plug in card (Yamaha) BC3 Breath Controller (Yamaha) MX12/4 Mixer (Yamaha) Computer: A Pentium IV 2GHz PC with 512 MB Ram solely dedicated to musical applications. Various Software Monitoring: Soundcraft Spirit Absolute 4P powered speakers. Musical Edition: Edition Peters (Landshoff)  (less)

being composed of dramatic and often erotic collages, using, principally, illustrations from French popular fiction. Each of the novel's seven chapters represents a day of the week and each day has a "deadly element" associated with it. Beginning with Sunday, the elements are: Mud, Water, Fire, Blood, Blackness, Sight and Unknown. A motto and a Dadaist or Surrealist epigraph prefaces each chapter, and the motto becomes an enigmatic visual motif. Subotnick's score - which calls for two pianos, three mallet instruments (marimba, xylophone and vibraphone) shared by two players, viola, cello and the Yamaha Computer Assisted Music System (YCAMS) - provides a musical counterpart to Ernst's enigmatic collage in several ways. The phantasmagorical ambiguity between reality and f...  (less)

the Disklavier and, as in all of Floyd’s work, reveals his abiding interest in jazz and free improvisation. The musical materials are developed from and gently guided by a serial plan. A Transporting Transmittance for Transverse Flute and Disklavier was written for Lisa Hansen. The piece captured the feeling of an improvisation in a dialogue between the flute and piano. Though all of the notes are written, the performers should feel the experience of spontaneous creativity. From: A Hundred Little 3-D Pictures These Daniel Moore poems describe a mystical world of spirit and fantasy, street scenes and death and vividly guide the composer in his search for musical representations. Improvisations on Robert Ashley’s "El/...  (less)

of musical discovery to explore the musical potential of this instrument. Over the next years, I experimented with techniques, mallets, repertoire and most intensely, with musical color, voicings and phrasings. The pieces I recorded on Across Time are the compositions that learned and performed with this beautiful instrument in my journey to develop my own musical voice.” Rebecca Kite  (less)

his band, the Dead Canadas. Paul began his musical career in Yamaha organ lessons in the back room of a department store. Moving through piano, trumpet, trombone and harmonica over the years, he quickly lost all interest in the early instruments when he stole his first guitar. After a short time in juvenile detention facilities, Paul rejoined society and began writing gospel hits. His short incarnation as a gospel songwriter was followed by a long stint as a retail manager and student of the Liberal Arts. Emerging from the land of denim and Foucault, he purchased a big fat acoustic guitar and immediately began to produce brilliant folk-pop hits. This string of smart, catchy acoustic numbers was captured on his first album, "Julie...  (less)

There aren't many around and there is not a consensus on how they are to be played but for King Tet this is an instrument he's waited for since he was 10....and he's 52! I can't help that they didn't invent this until I was 52 states King Tet. It finally feels like the year 2000 King Tet says in the year 2008. Part of the charm of the Tenori-On is the ability of the performer to create and upload custom sound banks. King Tet sampled his 1930 Vega Tubaphone banjo for the occasion. The result is "King Tet's Breakdown" which may sound like a jam between a Tenori-On and a banjo player, whereas, the entire track is a live Tenori-On performance. All tracks are live Tenori-On performances without over-dubbing or studio editing. Who is King Tet? King Tet...  (less)

to emulate traditional musical behavior, but rather to explore new musical possibilities implicit in certain paradigms of computation or computer decision-making." The compositions are 'Entropy', 'Unnatural Selection', 'Line/Phase Minutiae', 'Degueudoudeloupe', and 'There's Just One Thing You Need to Know'. Each composition is based on a different algorithm. And the results are often fascinating because the algorithms clearly have thought of things that humans would not have thought of. The results are also impressive in that Dobrian has extended the piano to the limits of what the instrument itself can play. If you're interested in experimental approaches to music, this CD is a must!  (less)