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previous artist: chris watson		there are 2 titles featuring david watson in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: tom watson

$10.08

back in stock as of
november 8th, 2011

first in stock on
august 10th, 2007

threads:
experimental-instruments
free-improvisation

ecstatic peace! (usa) #e# 089b cd

david watson “throats” compact disc

stomion (10:54)
pneumothorax (2:10)
glossal (3:52)
queen jealousy (3:56)
seventh stomach (2:21)
trachea (1:43)
cutting (3:04)
pool (1:55)
billow (6:05)
acute (2:10)
pleural (1:41)
echo (2:00)
pythia (6:12)
vacuole (8:20)

bagpipe, jaw harp, and vocal improvisations/compositions by david watson (whose avant-label disc was an unheralded highlight of said catalogue...), makigami koichi, and shelley hirsch.

ecstatic peace! press release...

david watson
throats cd
cat: e#89b

from 1981 to 1986, david watson was active in the new zealand music and art scene, as a member of primitive arts group, appearing in the first nz international arts fest, and he co-founded braille records to record the local improv music scene (which released twelve albums in the 80s). david watson released three lps on braille, and did much to create an improv / noise-music scene where previously there was none. in 1987 he moved to new york and has performed in clubs, new music and concert venues throughout new york, europe, australia, nz and japan.

from 1988 to 1995, david watson played primarily guitar performances in new york with ushio torikai, ikue mori, mark ribot, zeena parkins, kato hideki, cecil taylor, william hooker, shelley hirsch, andrea parkins plus many others, at venues like cbgb’s, knitting factory, and the cooler. he was also curator for music series like roulette, experimental intermedia, st. marks church, greenwich house, bang-on-a-can, ps 1, and ps 122. he did a japan tour with john zorn and members of the boredoms, merzbow, ground zero, makigami koichi and others.

‘throats’ features david watson on bagpipe, shelley hirsch on vocals, and makigami koichi on vocals and jaw harp.

cd cover design by barbara bloom.

$12.61

new to stock as of
february 11th, 2009

threads:
modern-composition

experimental intermedia (usa) #xi 132 cd
xi records (usa) #xi 132 cd

david watson “fingering an idea” double compact disc set

dexter • music for highland bagpipe
sinister • music for acoustic and electric guitars

experimental intermedia press release...

david watson
fingering an idea

2 cds for the price of 1

i first heard david watson some 25 or more years ago at a small festival in tasmania. exotic location - and so was the music. i was astonished by a highly developed bowed guitar technique - up there with one of my favourite bowed guitar exponents, davey williams of alabama. the watson concert demonstrated a concentration and fascination with long tones and tuning. fast forward on some years, and i heard the same guitarist playing in downtown new york, where he had decamped, playing in an improvised guitar style very much indicative of the place and its cultural environment. that's not a negative assessment, just noticing a change of aesthetic values.

then at the end of the 1990s, we met again in berlin. david was there primarily to play in the exiles festival. and yes he had brought his guitar and yes also his bagpipes. somehow the haptic feedback of these two instruments seemed so far removed from one another, i couldn't imagine how they ended up in the same pair of hands; the physiological processes are so different for each instrument.

then there is this recording. although the forward velocity is purposefully restricted, there is plenty of tonal development - it's just that it jumps straight over the equal tempered system and into other notions of tuning and scale - notably and happily unavoidably the harmonic series remains central to this organization of tones. something akin to clanging church bells from hell - the overtones inherent in the basic chords being heavily accentuated. odd things happen on judgment day, as you would expect from a player as opposed to a composer; unexpected clonks, squeaks, clicks, scrapes, adjustments are continually being addressed to the sonic states of each tuning regime.

meanwhile back at bagpipe central, the bag is being squeezed mercilessly. simple integer intervals of 5/4 and 6/5 (major and minor thirds) are being messed with as the listener is lead to mecca but never quite allowed to enter the gates. the 3/2 interval and bastion of western music also wobbles under the wheezing strain. disciples of just intonation should probably avoid this album. -jon rose (from the liner notes)

fingering an idea (a phrase pulled from a chris mann piece) resulted from a phill niblock invitation to make a double cd for bagpipe and guitar. a bagpipe cd is a particular challenge. a high beam spatial explorer, it is the kind of unstable phenomena that is hard to enjoyably reproduce on your stereo player. the first pipe recording session was an ensemble piece, the score including walks around the concert hall. the second, a solo multi-track session. the third with rob ramirez, recorded material was played back in the concert hall through an eight-channel msp patch. a carnival of colliding pans, exits and entrances, re-recorded for stereo.

for "sinister", an old cassette recorded at amica bunker was the original germ. a sequence of re-tuning and de-stringing, starting with six strings pitched across a whole-tone and ending with an improvisation on one string. this old piece was dusted off and reworked through an image of bell-ringing, another outdoors vernacular. - david watson

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chris watson

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tom watson