Browse by Label: LOVELY MUSIC

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	Private Parts (The Record)
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1001

1990 CD issue of a 1977 recording, which was the first Lovely Music release. A softly pedaling mood enhancer of exotically weird proportions, this suffers quite a bit from mis-appreciation in today's harsh reality scenario. Ashley's words hover just above your lips like a glowing lung, and it's easy to understand why all of Kyle Gann's friends in the 70s were going around reciting phrases memorized from this album, as they emanate connectively to some false dream society like little else in the world of 70s contemporary art. Not for everyone, I suppose, but the properly channelled will melt right into the couch. "Eventually he recognizes what he's created as the first and last episodes of his opera for television, Perfect Lives, the middle opera of a monumental trilogy tracing the history of the movement of consciousness across America (east to west). This original recording with Ashley's voice, accompanied by 'Blue' Gene Tyranny on keyboards, and 'Kris' on tablas, remains a classic. It is a masterpiece in its simplicity of form and in the purity and intensity of its effect on the listener...Everything in Ashley's creation makes metabolic connections; there's a transpersonal, time-exempt freedom in it; 'the feeling of the idea of silk scarves in the air.' In other words, the effect of his engaging, lyrical expression is that the mind opens. Only a masterpiece does that." -- Melody Sumner.

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	Automatic Writing
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1002

A 1996 CD compiling three early Ashley works from the years 1967-79 -- some of his most experimental and out-there works. A classic electronic music collection and an ideal intro into the somewhat foreboding oeuvre of Robert Ashley's recorded works. The title piece is a 46-minute classic from 1979, which rather famously formed the basis for Nurse With Wound's A Missing Sense. Steven Stapleton's commentary upon this summarizes the intense vibe of this recording: "A Missing Sense was originally conceived as a private tape to accompany my taking of LSD. When in that particular state, Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing was the only music I could actually experience without feeling claustrophobic and paranoid. We played it endlessly; it seemed to become part of the room, perfectly blending with the late night city ambience and the 'breathing' of the building." The piece features the voices of Ashley and Mimi Johnson, with electronics and Polymoog backing, with a switching circuit designed and built by Paul DeMarinis. A fascinating and mysterious work focused on "involuntary speech". The second piece on this CD is "Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon" from 1968. It features the voice of Cynthia Liddell, backed by singers, bells and crackle. Originally issued on the Mainstream label, as an excerpt for a theatre work for amplified voices and tape. The final piece, "She Was a Visitor" is from 1967, originally issued on the infamous electronic compilation Extended Voices (CBS Odyssey), featuring experimental vocals works. Performed by the The Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, directed by Alvin Lucier.

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	Yellow Man With Heart With Wings
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1003

1990 CD issue of this 1978 piece for voice and electronics. The electronics (with additional Clavinet by "Blue" Gene Tyranny) start out shimmering and subtle, slowing building up in strange, menacing fashion. The first part is in Spanish (with Guillermo Grenier providing the voice); the second part is "in English" (heavily processed vocals by Ashley) and quite radical -- easy to imagine this one sitting very high in a United Dairies-like universe.

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	eL/Aficionado
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1004

1994 release, with 48 page libretto. Featuring Thomas Buckner as The Agent and Sam Ashley, Jacqueline Humbert & Robert Ashley as his interrogators. Orchestration by Robert Ashley. Engineering and mixing by Tom Hamilton. "This is the fourth opera in Ashley's Now Eleanor's Idea tetralogy: Junior, Jr.'s story. A group of scenes from the life of an Agent. The scenes are a kind of debriefing to a jury of Interrogators, in which the Interrogators challenge the Agent in various forms of musical dialogue. The mood of the opera owes much to our fascination with espionage and with the character of those people who lead double lives."

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	Dust
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1006

"Dust features the voices of Robert Ashley, Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Tom Hamilton, Jacqueline Humbert, and Joan La Barbara. 'Blue' Gene Tyranny and Tom Hamilton provide synthesizer and live mixing. The electronic orchestration is by Robert Ashley, Tom Hamilton and 'Blue' Gene Tyranny, with sound effects for 'Friends' composed by Tom Hamilton. This recording was made live at the Kitchen in April of 1999. Modeled upon the medieval form of a motet, Dust layers the voices of five characters, drawing upon the 'street-talk' practice of speaking and hearing at the same time. Introducing new techniques in vocal and orchestral styles, and featuring video projections by Yukihiro Yoshihara, Dust conjures up a Futurist fusion of dream and reality to deal with questions of memory and irretrievable loss. Through a series of related works over the past two decades, Robert Ashley has connected opera with stream-of-consciousness poetry, with advanced forms of narrative and with new ideas about the nature of operatic ensemble. A major figure in American experimental music theater, the depth of Ashley's librettos reveals a highly developed literary mind as well as that of a first rate composer."

