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"This is the first release in GD Stereo's Improvisational Architecture series. Cycloïdes is a work for disklavier by artist Jocelyn Robert. Trained as an architect, Jocelyn left the profession in 1989 to concentrate on situationist strategies in art: urban performances, 'derive' inspired projects, recordings from buildings, and soundtracks for cities. Jocelyn writes: 'sound as a set of physical, political, geographical forces, which, when working in a network, create a situation we call music. The concept of mistakes in music has always been one that intrigued me. My first player piano project, Le piano flou, was made twenty years ago from that starting point. The pieces I wrote then were composed from an analysis of what could be called mistakes in my 'below average' piano playing. In this new work, Cycloïdes, the software doesn't analyze mistakes or odd notes, it simply keeps them in. No forgetting, no forgiving. This project is a series of live improvisations, in which software keeps the notes I played and forces me to take them as the basis for the next ones, whether I liked them or not, whether they were right or wrong. The music continuously comes back unto itself, reaffirming its instant past, in an almost cyclic manner, in a cycloïdic one.' A compact disc release in a 5" X 7" sleeve."
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"31 is the latest release by legendary cassette culture artist If, Bwana -- aka Al Margolis. This album of electroacoustic compositions is built on 25 years of If, Bwana improvisations. Haunting, shimmering microtonal pieces are juxtaposed with compositions of reconfigured breath: flute and voice. Collaborators for this incarnation of If, Bwana include: Lisa Barnard (vocals), Jane Rigler (flute), Jacqueline Martelle (flute) and Tom Hamilton (Nord modular synth). Hamilton also mastered the music for production. Compact disc in a screenprinted raw kraftboard wallet designed by GD with photos by Al Margolis. Printed by VGKids. Limited edition of 500."
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"The first release in a series of compilations based on the concept of psychogeographical recordings and the theory of the dérive among the artists (the various) assembled here. Musique concrète, electroacoustic and experimental music shape a psychogeographical map of the abandoned McCarren Park Play Center & Pool in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. The 74' CD is packaged in a custom-designed wallet fold cover with images by Geoff Dugan. A blueline printed booklet insert contains graphics from each artist. Released in 1997." Artists: Gen Ken Montgomery, Chop Shop, Geoff Dugan, Francisco López, Sean Meehan, Brian Conley, John Hudak, If, Bwana and Pat Courtney.
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"The second release in a series of compilations based on the concept of psychogeographical recordings and the theory of the dérive among the artists (the various) assembled here. Musique concrète, electroacoustic and experimental music centered on the subject of a non-site-specific state of transit. The 74' CD is packaged in a custom-designed wallet fold cover with photographs by Pat Courtney and a blueline printed booklet insert with a text: Incidents of Displacement, by Allen S. Weiss. The various artists are the same as on the previous release Psychogeographical Dip. Released in 1999."
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Subtitled: Music Before And Between Beethoven, Stravinsky, Holst. "Available again! Repackaged by corporate demand in a limited edition of 900 sans the satire of the original which is no longer available. 'Why record intermissions? One duty of the composer is to expose the unexpected, overlooked, and hidden skeins of music woven in the world around us. Culling sounds from the world as a composition subverts long-standing, essentialist notions of music as comprised of notes, melody, traditional instruments (violin, guitar, drums, piano, etc.) and so forth as well as flouts contemporary expectations of abstractly agglomerated, musique concrète-ized sound.' An excerpt from the liner notes by DeLaurenti."
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2008 release. "Conops is a work created from recordings of environments which are dominated by networks of insect sound. It is a composition of sound immersion that is not designed to represent reality, but rather transform it into a new sound universe, absolute and hyper. Original environmental sound matter recorded at multiple locations in Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Greece, Japan, Senegal, and the USA between 1990 and 2005. Edited and mastered at Mobile Messor, spring 2007. Compact disc in an all white digipak. Limited edition of 1000."
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"GenCon Duets is dedicated to a friendship etched in stone -- errr -- letter-pressed in paper. It is also an unusual musical collaboration between Gen Ken Montgomery and Conrad Schnitzler. A follow-up to their 1988 album CONGEN New Dramatic Electronic Music (Generations Unlimited), this is a different kind of electronic music. These recordings were made in 1996 with CON's contemplative 12 finger piano compositions and GEN's everyday recordings. Besides a long pleasurable listen these recordings represent an examination of music, how we listen to it and what we hear, intended or not. The music of GenCon Duets is not a perfected formula or mathematical equation. It is the resonance of a moment, a series of moments that play out in time and space beyond the control of the artists and ultimately our control as listeners." -- Geoff Dugan
"The audio CD is comprised of 7 untitled tracks: 58 minutes of music. The package includes 12 image cards, video stills of the artists from Trans Berlin-Brooklyn Exchange created by Guido Englich (1985) using a Mac Plus from the video On Their Way by Gregor Schnitzler (1985). The cake-box like container and image cards were designed by GEN, Ben Owen and GD. The entire package was letter-pressed at Middlepress, Brooklyn, New York in a limited edition of 300."
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2006 release. "Two of Tamio & Sean's annual summer concerts in New York City recorded in binaural pedestrian splendor by Geoff Dugan, Tamio (sax), Sean (percussion) and the city. Binaural recordings are optimal for headphone listening but I recommend listening via stereo speakers in a room, on a summer day with the window open and the volume turned up. Playing records is a recreational activity. A handmade multiple edition of 500; 12", 180-gram vinyl in a screenprinted kraftboard jacket." Sleeve features Hanson-style Droll-Flaps.
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