Browse by Label: POGUS

Artist:	LINDBLAD, RUNE
Title:	Death Of The Moon
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21011

Electronic and concrete music from 1953 to 1960 by this Swedish composer, reissuing material previously available on LP via the Pogus and Radium labels. "Rune Lindblad was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1923. He began composing music in 1953. This was a time when composers in Germany and France were feuding over the merits of electronic music made by pure wave oscillators versus musique concrete, which used the tape recorder as its main instrument. Rune Lindblad did not see these genres as mutually exclusive. In fact he extended his work to incorporate other mediums along with his approach to music. Deeply involved with woodcuts and painting, Lindblad was already experiment with using damaged 16mm film in his 'Optica 1' as early as 1959."

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21012

Features 2 long tracks (63 total minutes) of early, emotionally stunning electronic music from Ms. Oliveros. "Her revolutionary work in the use of tape delay and heterodyne techniques, coupled with experimental use of combination tones and supersonic frequencies, presaged techniques now being explored digitally," and there's never been better evidence of it than the brain-eclipsing "Alien Bog" -- a masterpiece of electronic tone squelch. Only an excerpt of this has been previously issued, while "Beautiful Soop" is released for the first time. "During her first year at The Tape Music Center at Mills College in Oakland, CA, Pauline Oliveros completed 'Beautiful Soop' (1966) and 'Alien Bog' (1967) utilizing the original Buchla Box 100 series created for the Tape Music Center by Don Buchla and her tape delay system. 'I was deeply impressed by the sounds from the frog pond outside the studio window at Mills. I loved the accompaniment as I worked on my pieces. Though I never recorded the frogs, I was of course deeply influenced by their music."

Artist:	LINDBLAD, RUNE
Title:	Objekt 2
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21014

Second stellar CD of stark, mesmerizing & historical electronic and concrète. "Volume 2 of the music of Rune Lindblad (1923-1991). This CD consists of the remainder of the long out of print Radium double LP. These works cover the years 1962-1988. Lindblad, a Swede, began composing in 1953. Ignored by the musical establishment of Stockholm, Rune went his own merry way, composing over 200 works of electronic music. Limited in the early years to often primitive equipment, he carved out his own musical niche. The sounds were often raw, occasionally scary."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Travels of the Spider: Electroacoustic Music From Argentina
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21015

"Compilation of, well, electroacoustic music from Argentina spanning the last decade or so (1988-1998) containing several fascinating extensions of recent computer-aided-composition/processing technology by an otherwise unheralded crew of composers working within the tresses of the global computer-music 'scene'. Pieces by Daniel Schachter, Ricardo Dal Farra, Martin Alejandro Fumarola, Alejandro Iglesias Rojas, and Teodoro Cromberg, all forge impressive new avenues of 'sound research' through an inescapably mutant collection of timbres/waveforms/sonic events. It's understandable why this was brought into the world by the same folks that unearthed those prime Pauline Oliveros & Rune Lindblad tape masterpieces right when we needed them the most. Stunning." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	OSTROWSKI, MATTHEW
Title:	Vertebra
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21016

"A former member of Krackhouse, denizen of NYC's downtown scene (particularly PS 122 and A Mica Bunker etc.) and crack (no, not head) ARP synthesizer player, Ostrowski has spent the last few years in Holland -- studying elektronik music at Utrecht and working as a freelance composer. This is his first solo CD. But let him speak: 'My music runs without stopping, and at a vertiginous speed. The architecture is simultaneity....Not to perceive noise as music but music as noise....This is a recording of a live performance: one member of a set of possible solutions. Vertebra is a computer program, an environmental construction, a scaffold, in which the activity of making sense and it's suspensions are not merely illustrated, but actually taking place.'"

