Jeremy Keenan (Upside Down Umbrella): 4 am Hong Kong Sun (2010)
am Hong Kong Sun: delirious + delicious = deliricious? A recording unit, a stereo pair of microphones, and an excellent Chinese dinner at a particularly strange juncture. Later that night, an MS20 analog synth recording, some editing and a basic structure. The next day, a guitar and bass guitar overdub by Alex Abalos, and some additive synthesis atmosphere. Finally, some live granular overdubs by Edgar Curtis, and a lot of mixing. Enjoy your meal.
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curated by Jim Perkins from his twigetticast #2
Corey Dargel: The Opposite of Love (2010)
Corey Dargel: The Opposite of Love (2010)
“The songs on Corey Dargel’s Every Day Is the Same Day — scored for voice, violin, and digital looping — present worst-case scenarios as possible solutions for boredom and loneliness. They are part of a larger work in development with Cornelius Dufallo, violinist of the string quartet ETHEL. New Amsterdam Records is pleased to present this free EP as a companion to Corey’s Someone Will Take Care of Me, due out May 25.”
Joanne Gabriel: Life (2010)
Almighty is a concept album (soon to be released). It was inspired by a long and detailed dream I had in my teens and consists in 10 soundscapes, each one being completed by a short text describing the main scenes in the dream. Chapter 5 “Life”,describes the moment when the Planet has been transformed and when life emerges everywhere.
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Douglas Hein: Orlando, He Dead (1985)
Douglas Hein: Orlando, He Dead (1985)
Orlando, Orlando, he dead, he dead, Orlando, he dead.Josquin, Johann, Amadeus, Ludwig, they dead, they dead, all them guys they dead.Buddy H., Brian J., Mama C. Karen C., they dead, they dead, all them guys, the dead.La, la, la …And when your dead your dead forever,forever, forever, foreverYou don’t go live no more,no more, no more, no more.You be dead more long than live‘Cuz when your dead your dead forever,Forever, forever, forever.Some day me be dead,Some day you be dead,Some day me be dead,Some day you be dead,All us guysWe deadLa, la, la ….
performed by the Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra
this groundbreaking group featured compositions by Michael Bayer, Chuck Estes, Douglas Hein, William Houston, Steve Moshier, Frank Riddick, and Lloyd Rodgers. at various times, the orchestra featured musicians Jannine Livingston, harpsichord; John Glenn, bass; Lloyd Rodgers, clarinet and keyboard; Douglas Hein, acoustic guitar; Diana Halpern, violin; Joeseph Goodman, violin; and Michael Baer, violincello
DJ Wolf at renewable music (June 2005)
“Sometimes the internet is a wonderful place. Composer Paul Bailey has just put up an mp3 of Doug Hein’s Orlando he dead, one of my favorite pieces from the repertoire of the legendary Cartesian Memorial Reunion Orchestra (a semi-situationist, semi-electric chamber ensemble in the grand style of LA in the 80’s). Hein’s piece is one of the few vocal works in the Cartesian ’s repertoire, with the only lyric I know of that meaningfully includes both Orlando di Lasso and Mama Cass. It’s also one of the very few genuinely funny works of recent modern music. But more importantly, it’s an example of exquisite counterpoint and near-counterpoint and fake renaissancery.”
text and music by Douglas M. Hein
curated by Paul Bailey
