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Artist:	SHEA, DAVID
Title:	Tryptich
Label:	QUATERMASS (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	QS 112CD

"David Shea released several masterpieces for Sub Rosa within a few years. I, The Prisoner, Tower of Mirrors, Satyricon, Eastern Western Collected Works which gave an idea of what this unique 'samplermaster' is capable of. Through his work one might find at the same time ability and fascination for audio-collage, contemporary music, easy-listening, jazz, soundtrack, traditional music and so much more. This new album is the first to be released on Sub Rosa's twin label Quatermass. These three new pieces are taken from the performances of recent solo work developed since the creation of the first solo CD I. The pieces were composed and performed on the sampler as solo live performances, which has been the focus of work made in 2000. Triptych's focus is on scored material for live musicians recorded, composed and performed on the sampler with combinations of electronic and collage sources in the form of a sampled large ensemble. The works as a whole represents a shift towards an exploration of an orchestration between live instruments, sampled live musicians, collaged recordings and sampler playing techniques in the form of solo composition and performance."

Artist:	SHEA, DAVID
Title:	The Book of Scenes
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 224CD

New York to Australia expat/turntablist/sampler wizard/composer David Shea returns to Sub Rosa with his seventh release for the label, Book of Scenes. Throughout his career, David Shea has collaborated on projects with the likes of such experimental/new music luminaries as John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins, Jim Pugliese, Ikue Mori and Anthony Coleman. Through his work one might find equally steady fascinations for audio-collage, contemporary music, easy-listening, jazz, soundtrack, traditional music, and classical music, used in complex amalgamations of genres and cultural references. He employs compositional methods from contemporary classical composers and early electronic experimentalists such as Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Gyorgi Ligeti, Morton Feldman, as well as many film composers such as Bernard Herrmann and Henry Mancini. This new release consists of specific atmospheric tracks; a kind of open book, an open music film... a true composed work of high-level classical sampler music! The Book of Scenes is a collection of pieces for viola and piano. Each piece is a single scene, scored on a single page, placing the players and the instruments in different situations and relationships to each other. Incorporated within this framework, the players experiment with sampled recordings of themselves as well as the electronic environment they perform in. The work can be played in any order and the sequence is chosen beforehand by the players. The scenes explore solo and duo playing, with musical roles placed inside of shifting contexts, many related to visual references, films and iconic memories. This record presents Book I -- the first 29 pieces performed live with some scenes constructed electronically from samples and memories of other scenes. Many of the sections are visual in nature, for example -- the alto player bows his instrument while the pianist places his hands on the viola neck and chooses the notes to be played, followed by the alto player placing his hands inside the piano to mute the pianist's notes as well as a scene where the players are blindfolded. These scenes have been replaced by electronic manipulations of the live performance. The result is a flow of relationships and scored or scripted scenes living between the orchestration of the acoustic instruments and the electronic characters they engage with.

Artist:	SHEA, DAVID
Title:	Hsi-Yu Chi
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 7005

Shea's 3rd release, following the excellent Shock Corridor CD on Avant, and the Prisoner (Sub Rosa). This one is based on the 1592 novel, and dedicated to "the Hong Kong film directors who use both technological, commercial, western, and traditional Chinese sources to create new work... Each musical territory is created with samples, live playing, traditional tunes, scored and improvised material... the travels cross internal and external space through religious devotion to B film exploitation." Shea uses a sampler, piano, turntables, CDs; with Zorn (as), Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Jim Pugliese, etc.

Artist:	SHEA, DAVID
Title:	Classical Works
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 7041

"Two adventurous pieces of classical chamber music by one of today's busiest musical manipulators. The atmospheric Chamber Symphony #1 juxtaposes live and sampled instrumental sonorities in a complex world of modern polyphony with turntable/sampler wizard David Shea playing along with members of the Ictus Ensemble. 'The Voice Suite' features the brilliant cellist Erik Friedlander and long-tim Shea collaborator Jim Pugliese interacting with Shea's twisted sampler magic."

Artist:	SHEA, DAVID
Title:	Classical Works II
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 7079

"In the 1990s David Shea was a regular on the downtown scene working with Anthony Coleman, John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Shelly Hirsch and many others. Since 1998 he has been living and working in Brussels collaborating with some of Belgium's finest classical musicians, and performing his exciting solo concerts. Classical Works II, his third release on Tzadik, is the definitive document of Shea's new musical direction, bold integrating sampling technology into the classical concert music tradition. The compositions here range from interactive duets for soloist and sampler to a major new piece for chamber symphony. New music from a continually fascinating musical manipulator."

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