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	Celestial Excursions
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1007

"After the ground-breaking work, Dust, godfather of experimental opera Robert Ashley returns with Celestial Excursions. Ashley's latest endeavor explores remarkably uncharted territory -- the kind of language that is common among 'old' people who talk all the time or not at all, to anyone passing by or to themselves. Celestial Excursions delves into the wild intermingling of reminiscence, regret, love, nightmare, old sayings, and songs on the radio -- all seemingly to no purpose, except for the operatic end of relentless speed and precision in ensemble singing and the possible stage magic inherent in illusion, hallucination, and a physically changed state of the senses. The opera's originality lies in a use of a new vocal technique Ashley has built over the last 20 years, which enables several stories to be heard at the same time. In an intricate vocal system, a principal voice is 'chased' by other voices whose parts rotate in sequence in a given order. The result of this technique creates a complex jungle of voices, delivered with an extraordinary rhythmic intensity rarely heard in ensemble singing. As for all of Ashley's latest works, the orchestra music of Celestial Excursions was composed in the computer-synthesizer studio. All the voices and the orchestra (on multi-track tape or on disc) are processed again during the concert in order to match the sound of the opera to the performance space. And for this CD release, Ashley went back to the studio with live recordings to rework the piece, extending the orchestra in the final act. 2-CD jewel box and 104-page libretto in slipcase."

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	Foreign Experiences
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1008

"Robert Ashley's Now Eleanor's Idea is a quartet of short operas based on the notion of a sequence of events seen from four different points of view. At the same time, each opera is an allegory, like Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, for an individual's self-realization within the context of a major religion found in the United States. Improvement takes its imagery and plot from Judaism, Foreign Experiences from Pentecostal Evangelism, eL/Aficionado from Corporate Mysticism, and Now Eleanor's Idea from (Spanish) Catholicism. The inspiration for these works came specifically from four sources: the work of the historian, Frances A. Yates (1900-1983), whose specialty of interests included the influence of Kabbalistic mysticism on the birth of modernism and scientific philosophy in Italy in the 16th century (as a result of the expulsion of Jews from Spain during the Inquisition); the writings of Carlos Castaneda (and the arguments about him as a writer and about the intentions of his work); Low Rider Magazine, the fan-cult magazine of the Low Rider movement in the Southwestern United States; and finally, corporate vocabulary, what it sounds like and how it is used in popular publications, like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or Fortune Magazine. Slipcase contains one CD in jewel box with 96-page libretto booklet."

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	Now Eleanor's Idea
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1009

"At long last, the complete Now Eleanor's Idea quartet of operas is available on CD with the release of the final opera in the quartet, also called Now Eleanor's Idea. This release includes a booklet with the libretto and several pages of fantastic color photographs from Chimayo, NM, the town that helped inspire the story (well, that and Low Rider magazine). 'Opera likes to simplify and enlarge its characters to make them fit grand themes. Mr. Ashley goes in the opposite direction and arrives at the cosmos just as easily. Mundane chitchat about good eating habits or car repair turns to metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, not to mention psychiatry, before we know it.' --Bernard Holland, The New York Times. Robert Ashley's Now Eleanor's Idea is a quartet of short operas based on the notion of a sequence of events seen from four different points of view. At the same time, each opera is an allegory, like Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, for an individual's self-realization within the context of a major religion found in the United States. Improvement takes its imagery and plot from Judaism, 'Foreign Experiences' from Pentecostal Evangelism, 'eL/Aficionado' from Corporate Mysticism, and 'Now Eleanor's Idea' from (Spanish) Catholicism. While working at The Bank, the title character, Now Eleanor, has a sort of 'religious experience' that fills her with an 'approach of the end of the world feeling.' This feeling compels her to leave her job in the Midwest, move to New Mexico, and become a newscaster to try to discover the point where the religions of America -- Judaism, Protestantism, Business and Catholicism merge. But there is more in store for her than she realizes."

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	Concrete
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1010

This 2CD set comes packaged with a 96-page booklet. "Premiered in January 2007 at the legendary La Mama Theater, Concrete is Robert Ashley's newest masterpiece. Though it is not made explicit in any way, the libretto concerns itself with the 'musings' of an old man alone. He thinks about strange questions and even as the questions are asked, they are answered in various forms of sarcasm, indifference, questions about the questions and explanations. In other words, he is talking to himself. The opera takes the form of five 'discussions' about matters he wonders about: why do people keep secrets about themselves? Why do the buildings in the city all line up perfectly (vertically) when the surface of the planet is round? Why is it that so many things that people do as recreation are played counter-clockwise? What has happened to the many women friends ('lovers') he has had and 'left behind' and why were they left behind? And, finally, he ponders the incident in which he recently saw a 'flying carpet' in his bedroom. The five 'internal' discussions alternate with four reminiscences about people the old man has worked with and loved. The reminiscences are short and detailed biographies of seemingly ordinary people who in the past did extraordinary things -- sometimes criminal, sometimes just brave in an unusual way -- but will never be recognized for what they did. The stories will never be known, except to the audience. No one is named. These are secret lives. The musical technique of the opera allows the singers, in ensemble and as soloists, complete freedom with regard to vocal pitch, speech nuance and inflection. The orchestra, recorded on the computer, is made up of some hundreds of composed, short orchestral 'samples' which can be chosen at the moment to make up the accompaniment to the singers' decisions about how to tell the story." Music & libretto, orchestra samples, design and live mixing by Robert Ashley. Voices: Joan La Barbara, Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert. Voices and orchestra live mixing and processing: Tom Hamilton.