Artist:	RUTMAN, ROBERT
Title:	1939
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21017

Reissue of the original Pogus LP by the Steel Cello sculptor/performer, with an additional 20 minute track. "CD reissue of previous a Pogus vinyl offering by this now-known sculptor/artist whose 'Steel Cello' sound-installations are clearly some of the most ear-pleasing examples of the genre. Contains the original 4 LP tracks ('Tabla and Buzz Chime,' 'Steel Cello and Bow Chime,' 'Chant, Bow Chime, and Horn,' and 'Three Bow Chimes,' recorded in Winchester MA during March of 1989 & aided by Carsten Tiedermann and Danny Orlansky) as well as a 20-minute contemporary track ('Song of the Steel Cello', recorded live in Berlin). Fans of the Bertoia/Panhuysen/Fullman school of Teutonic site-specific instrumentation should already know this stuff cold. If not, said Steel Cello's Martian overtones/massive low-end challenge cleanse the soul in ways users of St. John's Wort/Astral Travelling could never attain. Seminally drift-worthy." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	GABURO, KENNETH
Title:	Tape Play
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21020

"Over his career, Kenneth Gaburo (1926-1993) produced a lot of electronic music. However, works for tape alone are fairly rare in his output. Over about a thirty-year period, ten works for solo tape were produced. Of the ten tape pieces, five were created in the mid-1960s at the University of Illinois, one was created in 1974-5 in his home studio in La Jolla, and four were made in the studio at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, which he directed during the 1980s and early 1990s. Not surprisingly for a composer whose stated aim was to blur the distinctions between language and music, six of the ten pieces feature an overt use of the voice, while two of the 'purely electronic' pieces use timbres that are so vocal in character that one is constantly thrown back onto a consideration of Kenneth's main obsession, the voice. Only two of the pieces, both from the Illinois period, seem to not deal with the voice in any way." -- Warren Burt. One track is in collaboration with Henri Chopin.

Artist:	ROSENBOOM, DAVID
Title:	Invisible Gold
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21022

"David Rosenboom (b. 1947), who has been widely acclaimed as a pioneer in American experimental music since the 1960's. He is a composer, performer, conductor, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator having explored ideas in his work about the spontaneous evolution of forms, languages for improvisation, new techniques for ensembles, cross-cultural collaborations, performance art, computer music systems, interactive multi-media, compositional algorithms, and the structure of the brain and nervous system. These two works, Portable Gold and Philosophers? Stones (1972) and On Being Invisible (1976-77), are classics of live electronic music involving extended musical interface with the human nervous system."

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	No Mo
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21023

"In the summer of 1966 I worked in the classical Electronic Music Studio at the University of Toronto for six weeks. The system I used to create 'No Mo' and 'Something Else' consisted of Layfette tone generators, noise source and tape delay. In the Fall of 1966 I was the newly appointed director of the Mills Tape Music Center formerly the San Francisco Tape Music Center and now the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College. 'Bog Road' was created at the Mills Tape Music Center in the Summer of 1967 with the Buchla Series 100 Box. The studio overlooked a pond where frogs were singing a chorus that inspired a series of Bog pieces".-- Oliveros

Artist:	REYNOLDS, ROGER
Title:	All Known All White
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21025

"Pogus is delighted to be reissuing these 3 long out of print works. From the liner notes: ...the serpent-snapping eye (1978) was composed for trumpet, percussion, piano and 4-channel tape. The work is twenty minutes long, divided into three roughly equal sections. In the first, the primary aim of the performers is to match, submit to and intensify the taped sounds. The second, in which the synthesized sounds are sparse, introduces a felling of independence as the performers respond, reflecting on models provided by the tape. In the final section, the live performers complement and elaborate upon -- they attempt to augment -- the synthesized sound. Ping and Traces, were composed to complement one another. Ping represents a continuing interest in theater and intermedia running through Reynolds' compositions since The Emperor of Ice Cream (1961-62). In live performance the three strands of events occur simultaneously but are not synchronized. As a recorded performance, Ping is a self-sustained composition of instrumental improvisation over taped and electronic music. Traces was written for the composer-pianist Yuji Takahashi. Scored for solo piano, with flute, cello, ring modulator, signal generator, and 6 independent channels of taped sound, this work is concerned not only with events but their residues (traces)."

