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previous artist: poire_z		there are 4 titles featuring larry polansky in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: polar goldie cats

$14.62

back in stock as of
march 22nd, 2011

first in stock on
december 21st, 2010

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
modern-composition
1970s-electronic
1980s-electronic
digital-musics
minimalism-drones

new world (usa) #nw 80684 cd

larry polansky “the theory of impossible melody ” compact disc

b'rey'sheet (in the beginning...) (13:23 1985
four voice canon #3 (1:52) 1975
epitaph (four voice canon #21) (4:10) 2006-2008
four voice canon #23b (freehorn canon) (8:08) 2008
simple actions/rules of compossibility (22:43) 1989
psaltery (16:42) 1978-1979

january 2009 release ; very nice collection of electro-acoustic and digital works from larry polansky, including a late-70’s tape piece (quite grating/aggressive modes for bowed psaltery & electronics) and several pieces (dating from the 80s through present day) casting various solo instrumentalists through a maze of live-computer processing ...

new world press release...

composer(s): larry polansky
album title: the theory of impossible melody
cat. no.: 80684
genre: classical / contemporary
release date: 01/2009

jody diamond, chris mann, voice
phil burk and larry polansky, live computers
larry polansky, fretless electric guitars
robin hayward, tubas

among the lineages of knowledge that larry polansky (b. 1954) has woven together in his creative work, as both a composer and theorist, have been mathematics, intonation theory, cybernetics, systems theory, artificial intelligence, musicology (both western and non-western), american sign language, and jewish mysticism. he has combined these and many other fields of study together into some of the most important music written by anyone of his generation while retaining status as the composer who is most worthy of being called a true theorist. in many ways his compositions are themselves injunctive demonstrations of his theoretical insights that stand as critiques of the theoreticism that is now endemic to the art world.

this intellectual integrity and facility has also been responsible for one of the most interesting characteristics of polansky's compositional output. his music is one of the most successful, and rare, examples of a confluence between two, generally conflicting, twentieth-century musical streams. like his mentor, james tenney-and many other late twentieth-century century experimental masters who were inspired by the aesthetic innovations of cage-polansky creates musical expositions of phenomenal reality. sometimes these are based in psychoacoustic science and sometimes they are grounded in mathematical formalisms. sometimes they explore both at once. what he also manages to do-and this is where he succeeds at the above mentioned confluence-is so often reveal these concepts within an expressive musical frame that is strongly linked to more traditional musical values.

$14.62

new to stock as of
december 21st, 2010

new world (usa) #nw 80665 cd

margaret lancaster “io” compact disc

johanna beyer - have faith! (2:00) 1936
lois v. vierk - io (10:14) 1999
joan la barbara - atmos (14:37) 2008
james tenney - seegersong #2 (12:10) 1999
larry polansky - daughter of piker (2:56) 1998
larry polansky - i know you! (3:17) 1998
larry polansky - you're no piker (2:12) 1998
larry polansky - you're a piker (2:37) 1998
larry polansky - piker (9:10) 1998

june 2009 release ; assorted pieces for flute - in solo and small-ensemble settings - performed by margaret lancaster ...

new world press release...

composer(s): johanna beyer, lois v. vierk, joan la barbara, james tenney, larry polansky
album title: io
cat. no.: 80665
genre: classical / solo instrumental
release date: 06/2009

margaret lancaster, flutes;

beth griffith, soprano
larry polansky, electric guitar
matthew gold, marimba, percussion

margaret lancaster has burst onto the scene as our leading proponent of the avant-garde flute ... what distinguishes lancaster is her versatility, her willingness to let her flute be the focus of anything from technopop to theater to tap dancing, along with a breathless fluidity of line that raises every performance above the merely technically correct.

- kyle gann

this gathering of music by five composers spanning more than 70 years demonstrates the richness and possibility of the stylistic freedom that is sometimes called the american experimental tradition. timelessly potent for their careful exploration of musical material, these are works which have no cause to be esoteric, by leading american composers who deserve much higher regard. and in the hands of a performer and new-music advocate, margaret lancaster, who curates her repertoire with an attention to a continuum which composer johanna beyer calls "future, present, past," we are given the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of how this tradition lives. these are all, with the exception of seegersong #2, world-premiere recordings.

