Musicworks. 97 / Rick Sacks ... [and others].

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

McKay, Blair Douglas, 1956- conductor.

Sacks, Richard, 1952- performer.

Frith, Fred, performer.

Mettler, Peter, 1958- performer.

Evergreen Club Gamelan, performer.

Quatuor Bozzini, performer.

Language:

English

French

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Gamelan music.

Electronic music.

Free jazz.

Sound installations (Art).

String quartets.

Genre:

Electronic music.

String quartets.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

At head of title: Explorations in sound

Place of Publication:

Toronto, ON, Canada : Musicworks, [2007?]

Language Note:

The 6th work incorporates singing in an unidentified language and spoken English.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Contents:

Sparrows ; Clicks ; Sunday ice cream sundae ; Buoy / Rick Sacks (11:24; 1:24; 5:04; 2:48)

Certain rhythms for space / Finnbogi Pétursson (10:30)

Live sound and image improvisation at RAI, Rome. Excerpt / Fred Frith ; Peter Mettler (13:15)

NYC : Blue moon. 3 tides ; Mass MoCA : Harmonic bridge ; Rome : Traffic mantra / Sam Auigner ; Bruce Odland (4:40; 8:29; 5:13)

Gradients of detail. Excerpt 1 ; Excerpt 2 / Chiyoko Szlavnics (5:18; 5:18).

Participant:

The Evergreen Club Gamelan Ensemble (Mark Duggan, Graham Hargrove, Paul Houle, Bill Parsons, Rick Sacks, Ryan Scott, Andrew Timar), Blair Mackay, conductor (1st work) ; Rick Sacks, percussion, electronics (3rd work) ; Fred Frith, guitar, sound processing (6th work) ; Peter Mettler, field recordings, additional sounds, image and sound mixing (6th work) ; Quatuor Bozzini (Clemens Merkel, Nadia Francavilla, violin ; Stéphanie Bozzini, viola ; Isabelle Bozzini, violoncello) (10th-11th works).

Notes:

The 1st work for gamelan ensemble; the 2nd and 4th works electronic music; the 3rd work for percussion and electronics; the 5th, 7th-9th works installations; the 6th work free improvisation; the 10th-11th works for string quartet.

The 1st work recorded at the premiè̀re performance at the Music Gallery, Toronto; the 2nd work recorded by Paul Hodge at a Canadian Electronic Ensemble Concert at the Music Gallery, Toronto; the 3rd work recorded in 2005 at L'Été photographique de Lectoure, Lectoure, France; the 6th work recorded live on RAI Radio, Rome; the 7th work recorded in 2004 at the World Financial Centre, New York City; the 8th work recorded in 1998 near the Highway 2 overpass in North Adams, Massachusetts; the 9th work recorded in 1991 at Trajan's Forum, Rome; the 10th-11th works recorded live in concert by Hendrik Hassert, Oct. 20, 2006, at Chapelle Saint-Louis in Montreal.

Compact disc.

Includes program notes in English and French on insert.

CD accompanies serial Musicworks v. 97.

Contains:

Sacks, Richard. Selections.

Finnbogi Pétursson. Certain rhythms for space.

Szlavnics, Chiyoko. Gradients of detail. Selections

O + A (Musical group). Selections.

OCLC:

137273552

Publisher Number:

97 Musicworks