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Artist:
KLINE, PHIL
Title:
Around The World In A Daze
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
2DVD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
S 2015DVD
DVD-Audio release, total Content: 110 min. NTSC format, All Region. "Leading new-music composer Phil Kline debuts a major work on this new surround sound DVD. Heard here for the first time, this 65-minute studio composition was commissioned by Starkland to premiere on this high-resolution surround-sound DVD.
Daze
is Kline's longest work and biggest commission to date.
Daze
is also likely the largest work so far commissioned for a high-resolution surround-sound recording. Performers include the uber-cool Ethel string quartet and violin virtuoso Todd Reynolds. Surround-sound tracks place listeners inside wondrous boombox choirs, an ethereal Ethel string quartet, a weird madrigal, hyper-dense bells (hundreds of thousands at one point), richly mournful multi-tracked vocals, soaring violinistics, and an immersive environment of 15,000 African gray parrots. The release also offers a second Extras DVD with a composer-produced music video and a 30-minute interview with Kline and John Schaefer. The custom 5"x10" digipak includes a 24-page booklet. The two DVDs contain a total content of 110 minutes. This release follows Starkland's groundbreaking surround-sound
Immersion
DVD, now recognized as the first commissioned high-resolution surround-sound recording.
Immersion
won praise from Sound & Vision, Stereophile, Billboard, etc. and was the #1 best-selling DVD-Audio at Amazon for nearly a year. The main disc offers
Daze
in several formats for various home playback setups: the standard Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS 5.1, and high-resolution audiophile DVD-Audio, as well as a stereo version. Playback of the
Daze
music is accompanied by over 80 images shot by Kline."
Artist:
DOCKSTADER, TOD
Title:
Quatermass
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ST 201
Seminal musique concrete recordings from the early 60s that were first issued on CD in '92/'93. These 2 CDs offer all of Dockstader's principal solo works, including unreleased works and material that has been out of print on LP for over a decade (spread over 3 LPs on the Owl label). Dockstader deserves shelf space next to Schaeffer, Henry, Stockhausen, Varése, etc. -- historically vital, minutely detailed experimental electronic music and tape composition. "My choice of the term 'Organized Sound' for my own work was, in part, a tribute to the 'Poéme' and to Varése. I also chose it because, in the 60s, the term 'electronic music' was coming to mean music made purely of synthetic sound, and I was working in
both
'concrete' and electronically generated sounds...my 'synthesizer' for everything on this CD was one or two sine-wave test generators ('oscillators' in those days) which were 'played' by turning a dial. I forced them to produce harmonics (square waves) by amplifying them into distortion, and got pulse-trains out of them by temporarily rewiring them into instability. The 'notes' they produced were achieved by editing tape, note by note (by note by note...)...it had a muscular joy to it. I think a lot of us had fun up on that singing high wire, teetering between control and chaos, trying to push the sound a little farther toward Something we hadn't heard before, working
in
it...listening." --Dockstader.
Artist:
VA
Title:
Immersion
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
DVD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
ST 2010
"This leading-edge DVD release allows 13 well-known composers to dramatically explore surround sound for the first time. The enveloping results are intense, exciting, haunting, beautiful. The 13 pieces here premiere on this recording -- they've never previously been heard anywhere. Because this DVD-Audio/Video recording, the first of its kind in history, breaks new ground both musically and technologically (all tracks commissioned for 5.1 channel surround sound). The world's best-known mastering engineer (Bob Ludwig) and the world's leading surround sound engineer (Tomlinson Holman) were both actively involved with this release." Artists include Pamela Z, Bruce Odland, Maggi Payne, Carl Stone, Phil Kline, Ellen Fullman, Lukas Ligeti, Paul Dresher, Pauline Oliveros, Paul Dolden, Merzbow, Ingram Marshall, Meredith Monk. "In this disc, a new genre of music is born." -- Kyle Gann.
Artist:
DOCKSTADER, TOD
Title:
Apocalypse
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ST 202
2nd, equally desirable volume, which completes the documentation of Dockstader's organized sound works. "The obsessive care with which Starkland have compiled these extraordinary recordings should ensure that Dockstader will be remembered as the innovative, visionary figure he undoubtedly was." --
The Wire
.
Artist:
AMIRKHANIAN, CHARLES
Title:
Walking Tune
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ST 206
Contemporary electroacoustic music. "Amirkhanian incorporates samples acoustic environmental sounds (which he calls 'representational sounds') and traditional musical pitched sounds ('abstract sounds') to develop dreamscapes which act as disjunct narratives. His work introduces a world of memory-triggers which tend to induce a trancelike listening state."