Artist:	LUCIER, ALVIN
Title:	Music On A Long Thin Wire
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1011

Alvin Lucier is one of American's quintessential minimalist innovators, composing & performing extreme music for pure tones, brains waves, the ""generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media," etc. Music On A Long Thin Wire is one of his all-time classic works of hovering tones & sonic phenomena, recorded in 1979. "A 50-foot length of taut wire passes through the poles of a large magnet and is driven by an oscillator; the vibrations of the wire are miked at either end, amplified and broadcast in stereo. The thin wire is set vibrating four times at four different frequencies; what results is not the low drone one might expect from a long, vibrating wire, but a complexity of evocative, ethereal chords. First released on Lovely Music in 1980, Music on a Long Thin Wire is a classic example of Alvin Lucier's investigations into the physics of sound and the sonic properties of natural processes."

Artist:	LUCIER, ALVIN
Title:	Panorama
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1012

Consists of 1990-94 recordings, released in '97. "A gorgeous recording of works for trombone and piano, transformed by Lucier's electronics and oscillators. 'Wind Shadows' (1994), 'Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums' (1990), and 'Panorama' (1993) -- were written for the Swiss musicians Roland Dahinden and Hildegard Kleeb, who play them on this CD. Also included: 'Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels' (1990), which was originally written for Margaret Leng Tan."

Artist:	LUCIER, ALVIN
Title:	I Am Sitting In A Room
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1013

One of Lucier's most classic works and a cornerstone in the world of resonant frequencies. Performed by Lucier on recorded voice, tape machines, delay. "In this fascinating exploration of acoustical phenomena, Alvin Lucier slips from the domain of language to that of music in the course of 40 minutes and 32 repetitions of a simple paragraph of text. In I am sitting in a room, several sentences of recorded speech are simultaneously played back into a room and re-recorded there many times. As the repetitive process continues, those sounds common to the original spoken statement and those implied by the structural dimensions of the room are reinforced. The others are gradually eliminated. The space acts as a filter; the speech is transformed into pure sound. All the recorded segments are spliced together in the order in which they were made and constitute the work. I am sitting in a room was composed in 1970; This recording was made by Alvin Lucier on October 29th and 31st, 1980, in the living room of his home in Middletown, CT."

Artist:	LUCIER, ALVIN
Title:	Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1015

Double CD release of of a four-part work, initiated in 1972 and recorded as presented here in 1983/4 and 2001. This reissues 2 long o/p LPs on Lovely, with 4 added parts released for the first time. A series of mostly solo instrument works for the likes of: clarinet, marimba, viola, voice, xylophone, violin, flute, glockenspiel, cello, horn, vibraphone. Performed by: Thomas Ridenour, William Winant, Dan Panner, Rebecca Armstrong, Conrad Harris, Susan Palma, Gregory Hesslink, James de Corsey. An absolute masterpiece of "interference sound".

Artist:	LUCIER, ALVIN
Title:	Crossings
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1018

"1990 CD reissue of prime-era Lucier product, with works from 1982-85. Features 'In Memoriam Jon Higgins (for clarinet in A and slow-sweep pure wave oscillator)', 'Septet for Three Winds, Four Strings and Pure Wave Oscillator', and 'Crossings (for small orchestra with slow-sweep pure wave oscillator)'. Said slow-sweep pure wave oscillator produces slowly swept pure waves that oscillate (on separate occasions) a clarinet, three winds and four strings, and a small orchestra. Maximum beat frequency heterodyning, often at an audible pitch. Similar acoustic phenomena as Tony Conrad/Penderecki string work and just as aurally stimulating (for those with lazy ear-ciliae)." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	LUCIER, ALVIN
Title:	Clocker
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1019

Another classic Lucier catalog item, a 45-minute recording made in 1991 of this piece that he first conceived in 1978. The piece is for: amplified clock, performer with galvanic skin response sensor and digital delay system. The sounds that emanate are beautifully shifting patterns of tock-collage that reveal dramatic sonic detailings. "I wanted to make a work in which a performer could speed up and slow down time, stopping it, if possible, simply by thinking. I bought a Westclox Silver Bell Monogram in a local store and ordered a galvanic skin response sensor through the Edmund Scientific Catalogue. A GSR is designed to measure differences in skin resistance caused by changes in emotional state. A small current is sent through the body, the response to which is amplified, producing an output voltage which can be used to control various devices...later I added a bank of fixed delays which, as they splay out from the voltage controlled delay, create multiple reflections that almost convince the listener that the room is changing size."

Artist:	HASSELL, JON
Title:	Vernal Equinox
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1021

"Early experiments (76-77) in fourth-world algorithms from this oft-overlooked composer. Features the dynamic/tasteful instrumental stylings of Nana Vasconcelos, David Rosenboom (recent Braxton collaborator), William Winant, Nicholas Kilbourn, and someone/thing monikered to the known universe as 'Drone'. Mostly light island rhythms augmented by Hassel's alien effector-trumpet. Recalls the peaceful slumber of Miles's In a Silent Way in spots. Don't forget the most important credit; "256hz pitch standard: Motorola Scalatron" (Wouldn't want to run into THAT in a dark alley...)." --Hrvatski.

