Browse by Label: MODE

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music
Label:	MODE
Format:	3CD
Price:	$46.00
Catalog #:	MODE 003/6CD

Originally released as a 4-LP set on Mode in 1986, finally reissued on CD for the first time. Featured compositions: "Atlas Eclipticalis' (1961, for chamber ensemble); "Winter Music" (1957, for 3 pianos); "Atlas Eclipitcalis" (1961, for orchestra); "Winter Music" (1957, for 20 pianos). "The long awaited reissue of Mode's second LP set, remastered with bonus tracks. Cage's relationship with the Cornish Institute in Seattle dates back to the 1930s, when he taught there and performed as accompanist for many dance pieces. Cornish was also the scene of several of his musical discoveries and innovations. Cage's celebrated return to the Cornish Institute in 1983 led to these recordings of his conducting 'Atlas Eclipticalis' performed simultaneously with 'Winter Music' -- a rare opportunity to hear Cage perform his own works. Two complete 80-minute long performances are presented here, captured live in concert. New 96khz/24-bit mastering made from the original analog tapes. The original liner notes by John Cage and the New Performance Group's Matthew Kocmieroski are supplemented with new essays on 'Atlas Eclipticalis' by Cage's long-time colleague and publisher Don Gillespie, and on 'Winter Music' by Stephen Drury."

Artist:	LACY/JOHN HEWARD, STEVE
Title:	Recessional (for Oliver Johnson) Montreal 20 June 2003
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 004CD

"This live concert is perhaps one of the last recordings from soprano saxophone legend Steve Lacy. Lacy and percussionist John Heward first met in Paris in 1975. Though they remained in regular contact through the years, they did not actually play together until this concert in Montreal on 20 June 2003. Two months later Lacy was diagnosed with cancer, and died in June 2004. Lacy suggested to Heward that he wanted to end this improvisation with the motif Recessional (for Oliver Johnson), as a tribute to Lacy's longtime drummer. The motif appears toward the end of this setlong piece, and lasts until its conclusion. With this release, Mode reactivates its Mode/Avant series, created to explore interesting recordings of music outside of the scope of Mode's basic new music repertoire."

Artist:	MCPHEE/JOHN HEWARD, JOE
Title:	Voices: 10 Improvisations
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 005CD

"Two people on two hot June afternoons. A studio, an experienced and appreciative engineer. A deep need to find music. Total improvisation on larger music that existed, exists and will exist as long as there are voices." - John Heward on recording Voices: 10 Improvisations, in June 2006. "Joe McPhee (pocket trumpet, alto sax). Since emerging on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late '60s and early '70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a conceptualist and theoretician. He has worked with musicians ranging from Peter Brötzmann to Pauline Oliveros. McPhee has recorded for numerous labels including Hat Hut, CjR, Cadence, CIMP Okkadisk, Music & Arts, and Victo. John Heward (drums, kalimba, percussion) is a Montreal-based drummer/painter/sculptor who has quietly become one of the world's leading percussionists working in the field of contemporary improvised music, new music, and avant jazz. He has played with music luminaries including David Prentice, Glenn Spearman, Malcolm Goldstein, Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Lisle Ellis. Paul Bley, Joe Giardullo, and many others, who have sought him out during their Canadian sojourns."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Complete String Quartets Volume 1
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 017CD

Mode is an interesting NY label, perhaps best known for their intention of releasing a recording of every John Cage piece ever composed! An almost complete listing of their CD catalog is listed here. Volume 3 in the Music of Cage series (first 2 volumes are o/p LPs only, awaiting CD reissue). First of 2 CDs containing Cage's string quartets, performed by the Arditti Quartet. Recorded live at Wesleyan, 1988 Beautiful cover art of an original etching by Cage; liner notes by Cage & Arditti. Cage's string quartet works can be dazzlingly abstract and well worth absorption.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Music For Merce Cunningham
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 024CD

2008 repress, featuring a 24-bit Hi-Definition remaster; originally released in 1991. Volume 4 in the Music of Cage series. The first audio document between Cage & Cunningham. It includes a 55-minute piece called "Five Stone Wind" performed by David Tudor (live electronics), Takehisa Kosugi (amplified violin, live electronics, bamboo flute) and Michael Pugliese (clay pots and tapes) as well as a 19-minute version of the classic "Cartridge Music" (same 3 performers, "using phonograph cartridges to play various objects, toys and furniture to create a cosmos of unusual sound" ). Essential.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Complete String Quartets Vol 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 027CD