Artist:
KLUCEVSEK, GUY
Title:
Transylvanian Softwear
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ST 207
New issue of this CD previously released by the obscure John Marks Records label. "Klucevsek's five pieces here are inspired by a variety of sources. The title piece (1991) is based on Hasidic wedding music, while the ''Viavy Rose' Variations' (1989) is based on traditional melodies from Madagasca and 'Perusal' (1988) is inspired by Andean pan-pipe music. the rhythmically complex 'Three Microids' (1991) is a tribute to Bela Bartok, and 'Bandoneons, Basil and Bay Leaves' (1993) was written in memory of Astor Piazolla. The CD also offers John Zorn's 'Road Runner' (1986), Fred Frith's 'The Disinformation Polka' (1994) and William Duckworth's 'Slow Dancer in Yugolslavia' (1990).
Artist:
CLOIDT, JAY
Title:
Kole Kat Krush
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ST 208
"Starkland's latest CD features the first recording of Jay Cloidt, the 'Spike Jones of the Bay Area's new music scene'. The Kronos Quartet, Paul Dresher Ensemble, and Basso Bongo are the performers. The CD opens with 'Kole Kat Krush' (1989), commissioned by the Kronos Quartet and recorded by them here at Skywalker Ranch. This frequently performed piece juxtaposes music from Stravinsky, Beethoven, Eric Clapton, and Sly Stone. As Carl Stone notes in the CD's introduction, Cloidt typically combines sampled real-world sounds with live snippets of familiar classical and pop music, using 'skill, wit, perversity, and adroitness.'"
Artist:
KLUCEVSEK, GUY
Title:
Free Range Accordion
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ST 209
"The CD presents the premiere recording of a powerful, deeply moving 18 minute work by the widely performed Aaron Jay Kernis. There is also a premiere recording of a work by the well-known Japanese composer Somei Satoh. Other composers featured include Stephen Montague, Jerome Kitzke, Lois V Vierk, Guy Klucevsek, Lars Hollmer, and Burt Bacharach."
Artist:
KLEIER, ROGER
Title:
Deep Night, Deep Autumn
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ST 211
"Roger Kleier, an experimental guitarist, is an important part of New York's downtown new music scene. He regularly performs and records with a variety of leading-edge musicians, including Kato Hideki, Ikue Mon, David Moss, Phill Niblock, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, La Donna Smith, Carl Stone, Davey Williams, John Zorn, and others. Kleier's unique style draws equally from improvisation, contemporary classical music, and the American guitar traditions of blues, jazz, and rock. Kleier seduces listeners by mutating his guitar in various ways, ranging from the hallowed techniques of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart, through the extended techniques of avant-garde guitar-mangling, to the recent technological innovations of sampling, layering, and digital sound processing."
Artist:
EEN, ROBERT
Title:
Mystery Dances
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ST 212
Robert Een is an award-winning and widely acclaimed composer, singer, and cellist. Based in New York and Los Angeles, he has performed his music throughout the world. "
Mystery Dances
is like a musical caravan drawing upon traditions from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. The music is energetic, filled with contrasting moods of humor and poignancy." -- Meredith Monk.
Artist:
PAMELA Z
Title:
A Delay is Better
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ST 213
"For the first time, a CD devoted exclusively to works by the popular composer/performer Pamela Z has been released by Starkland. The CD offers some of Z's most widely enjoyed signature pieces, carefully selected from her extensive repertoire developed over the last 15 years. Z's mesmerizing music skillfully blends of her lovely voice, extended vocal techniques, and sophisticated electronic manipulations to create warm, witty explorations of the world around us."
Artist:
BIMSTEIN, PHILLIP
Title:
Larkin Gifford's Harmonica
Label:
STARKLAND
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ST 214
"This new Phillip Bimstein recording follows his very popular
Garland Hirschi's Cows
Starkland CD, which was widely praised, generated hundreds of calls to radio stations, and was anointed 'a cult classic' on NPR's
All Things Considered
. Noted composer John Adams wrote the CD's introduction, commenting that Bimstein '
has an enviable knack for choosing spoken narratives that reminds me of the filmmaker Errol Morris.
' This accessible 'alternative classical' CD offers three portraits of: the elderly harmonica-playing Larkin Gifford of Springdale, UT; the philosophizing dice-caller Tom Martinet of Las Vegas; and the charming beer vendor Robert 'Bushy Wushy' Logan of St. Louis. There are also two attractively melodic instrumental works."
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