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C74 007
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"Observing an ecological system and the act of listening to music have much in common; both reveal their subtleties over time as a reward for the attentive eye and ear rather than presenting themselves in a single instant, and they both require a sense of relationship of their parts to the whole. Sarah Peebles' Insect Groove is a set of sonic landscapes for the ear that is, in the words of The Wire, '? a rewarding interface between digital abstraction, group improvisation, 21st century program music, Zen performance and ecological manifesto.' The disc collects a series of works by Sarah Peebles and an A-list of collaborators from the experimental music community (British composer and text artists David Toop and the extended guitar work of Nilan Pererra) and the work of Jin Hi Kim and Ko Ishikawa, traditional musicians known world-wide for their commitment to bringing the sounds of their respective traditional Korean and Japanese court instruments into the new century. The eight tracks on Insect Groove combine Sarah's performance on the sho, an ancient Japanese mouth organ found in the Japanese gagaku orchestra, with her own Max patches that she uses to access clusters of natural and mechanical samples."
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C74 006
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"The migration of the tools of computer music from large specialized systems to 'personal' machines has become a common theme in discussions of art in the new century. Regardless of genre or style, the newly liberated composer faces similar questions regardless of their area of interest: how does one use a computer as an instrument? William Kleinsasser's Available Instruments provides two possible answers. His new c74 release includes two works that match high levels of musicianship from ensembles and soloist with his own compositional concerns about the relationships between timbre, performer, and machine. The title track is a duet for piano and computer whose energy lies in the tectonics of a complex player-controlled interplay between 'memories' of a performance and the human performer. The Double Concerto embodies a different strategy, where the performers collectively vitalize a complex system of memory and transformation composed of interactions with pre-recorded, recalled, and reordered versions of performance. It is music with the scale and drama of a great soundtrack -- two carefully and fully imagined sonic worlds destined to reward the serious and regular listener."
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