Repressed, new 2003 24-bit remastering. Volume 5 in the Music of John Cage Series. 2nd volume of String Quartets, performed by the Arditti Quartet. Two pieces are played: "String Quartet in Four Parts" (1950) -- "A pivotal work in Cage's oeuvre, the quartet shows the composer's transition between the rhythmically complex percussion works before it and the extravagant chance works of the 1950s." "Four," from 1990, was composed specifically for Arditti and "opens a world of microtones, the 4 independent players forming constantly shifting textures and harmonies." Extensive liner notes by James Pritchett.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Roaratorio
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 028/29CD

Repressed. Volume 6 of the Music of Cage series. 1987 Performance of this legendary radio-play, featuring the Joyce-inspired text "Writing For the Second Time Through Finnegan's Wake" mixed over a live group of Irish Folk musicians. "Some merely listening to the radio at home wrote to the BBC to complain of a concert which sounded like crossed wavelengths with liberal helpings of static and feedback." Comes with a thick booklet of information and some of the most supremely disorienting music you could desire.

Artist:	WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Bread And Roses
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 043CD

Piano works (1976-1983), performed by Sally Pinkas. "Wolff came to prominence in the 1950s as an associate of John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and the other American experimentalists of that period, later working with Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski. His work has gone through many transformations, including minimalism, interdeterminancy, open form and works connected with political issues... Most of the works are recorded here for the first time, as one of the first all-Wolff recitals to be issued. First in a number of releases of Wolff's music to be presented by Mode."

Artist:	BERIO, LUCIANO
Title:	The Great Works For Voice
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 048CD

1995 release, 2006 remastered edition. A major reissue from Mode with an added world premiere. Added to this reissue is the first recording of 'Quattro Canzoni Poplari,' four arrangements of Italian folk songs which hark back to late medieval Sicilian and Genovese texts and tune. 24-bit remastered sound. First volume in Mode's series dedicated to Berio. Performed by Christine Schadeberge (soprano voice) and Musician's Accord, this consists of works written from '53 to '68, with Cathy Berberian in mind. "Folk Songs" is a suite of 11 songs for flute, clarinet, harp, viola, cello and perc. and was intended to undermine the expectations of the "avant-garde." This is still bound to throw off listeners expecting experimental vocal work, but the following 45 minutes of material is essential work for those interested in the genre. "Sequenza III" is for solo female voice, as a part of Berio's series for virtuosos. "Chamber Music" features sung poems by Joyce, accompanied by clarinet, cello & harp. "Circles" features e. e. cummings texts, accompanied by harp & percussion.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Piano Works 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 050CD

A new recording of "Sonatas And Interludes" for prepared piano, performed by Philippe Vandre. This is the first version to use a Steinway "O"-type baby grand piano (as Cage originally composed and designed the piece for). "Cage's masterwork is quite different -- a big piece with a quiet voice. The prepared piano operates entirely by muting: by attaching objects to the strings of the piano. Cage alters their sounds in various ways, turning the piano into a percussion orchestra akin to a gamelan. The results are different from note to note -- but always quieter than before."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Ensemble Music 1
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 053CD

Five ensemble works, performed by the ST-X Ensemble: "Plekto" (first recording of a recent ens. work), "Eonta (for piano solo, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones -- "like no music before or since: cascading notes like falling stars together with waves of sound from the brass"), "Akanthos" (for soprano and ensemble), "Rebons" (for percussion), "N'Shima" (for 2 amplified peasant voices, 2 amplified horns, 2 trombones, and amplified cello -- "a ritual of chanting voices, singing Hebrew syllables, against a backdrop of roaring brass and solo cello").

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	Aki Takahashi Plays Morton Feldman
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 054CD

2006 repress, new 24-bit hi definition remaster. First release in Mode's Feldman Edition, of shorter solo piano works, performed by Aki Takahashi, recorded 1995. "Morton Feldman's sound-world no longer needs an introduction. Feldman was especially fond of Aki's playing, so much so that he had selected certain works particularly for her. Together they toured this program, with Feldman speaking about the compositions and Aki performing them. The CD contains selections from those recitals as well as works close to Aki's heart, many receiving their first recording and available on CD for the first time. Of particular note is the premier recording of Feldman's earliest published composition -- ILLUSIONS -- which is unique in his oeuvre: it is mostly loud and fast!"

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Ensemble Music 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 056CD

Follow up to Mode 54, recordings by the ST-X Ensemble, with the participation of the composer. Features: first recording of "A La Memoire de Witold Lutoslawski" ("It is a literal monument of sound, comprised of massive blocks of brass arranged as a dirge like fanfare."); "Akrata" (for 8 winds & 8 brass, "classic and seminal Xenakis. The work's skittering, repeated notes and extreme changes of dynamic yield a sense of vast, isolated space"); "Echange" ("a terrifying and mysterious 'concerto' for bass clarinet and ensemble"); "Xas" (for saxophone quartet) & "Okho" (for 3 djembes & bass drum).