Artist:	DUNN, DAVID
Title:	Four Electroacoustic Compositions
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21026

"'...with zitterings of flight released,' (in memoriam Kenneth Gaburo) was composed over an intense and continuous five-day period (including nights). While working on the piece I had in mind various images and metaphors for the drama of the spirit's separation from the body as described by a variety of shamanic and spiritual traditions. It is a memorial for my teacher Kenneth Gaburo. Simu760342102625lation 1: (Sonic Mirror) was an attempt to model a utopian project yet to be built. The original concept was conceived as a stationary cybernetic sound sculpture capable of processing acoustic data within an outdoor environment. Eventually the sculpture might function as an autonomous system structurally coupled to its surrounding environment in a manner that might allow for 'learning' between components. This initial modeling was generated from a soundscape recording of the Cuyamaca Mountains of California. Wildflowers is a bit of nostalgia for the 20th century composer's search for the unique sonic and expressive attributes of electronic technology, an ideal mostly out of fashion. I wanted to compose a reclamation of the sounds of circuitry as material substance, those 'sci-fi' clichés and glissandi now banished to the video game parlors. Ennoia 2 is a computer-generated composition that explores the time-domain synthesis algorithms created by Arun Chandra's Wigout program. These algorithms generate continuously changing waveforms with unique structural behaviors over time. The resulting sounds have continuously changing interdependent parameters that are controlled by very few variables."

Artist:	ANTUNES, JORGE
Title:	Savage Songs - Works from 1961-1970
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21027

Early Brazilian electronic music, featuring works composed 1961-1970. Electroacoustic, sine waves, tape pieces, pure electronic music, etc. A well done compilation with extensive notes; there have been some Brazilian LPs and 3" CDs floating around in the past, but this conveniently puts everything in one place. "Jorge Antunes (b. 1942, Rio de Janeiro) studied violin, composition and conducting at the University of Rio de Janeiro, as well as studying physics at the same institution. He further studied composition with Alberto Ginastera and Luis de Pablo. From 1970-71 he attended the University of Utrecht (Gotfried M. Koenig). From 1972-73 he worked with Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. In 1962 he began his research in electronic music thus becoming a pioneer in the development of this field in Brazil. He is the director of the Electronic Music Laboratory and the conductor of Orquestra da Universidade de Brasilia."

Artist:	BURT, WARREN
Title:	Harmonic Colour Fields
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21028

"Harmonic Colour Fields is a set of five computer pieces which explore static microtonal harmonic fields. This means that once a piece begins, harmonically, it's going to stay pretty much the same for it's entire duration. The pieces are descended from the 1970s 'drone' pieces of such composers as La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine, Hal Budd, and myself, but they make greater use of slow harmonic progressions to make more varied musical surfaces. I wanted to make pieces where the quality of the harmony was the primary focus, and so used very simple rhythms, plain electronic timbres, and a minimum of melodic structuring. In fact, in these pieces, any sense of melody is simply the result of how the harmonic material is articulated. That is, change in harmony, and not construction of melody was my aim in making these pieces. The title refers to the 'colour field' minimalist painters of the 60s and 70s. I thought of these pieces as analogous to those paintings, in that the explore the varieties and shades of one particular harmonic musical colour."

Artist:	ANDERSON, BETH
Title:	Peachy Keen-O
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21030

"This CD has pieces with an auctioneer, a Kentucky farm with birds & clover, a jazz dancer, a quivering, vibrating, sexually tinged piece full of women saying supplication, a saint dying in flames, a drum piece about frustration, mother/daughter miscommunication, a pipe organ, and punk rap with overtones of yoga. Many of Anderson's compositions from 1973-1979 use words or parts of words to make either all or part of the music. Sometimes the music is derived from the words. Some of it is considered to be part of the genre known as text-sound. Beth Anderson (b. January 3, 1950, Lexington, Kentucky) is a composer of avant-garde works that have been performed all around the world and that have brought her much acclaim. Over the years, Ms. Anderson has studied with Robert Ashley, Larry Austin, John Cage, and Terry Riley, among others. She is a pioneer in the field of text-sound music, which uses words and phonemes to make a kind of vocal-percussive music."

