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previous record label: xeric		there are 7 titles on xi records in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: yesmissolga

$12.01

new to stock as of
march 9th, 2007

threads:
live-electronic
digital-musics
modern-composition
sound-art
sound-poetry

experimental intermedia (usa) #xi 129 cd
xi records (united states) #xi 129 cd

david behrman “my dear sigfried” double compact disc set

two discs containing some classic live-electronic work !!

disc 1: my dear siegfried

statement against the war
my father's grocery store
watercress well
letter from s. n. behrman
august 22, 1939
letter from siegried sassoon
sept. 1, 1939
everyone sang

disc 2: qsrl: 5 pieces

qsrl (1998)
viewfinder (2002)
a new team takes over (1969)
touch tones (1979)
pools of phase locked loops (1972)

experimental intermedia press release...

david behrman
my dear siegfried

david behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as musical compositions.

sam behrman and siegfried sassoon met in 1920, when behrman, then a young writer working at the new york times, was sent to interview sassoon at the start of the english poet's postwar american lecture tour. in that tour sassoon was billed as 'england's soldier-poet.' he had a reputation both as a war hero and an anti-war poet and peace activist.

many years later, each author wrote about this youthful meeting, which inaugurated a long-lasting friendship and a correspondence, mostly conducted via trans-atlantic letters between england and america, which continued into the 1950s.

my dear siegfried provides a performance environment in which musicians interact with texts by the two authors and with music software designed to respond to the performers' actions. the texts and the software elements are arranged as a linear thread along which the piece progresses. in qsrl a sensor listens to what the performer is doing and a computer music system provides responses to information the sensor takes in. viewfinder is a sound installation using software based on homemade synthesizer music of the early 1970s. in 'a new team takes over', homemade synthesizer modules were used in this piece to distort recordings made off the air of press conferences by members of the new nixon administration following the american election of 1968. 'touch tones', from the early days of music done with the help of newly-available, small, inexpensive 'microcomputers,' made use of a kind of primitive artificial intelligence scheme. 'pools of phase locked loops' was one of four pieces made in response to commissions to the artists of the sonic arts union (robert ashley, alvin lucier, gordon mumma and me.) the recording is from a live performance at radio bremen in may 1972.

$12.01

new to stock as of
march 9th, 2007

threads:
modern-composition
fluxus
sound-art

experimental intermedia (usa) #xi 125 cd
xi records (united states) #xi 125 cd

philip corner “40 years and one” compact disc

7 joyous flashes (3:45)
concerto for housekeeper (5:58)
short piano piece iv (2:51)
short piano piece ix (2:07)
short piano piece xiii (1:50)
flux & form no. 2 (solo) (4:01)
flux & form no. 2 (3 versions mixed) (4:39)
pulse: a ‘keyboard dance’/c major chord (25:43)
"perfect" (on the strings) (21:49)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "concerto for housekeeper"

experimental intermedia press release...

philip corner
40 years and one

“this man and his work represent the real "speculum musicae" of the past 40 years. the example of his music embodies a lifelong commitment to an integral radicalism. . . . this is a venerable tradition that philip has written so eloquently about, and continued in his music. a tradition that stems from "charlie" ives through john cage and lou harrison. all of these composers would ultimately admonish us to do one thing: to open our ears--and listen!” —peter garland

“perhaps the single most striking quality of corner’s piano music, beyond the pleasure of the music, is the crystal clarity of the concepts. corner moves purposefully from deep musical thought via these concepts to highly pianistic compositions with a broad range of affect, much as bach moves from his deep music via contrapuntal forms to the unfolding of his keyboard works. there is love for the piano, and in recording the works, and, in relationship to it, the choice mastering techniques for each work. there he was joyful.” —charlie morrow

“when philip plays the piano he always makes me imagine that music is a single great continuum, and that we always live in all of it. we may hear it a portion at a time, but we always live in all of it. i am moved by the ease with which he leads me from here to here to here, each different, always now, always familiar, always remembered, yet unexpected, like watching the change, return and passing of the seasons. in addition to making music, he shows me the reasons for making music.” —henry martin

“always there is the presence of touch as play upon, within, around the piano; his playing, the keyboard and frame of instrument singing, of fingers, palms, arms and body, whole... by touch releasing, through gesture sounding, and always mind/sense being one... the piano thereby is transformed, qualities of percussion and human voice all possible, extended and endlessly fulfilled with nuances of articulation and resonance.” — malcolm goldstein