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Piano Concertos
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 057CD

Volume 16 of the Complete Cage Works. Includes "Concert For Piano & Orchestra" (performed by David Tudor & Ensemble Modern; "...an ever expanding galaxy of sonic possibilities with the principle of independence"); "Concerto For Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (performed by Stephen Drury); "Fourteen" (perf. by Drury; "the solo piano is not played conventionally, rather its strings are bowed with rosined nylon fishing line, producing an ethereal, mysterious sound.")

Artist:	XENAKIS/VARESE
Title:	Volume 3: Dammerschein
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 058CD

Contains 3 works by Xenakis , including the first recording of a recent large orchestra piece ('Dammerschein' -- "an energy charged, volcanic composition from the first note to the last, its massive contrasting blocks of sound give the aura of light passing through music"); "Persephassa" (for percussion ensemble) & "La Deesse Athena ("a thickly scored chamber work, with the instruments often playing in their most aggressive ranges"). Plus Edgard Varese's "Ameriques" ("for a huge orchestra including 11 percussionists and sirens, was influenced by the urban landscape of NY -- a thing of violent beauty. At the climax, the full power of the orchestra is unleashed in one of the most expansive and impressive passages in the entire orchestral repertoire. A sonic experience richly recorded and guaranteed to blow you out of your seat!").

Artist:	TUDOR, DAVID
Title:	Rainforest (Versions I & IV)
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 064CD

2007 repress, originally released 1998. Two versions of Tudor's electronic environment masterpiece, the first performed in 1968 by Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; the 2nd is an electro-acoustic environment from 1973. "'Rainforest' blends music and sculpture by placing music in space in extraordinary ways. The idea is to channel electronic output through an object rather than through the usual device, a loudspeaker. Dozens of unique and unlikely objects are suspended from the ceiling at about ear level. The space is filled with gentle sounds given off by the vibration of the hanging objects via a contact microphone, fed back into his controls for filtering and mixing, and then redistributed out again to some other object or a conventional loudspeaker. The recycling phenomenon that takes place makes the entire electro-acoustic apparatus of 'Rainforest' an 'ecologically balanced sound system.' The result is a timeless sonic environment full of rich textures offering the listener an infinite variety of aural densities and spatial effects."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	First Recordings: 1950s
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 066CD

"A remarkable discovery of over 75 minutes of Morton Feldman's music. This disc represents 13 unrecorded early works spanning 1950 to 1953, many previously unpublished. Highlights: his only works for magnetic tape, 'Intersection,' realized in 8-channels by Feldman with John Cage and Earle Brown. Considered lost, the work has been restored and presented here for the first time in 40 years. Also: his score for 2 cellos to Hans Namuth's film of Jackson Pollock, presented in its entirety including narration by Pollock himself; the solo piano collection 'Nature Pieces' which combine elements of Feldman's youth with his mature style; previously missing works from the Extensions and Intermission cycles. The performances are superbly played by pianist Philippe vandré and the Turfan Ensemble from Frankfurt."

Artist:	PAPE, GERARD
Title:	Electroacoustic Chamber Works
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 067CD

"Composed between 1993-97, this second volume of works by Pape on Mode continues his richly dramatic style with new compositional turns. Pape sites these compositions as influenced by Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi and Julio Estrada. Indeed, they combine the power of Xenakis with the microtonal explorations of Scelsi. All works, with the exception of 'Le Fleuve', interact the performers with vivid use of electronics and/or tape, many composed on the UPIC computer." "Collection of ensemble/solo pieces (performed by the likes of the Arditti String Quartet, Vox Nova, and Daniel Kientzy) augmented by tapes and sound projection by this VERY post-1950 composer (born in 1955). Pape's more recent projects include 'Feu Toujors Vivant', a piece commissioned by Art Zoyd (!) for 4 samplers and large orchestra, and an opera based on Clive Barker's novel Weaveworld (!!). Extremely pleasant sound-worlds, rife with complex tone-clusters and occasional bursts of ultra-processed sonic-nonsense. Chaotic." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	STOCKHAUSEN/DUSAPIN
Title:	In The Sky I Am Walking
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 068CD

"'In the Sky I am Walking (American Indian Songs)' is an important work in Karlheinz Stockhausen's oeuvre from the 1970s. Scored for a male and female singer, this long song cycle uses texts by Native Americans and incorporates the use of 'unusual vocal sounds' from a palette of vocal timbres developed by the two singers in their years of experience performing new music and meeting singers from around the world, including Native Americans. Stockhausen closely prepared the piece with the singers. Pascal Dusapin is one of France's leading composers. 'Red Rock' is an excerpt from Dusapin's opera Romeo and Juliet scored for vocal quartet playing Native American instruments." Performed by VoxNova.

