dick higgins “the thousand symphonies” compact disc

• symphony no. 163, allegro serioso (38:29)
  
• symphony no. 163, andantino (5:42)
  
• symphony no. 163, scherzo (5:16)
  
• symphony no. 343, a salsa sympony (8:42)
  
• symphony no. 367, andante allegretto (2:03)
  
• symphony no. 357, largo (3:08)
  
• symphony no. 357, presto con ritorneli (2:01)
  
• symphony no. 342, in 4 movements (without pauses) (6:18)
  
• symphony no. 609, the divers (2:31)
  
• a sample page (4:40)

alga marghen press release...

d i c k   h i g g i n s "the thousand symphonies" (cat no. plana-h 31nmn.077) digipack cd alga marghen presents the first edition ever issued of dick higgins’ music. fluxus founding member, in 1958 dick higgins studied composition and experimental music with john cage in his class at the new school for social research in new york together with, among others, la monte young, richard maxfield, toshi ichiyanaghi, george brecht, allan kaprow, al hansen, jackson mac low. in the spring of 1968 geoffrey hendricks and robert watts told dick higgins of a project that was afoot at douglass college, where both were teaching at the time, to organize a show around guns. at that time the usa police seemed to have nothing better to do than to chase down teenagers for possessing miniscule amounts of marijuana and throwing them in jail, thus ruining their lives. dick higgins decided it would be more worthy if one could set all the policemen in the usa to composing symphonies themselves. so he proposed that the beautiful music paper be machine gunned and that symphonies be derived from the result.  geoffrey hendricks arranged for captain toby of the south brunswick police to do this, which duly happened with a 9mm mp40 schmeisser submachine gun, filmed by alison knowles. a volunteer orchestra, conducted by philip corner and including charlotte moorman, performed nine of the resulting symphonies at douglass college on december 9th. the douglass concert was taped, but the only copy disappeared when the ars viva! gallery in berlin, germany, went bankrupt in 1984. the whole situation was documented with photographs in source magazine in 1970. as philip corner, conductor of the recordings presented here, said: “leave it to dick higgins to come up with the most spectacular way to generate a page of patternless notes. once over this dramatic gesture with machine-gun bullets leaves a stack of paper full of holes. i had not thought of this before but there must have been a conscious connection to the social turmoil of the 60's - all too unfortunately, come back around to high relevance these days”. first press limited to 500 copies with digipack sleeve, also including a 16 page booklet with full documentation presenting 2 texts by dick higgins from the 1960s as well as a philip corner testimony, original photos and original scores.

malcolm goldstein “early electronic / tape collage music” long playing record

• sheep meadow (6:34) 1967
  
• images of cheng hsieh (15:51) 1967
  
  
• it seemed to me (5:42) 1963
  
• judson #6 piece (6:43) 1963
  
• illuminations from fantastic gardens (13:03) 1964

alga marghen press release...

m a l c o l m g o l d s t e i n "early electronic / tape collage music" (cat no. plana-g alga25) lp record edition of 350 copies alga marghen proudly presents an lp edition including some of the seminal electronic / tape collage pieces by malcolm goldstien, created in close connection to the sulphuric new york pre-fluxus environment of the early 1960s. the 1960's, downtown new york city, rich with activities, doors opening upon a world fertile with possibilities: the delightful unknown. malcolm goldstein, first working at the columbia-princeton electronic music center, then joining the judson dance theater with dancers, musicians, poets, and visual artists all interacting in the common ground of improvisation / exploration. for the judson dance theater most of the music on this recording was created. "sheep meadow" (1966), a collage of two musics, folk & court music, was realized on a very cheap single tape recorder that offered its own electronic distortion embellishments. it was created for an anti-war demonstration to be held in that meadow of central park, with a dancer on top of a flat-bed truck and with loudspeakers. "images of cheng hsieh" (1967) was for a dance by carol marcy at judson church, simultaneously with an instrumental ensemble performing from the calligraphic graphic score, the name cheng hsieh. "it seemed to me" (1963) was composed for a dance by arlene rothlein; a collage of traditional musics chosen by her to be incorporated with electronic sounds. "judson #6 piece" (1963) was for ruth emerson, using only electronic sounds. finally "illuminations from fantastic gardens" (1964), the only composition for a vocal ensemble on this recording, was composed for elaine summers' "an evening of fantastic gardens", a multi-media event of dance, music, film and visual projections, as part of the judson dance theater concerts. it is the first music notated by malcolm goldstein with graphic renditions of the words of rimbaud and without traditional music notation. two performers were trained singers while the others were a visual artist and an actor; two women & two men, all in the spirit of the times, sources coming together, as art & life blended in an overflowing of exploration. edition limited to 350 copies, also including a 12 page large booklet with the reproduction of the complete "illuminations from fantastic gardens" graphic score.

harley gaber “the winds rise in the north” double compact disc set

• the winds rise in the north (part 1) (27:19)
  
• the winds rise in the north (part 2) (25:19)
  
  
• the winds rise in the north (part 3) (26:33)
  
• the winds rise in the north (part 4) (24:19)

edition rz press release...

edition rz reissues the winds rise in the north by american composer harley gaber, originally released on titanic records in 1976. interpreters: linda cummiskey (violin) malcolm goldstein (violin) kathy seplow (violin) stephen reynolds (viola) david gibson (violoncello) questions: how endlessly the heavens turn. and yet the earth remains at rest. do the sun and the moon quarrel as to their positions? who rules over and orders all these things? by whom are they in harmony? who effortlessly causes and maintains them? is there, perhaps, some hidden tension that prevents them from being other than as they are? must the heavenly bodies move as they do, powerless to do otherwise? look how the clouds drop the rain! and how the rain rises again to form the clouds! who moves them to this abundance? who effortlessly produces the primary orb and stimulates it? the winds rise in the north and blow to the east and west. others move upward uncertainly. whose breath moves them? who effortlessly causes them to blow? what is the cause? -- chuang tzu

malcolm goldstein “the seasons: vermont” compact disc

• summer (16:26)
  
• autumn (12:30)
  
• winter (25:10)
  
• spring (7:52)
  
• soundings for solo violin (11:08)

malcolm goldstein “a sounding of sources” compact disc

• configurations in darkness (10:11) 1995
  
• configurations in darkness (26:38) 1995
  
• ishi/timechangingspaces (20:13) 1988
  
• ishi/“man waxati” soundings (13:16) 1988

“montréal télégraphe • le son iconographe” double compact disc set

• cd and cd rom set !!!

• indicatif (1:55)
  
• transfluide (4:48)
  
• 50hz / 60hz (7:13)
  
• il fantasma di marcel (5:35)
  
• induction (5:12)

• via varèse : extrait de l’astronome d’edgar varèse traduit en code more par jacques drouin (0:38)
  
• via varèse : clarinette sule (6:47)
  
• via varèse : violin seul (5:37)
  
• via varèse : trio, code morse, clarinette, violon (5:14)

• untitled (sound) (21:00)

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