Artist:	TRIOS
Title:	Trios
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21031

Tom Erbe: (recording, editing, processing); Chris Mann: (voice, texts); Larry Polansky: (fretted and fretless electric guitars); Douglas Repetto: (computer, electronics, recording); Christian Wolff: (piano, bass, percussion, melodica). "Trios is a collaboration between five musicians, over time, and over space. It combines instrumental and electronic improvisation with non-real-time computer processing and editing. Chris Mann, Douglas Repetto, and Larry Polansky recorded several hours of live improvised material in one session. Months later Repetto, Polansky, and Christian Wolff recorded some more. The recordings were then sent off to Tom Erbe, who culled interesting sections from both sessions and then processed, edited, and mixed them to form the six tracks on the CD. Or: organized sound. (Re)assembled improvisation."

Artist:	REYNOLDS, ROGER
Title:	Process and Passion
Label:	POGUS
Format:	2CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21032

"A special 2 CDs for the price of 1 deal -- with CD 1 (stereo) music encoded for CD 2 (binaural - headphone only listening), the listener gets their own personal surround sound-for-the-head version -- the same music -- but different. This is a recording that explores the 'extra'-ordinary potential of the CD not only as a carrier of traditionally recorded instrumental sound (CD 1), but also offering a different view through binaural encoding of the same materials spatialized (CD 2). First you are presented with two solo compositions -- Kokoro and Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward... -- and the duo Process and Passion, in an acoustic recording, albeit with each instrument deliberately confined to one side of the stereo field. Then all three pieces are presented with extravagant sound processing, using spatialization concepts and binaural encoding, revealing unsuspected depths and energies within the sound of each of the pieces' ideas and unfolding."

Artist:	JOHNSON, TOM
Title:	Kientzy Plays Johnson
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21033

Daniel Kientzy, saxophones; Meta Duo; Tom Johnson, narrator. In 'Kientzy Loops', the accompanying loop is a mix of six alto saxophones played in continuous blowing, while the principal lines are played on alto saxophone, except for the third section, played on baritone. The present multi-track saxophone version is probably as rich and energetic as any of the large ensemble versions. The melody is played by three overdubbed sopranino saxophones in unison, the bass line is played by three baritones, and the drone is played by three altos. In each of the four Infinite Melodies the music follows a logical sequence requiring each subsequent phrase to become longer and longer, reaching out toward infinity. Since the four melodies are independent pieces, it is not necessary that they be played in the written sequence. In this case the interpreter ordered his four interpretations according to their contrast and durations, so that the CD ends with 'Infinite Melody No. 1'. Here the music contains longer and longer silences, finally ending with a silence so long that it seems to dissolve into infinite silence as the CD player stops turning."

Artist:	BROWN, CHRIS
Title:	Talking Drum
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21034

"Binaural motion recordings composed as a dialogue of distances. Live recordings of music for electronic network music ensemble juxtaposed with location recordings of traditional music and environmental soundscapes. Made in Bali, the Philippines, Turkey, Europe, Cuba and America 1991-99. This compilation/composition documents nearly a decade of work that began with the recording of dense sonic environments, both 'natural' and urban. Talking Drum is an interactive installation made with four networked laptop computers programmed to explore cyclical polyrhythms in large acoustic spaces. While the performance of the entire system is synchronized by one computer, each computer station generates independent results using genetic-programming algorithms which are affected by acoustic musicians' performances. Each station in the space "grows" its own rhythmic response to the situation, like similar plants growing differently in adjustment to their locations in an environment. The musicians improvise with the rhythms, interacting with the response of the computers they play next to, and the whole is a quartet of these human-machine duets."