Artist:	WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Title:	I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 069CD

"Wolff is considered a member of 'The New York School' along with John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor. The superb performances come from The Barton Workshop, an Amsterdam-based ensemble founded by composer-trombonist James Fulkerson. Among the highlights: the 'Serenade' of 1950, an extraordinary individual work from a sixteen-year-old who had just introduced himself to Cage. It intimates the minimalist movement which was to come a decade later. 'For Morty (1987), written in memory of Morton Feldman, used three instruments that have a particular significance in Feldman's work -- the vibraphone, glockenspiel and piano. Its tender fragility reminds one of the unique sensibility of Feldman, while remaining music that only Wolff could have conceived."

Artist:	WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Tilbury Pieces (Complete)
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 074CD

"The works on this disc, volume 3 of Mode's Christian Wolff Edition, belong to his minimalist, and open-form, styles. The 'Tilbury' pieces (1969-70) are named for the pianist John Tilbury, whom Wolff had recently met. 'Snowdrop' (1970), from the same period, was named for the snowdrops among the earliest Spring flowers found in the Vermont countryside where Wolff lives. They attempt to integrate a systematic way of writing with chance and the excitement of early minimalism from Riley, Glass and Reich along with their English counterparts Hobbs, Smith, Nyman and White. A reaction against Serialism, their sound motifs come in fixed cycles, now and again two or more sounds appear at the same time, coincide and collide, making chords. 'Tilbury 5' was written 25 years later at the request of the performers Roland Dahinden (trombone, melodica), Hildegard Kleeb (piano) and Dimiris Polisoidis (violin, viola)."

Artist:	KAVINA, LYDIA
Title:	Music from the Ether: Original Works for Theremin
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 076CD

New 24-bit audiophile remastering of this CD from the original session recordings, first released in 1999. "Russian Theremin virtuoso Lydia Kavina presents the FIRST RELEASE EVER dedicated to ORIGINAL compositions for the instrument -- spanning the 'golden age' of the Theremin from its invention in the 1920s to contemporary works. One of the first attempts to unite music and scientific technology in the 20th century, the Theremin is considered to be the ancestor of modern electronic musical instruments. Its evolution from scientific curiosity to virtuoso classical instrument (played by Clara Rockmore in Caregie Hall) to 'instrument of the future' (according to Cage, Varèse, Grainger and others) to Hollywood sound effects (played in soundtracks to Spellbound, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lost Weekend) to rock-and-roll instrument (used by the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and others) has been well-documented. Lydia Kavina is the world's leading Thereminist today. The granddaughter of Leon Theremin's first cousin, she was the inventor's last protégée. She began studying the instrument with him at the age of nine, and was concertizing by age fourteen. Since then, Kavina has given over 500 concerts."

Artist:	CZERNOWIN, CHAYA
Title:	Afatsim (Chamber Music 1988-96)
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 077CD

"Czernowin's sound occupies a unique world. Often many instruments are used to become one 'composite' instrument. Time is slowed down, so that the slow flow of sound enables one to perceive the smallest details of a texture or a sound. The resulting music can feel fluid, dense or agitated, at times echoing that of Xenakis and Ferneyhough." Performed by Arditti Quartet, Harvey Sollberge, Mayumi Miyata (Japanese mouth organ), John Fonville (flute), etc.

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Complete Works for Piano Solo
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 080CD

2006 repress. 24 bit remaster. "Xenakis' piano music is among the most powerful and virtuosic of the latter part of the 20th century. Full of dynamic energy and color, the works can evoke the sonic equivalent of an exploding cosmos or a mysterious, foggy world of mists through which glimpses of form and light can be perceived. At the hands of Aki Takahasi, they come alive with a special vitality. Of Aki's playing of 'Herma', Xenakis wrote in 1973: 'It was a difficult work and according to my French musician friends, unplayable. They thought it would need at least 1 year of work and advised me to rewrite it for at least two or three players and two pianos. Indeed, it introduced an expansion of the hands all over the keyboard simultaneously. When I first heard Aki play it in Paris last Fall at her Musée d'Art Moderne recital I was, in spite of my skepticism, conquered by her play. There was no problem with the huge technical difficulties. A tender and warm musicality irradiated through the piece in a bright, sparkling and powerful performance.' the breathtaking performances in audiophile quality sound make this one of the great Xenakis -- and new music -- recordings of all time." This Reissue now contains an added piece: the first recording of Xenakis's 12 minute '6 Chansons,' charming early miniatures written while Xenakis was studying in Paris with Messiaen and Milhaud. They provide a glimpse at Xenakis's early musical interests, influences and roots, documenting a distinct kinship with the piano music of Debussy and Bartók. 24-bit audiophile remastering.

