Quite possibly the best LP of Schoenberg's music I've ever heard

1. Variations on a Recitative for Organ, Op. 40 18:52
Gerd Zacher, organ

(reminded me of the music beginning George Lucas's early THX 1138 film made back in 1967 when he was a student at USC)

Schoenberg's handwritten score to it:



2. Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 21:26
Hans Rosbaud, cond., Symphony Orchestra of the Southwest German Radio, Baden-Baden







John Coltrane, Soldier Field, Chicago, August 15, 1965
John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums

A rare bootleg of the group headlining the Downbeat Jazz Festival. To quote from Coltrane: The Story of a Sound - "His performance at Soldier Field....has been understood as a famous breaking point - a Dylan-at-Newport, or a Rite of Spring. As with both of those examples, the challenge put forth from the artist to the audience is half-overstated and half-real. The set was 37 minutes long. The quartet, with Archie Shepp as an extra on tenor, yoked together a set out of the theme from "Nature Boy" and "Blue Valse."... It aggravated a great part of the crowd, prompting, according to some witnesses, a large exodus....casual jazz fans who had been in the sun all day at a free festival, listening to more straightforward performances by Woody Herman and Gerry Mulligan and Monk and Joe Williams..."

35:55







November 2011
3 hours of evening raining in the backyard at Santa Barbara

3:01:14







July 2011
Birds at dawn from the cottage by the sea. Rye Beach, New Hampshire.

1:34:50





Ervin Nyíregyházi

At a thrift shop I frequent on the upper west side of Manhattan where LPs are $1 each, a came across this record not knowing who Ervin Nyíregyházi was, just going by the jacket which made it clear these were historic recordings of someone quite phenomenal. It wasn't until the following day when I listened to the music and read the notes on the inside that in the matter of an hour my life was changed forever by the incredible story and pianism of this guy.
Links of interest: Wikipedia entry; Documentary posted on Youtube; the 2007 biography "Lost Genius" (priced at just cents! Oh, please get it...) ; Various recordings and memorabilia




SIDE ONE
1. En Reve - Nocturne 2:25
2. Ballad No. 2, B minor 16:27
3. Sunt lacrymae rerum, en mode hongrois 7:52
4. Abschied
2:25

SIDE TWO
1. St. Francois d'Assise (La Predication aux oiseaux) 13:03
2. St. Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots
9:54

Also just discovered, the remaining out of print CBS recordings from the 1978 sessions (as of side A on the LP above), and in fact the only studio recordings which exist of him. This piano playing is about the most engaging I have ever experienced. The gravity of his sound and time... A window through to the truth; this man's spiritual life message. So important... so one-of-a-kind...



1. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 8:46 2. Misere After Palestrina 7:32
3. Abdenglocken 10:11 4. Aux Cypress de Lavilla d'Este 8:40
5. Nuage Gris 3:29 6. Mosony's Funeral 10:59
7. March Of The Three Holy Kings From Christus (Trans.Nyiregyhazi) 14:21 8. Polnisch 10:17




Grieg:
1. Sie tanzt, Op. 57, No. 5 3:44
2. Der Hirtenknabe, Op. 54, No. 1 5:49
3. Waltz in A Minor, Op. 12, No. 2 3:15
4. Heimwartz, Op. 62, No. 6 3:59
Tchaikovsky:
5. Warum?, Op. 6, No. 5 4:08
Blanchet:
6. Au Jardin du vieux serail 4:08
Tchaikovsky:
7. Waltz in A-Flat Major 5:00
8. Romance in F Minor, Op. 5 7:23
Bartkiewicz:
9. Travel Pictures: Poland (Mazurka), Venetian Gandola Song, In Spain 10:33






Srimati M.S Subbulakshmi

Amazing...