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:	MONK, MEREDITH
Title:	Key
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1051

This album contains Meredith Monk's earliest compositions for voice. The songs that make up Key were composed and performed in a 3-year period between 1967 and 1970, when Monk collected them into this 45-minute "invisible theater" experience. Monk (travelling voice, electric organ, jews harp), Daniel Ira Sverdlik & Dick Higgins (companion voices), Collin Walcott (companion voice & mrdingam), Lanny Harrision and Mark Berger (vision monologues). "In 'Key" I wanted to create a constantly shifting ambience. Each song dealt with a different vocal character, landscape, technical concern or emotional quality. I was trying for a visceral, kinetic song form that had the abstract qualities of a painting or a dance. I knew that I didn't want to set music to a text; for me, the voice itself was a language which seemed to speak more eloquently than words. I chose certain phonemes for their particular sound qualities. In a sense, each song became a world in itself with its own timbre, texture and impulse." -- Meredith Monk.

Artist:	TYRANNY, "BLUE" GENE
Title:	Country Boy Country Dog
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1065

Originally released in 1994. "'Blue' Gene Tyranny, acoustic & electronic keyboards, field & studio recording, electronic transforms; Timothy Buckley, accordion in The CBCD Intro; the Arch Ensemble for Experimental Music, Robert Hughes, conductor. A realization of Tyranny's How to Discover Music In the Sounds of Your Daily Life, a procedural score for recording and composing with environmental sounds. Eclectic, flowing music alternately gesturing toward impressionism and minimalism."

Artist:	TYRANNY, "BLUE" GENE
Title:	Take Your Time
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1066

A CD of works for solo piano. "Thirty-five of the 36 songs in this 'audio storyboard' are individually built around an atmospheric primary chord, counter-rhythms, and a body of notes which creates a potential melody that unfolds bit by bit. 'The Driver's Son' is scored for a narrator, a chorus of 5 people creating 15 voices, an electronically modified orchestra of folk and concert instruments and parts for a lighting designer and a live video animator known as The Guide. The realization for electro-magnetically stimulated piano (1993) heard here employs feedback circuit devices, designed by composer David Meschter, that initiate subtle sustaining tones when placed on the strings. The slowly appearing, ethereal sounds in this piece are 'artificial harmonics' that resonate high in the piano strings when one chord is silently depressed and another chord of the same form but a half-step lower is loudly struck and quickly released. 36 of these, interlaced with 36 'natural harmonics,' were recorded and then the initial loud attack was removed with computer editing. This procedure left a bed of subtle, non-corporeal sounds that seem to lie on the surface of the strings like a cloud, and allowed listeners to hear sounds that normally are only perceived by the pianist sitting a few feet away from the strings."

Artist:	JOHNSON, TOM
Title:	An Hour For Piano
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1081

"A trance music piece made up of repeating 4/4 cells in which an absolutely steady eighth-note motion predominates. Often several cells are going on simultaneously, and one cell frequently mutates into another through the addition or subtraction of a note or two. One has to step back far enough to get a perspective on the large-scale shifts in density and tonality before the impact of An Hour For Piano can be felt. Frederic Rzewski plays very percussively throughout, giving the piece an intense forward motion."

Artist:	MUMMA, GORDON
Title:	Studio Retrospect
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1093

A collection of six compositions made in electronic music studios from 1959 to 1984. All were composed for concert hall or theater performance with choreography, as well as for distribution on recordings. "Long-awaited CD collection of early electronic works from this Sonic Arts Union member (along with Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, and David Behrman) and co-founder (with Ashley) of the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music in Ann Arbor, MI (rumoured the first EMS in the US) as well as the ONCE festival(s, 66-74), not to mention his involvement with John Cage and David Tudor as one of the principal composers for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Oh yeah, and Mumma 'was among the first composers to employ circuitry of his own design in compositions and performance.' Features the pieces 'Retrospect' (1959, whose 'Densities' interlude beat B.Gunter et.al to the punch [line] by about 30 years), 'Music from the Venezia Space Theatre' (1964, as brilliant a headfuck as implied), 'The Dresden Interleaf 13 February 1945' (1965, after six minutes of near-silent ghost echoes, one thousand bees invade for exactly 25 seconds, then...), 'Echo-D' (1978, harpsichord and Buchla box sources are given 15 minutes in which to roam freely), 'Pontpoint' (1966-80), and 'Epifont' (1984). Mumma's been one of the more obscured blokes in possession of a misfiring neuro-transmitter set (his 'portable recording apparatus' and related getup puts the MD sham-antics of the Lucky Kitchen set to shame) and what with the 'electron-arhchaica' movement being graced with it's own Ellipsis Arts boxset (like they were all fucking Babenzele Pygmies) you'll surely find a local pen-pal with which to co-tirade on themes of his inherent era genius and contemporary shadow-likeness (as far as output is concerned, although 1987's video-performance of his 1974 piece 'Some voltage drop' wherein 'various parts of musical piece are played on musical saw in an empty amusement park; other part is electronic squeals emitted from accelerometers' would make Gord seem at bat w/old demons) over firelight and fine tawny port. Music, alive, perhaps crawling towards the sun." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	TUDOR, DAVID
Title:	Three Works For Live Electronics
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1601