Artist:	FERRARI, LUC
Title:	Volume 1: Chansons Pour Le Corps
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 081CD

2007 remastered reissue version; originally released in 1999. Includes "Chansons Pour Le Corps" (1988-94; for voice, clarinets, percussion, piano and synthesizer; Elise Caron, voice), and "Et Si Tout Entière Maintenant" (1986-87; symphonic tale for voice, orchestral sound and tape; with texts by Collette Fellous; Anne See, voice; Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique; Yves Prin, conductor). "The works on this disc show a combination of Ferrari's musique concrete and instrumental styles. The point of departure for 'Chansons Pour Le Corps' was a series of spontaneous interviews with women on the subject of female form which Ferrari recorded in the Jardin du Luxembourg. It's a great image, a young woman out for a Sunday afternoon stroll approached by a man wondering if she might allow him to record her talking about various intimate parts of her body. The interviewees were invited to speak about their eyes, hands, breasts and sex, and those who accepted did so with extraordinary candor. Novelist and radio presenter Colette Fellous was then asked to write texts based on the tapes to be set for soprano and ensemble interspersed with extracts from the original interviews. 'Et Si Tout Entière Maintenant' a 'symphonic tale' for voice, orchestral sound and tape is an extraordinary work. The orchestral score was performed, recorded and then treated electronically in his studio, though the orchestra is never deformed beyond all recognition. This is incorporated into the piece along with the authentic sounds of the Swedish icebreaker and its crew, and Fellous' spoken text. What results is typical Ferrari genre blending, inhabiting a region somewhere between fact and fiction, documentary and poetry, orchestral and electronic music."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	Complete Works for Violin & Piano
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 082/83CD

Repressed for the first time in a number of years. "Here, collected for the first time, are all of Morton Feldman's compositions for violin and piano. It is also a kind of walk through his compositional development, from the Webernesque early 'Piece for Violin and Piano' (1950); through the experiments with graphic notation in 'Projection 4' (1951); followed by an excursion into the jungle-like density of David Tudor's energy in 'Extensions 1' (1951); to the cryptic notational riddles of 'Vertical Thoughts 2'(1963); from the dry carpet-dusting 'pring of Chosroes'(1977) to the extended sound canvas of the late Feldman in 'or John Cage'(1982). He remarked with an eye twinkling: 'My music is just like Webern. Only a little bit longer.'"

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Cage Performs Cage: The Text Pieces I: The Artists Pieces
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 084/85CD

"Cage's reading of his text pieces was legend -- as recited in his unique, gentle voice -- often had a 'musical', soothing quality. And just as often, a humorous side. These are not stories in the traditional sense with a plot; rather they are based on mesostics. Basically, a mesostic uses a person's name or word as a vertical center for each stanza of the text. Cage would then choose texts and, using chance operations, search them for sentences containing a letter of this word. Each subsequent line of the stanza would have to contain the next letter of the word, and would be aligned underneath until the complete word was composed to form one stanza. The process would then be repeated over and over until the writing was completed (based on the parameters Cage would select for that work). In this way, Cage would be able to write something relevant about that person without knowing what he was going to say. This first set of Cage Performs Cage centers around mesostics for his friends and associates; the artists Jasper Johns and Morris Graves. And, in the 'Series re Morris Graves', we get the rare opportunity to hear John Cage sing." Volume 20 of The Complete John Cage Edition.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Orchestral Works, 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 086CD

Includes "Etcetera: For Chamber Orchestra With 3 Conductors" (1973), "Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras: For Large Orchestra Divided Into 4 Smaller Ensembles With Their Own Conductors" (1986). "The first recording of two major orchestral works by John Cage, recorded under the composer's supervision at the New England Conservatory's John Cage festival in 1991. These works are about 'multiplicity' -- of performing options, of ensembles, of conductors; tape music or live music, standard or unconventional notation, repetition or non-repetition. Each piece also contains a tape recoding of the environment where the work was created -- in the country for "Etcetera", the city for 'Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras'. The ensembles are directed by Cage specialist Stephen Drury." Volume 21 of The Complete John Cage Edition.