A. Sri Venkatesa Suprabhatam 20:39 B. Bhavayami 19:52






Takahashi Kuzan


Takahashi Kuzan (1900-1986) was born in Hokkaido and grew up in Yamagata in the Northern part of Japan. Initiated in Jû-jutsu (bare fisted fight), Ken (fencing), Naginata and Yari (lances), Shuriken (projectiles) and Yumi (archery), he traveled throughout Japan on pilgrimage for the secrets of Fuke Shakuhachi. It is mentioned in the document The Temple of Myoan of the Mountain Kyorei by Tsukamoto Kido that "Kuzan was transmitted with the essence of Shakuhachi from Kobayashi Shizan, Okazaki Meidô, Katsuura Shôzan, and mastered the art of the different schools Kinpû-ryû, Kaidô-ryû, and Nin-ryû. It is said that he received the transmission of more than 250 pieces of the traditional repertory. His playing was different from Nyozan and he is the greatest and the most recognized player of the modern age." Kuzan eventually settled in Tokyo where he opened a dojo to teach the three traditional pillars of komuso art, "teki zen ken" - shakuhachi, zazen and martial arts, as well as calligraphy. He became widely renowned as a master of shakuhachi and preserver of the old traditions - pieces which were learned from the last remaining players and preserved in no other lineages, in particular the Honkyoku repertoire of Fusaiji in Ise and repertoire of Shinobu-ryu. He was also known for his science and mastery of the Hitoyogiri, Satsuma Biwa and Hichiriki instruments.

This very rare recording is the only album by Kuzan, and it's one of the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard.




Take no Hibiki or The Sound of Bamboo

1. Kyorei 4:29
2. Shinseki 3:00
3. Tsuru no Sugomori 10:34
4. Sagariha 1:30
5. Mushi no Ne 3:15
6. Nezasaha Shirabe 4:09
7. Sanya 5:12
8. Gematsu 4:56








The piece Dorian Horizon, for 17 strings, by Toru Takemitsu, set to a video I shot and sped up of clouds and sunset from New York City overlooking the Hudson River and New Jersey.







Frontispiece, for two pianos, by Maurice Ravel, also set to a sped up video of mine of the clouds over New York City, the Hudson River and New Jersey.
















A favorite scene from one of the old Disney cartoons I used to watch as a kid









Dduukkee Eelllliinnggttoonn

Simultaneously the 1944 & 1946 recordings of Duke Ellington's orchestra at Carnegie Hall playing "The Blues" from Black, Brown and Beige. Marie Ellington sings in the 1944 version, Joya Sherrill the one from '46. Al Sears tenor saxophone on both.

5:35





Oh D minor...


Oh my D-minor loves... Mozart's Requiem superimposed over Coltrane's Impressions live at the Village Vanguard

8:21





Morton Feldman's piece Four Pianos set to a video I filmed and sped up of a sunset over the Hudson River.







A long excerpt of Morton Feldman's orchestral piece Coptic Light, set to a video of mine of the sunset over the Hudson River and New Jersey sped up. I love setting music to these videos... The clouds and light are never the same!







Opera in slow motion...!
Danielle de Niese is an old, dear friend of mine (back from when we were kids at the Aspen Music Festival) and this video I shot and slowed down from a recent rehearsal of her's with the Metropolitan Opera doing Mozart's Cosi fan Tutti.





Three nature videos simultaneously...








The sound of the wall in the apartment next door being destroyed

10:45




I was listening one day to some old LPs of Gregorian chant and all of a sudden a short 'organ improvisation' came on, this magical piece... And it was rainy out, winter was coming, October, and the ashtray on my terrace with cigarettes going back 5 years was filled with rain water. There was a delicate pink glow to the sky, it was late afternoon. And so I just filmed the ashtray, and knew there would be something so special about having the organ track set to it. The two were interdependent then... The rectangle of light going diagonally across the water is the sky space between buildings on my block. Occasionally you see birds flying across, and there are quiet sounds from the street, cars passing along the wet roads...









BLACK STARS cut-up



May 5, 2010

A commission from long-time friend Jason Moran for a collage piece using his album Black Stars. Thanks, J...