Artist:	BAND & DAVID LEE MYERS, ELLEN
Title:	Two Ships
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21035

"Performances by Ellen Band and David Lee Myers blend sonic environments and specialized electronic circuitry. Myers generates his signature 'Feedback Music' using custom-built devices that 'sing their own songs'. The resulting sounds represent nothing other than the free circulation of electrons within, prompting one observer to describe them as arising 'from the ether'. Band carefully builds swirling layers of sonorous, textural, tone/noise clusters by mixing and processing lengthy samples from her field recordings of real-world sounds. Though their individual working styles are very different, their combined effort yields lush sonic densities that continually pulse and morph while complementing and contrasting each other's sonic expression. "

Artist:	VA
Title:	DIY Canons
Label:	POGUS
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21036

"The pieces on this CD are all based on the ideas in Larry Polansky's four voice canons, a series of pieces he began in 1975. These canons are usually 'mensuration canons,' which means that the tempi of successive voices is proportional to their start times, so that the voices end together. They also use simple ideas of moving through a list of permutations, and applying the elements of those permutations to various musical parameters. A set of Polansky's canons was produced on Cold Blue Records as four voice canons. Polansky described these ideas in Four Voice Canon #13 ('DIY Canon'), a kind of open-source meta-canon score. He distributed this at talks and on the web as an open invitation to others who wanted to make four voice canons of their own. Composers responded with a wide variety of variations on the basic idea; a selection of these works is presented here." -- Simon Wickham-Smith, curator. Features: Kyoko Kobayashi, Bruno Ruviaro, Mike Swinchoski, Mike Winter, Ross Craig, Giuliano Lombardo, Simon Wickham-Smith, Steven M. Miller, Masaki Kubo, Drew Krause, George Zelenz, Stefan Tomic, Bo Bell, Philip Corner.

Artist:	OTTE, HANS
Title:	orient:occident / minimum:maximum
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21037

minimum:maximum (1973): texts / sounds / pictures. An environment (simultaneous concert in Stockholm and Bremen) for two organists: Karl-Erik Welin and Gerd Zacher, keyboard instruments. orient:occident (1977): for two woodwind-players and tape: Ingo Goritzki, oboe; Hans-Wilhelm Goetzke, clarinet. "Perhaps best known for his piano work 'Book of Sounds' these two works by German composer Hans Otte were composed in the 1970s. In that decade his aesthetic creed became increasingly clear: 'the search for the character and individuality of sound as such, which must be rediscovered and re-experienced independent of superimposed structures. The composer understands the dialogue with sounds as the discovery of their nature.' (Ute Schalz-Laurenze). While Hans Otte was an enthusiastic, one might say visionary promoter of fellow composers, such as John Cage and David Tudor, whose impacts had registered to the general public long after their force reached the surface, he nevertheless remained deeply committed to his own music. Otte's writings, simple lines that say: 'words are just something added on'; 'all great things laugh'; 'when something is reminiscent of nothing'; and, 'it's really something -- that voice that was once in the mouth,' all direct us to his music, because: 'everything always happens: Now.' It is Otte's music that betrays his particularity of thought to what (is everything), how (it happens), and when (is now). Words are just something added on. Collectively, these aphorisms reflect an aesthetic that dispenses with words which may address themselves to an understanding of the world. Here, however, the world to be understood is indescribable. What is everything? When is now? How does it happen? The message is that words tell, music is. Listen. The titles of these works: orient:occident and minimum:maximum, suggest a relationship between seemingly disparate things to remind us of Otte's adage: 'It is the gardener who owns the garden.'"

Artist:	CRAWLING WITH TARTS
Title:	Ochre Land, Blue Blue Skies/Grand Surface Noise Opera Nr. 7
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21039

"Long overdue, long promised release. This may be the last Tarts track (and opera) and one of the first solo composed Gendreau recordings. Or I could be making that all up. Anyway, wonderful music and sounds -- it is a Crawling With Tarts opera and OLBBS is a killer. A musician since age 6, Gendreau went along to work with several group organizations, culminating in Crawling With Tarts (1983-1998), and using this group as a medium (along with the various uses made of it by co-founder Suzanne Dycus) for work in elementalism, attention to temporal and environmental persistence, and eventually, applications of parataxis. These final studies included the use of small motors and turntable mechanisms, mostly performing with one-off transcription discs cast by others in the middle of the last century, or cut in Gendreau's studio using a decrepit lathe. More recently, in composition and performance, Gendreau has sought to enlarge these later studies, adding physical parameters of performance spaces (as a point of reference, based on studies in physics completed in 1989 and current work as an acoustician-primarily working on low-vibration design in buildings and noise impact to optical research apparatus in the infrasonic to audible frequency range) as a language within the paratactic structures that form his compositions."

