Greg Hooper: Unselected (2011)
Greg Hooper: Unselected (2011)
“A new piece using surrogate techniques to generate new works from old. This time I used a recording of the loudest drops of rain falling into a swimming pool as the timing sequence and mapped the pitch sequence of Gymnopedie#1 onto that. It sounded like Brian Eno circa Ambient 1. Some notes didn’t fit and were removed. What remains is that which was unselected.”
Paul Bailey: Retrace Our Steps (2004)
Paul Bailey: Retrace Our Steps (2004)
“Retrace Our Steps is a secular oratorio in 4 acts (2004) based on texts by Gertrude Stein, Guy Debord and Jenny Bitner. the work explores the relationships between idealism, alienation, and consumerism.”
act 4
Retrace Our Steps, Graphic Libretto
curated by david toub
Ward McLain:The Wind Harp (1972)
Ward Mclain:The Wind Harp (1972)
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“The Wind Harp” was a 1972 sculpture by Ward McLain, an aeolian harp.
I picked up the double album in a 2nd hand shop in the early 80s. This record, together with “Pagan Muzak” by NON (aka Boyd Rice), permanently changed the way that I listened to and thought about music. I had previously been very rigid in my thinking and thought of music as something which you “pushed” out into the world through force of will, yet here was something different, a sculpture played by the wind which transcended human composition (apart of course from the choice of string tuning and the choice of edit).”
(curated and notes by Alan Morse Davies)
Ward Mclain: The Wind Harp (via Discogs)
Boyd Rice/NON: Pagan Muzak (1978)
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