Artist:	NONO, LUIGI
Title:	Vox Nova
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 087CD

"Mode's new edition focusing on the work of Luigi Nono will include not only the notated works, but also recreations of his later pieces. These works, mainly from the mid-sixties and on, and including 'A Floresta E Jovem E Cheja De Vida', were orally transmitted 'interactive' compositions -- in many cases without a completed score. Created with Nono's preference to experiment with certain musicians and sound engineers, they often made use of live electronics to achieve a unified, constantly mobile sound world. the vocal works on this disc come from both stages of Nono's oeuvre, and are of a decidedly political bent. All feature extended vocal techniques, using different mouth positions to produce a wide range of vocal colors which often transcend the meaning of the words."

Artist:	FELDER, DAVID
Title:	A Pressure Triggering Dreams
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 089CD

"Six Poems from Neruda's Alturas" (1992-1993), recorded by the June in Burralo Festival Orchestra, Magnus Martensson, conductor; "Coleccion Nocturna" (1982-1983) Jean Kopperud (clarinet and bass clarinet), James Winn (piano, 4-channel tape);"A Pressure Triggering Dreams" (1996-1997), performed by the June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra, Harvey Sollberger (conductor), David Felder (electronics). "Each of these fairly large works, between eighteen and twenty-five minutes in duration, has some relationship to the poetry of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, or to a brief, provocative phrase coined by Nietsche."

Artist:	KOONCE, PAUL
Title:	Walkabout & Back
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 090CD

"Have you ever experienced those remarkable moments when everyday sounds, similar in structure but different in function, coincide -- the phone that rings through the trill of a Mozart piano cadence; the baby whose cry follows the meandering squeak of a nearby door? It has been with an ear turned toward these moments -- their magic and the insight they give us into sound and representation -- that Paul Koonce composed the works in this collection. These works were all created out of recorded materials, using collage and various computer manipulations to create a unique and evocative sound world."

Artist:	SAARIAHO, KAIJA
Title:	New Gates
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 091CD

"Kaija Saariaho (born 1952) is the most successful of contemporary Finnish composers. She studied in Freiburg, and finally settled in Paris, at IRCAM, the center for computer music. Tracks include: 'Cendres' (1991/6) for flute, harp and viola; 'Grammaire des Reves' (1998-9) for soprano, contralto, 2 flutes, harp, viola, cello; 'Solar' (1993) for flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, 2 percussion, harp, piano/sampler, synthesizer, violin, viola, double bass; 'New Gates' (1996) for flute, harp, viola."

Artist:	SCELSI, GIACINTO
Title:	The Piano Works 1
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 092CD

Performed by Louise Bessette (piano). "This marks not only the first volume in Mode's new Scelsi edition, but also the initial disc of the traversal of his piano works. Written in 1939, Scelsi's 'Second Sonata' was premiered by Yvar Mikhashoff in London (1979). Marking a new compositional direction, Scelsi suspended thematic development and frequently introduced various kinds of repetitions: reiterated single tones, chords, and patterns, often suggesting the sounds of bells or Oriental gongs. Scelsi characterized 'Ttai' as 'a succession of episodes alternately expressing Time and Man, as symbolized by cathedrals or monasteries, with the sacred sound of Om'. Emphasizing the suite's calm, meditative and mysterious character, Scelsi wondered if this piece should be played at concerts at all, and advised in its preface: 'This suite should be listened to and played with the greatest inner calm. Nervous people stay away.' It features low contrasting musical material, repetitive elements, stationary tones and chords, and blurred sounds due to the frequent use of both pedals. The music manifests both constant flow and inertia, and since Scelsi rarely used bar-lines, it seems to unfold in an almost unrestrained manner."

Artist:	VALVERDE, GABRIEL
Title:	Luminar
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 094CD

"Gabriel Valverde is internationally recognized as one of Argentina's leading composers, noted for his strong electronic pieces (most created using traditional analog tape resources) and instrumental works. This is his first monograph disc, and a great opportunity to sample this special composer's voice. The CD's title, Luminar (taken from the second movement of the orchestral work Espacios Inasibles), aptly describes Valverde's unique sound: a luminous kaleidoscope of colors and shifting masses of sound which often resonate towards -- and from -- silence."