Artist:	COURTIS, ANLA
Title:	Tape Works
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21040

"Anla Courtis continues to produce music and was even quite prolific during his time in Reynols. It goes without saying that Courtis learned a thing or two from his experience in Reynols; and there's a fundamental constant to all of his work: the cassette. One of Reynols' most infamous albums Blank Tapes was pieced together from the endemic hiss from, you guessed it, blank tapes. Far from being an empty album of silences, Blank Tapes is extraordinarily dynamic, amplifying the magnetic energy of the tape hiss into undulating fluctuations that mirror the somatic patterns of the human body. Reynols' tapes have a heart beat, blood pumping through their veins, and oxygen rushing through their lungs. This crudely built anthropomorphism continues in Courtis' work today, as the cassette and the tape deck remain primary tools in his compositional sensibility."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Montreal Sound Matter/Montréal Matiéres Sonore
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21041

Artists include: Helene Prevost, Steven Heimbecker, Louis Dufort, Tomas Phillips, Chantal Dumas, a_dontigny, Francisco Lopez, Mathieu Levesque. "Montreal Sound Matter / Montréal Matières Sonore brings together eight Canadian and international sound artists. The project began with a workshop on environmental sound collecting by Francisco López and led to the development of a collective sound project including an album, a sound installation, and a concert. This is the recording. The artists create an immersive sound installation made up of fragments of Montreal, which propose a reflection and a questioning on the city. Far from being a postcard, these sound portraits suggest an abstract view of Montreal made up of fragments modeled or transformed to the liking of the artists. Through these places turned non-places and thus more or less unrecognizable, the pieces present an interesting variety of aesthetics, constructions and creative processes." -- Esther Bourdages

Artist:	DIDKOVSKY, NICK
Title:	Tube Mouth Bow String
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21042

Subtitled: Music for electric guitar, string quartet, computer, and live electronics. "These pieces are about the details of musical evolution that emerge from rule-based compositional systems. Using electric guitar, string quartet, electronics, and computer software, we explored territories held together by systems of agreements, forms specified in software, real-time musical choices, and notation.Two of the compositions here, 'She Closes Her Sister With Heavy Bones' and 'What Sheep Herd,' are process pieces whose scores fit very economically on one page. Each score specifies melodic material and a short set of rules. The music precipitates from the interaction between the score's specifications and the decisions that the musicians make during performance. By contrast, Tube Mouth Bow String is a thoroughly-composed piece which notates foot pedal movements, vocal behavior, and bowed string performance, overflowing very uneconomically onto many pages which we pasted onto large poster boards and set before each player. Closing the CD, 'Just a Voice That Bothered Him' sounds like it could have been composed systematically but evades rules instead, being composed intuitively by ear. The piece emerged in opposition to one vividly frustrating weekend of fruitless systematic composition, and for that, gets the last word."

Artist:	VOUDOURIS, DIMITRI
Title:	NPFAI.1/Palmos/NPFAI.3/Praxis
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21043

Not familiar with Voudouris before, but this is one of the most sonically pleasing electro-acoustic albums we've heard in recent days... "South African composer Dimitri Voudouris (b.1961 Athens, Greece) began composing in the '90s. He composes for acoustic instruments, electronic sound sources, multimedia, including dance and theatre. He bases his technical and theoretical compositional approach in research of cognitive psycho-acoustic behavioral patterns in humans and the behavior of sound in relationship to continued environmental changes. His socio-cultural interests have led him to research the survival of music in the 21st century and the impact that media and technology have on the composer. 'NPFAI.1' (New Possibilities for African Instrument) is an electro-acoustic composition for kundi and m'bira with computer-assisted processing. Kalimba or m'bira is a finger piano made of wood and metal strips used in ceremonial music. In 'Palmos,' Voudoris chose three Western instruments -- the Hammond organ, oboe, and the bandoneon -- whose overtone and harmonic capabilities allowed for interlocking moments to take place, a phenomenon that is ever present in African traditional music. 'NPFAI. 3,' third in a series of electro-acoustic studies, is for African marimba and computer-assisted processing. 'Praxis' is a four-channel tape piece using a recording of an Christian Orthodox Greek male choir and computer-assisted processing. 566 sound compartments were created that ranged from 10 to 40 seconds in time duration."

