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"Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as 'the king of sampling' and 'one of the best composers living in [the USA] today.' He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between California and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. Al-Noor contains Carl Stone's newest explorations into the dismantling and re-composition of global song and melody, and their relationships to other resonant rhythmic and harmonic phonemes. Stone's computer technology brings forth the transformation of beats, measures and sonic landscape into phase-shifted liquid journeys and sonic monuments. From solitude to shred, sounds gradually shift forth creating new scenes of distant mystery. Movement births stillness. Order becoming anarchy becomes paradise. Other-dimensional voices beat within a new world of texture and space. This is that. Here is there. Those become these. This CD of four new compositions represents Stone at one of the most creative periods of his career."
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Rick Potts: Musical saw, Hinge-neck electric guitar, Steiner-Parker synthesizer, Dr. Sample, Fake screaming rat, electronic birdcaller, Kalimba, Saxxy, Nose flute and Crow call. Rick Frystak, Chris Guttmacher, Brian A. Rosser. SAWS is a cracked-groove-celestial-takeoff to the nether-regions of the Musical Saw. Bowed, struck, tweaked, dubbed and kissed, SAWS do their business with electronic processing, hinged-neck guitar, spaced melody bass, squalky synths and crackling snare and cymbal. SAWS mark their territory with a sound unlike any other progressive music waveforms. Multi-instrumentalist Rick Potts is an improvisor and instrument maker who has been on L.A.'s musical fringe for a quarter of a century. A founding member of the L.A. Free Music Society (L.A.F.M.S.), Potts recorded and performed in one of its premiere units, Le Forte Four. A home-made sound scientist (with custom hinge-neck guitars, musical saw, electronics and tray of toys) whose idiosyncratic methodology produces sounds which are unique, alarming and enigmatic yet oddly cordial."
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Tokyo 77 = George Budd, Rick Cox, Thomas Newman, Chas Smith. "Tokyo 77 survey an electro-acoustic terrain haunted by a dark beauty. Exploring the intersections of New Music and Free Improvisation, they come armed with a complex assortment of instruments both conventional -- piano, violin, alto sax and unconventional -- Budd Box (a melange of wood and metal pieces attached to a resonator), prepared guitar (an electric guitar whose strings are braided with metal strips and then played with sponges and glass slides), as well as the Pez-eater and Guitarzilla (unique, hand-crafted sound generators fabricated by master instrument maker Chas Smith). Collectively and in real-time, Tokyo 77 take us on a journey through a soundscape of fleeting sonic images, of shifting textures and densities, of half-remembered thoughts, of mysterious voices speaking to us in tongues we cannot recognize yet whose meaning we grasp. Intriguingly matrixed by a hushed stillness at its core, Tokyo 77 present us with a music which is a provocative, introspective, and elusive union of opposites."
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