David Tudor was an avant garde pianist (most closely associated with John Cage, also performing Feldman, Stockhausen, Wolff, etc), who became a crucial pioneer in the world of live electronic music in the 1960s, developing custom-built electronic devices. These 2 Lovely Music CDs are the only commonly available recordings of his electronic music. Three Works includes: "Pulsers" a work from 1976, exploring the world of rhythms created electronically by analog, rather than, digital, circuity. Incorporates a tape of electronic violin work by Takehisa Kosugi. "Untitled": "a series of works composed in the 1970s that were developed through experiments in generating electronic sound without the use of oscillators, tone generators, or recorded natural sound materials."

Artist:	TUDOR, DAVID
Title:	Neural Synthesis Nos. 6-9
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1602

"Performed by David Tudor; produced and recorded by David Tudor and John D.S. Adams. Binaural and stereo mixes on 2 CDs. This recording combines the art of music, the engineering of electronics, and the inspiration of biology. In it, David Tudor orchestrates electronic sound in ways analogous to our biological bodies' orchestration of consciousness. The performance originates from a neural-network synthesizer conceived and built especially for Tudor. He surrounds this synthesizer with his own unique collection of electronic devices, and in the recording on this CD made for headphone playback, he uses a new binaural technique for translating sound into out-of-head localizations in which sound seems to originate from specific, changing points within a space around the listener."

Artist:	REYNOLDS, ROGER
Title:	Voicespace I, III & IV
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1801

Originally released in1992. "Philip Larson & Carol Plantamura, voices; The Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble; Roger Reynolds, recording. Voices, language and space interested Roger Reynolds since The Emperor of Ice Cream was written for the ONCE Festivals in Ann Arbor in the 1960s. In the 1970s, at the Center for Music Experiment in La Jolla, he heard the daily rehearsals of the Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble and, in the evenings, read his daughter to sleep, trying to capture an individual and consistent vocal behavior for each character in the story. A demanding critic, she stimulated Reynolds' reflections on vocal identity. Electronics offered rather precise control over auditory space (a particular sound's size, location, distance, the character of the host space in which it was heard). Choosing spare but evocative texts (Borges, Melville, Stevens, Coleridge) Reynolds conjures up unfamiliar yet appropriate vocal behaviors with which to present them. The five works in the series thus far share a concern with the potential of auditory imaging: this is a subject still only tentatively broached. They attempt to create a personal theater through the mind's ear. Yet they are distinct. Three of them are presented on this CD: 'The Palace (Voicespace IV)', 'Eclipse (Voicespace III)', 'Still (Voicespace I).'"

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Crone Music
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1903

"Studio recordings from 1989-90, 'commissioned by Mamou Mines, the New York based experimental theater collective, for their production of Lear by William Shakespeare.' In use herein is a fairly complex series of pitch-modulated foot-controlled digital delay units which render Oliveros' solo accordion playing into a full accordion ensemble. This all results in SERIOUSLY dense overtone/ghost chord action, complete with microtones and countermelodies emulating something like a grand-pipe-organ jam session. Heavy. By far the most ear-triggering of all Oliveros's explorations with said instrument." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	RADIGUE, ELIANE
Title:	Songs of Milarepa
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 2001/2

Double CD of all 5 of Radigue's songs in tribute to the Tibetan saint and poet from the eleventh century. Two of the tracks date from an 1983 LP (Radigue's first release), 2 are previously unreleased and the final 62-minute track was previously issued as a sole CD in 1987. The material is performed by Radigue (synthesizer & recording), Robert Ashley (English voice) & Lama Kunga Rinpoche (Tibetan voice). Radigue was born in France and has studied under Pierre Shaeffer and Pierre Henry; her musical has an extremely organic and mystical electronics vibe, and has been previously documented on Phill Niblock's XI label, as well as Metamkine and Lovely.

Artist:	RADIGUE, ELIANE
Title:	Jetsun Mila
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 2003

Recorded by Eliane Radigue in 1986, it's beyond great to have mass access to this delicate and spiritually profound electronic work, spread out over 84 minutes. There are only a handful of available works from Eliane, despite the fact that she has been active for the last 4 decades, and each one is a major event. "Performed (Arp synthesizer) and recorded digitally by Eliane Radigue. Jetsun Mila is inspired by the life of Milarepa, a great yogi and poet of Tibet who lived in the 11th century. The story of his life as told to his closest disciple, Rechungpa, represents one of the most famous works within Tibetan culture. The Mila Kabum, or Namthar, has been translated into several Western languages, including English and French. Eliane Radigue's 84-minute musical evocation of Milarepa's life is in nine sections, with prelude, which correspond to major periods of the life of this famous yogi. The sections flow from one to the other without breaks, one giving birth naturally to the next." "Eliane Radigue works with electronic sounds on tape to create an ambience within which sound seems to move in a continual flow around the listener. Her music has been described as 'infinitely discreet...next to which all other music seems to be tugging at one's sleeve for attention." --Michel Chion,