1. 4:00

2. Live from the Village Vanguard 10/6/10 (NPR)










I was in a small market in Harlem and this Ethiopan music video was playing on the television there







A favorite scene from the Thelonious Monk documentary, "Monk"







3am escalator solo!







A bird singing at original speed then slowed down and lowered three octaves







Pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli playing a beautiful little piece by Gallupi, which I changed for a whole different experience...







Pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli playing Debussy, backwards...









Albert Ayler interviews

1964, 1966, 1970





John Coltrane interview
Japan, 1966



11:39





Watazumi Doso Roshi

Scarce albums by one of the greatest Shakuhachi players that ever lived. It appears that most of these LPs were pressed in Japan, hence their scarcity, unfortunately. For the benefit of humanity, everything he recorded should be made widely available. Why hold out? More information about Watazumi, these records and pieces, as well as an invaluable transcript of a talk he gave, can be found here. Enjoy...




His Practical Philosophy I

1. Hon Shirabe, 2. Shingetsu, 3. Tamuke
4. Shishi, 5. Tsuru no Sugomori, 6. Kyorei, 7. Koku



His Practical Philosophy II

1. Dai Otsugaeshi, 2. Kaze, 3. Sagari Nami, 4. Koro Sugaki, 5. Matsukaze



Watazumido no Sekai

1. Jukai, 2. Shika no Tone, 3. Nihon Imayao, 4. Aoi Tsuchi



Watazumido-so Roshi

1. Tsuru no Sugomori, 2. Yamagoe, 3. San'ya, 4. Hachigaeshi
5. Shika no Tone, 6. Sagari Ha, 7. San'an, 8. Sokkan



Hotchiku

1. Saji, 2. Hon Shirabe, 3. Sugagaki, 4. Mushirabe, 5. Tsura no Sugomori
6. San'ya 7. San'an, 8. Sagari Ha (Kansai), 9. Sagari Ha (Oshu), 10. Koku
11. Tamuke, 12. Hi Fu Mi no Shirabe, 13. Hon Shirabe, 14. Yamagoe, 15. Shingetsu


A couple nature videos I thought would go well as "music videos" set to recordings of him...













Jonathan Moritz



The first time Jonathan Moritz and I got together to play, there was an aura in the room (not while we were playing) which reminded me of something I'd felt with a saxophonist I'd known back in my teens, in Los Angeles. A guy by the name of Zane Musa, who was a real brother at that time in how we were both growing so much as musicians, both such fanatics with practicing and listening to records, trying to be the best we could be... I knew Jonathan had gone to Cal Arts for some time -- the same school as Zane -- and so I wondered if he'd by chance known him. Not only did he say 'yes', but it turned out the exact tenor saxophone Jonathan had with him used to be Zane's; Zane had sold it to him! Today, working closely with Moritz in our search together as improvisers and as composers of a style we have together, it's a surreal experience at times to still be next to this same horn, with the same case and everything. Changing hands like it has I almost feel like it's following me... My connection with Jonathan is actually kind of like a grown-up version of what I with Zane.
And so this night when Jonathan and I were sharing a bill at a friend's house, he played a solo set and I simply had to dive in with the video camera and render an appreciation... Some of my favorite saxophone playing right here.












It was a rare opportunity to hear Indian classical vocalist Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty in New York City.
Video of him in reverse... (Forwards here)







Gorguts! The great metal band from Canada, in reverse. (Forwards here)







One of my favorite experiments with the simultaneous turntables is with records of Gregorian Chant, and with these early, live recordings in particular. It just goes, floats so beautifully...