Artist:	SUBOTNICK, MORTON
Title:	Vol. 1: Electronic Works
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD-AUDIO
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 097DVD

"Touch (1969, first discreet 4-channel release); A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (for 8-channel tape, 1978, first release of the complete version); Gestures: It Begins with Colors (for 5.1 surround sound, 1998-2000, first recording); Joan LaBarbara, voice. Plus video interviews and interactive DVD-ROM. Experience Multi-channel electronic works in 5.1 Surround Sound. Immerse yourself in the classic multi-channel works Touch and A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur -- both remastered from their original analog tapes, and Subotnick's latest electronic work Gestures (featuring new music vocalist Joan LaBarbara). DVD allows you to experience these works as they were 'spatially' intended in your own home -- in high-definition sound. Special features: the early works were remixed to 5.1 Surround Sound under the composer's supervision. Gestures was composed specifically for the 5.1 medium. Touch, originally commissioned by Columbia Records for the Quad LP, appears for the first time as a 4-channel discreet version. A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur is reissued for the first time since the original LP. This also marks the first release of the complete 28 minutes version."

Artist:	XENAKIS/UPIC/CONTINUUM
Title:	Electroacoustic & Instrumental Works From CCMIX Paris
Label:	MODE
Format:	2CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	MODE 098/99CD

"This 2-CD collection documents more than 20 years of works composed on the unique computer music system called UPIC, and the evolution of the computer music center founded specifically to promote it -- Les Ateliers UPIC, now called CCMIX. The UPIC system was conceived by Iannis Xenakis in the early 1950s; the first version of UPIC was built hy Xenakis' research center, the CEMAM, in the late 1970s, and the system continues to be developed to this day. Instead of a keyboard to perform the music, the UPlC's performance device is a mouse and/or a digital drawing hoard. These are used to trace the composer's graphic score into the UPIC computer program, which then interprets the drawings as real time instructions for sound synthesis -- the composition/performance of a graphic musical score and real-time sound synthesis are unified by the UPlC's approach." Composers include: Iannis Xenakis (featuring the 8-channel tape piece "Polytope de Cluny" from 1972), Brigitte Robindoré, Jean-Claude Risset, Nicola Cisternino, Julio Estrada, Daniel Terrugi, Takehito Shimazu, Curtis Roads, Gérard Pape.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Works For Violin 4
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 100CD

"Volume 4 of Irvine Arditti's masterful traversal of the complete works for violin by Cage combines two of his beautiful early pieces for violin and piano along with Two, also for violin and piano; and two later works for violin solo. An overlooked gem in Cage's early style, the Nocturne receives a rare CD recording here. The beguiling 6 Melodies is an instantly simple work in which the violin must play (as in much of Cage's music for violin) without vibrato. Its exotic quality is as hypnotic as an Indian raga. Together, these two works offer a wonderful, appealing introduction for the uninitiated to Cage's music."

Artist:	COWELL, HENRY
Title:	Dancing With Henry
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 101CD

"Some of the most revered compositions of the twentieth century arose from the collaboration of composers and choreographers. Henry Cowell sought solutions that would treat both art forms with equal respect. Works on this disc -- the majority of which are recorded for the first time, many from unpublished manuscripts -- were composed for Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman (Dance of Sport), Bonnie Bird, and Martha Graham (Heroic Dance and Suite for Woodwind Quintet)."

Artist:	SCELSI, GIACINTO
Title:	Music For High Winds
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 102CD

"Ixor" (1956, for clarinet), "Suite" (1953, for flute + clarinet), "Pwyll" (1954, for flute), "Tre Pezzi" (1954, for Eb clarinet), "Rucke di Guck (1957, for Piccolo + oboe), "Preghiera per un' ombra (1954, for clarinet), "Ko-Lho" (1966, for flute + clarinet), "Three Latin Prayers" (1970, for Eb and A clarinet). "This recording presents pieces for woodwind instruments played solo or in duo. The majority date from the 50's, when Scelsi abandoned his classical and 12-tone training to undertake a relentless and solitary quest toward the interior of musical sound. The listener will notice elements such as conflicting harmonic centers, sustained notes, brief frenetic passages, tempo changes by section, and tremoli, that are reinforced by constant dynamic activity, to create a characteristically heady, non-static quality."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	The Straits of Magellan - Indeterminate Music
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 103CD

"A unique collection of Feldman's 'indeterminate' works; incorporating new types of notation (including graph scores) and involving a considerable degree of indeterminacy in regard to pitch, dynamics, etc. This is the first time the complete Durations and Projections series have appeared on a single disc. It is a rewarding experience to hear the Durations and Projections played together, imparting a sense of Feldman's mastery of instrumentation and timbre while savoring the metamorphosis of its shifting colors, weights and densities of sound. The Two Pieces (first recording) reveal techniques which evoke a piano's resonance, as Feldman uses chords in which most tones immediately fade after their entrance, leaving only one or two sustained tones. The Straits of Magellan focuses on static the and 'vertical' experience, as well as on the constantly changing and fluctuating density of their sonic events allowing one to relish the subtlety and sensuousness of this music which startlingly also conveys a jazzy character. The superb performances, recorded in Germany, are by acclaimed pianist Philipp Vandré and the Turfan Ensemble."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	A Cage Of Saxophones I
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 104CD