Artist:	WERDER, FELIX
Title:	The Tempest -- Electronic Music
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21044

Reissue of mostly early-70s electronics works. "Felix Werder was born in Berlin in 1922. Possessed of an omnivorous musical curiosity, over the course of his career, he has explored many of the issues of concern in contemporary music, from serialism and aleatoric techniques, through opera, improvisation, graphic notation and electronics, always through the lens of his intense expressionist aesthetic. Werder was introduced to the use of electronics in the late 1960s by his friend Bruce Clarke, whose Jingle Workshop was the first commercial electronic music studio in Australia. He shortly thereafter acquired an EMS VCS3 analog synthesizer, and incorporated electronics into his performances. His group gave some of the earliest live electronic performances in Australia, two of which, 'Banker' and 'Oscussion,' are recorded on this CD. In 1974, he worked with the EMS Synthi 100, a large digitally-controlled analog synthesizer in the studio at the University of Melbourne, where he produced his electronic masterpiece, 'The Tempest' -- After Giorgione's 'Tempesta.' By the late 1970s, however, he had largely stopped working with electronics, as he devoted himself more and more to composing chamber works for his ensemble (and others) to perform. In the early '90s, with my urging and assistance, he made one foray into the world of computer music, with the contrapuntal fantasy 'V/Line.' He has not returned to the medium since then. His electronic work, then, forms a small but unique part of his output." --Warren Burt

Artist:	LOCKWOOD, ANNEA
Title:	Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21045

"'Thousand Year Dreaming' (1990) was commissioned by Essential Music and was written with the musicians on this recording, their particular strengths and inclinations, very much in mind. It grew out of an improvisatory piece, 'Nautilus,' which Art Baron, Scott Robinson and Lockwood realized in 1989. They found that the sound of conch shell trumpets, didjeridu and frame drums really flowered in the resonant spaces they were using for the piece. Lockwood started imagining the sonorities possible with four didjeridu's, gongs, conches and trombones and frame drums, all shaped by the penetrating and sensuous edge of oboes and clarinets. floating world (1999) is an immersion in place and transience. The composer invited friends who work with environmental sounds themselves, and who have a strong sense of place, to make recordings for her in places of personal, spiritual significance to them, so it is a collaborative work. From their field recordings (edited but not processed), and other sounds Lockwood wove the slowly shifting texture forming floating world." Performers on Thousand Year Dreaming: Art Baron (conch shell, trombone, didjeridu), Libby Van Cleve (oboe, English horn), Jon Gibson (didjeridu), Annea Lockwood (voice), J.D. Parran (clarinet, contrabass clarinet), Michael Pugliese (tam-tam, clapping sticks), N. Scott Robinson (conch shell, frame drums, pod rattle, tam-tam), John Snyder (didjeridu, waterphone), Charles Wood (tam-tam, stones), Peter Zummo (trombone, didjeridu).

Artist:	MARGOLIS/IF, BWANA, AL
Title:	An Innocent, Abroad
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21046

"The new Al Margolis/If, Bwana CD is comprised of 'Issue,' for electronics and multi-tracked voice, and 'An Innocent, Abroad,' a 40 plus minute work for electronics, vocals, and flutes. 'An Innocent, Abroad' can be best described as a Sonic Oratorio: an assemblage, a construction of an event that never happened or will happen. A live installation for radio, perhaps. There is no 'meaning' to the text. All parts were drawn or are inter-related to the original vocal track, recorded by Lisa Barnard, which is no longer present. The text/voice part has been multi-tracked and now represents five 'separate entities.' The electronic parts have been extracted and processed from the original vocal track. The five flute parts were performed by Jane Rigler and Jacqueline Martelle, and were improvised by them. They recorded to the separate voice tracks. None of the performers heard the entire piece that they worked on."

