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Artist:	THIGPEN, BENJAMIN
Title:	Human For Scale
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 052CD

2004 release. "This multifaceted CD of Benjamin Thigpen's music is an essay in a great diversity of sensitive sound. But in its evocations, the music is also about more than sound. For Thigpen, music is a medium that speaks about ideas, thoughts, activities, scenes, images, conflicts. His music emerges from his thoughts on time and his feelings for poetry. 'step, under' (1998), for example, 'is an exploration of the polyphony and heterophony of time.' Of 'not even the rain' (2000), he writes: 'What it's about. The vast energy concealed within any object, the infinite mystery beyond every surface. Glimpsing the beyond ...'."

Artist:	THIGPEN, BENJAMIN
Title:	Divide By Zero
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SR 317CD

This is #7 in Sub Rosa's Framework series -- an extension of their Concrete Electronics Noise series. Benjamin Thigpen, nomad, born in the United States, immigrated to Paris at the age of 31. He studied music, literature, philosophy and aesthetics. He now composes in European studios such as GRM, EMS, Visby and STEIM, as well as in his bedroom and on the train. After six years as a teacher at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique), he currently teaches computer music in Italy, Belgium and occasionally Sweden, while also working as a freelance musical programmer and consultant. He makes music for loudspeakers: electroacoustic works, live computer performance and interactive music for instrument(s) and computer. His music is concerned with energy, density, complexity, movement, multiplicity and violence, and often incorporates space as a primary compositional parameter. He thinks that music does not exist in time but rather creates it, and considers that music is not the art of sound but the art of the transcendence of sound. This release includes music from 2003-2007. Limited to 500 copies.

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