3D photocopy exploration:
Into the 'b' of 'trombones'



original text: Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters (1927); artwork/video composition: Ben Gerstein (2003/2010); initial digital rendering: Greg Haworth (2010); music: Gyorgy Ligeti, Lux Aeterna (1966)

Back in 2003, alone at my job in an office with a big xerox machine and some serious time to 'kill', I began exploring repeated 200% enlargements on various images, zooming further and further in to the abstractions I was finding. And to no end. Each picture held certain abstracting shapes implicit to it, setting the stage for a unique visual journey guided by the placement of the paper on the glass in position to these various forms as they came into view.
Hard to say if at some point it's just the xerox machine generating these abstractions, because every picture I tried this with produced something different. The clusters of images which come into view as the work progresses are all seemingly gathered together due to forces found within the initial xeroxed composite image. But also to be considered is how the ink is released from a toner cartridge through air, intercepted in motion by the paper, mid-flight, each time producing infinite little subtleties, inconsistencies...
So in this particular case, I chose a page from Andre Gide's novel "The Counterfeiters", and created a 162-oage booklet of this journey enlarging image into image... At the start one can even see how the ink hit the page at the edge of the letter 'b'. After a couple hours of doing this, I realized it could have gone on forever, and so, tired, almost dizzy, I ended the series by enlarging into the black. For a while afterwards I kept imagining things in front of me fractalizing in this way, as would most people I'm sure after such a process. It was quite surreal...
A couple of years later a guy by the name of Greg Haworth, who'd been working as a photocopiest for quite some time, came across my work on the web and asked if I'd sell him a copy of one of these booklets going into the 'b' of 'trombone'. I happily obliged, was grateful for his curiosity, and then we proceeded on our separate ways.
Then almost four years after that, out of the blue, I receive a letter from him, when coincidentally just the day before I had been reading this exact Gide novel again and contemplating the xerox experiments.
Greg has since uploaded a version of this video to Youtube with the following description: "The letter 'b' of trombone was created by Ben Gerstein, using a xerox copier as his Medium. His subject matter is a page from the book "The Counterfeiters" by Andre Gide. Of special significance is the word "trombones" in the text, as Ben Gerstein is himself a trombonist. With each copy, on each page, the letter evolved. The result was a stunning fractal pattern, generated by the copier itself, lasting for around 165 pages. Clever positioning of each page allows us to delve ever deeper into the pages on our journey through the letter B.
When I originally discovered Ben's work, I was just searching "xerox" on myspace. He had uploaded a video of the pages being flipped. I've worked in a copy shop for four years and I knew it would be a great book to keep on the coffee table at work, so he sent it to me.
Skip ahead I think... 2 years. I dig this thing out of the boxes from my old house. It is still a timeless piece. I wanted to breathe new life into it, so I set out on a quest to do so, scanning all the pages on a high-capacity scanner. I took all the images and went 3d. Each page became a plane, scaled to fit squarely on top of the page before. When all was set, I animated a camera to pan through each plane, and finally rendered it. Before I saw the rendered video, I had only known it as single frames. I wanted to finally visualize it as it begs to be seen.
I confess I never showed Ben or let him know what I was doing until it was all but done. And it was just serendipitous that he had been thinking about exactly this book during the same days that I was working on it. He is very excited, as am I, with how this all has ended. With his express permission I now show it to the world.
We hope you enjoy 'b' of trombone and we hope you find yourself captured by its mystery."








One of the truly random voicemails you can get as a trombonist in New York City.
Pretty hilarious I think. No idea who this was, how he got my number...

:34








A few videos going simultaneously of pianos being destroyed












"Feldman loved to challenge students' assumptions about what ideas were au courant, about which composers were radical and which were conservative. He proclaimed, for example, a love for Sibelius, who had long been derided in progressive circles as a retrograde Romantic. When I visited the small archive of Feldman papers at SUNY Buffalo, I came across an exam paper in which the composer asked his students to analyze Sibelius's Fifth Symphony alongside Webern's Concerto Opus 24" — Alex Ross, New Yorker Magazine

Superimposed...

Sibelius 5 + Webern Op. 24

Sibelius 4 + Feldman Piano Concerto & Cello Concerto









Deep, dancing, ecstatic church praise videos going simultaneously










Pablo Casals LP



SIDE 1
SIDE 2




Alternate takes
March 2010

Superimposed...