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Music Of Changes
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 2053

Performed by Joseph Kubera, the first complete recording of this important solo piano work. "Music of Changes is a manifesto. It marks Cage's first comprehensive 'exploration of non-intention' through the systematic use of chance operations to create a complete, major work. Begun in May 1951, Music of Changes was named in honor of the I Ching, or Book of Changes, the ancient Chinese book of oracles that had become Cage's means of synthesizing chance with rigorous discipline. Cage's notation heralded a new concept of musical time, placing the performer in a new relation to the score, one in which orientation is the occurrence of events rather than to the relations between them, which is to say to action rather than to memory. Performances of Music of Changes have been rare since David Tudor ceased playing the work in the late 1950s; Herbert Henck and, more recently, Joseph Kubera are among the few pianists to have assayed the obstacles posed by its innovations. For all its prominence in the history of postwar music, Music of Changes has remained more discussed than heard, more treatise than artwork." --John Holzaepfel.

Artist:	KOSUGI, TAKEHISA
Title:	Violin Improvisations
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 2071

"1990 CD release of solo violin & electronics recorded in NYC in September of 1989. Kosugi is of course the main 'Taj Mahal Traveler' and key player in Fluxus related activities during the sixties. This is some of the most beautiful mathematical-relationship inspired solo performance grate/scrape out there, it's really hard to believe that all present glossed-out cavern/tank sonics are derived from a single violin & a digital delay unit. Just enough trace of certain 'Eastern' micro-tonalities & alien gesture to keep your ears dancing on end. Sublime." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	LOCKWOOD, ANNEA
Title:	A Sound Map of the Hudson River
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 2081

Originally released by Lovely Music in 1989; 2003 reissue. Annea Lockwood, recording, mixing; the Hudson River. "An aural journey from the source of the river, in the high peak area of the Adirondacks, downstream to the Lower Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; Lockwood traces the course of the Hudson through on-site recordings of its flow at 15 separate locations. Annea Lockwood has recorded rivers in many countries to explore the special state of mind and body which the sounds of moving water create when one listens intently to the complex mesh of rhythms and pitches. The listener will find that each stretch of the Hudson has its own sonic texture, formed by the terrain, varying according to the weather, the season and downstream, the human environment whose sounds are intimately woven into the river's sounds. 71 minutes 33 seconds."

Artist:	LOCKWOOD, ANNEA
Title:	A Sound Map of the Danube
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	3CD
Price:	$34.00
Catalog #:	LCD 2083

"Annea Lockwood has been recording rivers since 1970, 'not to document them, but rather for the special state of mind and body which the sounds of moving water create when one listens intently to the complex mesh of rhythms and pitches.' Lovely Music, Ltd. released Annea's seminal work A Sound Map of the Hudson River in 1989. Nineteen years later, we are proud to present A Sound Map of the Danube, her largest river recording project to date. Recorded over three years and five trips to Europe, A Sound Map of the Danube traces the second longest European river's run from the Black Forest in Germany to its delta into the Black Sea. The recordings comprise sounds from the banks, from above and below the water, animals, insects, and interviews with people who live by the great river. The three disc set also includes a fold-out map with album notes and interview translations on the reverse side."

Artist:	LA BARBARA, JOAN
Title:	Sound Paintings
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3001

Originally released in 1990 by Lovely Music. "Joan La Barbara, voice. Joan La Barbara begins Sound Paintings with a scream that pushes you into an unusual world of vocal sound. Her virtuoso singing style, developed over a 20-year period, can be heard on this disc, which combines some of her earlier works with more recent compositions. She takes her extended techniques, which include multiphonics, overtone singing, and glottal clicks, and orchestrates them in layered soundscape compositions using from 8 to 16 tracks of material."

Artist:	LA BARBARA/KENNETH GOLDSMITH, JOAN
Title:	73 Poems
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3002

Originally released in 1994. "Joan La Barbara, voice; Joan La Barbara, Michael Hoenig and Bradford Ellis, sound design. Joan La Barbara's composition, 73 Poems, was commissioned, produced and recorded by Permanent Press (Brooklyn, NY) to accompany the publication of Kenneth Goldsmith's 73 Poems as a book and as a suite of lithographs. La Barbara's works often involve multiple layers of her own voice, creating a kind of sonic canvas on which she throws splashes of vocal colors. On this CD, her potent combination of vocal and studio expertise makes it possible for her to represent in music some of the most distinctive features of Goldsmith's visual texts."