The Works for Saxophones 1, performed by Ulrich Krieger. "Between 1983 and 1991 John Cage wrote three pieces specifically for saxophone or including saxophones, Four5, Five4 and Hymnkus, which are combined here for the first time on one CD. In addition, Cage authorized Ulrich Krieger's arrangement for saxophone of Ryoanji. Krieger also made a saxophone arrangement of Five, one of the few compositions from this period performable on any instruments. Krieger is joined here by a top group of German new music performers, including noted pianist Mario Bertoncini."

Artist:	SPEACH, BERNADETTE
Title:	Reflections
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 105CD

"Speach, a student of Morton Feldman, often captures the suspended dynamism and coloristic vision of her mentor but the work is further infused with her own considerable musical personality. It deftly bridges new music, jazz and an appealing, easily enjoyed sensibility -- bursting the bonds of postminimalism to evoke a thoughtful, introverted romanticism. Reflections consists of recent compositions. Les ondes pour quatre was written for the Arditti Quartet at the request of Irvine Arditti. When It Rains...Lleuve showcases the pianistic and vocal talents of regular Speach collaborator Anthony de Mare."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Works for Piano 4
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 106CD

"Until recently at Cage's publisher in New York, C.F. Peters, there was a box of works which Cage had held off publishing or had simply forgotten about. Among them were the dance pieces, Triple Paced and Ad Lib, Jazz Study and the film score, Works of Calder, all composed between 1942 and 1950. At Peters' request, Margaret Leng Tan was enlisted to edit these works as part of a new volume of Cage's piano pieces -- they have been recorded here in conjunction with that publication."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	The Barton Workshop Play Voices & Instruments
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 107CD

"This CD is comprised of works from Feldman's Early Period (late 40's until the late 60's) and Middle Period (late 60's/early 70's until the early 80's). In the beginning, like all young creative artists, Feldman was working through alluring influences as well as the influence of his teachers, towards the moment when he would find his personal creative voice. With the exception of the vocal solo Only, this disc documents all the earliest works that Feldman chose to publish. Journey to the End of Night (1949) shows unmistakable influences from his study with Stefan Wolpe, yet it also shows a clear command of this musical language. This dramatically clear and forceful work -- with extremely high vocal writing -- is set to texts extracted by Feldman himself from the long novel of the same title by Céline. In 1957, Feldman began to use repetition of material to make a homogeneous texture, static yet with small degrees of movement. By the early 1960's, he created timbral ambiguity by having all instruments play very softly, with a minimum of attack."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	The Orchestral Works 3
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 108CD

"Cage scored 108 for the largest number of players in any of the Number Pieces -- its duration of 43'30" makes an oblique reference to his groundbreaking 4'33' (1952). 108 can be played on its own or with either of two solo works from the same year, One (for cello) and One for the sho, a mouth organ with bamboo pipes that acts as one of the harmony-producing instruments in Japanese gagaku. Both solo works were composed for artists very important in Cage's final years -- cellist Michael Bach and Mayumi Miyata, who had pioneered the sho as a contemporary concert instrument. When One? is performed with 108, it becomes a concerto but a very unusual one, and a fine example of Cage's aesthetic. The orchestra disappears entirely in two sections of the piece, but not to herald a grand cadenza: the sho music continues much as it had before, a quiet, serene, almost timeless utterance. Indeed, the regal simplicity of the sho makes it an ideal instrument for Cage, who tried to make his final work like writing on water -- an action, incomparably graceful, that would leave no traces."

Artist:	LENG TAN, MARGARET
Title:	Sonic Encounters
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 015CD

Artist:	SCHVARTZ, HAYDEE
Title:	New Music From Europe and the Americas
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 031CD

Artist:	NEWBAND
Title:	Play Microtonal Works 2
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 033CD

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	St. George and the Dragon
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 040CD

Artist:	LEBARON, ANNE
Title:	The Musical Railism of...
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 042CD

Artist:	RAICKOVICH, MILOS
Title:	New Classicism
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 045CD

Artist:	CURRAN, ALVIN
Title:	For Cornelius
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 049CD

Artist:	DAHINDEN TRIOS, ROLAND
Title:	Naima
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 062CD