line and input ports of a microcomputer, Kim-1". The other piece on this CD, 'Figure in a Clearing' is of similar intent, only featuring David Gibson on Cello and Behrman on electronics. Beautifully presented live-improvisor/computer-accompaniment studies by this well-known composer and founder the Sonic Arts Union in 1966 with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, and Gordon Mumma." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	BEHRMAN, DAVID
Title:	Leapday Night
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1042

"A series of three pieces/suites; 'Leapday Night', 'A Traveler's Dream Journal', and 'Interspecies Smalltalk' involving Rhys Chatham/Ben Neill (on trumpet/mutantrumpet), Fluxus mainstay Takeisha Kosugi (violin), and Behrman himself on electronics. 'The system consists of pitch sensors ("ears" with which it listens to the performing musicians), various music synthesizers (some homemade), a computer graphics color video display and a personal computer'. Heavy period-synth float w/ bare accompaniment, thankfully just-pre DX-7. See above for relative cultural importance." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	BEHRMAN, DAVID
Title:	My Dear Siegfried
Label:	XI
Format:	2CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	XI 129CD

"David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as musical compositions. Sam Behrman and Siegfried Sassoon met in 1920, when Behrman, then a young writer working at The New York Times, was sent to interview Sassoon at the start of the English poet's postwar American lecture tour. In that tour Sassoon was billed as 'England's Soldier-Poet.' He had a reputation both as a war hero and an anti-war poet and peace activist. Many years later, each author wrote about this youthful meeting, which inaugurated a long-lasting friendship and a correspondence, mostly conducted via trans-Atlantic letters between England and America, which continued into the 1950s. My Dear Siegfried provides a performance environment in which musicians interact with texts by the two authors and with music software designed to respond to the performers' actions. The texts and the software elements are arranged as a linear thread along which the piece progresses. In QSRL a sensor listens to what the performer is doing and a computer music system provides responses to information the sensor takes in. Viewfinder is a sound installation using software based on homemade synthesizer music of the early 1970s. In 'A New Team Takes Over', homemade synthesizer modules were used in this piece to distort recordings made off the air of press conferences by members of the new Nixon administration following the American election of 1968. 'Touch Tones', from the early days of music done with the help of newly-available, small, inexpensive 'microcomputers,' made use of a kind of primitive artificial intelligence scheme. 'Pools of Phase Locked Loops' was one of four pieces made in response to commissions to the artists of the Sonic Arts Union (Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma and me.) The recording is from a live performance at Radio Bremen in May 1972."

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