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Artist:	PANHUYSEN, PAUL
Title:	Mexican Jumping Beans
Label:	HET APOLLOHUIS (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	APOLLO 16

Four pieces recorded with Mexican Jumping Beans by Paul Panhuysen. "Before leaving Mexico City I bought 200 jumping beans and immediately after our return to Eindhoven I started to experiment with them. In the past I've worked often with animals, with birds, crickets and goats. I also use sensors, timers, solenoids, motors, galvano-meters, solar cells and oscillators to produce sounds. In my music I introduce both creatures and gadgets as independent and sometimes unpredictable musicians and fellow employees. I like to be surprised by the results of my productions, by the animals' behavior. The input of such rather autonomous elements helps to reveal the qualities of universal laws and conditions that define order, structure, chance and expression in a living and changing world. It is curiosity which makes my work come into being. Jumping beans are magical living creatures. I worked with them for a couple of weeks, tried out various recording modes and different effects. The final selection on this CD is rather straightforward. There are four different pieces. For each recording I put 16 jumping beans in 8 containers. Clothes-pins glued on piezo discs were used as contact mikes on each of the containers, which were placed on a sheet of soft foam plastic. The beans were activated by a halogen lamp over the table." -- Paul Panhuysen.

Artist:	PANHUYSEN, PAUL
Title:	A magic square of 5 to look at and A magic square of 5 to...
Label:	PLINKITY PLONK (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PLONK 015CD

...listen to'. "This work is a composition in two parts. The same magic square is transposed in two versions. One can be experienced by the eyes, the other one by the ears. A magic square is a series of numbers arranged in a square grid so that the sum of each horizontal and vertical row and of the corner diagonals is always the same. Magic squares reveal harmony of number and refer to the nature of existence and a cosmic order dominated by mathematical regularity. Number is the origin of all things, Pythagoras said, and Boethius said music is numbers made audible. Presented as a room installation, 'A magic square of 5 to look at' is a floorpiece of 5 x 5 m, and 'A magic square of 5 to listen to' can be heard through a quadraphonic sound system, performing the four staffs of the score independently, starting about 5 seconds after each other. The audience moves around the floorpiece in the space. Panhuysen (1934) is an internationally recognised artist. Best known for his site-specific long string installations all over the world, he also is involved in systematic visual art. Calculus links his visual and sound art together. Furthermore he has been the artistic director of Het Apollohuis for about 2 decades."

Artist:	PANHUYSEN, PAUL
Title:	Partitas For Long Strings
Label:	XI
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	XI 122CD

"CD documentation of Panhuysen's steel-wire sound installations & their subsequent agitation-related overtones, 3 separate instances ('Partita for 16 long strings of equal length,' 'Partita for 16 long strings of equally diminishing length,' and 'Partita for 16 long strings proportionally tuned') recorded in 1997 @ Het Apollohuis. Each new Panhuysen/Apollo set is always met with much consternation/euphoria/varying points between from those 'in-the-know', little expressed variance here. 'Size and volume are directly related to the range of pitches that comes through. The materials used have a strong influence on the overall sound. Styrofoam does the job very well. I had similar experiences with a sheet of lead, slate and balloons, which all sounded surprisingly good. Aluminum produces a resonance that I can only describe as idiosyncratic. It had a complex timbre that is entirely its own, with many peaks at separate frequencies. Birds love it.' -- Panhuysen. Aye, and indeed they should." --Hrvatski

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