 |
Home | Catalog | News | Tools & Reference | Search | Contact Us
|
EARLY YEARS and LATER YEARS Two audio CDs compilations, sold separately or as a 2-CD set. |
|
|
Early Years CD. Published by Experimental Muiscal Instruments. Audio CD with 16-page insert booklet. $12.50 Item #410
 Later Years CD. Published by Experimental Muiscal Instruments. Audio CD with 16-page insert booklet. $12.50 Item #412
Early Years and Later Years CDs: $22.00 Item #413
 To review our online ordering procedures (they're pretty simple) click here. For information on ordering offline by mail, fax, phone or email, click here. |
These two CDs contain selections from the Experimental Musical Instruments annual audio cassette series that ran from 1985 to 1992. Most of the original cassettes from those years are now sold out. These CDs bring them back to life by making 36 of the tracks available again, recapturing the wonderful vitality and variety of those early releases. Each CD includes a sixteen-page booklet containing the original notes followed by short updates on most of the artists and their work. The master tapes have been digitally remastered, and the sound quality on the CDs is considerably better than that of the original cassettes. Instruments which were featured in ExMI's two book-and-CD collections, Gravikords, etc. and Orbitones, etc., have not been included here. There is no repeated material in any of these releases. You can buy either of the CDs separately for $12.50 each, or the pair for $22 (shipping free in U.S.).
For more on the Early Years CD, read on. To skip to Later Years, click here. CONTENTS OF THE EARLY YEARS CD Complete contents are listed below, but first, here are teasers for a few of the selections: The Baschet Cristal is the most refined of the extraordinary glass-and-steel instruments created by the Brothers Baschet in France. On the CD, a trio of Cristals are featured in a composition called "Valse" by the French composer Daniel Ouzounoff. In his piece "47 Whale Raga," Jim Nollman plays guitar through a specially designed underwater speaker system while sailing among a pod of whales. The whales answer the guitar sounds, call-and-response style, with choruses of their own. Vera Meyer plays a glass harmonica made by the late Gerhard Finkenbeiner, who until his recent death was the leading modern maker of the instrument. The strangely bent reverberances of the Waterphone can be heard in the hands of the instrument's maker in Richard Waters' "Noncomposition for Three Waterphones." Warren Burt and Ernie Althoff play a floatingly sustained and otherworldly "Improvisation in an Ancient Greek Mode" on a set of justly tuned, hand-held tuning forks. In "Improvisations for Feedback," David Myers plays the Feedback Machine - a network of digital delays which bounce anomalous electronic sound-artifacts back and forth among themselves to generate the most improbable rhythmic and textural music.
The Glass Orchestra: "Believe It Or Not". All glass instruments Bil King: "Midnight Sonata" and "Just Kidding". The Board TUYO: excerpts from Masque and Gamelan. Percussion tubes, tuned shakers, modified accordions and more Jim Nollman: "47 Whale Raga". Underwater guitar, accompanied by whales The Boneworks Ensemble: "Ark". Instruments of bone The Lasry-Baschet Ensemble: "Valse". The Baschet Cristals Warren Burt and Ernie Althoff: "Improvisation in an Ancient Greek Mode". Tuning forks Wee Jimmie Scott: "The Barren Rocks of Adden". Abraham's Goliath Rock Dulcimer
David Myers: "Improvisations for Feedback". The Feedback Machine Music for Homemade Instruments: excerpts from Glyptodont. Instruments from throwaways Vera Meyer: Johann Gottlieb Naumann's "Sonata". Glass harmonica Hans Reichel: "Thinking". Pick-Behind-The-Bridge Guitar William Eaton: "Magical-Musical Duet". 26-String Guitar and Lyrichord John Hajeski: "The Dentist". Portable Anarchy
Dudley Duncan: "Cosmic Koto". The Cosmic Koto
|
CONTENTS OF THE LATER YEARS CD Complete contents are listed below, but first, here are teasers for a few of the selections: A mouthbow is a single-stringed instrument analogous to a jaw harp, in which the player uses mouth resonances to bring out melodies in shifting overtones within the string sound. In this CD Wayland Harman plays his specially developed mouthbow, designed to highlight mouth-resonance tones with much more clarity and strength than happens with traditional designs John Gzowski's Cat's Cradle is -- well, it has too many distinctive features to describe them all here, but essentially it's a string instrument with an extraordinary electro-acoustic feedback system that recycles pitch-bent string resonances through the sound for an extraordinarily rich and complex timbre. The Stroh violin was a horned, pivot-and-diaphragm-driven violin developed in the early days of acoustic (pre-electric) sound recording for use with Edison's early recording machines. On this CD you'll hear a Stroh violin as recently recorded on a perfectly preserved Edison phonograph. The Ex-Pensives were an early-90s grunge group playing archetypally primitive music on homemade instruments with homemade pickups. In 1904, J.C. Deagan patented his organ chimes, essentially a metal angklung set on a monumental scale. Each chime-frame contained four chimes including the octave and the double octave of the main pitch, all with air-resonance tuning. There were enough of these frames for a range of several chromatic octaves, and the instrument as a whole had a beautiful tone. In this CD, Marion B. Cox plays one of the surviving sets with polyphonic virtuosity.
Hal Rammel: "Surge and Shape." Sound Palette Christopher Lee: "Liebeslied." Stroh violin Susan Alexjander & ensemble: "Sequencia Intro." DNA tunings recreated on synthesizer Jacques Rémus: "Marche Turque" and "Etude (Gyakorlat)." Automatophones Richard Cooke: "Return to Misty Mountain." Freenotes Zeno Okeanos: "Zeno's Drums." Polymorphous percussion Marty Cox: "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen." Deagan Organ Chimes TakéDaké: "Spring Breeze (Haru Kaze)." All-bamboo ensemble John Gzowski: "Variation #5." Cat's Cradle
Henry Lowengard: "Software-o-phones (1994).".Software-o-phones Bakshish: "Curious." Instruments with homemade pickups Linsey Pollak: "Ousak Sunset." Clarini The Ex-Pensives : "Angst? (Me Too)." Instruments with homemade pickups |
|
Home | Catalog | News | Tools & Reference | Search | Contact Us