$12.61

back in stock as of
january 6th, 2011

first in stock on
february 11th, 2009

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation

pogus (usa) #p 21031 cd

tom erbe / chris mann / larry polansky / douglas repetto / christian wolff “trios” compact disc

track one (10:54)
track two (2:56)
track three (15:09)
track four (14:26)
track five (4:27)
track six (6:26)

pogus press release...

21031-2

tom erbe, chris mann, larry polansky, douglas repetto, christian wolff
trios

tom erbe - recording, editing, processing
chris mann - voice, texts
larry polansky - fretted and fretless electric guitars
douglas repetto - computer, electronics, recording
christian wolff - piano, bass, percussion, melodica

"it's organized sound! (re)assembled improvisation!!"

trios is a collaboration between five musicians, over time, and over space. it combines instrumental and electronic improvisation with non-real-time computer processing and editing. chris mann, douglas repetto, and larry polansky recorded several hours of live improvised material in one session. months later repetto, polansky, and christian wolff recorded some more. the recordings were then sent off to tom erbe, who culled interesting sections from both sessions and then processed, edited, and mixed them to form the six tracks on the cd.

or: organized sound. (re)assembled improvisation.

$18.91

back in stock as of
january 6th, 2011

first in stock on
april 3rd, 2007

threads:
modern-composition

pogus (usa) #p 21036 cd

“d.i.y. canons” double compact disc set

kyoko kobayashi - cat canon (3:12)
bruno ruviaro - entrei pelo canon 1a (2:46)
mike swinchoski - canon no 1a (3:12)
mike swinchoski - transmissions (3:12)
mike swinchoski - freez dried canon (6:24)
mike winter - filter iv - p.i.x.l. study no 1 (7:55)
ross craig - barbie's phone canon (1:53)
giulano lombardo - 00 (1:38)
giulano lombardo - 01 (2:39)
giulano lombardo - 02 (0:48)
giulano lombardo - 03 (0:33)
giulano lombardo - 04 (2:26)
giulano lombardo - 05 (5:33)
simon wickham-smith - kullankeltaiset päivät (larry-iie) (11:15)
steven m. miller - twin canon (9:43)
steven m. miller - pulse canon (3:20)
masaki kubo - pizzicato canon (1:35)
drew krause - canon for lp (10:35)
george zelenz - thermohaline (6:01)
stefan tomic - ringtone canon (3:55)
bo bell - metrocard canon (1:41)
philip corner / mike winter - mens 5/4 (7:03)
philip corner / mike winter - mens 9/8 (7:03)

pogus press release...

21036-2 cd

diy canons

simon wickham-smith, curator

okay. really cool, kind of fun, double cd compilation based on a work of larry polansky's. pieces are constructed from the sounds of cats, screams, midi instruments, computer, barbie phone, samples, wooden flutes, piano, bass clarinet, ringtones, metro cards, contrabass, and more. i have some of my favorites - which keep changing each time i listen to the discs. perhaps you will too. read on too get a "real" description from the curator of this project.

"the pieces on this cd are all based on the ideas in larry polansky's four voice canons, a series of pieces he began in 1975. these canons are usually "mensuration canons," which means that the tempi of successive voices is proportional to their start times, so that the voices end together. they also use simple ideas of moving through a list of permutations, and applying the elements of those permutations to various musical parameters. a set of polansky's canons was produced on cold blue records as four voice canons (cb0011).

polansky described these ideas in four voice canon #13 ("diy canon"), a kind of open-source meta-canon score. he distributed this at talks and on the web as an open invitation to others who wanted to make four voice canons of their own. composers responded with a wide variety of variations on the basic idea; a selection of these works is presented here." - simon wickham-smith, curator

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poire_z

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polar goldie cats