Artist:	LA BARBARA, JOAN
Title:	Voice Is The Original Instrument - Early Works
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3003

Collection of early works & her first vocal compositions, originally released on LPs in the 1970s and early 1980s on her own Wizard Records. "One of my earliest pieces, 'Hear What I Feel', was a self-exploratory, sensory-deprivation experimental work, designed to help me discover new sounds, delve into psychological aspects, as well as communicate with the audience on a pre-verbal level of awareness. After spending an hour in isolation with my eyes taped shut and nor touching anything with my hands, I was led our into the performance space where my assistant had placed a variety of substances in six small glass dishes. As I touched the material, I tried to give an immediate vocal response to what I felt both emotionally and physically, without the benefit of visual information. I expected the shock of bringing a solitary state of mind into the heightened awareness of a performance situation to intensify my experience, and the poignancy of my 'prepared' state to affect the audience. The sounds are presented here in their raw state; it is truly an experimental work with no intentional musical implications or designs. 'Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation' explores the color spectrum of a single pitch. Circular Song was inspired by the circular breathing technique of horn players. 'Des Accords pour Teeny', an exploration of multi-phonic technique or choral singing, was dedicated to Teeny Duchamp. In much of my early work I dealt with sound as a physical presence, sculpting it, building up layers in complex constructions, letting the flow of thought and the visualization of sonic gestures direct my studio art. Voice Is the Original Instrument was both a statement of purpose and a manifesto as, through various experiments and explorations, I tried to rediscover the basic function of the voice as the first means of expression as well as to release untapped sonic material. As I gave my classically trained voice its freedom, letting it direct me toward new places and ideas, I developed what was a unique vocabulary and used those sounds to score an orchestra of layered voices."

Artist:	SVARD, LOIS
Title:	Other Places
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3052

Solo piano recordings of works by an usual trio of composers: Elodie Lauten, Jerry Hunt & Kyle Gann. Svard's style is soft, eloquent and pedal-extensive, resulting in a sublime, low-key recording. "Elodie Lauten's ' Variations on the Orange Cyle' is a richly-textured combination of transcribed improvisation and intentional notation that creates lush, every-changing tapestries of sound. Jerry Hunt's 'Trapani (stream)' is a contemplative work exploring different facets of sound through a progression of tremolo chords played with a variety of voicings, dynamics and pedalings. Kyle Gann's 'Desert Sonata' is based on his unique rhythmic language developed from the multi-tempo structures of Conlon Nancarrow and the dances of the Hopi, Zuni and other Pueblo Indians."

Artist:	DOWNTOWN ENSEMBLE
Title:	Downtown Only
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3081

"The DownTown Ensemble was formed in 1983 by co-directors, Daniel Goode and William Hellermann. The Ensemble has several points of focus: music for open (unspecified) instrumentation, emerging composers, commissions, graphic scores, ritual/intermedia music, and large ensemble works. While the Ensemble has a consistent core of players, performances always involve a variety of other artists. There have been over fifty such collaborations since the group's inception. This Lovely Music CD presents four of them!" Features works by: Goode, Hellerman, Mary Jane Leach and Peter Zummo.

Artist:	MANN AND THE USE, CHRIS
Title:
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3091

"Chris Mann is a composer working in Compositional Linguistics, his work is mainly to do with the technology and philosophy of speech. Performer (voice), since 1989 with Machine for Making Sense and most recently Chris Mann and the Impediments. This CD features: "or, yellow" (23:00), (performed by: Christine Bard, Anthony Coleman, Chris Mann, Christian Marclay, Mark Stewart, David Watson); "Virtuoso thinking for several invited words" (20:09), (Chris Mann); "Humility -- on eating your words" (22:11), (Chris Mann, Jim Pugliesi).

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	Atalanta (Acts of God)
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3301

Originally released in 1997. "Ashley makes use of the story of 'Atalanta' -- a royal princess, discarded by her family, who was raised by the animals to become the fastest-running human, and who was later reclaimed by her father to marry her off for dynastic purposes -- to present the character aspects of the 'successful suitor.' These three aspects of character are presented in the opera as anecdotes about three extraordinary men of our times: Max Ernst (surrealist painter), Willard Reynolds (shaman storyteller) and Bud Powell (composer pianist). The genius of these three men can be taken to represent three aspects of the opera itself: image, narrative and music. In the imaginary setting of Atalanta (Acts of God), one companion (singer) reminds her of her excellence (the 'Odalisque' arias); another recommends to her the characteristics of excellence in men (the 'Character Reference' arias); and a third amuses her with anecdotes, as if told to her by each of the three men (the 'Anecdotes'). Robert Ashley, solo voice; with Thomas Buckner, Carla Tato, Jacqueline Humbert, voices; 'Blue' Gene Tyranny, keyboards; Paul Shorr, mixing and electronics. Recorded live at the Teatro Olimpico in Rome. Sung in English and Italian."

Artist:	HUMBERT, JACQUELINE
Title:	Chanteuse
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 4001

"Chanteuse is a collection of new or previously unreleased songs, many of which were written for me by a broad range of contemporary American composers. My performance style resides somewhere between musical speech and melodic interpretation in a lyrical, poetic approach to the articulation of words, capitalizing on their inherent sound shapes, vernacular and colloquial origins, and intricate vocal rhythms. (Really!) I am fortunate to have such a wonderful variety of works to present in this collection, all of which extend, reinterpret, and re-conceive what we think of as belonging to the musical genre, song. (JH). Since the early 1970s, Humbert has collaborated as performer, visual artist, and designer with leading innovative artists, filmmakers, choreographers and composers worldwide. Her approach to vocal performance has influenced many composers, and the works in Chanteuse represent a new and exciting extension and reinterpretation of the 'song' genre." Composers: Sam Ashley, David Rosenboom, Joan La Barbara, George Manupelli, Jacqueline Humbert, James Tenney, Larry Polansky, Alvin Lucier, Gustavo Matamoros, Katrina Krimsky, Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom.

