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Artist:	GOLDSTEIN, MALCOLM
Title:	Live At Fire In The Valley
Label:	EREMITE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	MTE 016CD

"A significant addition to the discography of this important &underdocumented avant-garde figure. 'A doyen of the American avant garde," (The Wire, May 1999) Goldstein co-founded the Tone Roads Ensemble in the early 1960s with James Tenney & Philip Corner, & went on to establish an aggressively individual voice as a violinist & composer. Later his reputation as one of the new music's great instrumentalists & solo performers prompted John Cage, Ornette Coleman, & Christian Wolff, among others, to compose for him. Goldstein has lived quietly for many years in Vermont's Northern Kingdom, & is too seldom heard from. This beautiful solo set from the 1997 Fire In the Valley festival is a fairly stupefying demonstration of his unique genius."

Artist:	GOLDSTEIN, MALCOLM
Title:	A Sounding of Sources
Label:	NEW WORLD RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NW 80676CD

Malcolm Goldstein (solo violin); Radu Malfatti (trombone); Philippe Micol (bass clarinet); Philippe Racine (flute); Beat Schneider (violoncello). "As a composer/violinist/improviser, Malcolm Goldstein (b. 1936) has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s in New York City as a co-founder with James Tenney and Philip Corner of the Tone Roads Ensemble and as a participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde, and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. His 'Soundings' improvisations have received international acclaim for having 'reinvented violin playing,' extending the range of tonal/sound-texture possibilities of the instrument and revealing new dimensions of expressivity. Since the mid-1960s, he has integrated structured improvisation aspects into his compositions, exploring the rich sound-textures of new performance techniques within a variety of instrumental and vocal frameworks. Goldstein has been labeled an 'improviser' and a 'composer-violinist' (or merely a violinist). What this CD once and for all shows is that he is indeed those things, but encompassing them all is the fact that, profoundly, he is a composer. As he points out, 'at the core of baroque music was the integration of composition and improvisation,' and Goldstein brings the perspective and focus of a seasoned performer to this undertaking. In this way, his music represents a further evolution of that compositional-improvisational dialog begun in the early 1950s in the aleatoric, 'chance' pieces of composers like John Cage, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and Morton Feldman." "Configurations in Darkness" (1995) (solo violin); "Configurations in Darkness" (1995) (chamber ensemble) [Swiss Radio DRS]; "Ishi/timechangingspaces" (1988) (acoustic art/radio work) [WDR Köln, broadcast in 1988]; "Ishi/'man waxati' Soundings" (1988) (solo violin, voice).

Artist:	GOLDSTEIN, MALCOLM
Title:	The Seasons: Vermont
Label:	XI
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	XI 120CD

"Two pieces recently converted to digital, one a group setting from 1983, the other a solo from 1997. This recording of 'The Seasons: Vermont', which had previously existed in excerpt form on a Folkways LP, features the veritable OO/XI/What Next? dream-syndicate of Robert Black (bass), Mark Steven Brooks (wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion), Joseph Celli (oboe (extended, perhaps?), English horn, ocarina), Malcolm Goldstein (violin), Tom Guralnick (tenor, soprano & bass saxophones, vaccuphones), Brian Johnson (vibraphone, percussion), and Kenneth Karpowicz (intensified vocalizing, accordion). Said grouping waltzes through all four quarters in a Vermont hour, emoting on freely occurring sonics/timbres/genres in said state and plagiarizing nature in general... The other piece, 'Soundings for solo violin; is all scrape/pluck/drag; a call back to the composer's work with Fluxus villains like Philip Corner and meta-musicians such as James Tenney. Fine sounds all around." --Hrvatski

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