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The lyre's island : Some Australian music, sound art, and design.
LIBRA Leonar. 6 CD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Leonardo music journal CD series ; v. 6.
- Leonardo music journal CD series ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electronic music--Australia.
- Electronic music.
- Computer music--Australia.
- Computer music.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Computer music.
- Electronic music.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Some Australian music, sound art, and design
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Leonardo, [1996]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Free music. Butterfly piano (1:45) ; Reed-box-tone-tool (:42) ; AM oscillator test (:50) ; "Hills-and-dales" oscillator (1:29) ; Oscillator test pattern (1:22) / Percy Grainger with Burnett Cross
- Images have no organs / Rainer Linz (15:02)
- Transpoes / Sherre DeLys (4:55)
- The oscillators / Joyce Hinterding (3:45)
- Song to dissolve the world. Part 1 / Jodi Rose (3:33)
- Window pain / Frances Dyson (12:31)
- The calling to come / Paul Carter (15:57).
- Notes:
- First through 5th selections demonstrations of experimental electronic instruments performing Grainger's Free music, in part with spoken English commentary ; 6th selection computer music sound design for performance by sound artist, Stelarc ; 7th work computer music ; 8th selection audio recording of sound-producing drawings wired to produce sound ; 9th selection an amplified performance on the cables of the under-construction Glebe Island Bridge crossing Johnstons Bay, Australia ; 10th selection incorporates computer-produced sounds and textual material derived from conversations with women suffering from the gynecological condition endometriosis ; 11th selection recording of sound installation at the Museum of Sydney employing texts from Grammatical forms of the language of N.S. Wales in the neighbourhood of Sydney by William Dawes.
- Issued with volume 6, 1996 issue of Leonardo music journal.
- Dated selections recorded in various locations at various dates between November 2, 1951 and February, 1996.
- Compact disc
- Curated by Douglas Kahn.
- Program notes ([6] p.) inserted in container.
- Contains:
- Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961. Free music, no. 1
- Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961. Free music, no. 2
- Linz, Rainer. Images have no organs.
- DeLys, Sherre. Transpoes.
- Hinterding, Joyce. Oscillators.
- Rose, Jodi. Song to dissolve the world, part 1.
- Dyson, Frances. Window pain.
- Carter, Paul, 1951- Calling to come.
- OCLC:
- 36335875
- Publisher Number:
- ISAST 6 Leonardo
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