Artist:	ASHLEY & PAUL DE MARINIS, ROBERT
Title:	In Sara, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Men And Wo
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LCD 4921

New definitive CD reissue of this original Cramps label album from 1974, an early classic from Robert Ashley (previous CD version on Cramps is now deleted). This deluxe slipcased version features an 110 page book, reproducing the original Wolgamot text along with fascinating liner notes explaining the whole project from Keith Waldrop and Robert Ashley. The CD features one long composition with Ashley reading a text by poet John Barton Wolgamot. The poem has128 stanzas; each stanza is made up of the same phrase, into which are introduced four variables, three are names or groups of names or constructions of names, and the fourth variable is formed by the adverb of the active verb. The result is considered "one of the most unusual and difficult linguistic textures in the English language". The underlying music is supplied by Paul DeMarinas on Moog synthesizer. Ashley on De Marinas: "{Paul} has elaborated seven different modular combinations, each of which can be controlled by programmed impulses. These derive from the sound of the reading of the poem passed through the regeneration high frequency filter and successively translated into a series of command impulses."

Artist:	LUCIER, ALVIN
Title:	Theme
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 5011

New 1999 release previously unrecorded Lucier works from the mid-90s. Features: "Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings" (performed by Lois Svard, piano), "Theme" (Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert and Joan La Barbara, voices set to a poem by John Ashbery) and "Music For Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers" (performed by the Wesleyan University Gamelan Ensemble). "'Music For Piano...' is a work in which the strings of a piano sound by themselves. Several EBows (small electromagnets used primarily with electric guitars) are placed on the strings of the piano. The pianist works from a prose score which describes the process and suggests (s)he freely position and reposition five EBows on the piano strings, creating strands of sounds of varying density and texture. Much of the pianist's time is spent listening for harmonics, audible beating, occasional rhythms produced as one or more magnets vibrate against adjacent strings, and other acoustic phenomena. 'Theme' sets a poem of John Ashbery's to music. Lucier didn't want to violate the flow of the words of the poem by fragmentation or any other cut-up method. The stanzas seemed musical enough just as they were, and he wanted the audience to hear the poem more or less in its pristine state. So working intuitively and by ear, he wrote out the poem for four readers in the order it was written, repeating words and phrases, overlapping and superimposing them in various ways. To 'set' the poem, he inserted microphones into the mouths of various vessels, including a small milk bottle, a sea shell, a vase , and an empty ostrich egg, to pick up the words as they were sounding inside the vessels. The readers speak normally, allowing the pitches of their voices which match those resonances of the vessels to create musical sounds."

Artist:	LUCIER, ALVIN
Title:	Still Lives
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 5012

"Three new pieces for piano soloist with accompanying pure wave oscillation. Titles: 'Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators' (performed/composed for Marilyn Nonken), "On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon" (performed/composed for Ryuko Mizutani), and 'Still Lives' (performed/composed for Joseph Kubera). All pieces exhibit Lucier's unique take on performance-environment concepts. Quiet, melancholy, rather soothing. Gaining age with grace I suppose." -- Hrvatski

Artist:	ASHLEY, ROBERT
Title:	Perfect Lives
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	2DVD
Price:	$58.00
Catalog #:	LDVD 4917

Double DVD release! Ashley's classic "Opera For Television", from 1983. "Perfect Lives has been called 'the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s.' At its center is the hypnotic voice of Robert Ashley. His continuous song narrates the events of the story and describes a 1980's update of the mythology of small town America. Perfect Lives is populated with myriad characters revolving around two musicians -- 'R,' the singer of myth and legend, and his friend, Buddy, 'The World's Greatest Piano Player.' They have come to a small town in the Midwest to entertain at the Perfect Lives Lounge. As Robert Ashley describes in the opera synopsis, 'they fall in with two locals to commit the perfect crime, a metaphor for something philosophical: in this case, to remove a sizable about of money from The Bank for one day (and one day only) and let the whole world know that it was missing.' The eloping couple, Ed and Gwyn, the old people at the home, the sheriff and his wife (Will and Ida) who finally unravel the mystery, and Isolde who watches the celebration of the changing of the light at sundown from the doorway of her mother's house are some of the characters who journey through the seven episodes of the opera. Derived from a colloquial idiom, Perfect Lives transforms familiar material into an elaborate metaphor for the rebirth of the human soul. It has been called a comic opera about reincarnation." First time on DVD, digitally re-mastered. Deluxe digi-pak packaging. NTSC format, 175 minutes long.

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Artist:	DEMARINIS, PAUL
Title:	Music As A Second Language
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3011

Artist:	BUCKNER, THOMAS
Title:	Inner Journey
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3023

Artist:	TONE, YASUNAO
Title:	Musica Iconologos
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3041

Artist:	JENKINS, LEROY
Title:	Solo
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 3061