$12.01

new to stock as of
march 9th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
field-recordings
site-specific

experimental intermedia (usa) #xi 118 cd
xi records (united states) #xi 118 cd

anna lockwood / ruth anderson “” compact disc

annea lockwood world rhythms (45:48)
ruth anderson i come out of your sleep (23:31)

experimental intermedia press release...

annea lockwood / ruth anderson
sinopah

"this is not an album of environmental sound for relaxation, though listening to it might have a calming effect. nor is it sonic nostalgia for a tame or even cute nature. some of these sounds (especially if played loudly on speakers with good bass response) can bite!" - warren burt

annea lockwood
world rhythms

world rhythms originated as a ten-channel live improvisation in which the audience was surrounded by ten loudspeakers. the recorded sounds include volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, radio waves, geysers and pools, and tree frogs.

these sounds are a physical manifestation of energies which shape us and our environment constantly, energies of which we are not always aware, but which powerfully influence and interact with the rhythms of our bodies.

"what separates her work from musique concreté is that the attention is drawn, not to the sound construction she's made, but to the universe outside our perceptual framework, no matter how sensuous the results. as you listen, reality overwhelms you. the fact makes her a more important electronic pioneer than she's yet been given credit for ." - kyle gann, the village voice

...

ruth anderson
i come out of your sleep

i come out of your sleep follows a tradition of sound poetry, or text-sound, begun in part by kurt schwitters' ursonate and expanded by composers such as john cage, charles amirkhanian, and jackson mac low.

the piece is based on the speech vowels in louise bogan's poem, little lobelia. the vowels are whispered and elongated; their shapes become breathed melodic arcs and tones, and that breathing becomes the core of a stylized meditation.

"the music creates a space of safety. the sound can carry one to an altered state of consciousness...one can awaken from the listening feeling refreshed, as if sleep happened...." - pauline olilveros

“the piece is based on speech vowels in louise bogan's poem little lobelia, but you wouldn't guess it --whispered and elongated, the sounds are no longer verbal but become intertwining lines of breathing. xenakis, for one, has produced similar sounds but not in such a finely textured treatment. once you adjust to its wavelenth, the effect is captivating and, in the nicest way, also relaxing.” - andy hamilton, the wire

$12.01

new to stock as of
march 9th, 2007

threads:
sound-poetry
modern-composition
fluxus

experimental intermedia (usa) #xi 110 cd
xi records (united states) #xi 110 cd

jackson maclow “open secrets” compact disc

1st milarepa gatha (5:12)
milarepa quartet for four like instruments (3:46)
thanks (9:54)
winds/instruments (18:53)
38th and 39th merzgedichte in memoriam kurt schwitters (1:53)
phoneme dance in memoriam john cage (5:00)
lucas 1 to 29: for one or more instrumentalists (24:29)
free gatha 1 and free gatha 2 (5:12)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "38th and 39th merzgedichte ..."

experimental intermedia press release...

jackson mac low
open secrets

"aphoristic bursts of music separated by silences played with efficiency and fleeting beauty." - new york times

open secrets features mac low and anne tardos performing works for multi-track voices; and robert bethea, andrew bolotowsky, daniel goode, and gabriela klassen performing instrumental pieces. winds/instruments for flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, and narrator, could well become a classic of new music, not only being beautiful, but also displaying mac low's witty use and love of words.

jackson mac low was first published in 1942. his multi-faceted career covers music, poetry, painting, performance, radio, and multimedia. widely recognized for his work in the 1960's fluxus movement, mac low has continued to produce musical works that meld aspects of several disciplines. in 1954 he adopted nonintentional procedures, including chance operations, indeterminancy, and related methods, but has also written and composed extensively by intentional methods. his many "simultaneities" include musical, verbal, and visual elements, usually involving guided improvisation and indeterminancy.

"mac low, one of our true inventors, creates new modes and brings us back to the oldest possibilties of sound and language as they enter poetry and music and performance." - jerome rothenberg

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new to stock as of
march 9th, 2007

threads:
live-electronic
modern-composition
experimental-instruments

experimental intermedia (usa) #xi 105 cd
xi records (united states) #xi 105 cd

david behrman “unforeseen events” compact disc

view finder (7.56)
fishing for complements (9:00)
witch grass (13:02)
canyon (7:54)
harbinger (1:03)
crisscrossed eights (7:09)
ein glaesele warems (3:28)

experimental intermedia press release...

david behrman
unforeseen events

unforeseen events
ben neill, mutantrumpet

refractive light
"no electronic composer has made more poetic uses of the now-common interaction of live musician and electronic circuitry." - john rockwell, new york times

unforeseen events is the latest of many pieces behrman has made with computer software designed to interact in real time with a solo performer. the four sections recorded here were made specifically with ben neill's performance style in mind. the electronic timbres are intended to complement the sounds of his instrument --the admirable and humorous mutantrumpet, with its three separately-mutable and playable bells.

refractive light consists of three small pieces based on an interweaving and overlapping of simple phrases. a musician strikes pitches which trigger responses in the form of sustained tones. the tones die out after a few seconds. while a tone is on it deflects the pitches of other "on" tones, so that harmonic changes occur at the on-and-off edges of overlappping layers. the idea can give rise to a kind of fanning or breathing rhythm which adapts itself to different styles of playing, and to a harmonic vocabulary with dozens or scores of family members.