It dawned on me how on a lot of the old jazz records, alternate takes were often about the same length. Revisiting some of these albums after many years and listening to them with these tracks superimposed offered an exciting new insight into the sound of this music, perspectives on autonomy and indeterminacy very relevant in improvisation, and a joyous expansion on these musicians' sounds and song, multiplying aspects of this aural history into an abstracted afterlife of collage. So simple and so affecting! I am grateful to be able to share this...





Stellar Regions (2 takes)
Sun Star (2)





All tracks simultaneously (8)





All tracks simultaneously (6)





Nature Boy (2 takes)





Check Out Time (2)





Broad Way Blues (2)





All tracks simultaneously (6)





Exotica (2)





Like Sonny (2)
I'll Wait and Pray (2)





Body and Soul (2)





Giant Steps (11)
Naima (4)
Cousin Mary (2)
Countdown (2)





Tunji (4)
Impressions (2)





Africa (2)
Greensleeves (2)





Leap Frog (3)
Relaxin with Lee (3)
An Oscar for Treadwell (2)
Mohawk (2)
My Melancholy Baby (2)
Laura (2)
I'm in the Mood for Love (2)
I'll Remember April (2)
Au Privave (2)
She Wrote (2)
Why Do I Love You (3)
Swedish Schnapps (2)
Bach Home Blues (2)
La Cucaracha (2)
Estrellita (3)
Kim (2)
Cosmic Rays (2)
In the Still of the Night (4)
Old Folks (3)
Chi Chi (4)
I Get a Kick Out of You (4)
Love For Sale (2)
I Love Paris (2)





I Remember You (3)
You Don't Know What Love Is (2)
Foolin' Myself (2)
It's You Or No One (2)
Out of Nowhere (2)





There's Danger in Your Eyes (2)





Cherokee (2)
Carvin' the Rock (2)
Wail Bait (2)





Verdandi (2)
Dalarna (2)





Gypsy Without A Song (2)





Yokada, Yokada (2)





Ode to Von (2)
Smokestack (2)





Pumpkin (2)





Black (2)





A video (not mine) of otters playing the keyboard! I want to transcribe this and play it...








Videos going simultaneously of dogs playing the piano and howling












The hunting horns of Royale Foret Saint-Hubert!

1. La Saint Hubert 0'52
2. Le Nouveau Depart 0'49
3. Le Clocher de Dampierre 1'10
4. La Royale 0'39




The sound of...


24 pianos
All 24 Opus 87 Preludes by Shostakovich begun simultaneously,
directly followed by all the Fugues, in the same fashion.
1. 11:28


Seven sublime recordings of different "Nocturno Responsorium" by Gesualdo played simultaneously
1. 4:45






3 LPs of Vivaldi's "Autumn" going simultaneously








Live at the chicken coup







Videos going simultaneously of train accidents




Videos going simultaneously of fireworks








A 78 of an owl played at 33 speed









Zabaleta x 3


17:57

Three LPs of harpist Nicanor Zabaleta begun simultaneously, conducted with the volume knobs.
Left: Record 2, Side 1 - 18th century: CPE Bach and Beethoven's Variations on a Swiss Theme
Center: Record 3, Side 2 - Modern French and Spanish: Caplet, Pittaluga, Tournier, Haiffter
Right: Record 1, Side 1 - 16th century: Anonymous, Mudarra, Narvaez, Cabezon, Milan, Palero








Pauline Kael And Stan Brakhage (1964?)

