philip corner / michel vogel / phoebe neville “musiques des ailes • winged music” long playing record

• trio - p. neville, p. corner, m. vogel (11:19)
  
• solo - m. vogel (3:45)
  
• duo "battaille" - m. vogel & p. corner (7:36)
  
  
• trio - p. neville, p. corner, m. vogel (20:20)

ricerca sonora press release...

rs2 - michel vogel, philip corner, phoebe neville musiques des ailes / wingèd music - lp (improvisation) with the gongs of michel vogel; played by him, philip corner and phoebe neville, at "archipel" (l'atelier of polska) paris, oct. 3, 1999. edition of 300 copies on black vinyl. single cover with two inserts. with a text titled "hers the bell of wings" of jean-louis vincendeau, both in english (translated by p. corner) and french. phoebe neville is musician, singer, and dancer. philip corner composer, musician, and former professor at rutgers university in new jersey. michel vogel, a musician and maker of instruments, principally percussion (gongs and bells). he has for this occasion installed a double frame for eight steel bells inspired by a burmese model. in the context of "archipel" the three present a performance in four parts. 1. the three of them on the same bell-frame, each with a different score and beater: they are moving a lot, which agreeably creates a progressively rushing effect. 2. a duet between the frame and the gong. each one stays put so there is more of a group effect. 3. phoebe neville puts herself in front of the gong and dances in response: vibrating, she is as if pushed or carried along by the gong's sound in a muted and harmonious drone. 4. again a duo (almost a duel!) this time on a single gong with mimetic force. the wings turn and propulse the sound into all possible corners of the room; the gong rubbed vibrates the floor under the feet of the viewers who are moreover invited to rub sheets of paper of different colours and shapes suspended within reach of the hand. the original model for these bells is a flat piece of bronze or copper placed in the doorway of the kachins or mungs of burma. but, if the model is antique, the arrangement of the whole is wholly contemporary, realized with today's metals by michel vogel for a living music of today. furthermore, the form has evolved by a "happy accident" towards a silhouette more properly occidental --- one which suggests a hat. the musical referents might be found between erik satie and john cage all the while precisely following the thread of explorative expression into as yet unheard territory, thus asserting what they justly call "visual listening". jean-louis vincendeau translation by philip corner credits painting by michel vogel insert photo by polska mastered by silvia kastel layout ricerca sonora producer lomolino pasquale

philip corner “italian air: wind, water & metal • aria italiana: vento, acqua & metallo” long playing record

• “ear wave” (16:58) 1994
  
  
• “gong/ear” (11:57) 1990
  
• “i respiri/the breaths” (8:38) 1992

ricerca sonora press release...

ricerca sonora presents philip corner “italian air: wind, water & metal” lp  label: ricerca sonora cat.: rs1 format: vinyl lp edition: 300 copies  edition of 300 copies. single cover with 2 inserts. ricerca sonora proudly presents, as its first release (rs1), a new philip corner album titled “italian air: wind, water & metal (aria italiana: vento, acqua & metallo)”.  philip corner (b. 1933) studied composition with henry cowell and otto luening and musical analysis with oliver messiaen. during the 1960s and 70s he was an active member of fluxus, a founder (along with james tenney and malcolm goldstein) of the tone roads chamber ensemble, the resident musician and composer for the judson dance theatre, and co-founder of gamelan son of lion (with barbara benary and daniel goode).  "italian air: wind, water & metal" presents three previously unpublished compositions by philip corner recorded in various locations. on side 1 "ear wave" (venice, october 1994) is a long piece for korean cymbal in water: an ecstatic composition recorded and played outdoor by phil corner; acousmatic interjections of metallic resonances and subtle water sounds; you can listen the distant sound of the midnight bell of san marco in venice. on the second side the track "gong/ear" recorded in june 1990 (s.andrea di rovereto, italy) phil corner plays gong together with rain and thunder for an abstracted and strongly emotional track. followed by “i respiri/the breaths” an avant-garde composition for alphorn and gong recorded in 1992 (at teatro scandicci).  philip corner is truly the equal of john cage in bringing us to examine what we call music and how we understand music-making. in few words, philip corner is one of the most important figure of the american avant-garde.