Artist:	GABURO, KENNETH
Title:	Lingua II: Maledetto/Antiphony VIII
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21047

"The work and thought of the American composer Kenneth Gaburo (1926-1993) exhibited many striking changes during his lifetime. In fact, while the world of commercial endeavor still insists that artists develop a recognizable personal 'style,' Gaburo's life-work can be seen as one of continual change and exploration, rather than one of codification and promotion. Some of these changes are beautifully illustrated by the two works on this CD, 'Maledetto,' for seven speaking voices, from 1967-1968, and Antiphony VIII (Revolution), for percussionist and electronic tape, from 1982-1983. Both are intricate and powerful works, both take their inspiration from 'non-musical' materials, and both require virtuosity of a most uncommon order. However, beyond that, the two works could not be more different. 'Maledetto' is a wild choral piece, a great complex cry, a work that, while reveling in a surface texture of innuendo, word play, and pseudo- and real- history, spoken/shouted/sung by 7 amazing speakers, contains within itself a deep and profound celebration of the body, the physical, the sexual. It is one of the earliest of Gaburo's works where his concern for holistic thinking and art-making comes to the fore. Speaking voices also figure in 'Antiphony VIII,' but here they are the voices of people giving their heartfelt reactions to the notion that nuclear war has made their lives expendable. This work was created at least 15 years after 'Maledetto,' and the boisterous energy of the Sexual Revolution, one of the earliest counter-cultural movements of the mid-1960s, has given place to the grim organizational determination of the various anti-nuclear movements of the 1980s."

Artist:	WICKHAM-SMITH, SIMON
Title:	Love & Lamentation
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21048

"The Sandokai ('The Harmony of Difference and Equality') is a prayer written by the eighth century Japanese Zen teacher Sekito Kisen. The basis for this piece was a tape given to Wickham-Smith by a nun of a recital at her monastery. He wanted to create of this sample a prayer without borders, a follow-up to an earlier work, 'Ave Regina Caelorum' (2000, released on Extreme Bukake), in which he used the Latin plainsong of a prayer to the Virgin Mary in much the same way. The organ sample at the end is from a piece by Erik Satie, whose spirituality was equally strange and eclectic. All the samples have been stretched and pitch-shifted beyond (immediate) recognition; to the ears they have melded into something that seems at once both ethereal and solid. 'The Kin-kindness of Beforehand' grew out of his 'Multiple Tongues' project, a series of pieces in which Wickham-Smith exposed the spoken word in many different languages to a series of digital manipulations. 'The Kin-kindness of Beforehand' is divided up into several distinct sections, each of which took on a particular persona during its creation. For the composer, this was the most complex of all the 'Multiple Tongues' works, because he wanted to use specific strings of words and the quality of writer Rachel Becker's voice somehow to comment on each another. Love & Lamentation started life as a setting for voice and electronics of part of the biblical Book of Lamentation, but it quickly became clear to that the literal setting of words was not going to convey the melancholic intimacy that needed to be expressed. As a teenager Wickham-Smith had heard Alain Gheerbrant's wonderful ethnomusicological recordings of a blind Turkish troubador and had fallen hopelessly in love with his voice and exquisite playing of the saz. About the same time, through his friend Richard Youngs, he had discovered also the ex tempore psalm singing of the Scottish Isle of Lewis. Fifteen years later, he decided that these two could be made somehow to work together to show the love and lamentation which he felt they both held in their deeper recesses, and which he wanted to present in this new piece. The result is a strange melée of feelings, repetitions and textures."

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Artist:	HAMILTON/MIKE SILVERTON/AL MARGOLIS, TOM
Title:	Analogue Smoque
Label:	POGUS
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21029