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01. Martin Bartlett - Quarry (Edit)
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02. Martin Bartlett - Muscle Music (Edit)
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03. Martin Bartlett - Humors Accompaniment 2
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04. Martin Bartlett - Humors Accompaniment 3
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05. Martin Bartlett - Humors Accompaniment 4
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06. Martin Bartlett - Time Passing X (Edit)
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07. Martin Bartlett - More Lines From Chuang Tzu (Edit)
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08. Martin Bartlett - Pulse Material G Major
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09. Martin Bartlett - Three Songs (feat. Dan Shiedt + Doug Collinge)
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10. Martin Bartlett - Amsterdam Variations
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11. Martin Bartlett - Buchla Bartlett Duo (Edit)
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12. Martin Bartlett - Electronic Recalcitrant
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13. Martin Bartlett - Marginalia (Edit)
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14. Martin Bartlett - Humors Song
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15. Martin Bartlett - Humors Accompaniment 5
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ARTIST
BARTLETT, MARTIN
TITLE
Anecdotal Electronics: Live Experiments & Other Recordings
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ARC LIGHT EDITIONS
CATALOG #
ALE 009LP
ALE 009LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
5/10/2019
Martin Bartlett
was an inspiring and original thinker, composer, writer, performer, and organizer. His preoccupation with building aleatoric elements into electronic music distinguishes his work. He devised elegant and open interactions for instrumental performers and computer-controlled synthesizers which included building his own electronic devices and extensive work on the Buchla 400. He worked with or studied under
Pauline Oliveros
,
John Cage
, and
David Tudor
, and collaborated extensively with
Don Buchla
, and some of their live performances are included on the LP
Anecdotal Electronics
. He also studied Carnatic vocal music with
V. Lakshminarayana Iyer
in Madras, South Asian music with
Pandit Pran Nath
, and gamelan with
K.R.T. Wasitidipuro
. He founded the
Vancouver Community Gamelan
in 1986. His performances were often collaborative -- for the Western Front's second anniversary in 1975, he devised the four-channel piece "One Piece for Everyone", where he prepared and cooked a cauliflower curry on a table connected to a self-built synthesizer, while reading from texts on food. When the curry was cooked, the piece ended, and everyone was fed. Bartlett was a prolific writer, and he expresses himself in fresh, lucid, and wonderfully descriptive prose, offering clear thinking on social aspects of electronic music performance; on the barriers between the performer and the "black box" and on possibilities for organic systems in electronic music. He also wrote the incandescent manifesto-like piece "Electronic Recalcitrant" (which forms the cover artwork for
Anecdotal Electronics
), in which he hoped that electronic music would be imbued with "organic codes of growth and metamorphosis" so that he could "pluck elegant and fleshy electronic sound fish from the frothy algorithmic sea of possibilities". It is unclear why Bartlett's work remains unknown. Perhaps it is because it remained largely inside the academy. Perhaps his commitment to live performance and community activity means it was more transient than the work of others. Perhaps his openness about his sexuality played a part in his music not receiving much recognition -- one can only speculate. But correspondence in his archive shows that rejection from labels was a source of great personal discontent, leading to Bartlett working with the Western Front to release his final opus "Pythagoras' Ghost" shortly before his death. Bartlett died young, of AIDS-related causes, in 1993, but his music is characterized by an irresistible and unselfconscious charm that renders his sound unique.
Arc Light Editions releases an LP "sketchbook" of live recordings, experiments, and spoken word titled
Anecdotal Electronics
, and a CD of Bartlett's longer electroacoustic and orchestral works, titled
Ankle On
(ALE 010CD). Compiled and edited by
Luke Fowler
with
Jennifer Lucy Allan
. Mastered by
Giuseppe Ielasi
. "Three Songs" features
Dan Shiedt
+
Doug Collinge
.
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