"the arhythmic (but never jarring) electronic pulses invest the work with a warmth and beauty i'd have thought beyond the capacity of a computer music system to generate." -- michael draine, sound choice

"one of the beauties of mr. behrman's gentle, intricate music is that the listener loses interest in the complex means by which its sounds and textures are produced, and focuses on the music itself. the impression [the] works left was of an anarchic, vital world, observed from a safe distance." -- allan kozinn, new york times

$12.01

new to stock as of
march 9th, 2007

threads:
modern-composition
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones

experimental intermedia (usa) #xi 102 cd
xi records (united states) #xi 102 cd

lois v. vierk “simoom” compact disc

go guitars (12:06)
cirrus (18:43)
simoom (20:34)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "go guitars"

experimental intermedia press release...

lois v vierk
simoom

lois v vierk creates music whose distinctiveness flows from a mixture of the intense analytical disciplines of her composition teacher leonard stein, and the gentle admonitions of her japanese court music teacher suenobu togi to "just do it."

the influences of vierk's long study of gagaku (the imperial court music of japan) do not show on the surface. rather they are heard in knowing that what has happened and what will happen are part of a sure path toward fulfillment. gagaku unfolds with ceremonious slowness. time seems to be suspended before the taiko drum sounds its next musical heartbeat. but the drum does sound, and when it does, it divides the music that has just passed and that which is to follow, all part of an elegant musical order. the elegance and order of vierk's music, like gagaku, touch the heart of the person who listens, who takes time, who is open.

on simoom we hear three of vierk's works for "big instruments," that is, multiples of the same instrument, treated more like single entities than like groups of voices: go guitars for five electric guitars tuned microtonally around "e," cirrus for six trumpets, and simoom for eight cellos.

all three works employ what vierk describes as "exponential structure," which utilizes exponential relationships to control time, pitch movement and rates of change. within this system, vierk creates very directional compositions possessing high energy. as in gagaku, they unfold slowly. although clearly building on the work of minimalist composers, vierk's music is much more concerned with constant development and climax.

this disc offers virtuoso performances by david seidel, electric guitar; gary trosclair, trumpet; and theodore mook, cello.

$12.01

new to stock as of
march 9th, 2007

threads:
modern-composition
minimalism-drones

experimental intermedia (usa) #xi 101 cd
xi records (united states) #xi 101 cd

phill niblock “four full flutes” compact disc

p k (20:25)
s l s (20:17)
p k & s l s (19:04)
winterbloom too (19:41)

experimental intermedia press release...

phill niblock
four full flutes

“phill niblock's music has no precedents, invites no comparisons, and doesn't even suggest any metaphors to me. it is simply itself and must be heard to be believed," wrote tom johnson in the village voice a decade ago. the same is true today--no one is doing what phill niblock is doing. niblock takes the building blocks of music and stacks them in inimitable formations.

in four full flutes, adjacent tones beat violently against one another while clouds of harmonics hover above the wavering drone....when the piece ends, it takes the listener a few moments to recover. this physiological experience, when the ossicles slow their vibrating and the membrane hairs come to a standstill, is probably the only aspect of the music not regulated by the score....playing this compact disc in a different room or moving around the room while the disc is being played actually alters the outcome. similarly, the music can be experienced anew through different combinations, extra speakers, home stereo pyrotechnics, and volume level alterations. the effects intensify with louder levels of volume. the higher the volume goes, the higher you go. --neil strauss

“the aural effect is minimal to the max, but it isn't simplistic. the tones vibrate and glow, the densely packed texture shifting hues like a sonic aurora borealis." -- john rockwell, new york timesthe four pieces on this 80 minute cd are for multiple tracks of alto flutes, flutes, flutes and alto flutes, and bass flutes, performed by petr kotik, susan stenger, and eberhard blum.--phill niblock

previous record label:
xeric

...and that's everything on xi records in stock.
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next record label:
yesmissolga

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