”Legendary film critic Pauline Kael is captured here in conversation with filmmaker Stan Brakhage. While the tape is incomplete, we do hear Brakhage defend his practice, his epic film DOG STAR MAN, his influences, his search for ‘ a happening in structure’… Brakhage proudly declares: ‘I'm an amateur filmmaker, I make home movies.’” —Ubu.com, Rare Audio from Anthology Film Archives
________________________________


Stan Brakhage... nothing could stop him, His Life was his Art... But Pauline Kael?? Never made a film in her entire life, and became an esthetic snob who found a sense of "prestige" for herself by trying to get in between artists and their work and its audience rather than make her own... in other words, attempting to almost take away credit from the artist and use it to build her own sense of "notoriety" or "achievement"...








St. John ~ Rain


June 2009

day

night




Take the A Train


Canal street, 11:30pm - 0:57





Glenn Gould x 2. The 1955 and 1981 Goldberg Variations LP together, movement for movement





Three LPs of Brahms' Cello No. 1 going simultaneously. Pierre Fournier & Rudolf Firkusny; Gregor Piatigorsky & Artur Rubinstein; Janos Starker & Abba Bogin.





Two identical LPs slightly out of phase of Wanda Landowska playing the first C-major Prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier





New York City intercom





Milstein, Heifetz, Szeryng: 3 simultaneous LPs of Bach's Sonata No. 1 in G minor





A short video I made demonstrating my toy plastic cup gramophone recorder/player





Oum Kalthoum


One of her greatest recordings...

Side 1, Side 2



The Seven Themes


Playing simultaneously all seven of "The Theme"s from the Plugged Nickel recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet

The Themes 10:22



Szeryng, Milstein, Heifetz


Three LPs combined of them each playing Bach's G minor violin sonata

Szeryng-Milstein-Heifetz 16:42



Gurdjieff


A beautiful record of G.I. Gurdjieff's piano music. The only information on it is "played by Thomas de Hartmann." There is no date or label.

Side 1, Side 2



Beethreeven


Three LPs mixed together of three different string quartets (the Budapest, Amadeus and Yale) each playing the adagio from Beethoven's A-minor opus 132

1. Molto adagio - Andante - Molto adagio 17:15



YouTube collage


gramaphone, nyc setting sun, talking bird

dogs

beethoven piano concerto no. 4

cat shitting, shaolin finger balance

japanese village singing, baby lauging, con edison truck, sea turtle

the 100-meter dash

gregorian chant, tuvan throat singing, gagaku, native american powwow

music box pieces

scriabin op. 8 no. 12

maria callas

chess

modal analysis

rakugo




Baby Records
Two beat-up copies of the same old favorite baby record playing from two portable suitcase turntables simultaneously



Sides 1

Sides 2


July 2008
Kol Nidre in Moscow
September 15, 1956





side 1 23:39 side 2 22:05 side 3 21:52 side 4 23:21








Addio Del Passato (La Traviata - Verdi) 4:24







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June 2008

Not for the timid. Curiosity does not kill the cat. The idea comes and you have to go with it. Easy. Bach organ music combined with some random hardcore porn off of the web. Hilarious, out, thought-provoking, the way one affects the other... Makes me reconsider combinations of things...

Interviewer
Didn't you say somewhere, "I am for obscenity and against pornography"?

Henry Miller
Well, it's very simple. The obscene would be the forthright, and pornography would be the roundabout. I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. In other words, obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.


J.X. Bach 4:40





The Lento assai movement from Beethoven's op. 135 string quartet, performed by the Busch Quartet...

Lesbvig von Butthoven







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Backyard, home in Santa Barbara...
April 2008

1. Rain 16:00

2. Wind 2:14:40

3. Dawn 1:51:28







March 14, 2008

The sound of all Bach's Goldberg Variations playing simultaneously - Glenn Gould, 1981.

1. Goldberg Variations Variation 6:03











February 24, 2008

Olivier Messiaen's Livre d'Orgue, which I recorded organist Gail Archer performing in a free concert given at Rutgers Presbyterian Church on w. 73rd St.

1. Reprises par Interversion 7:47
2. Piece en Trio 2:05
3. Les Mains de l'Abime 6:24
4. Chants d'Oiseaux 9:54
5. Piece en Trio 10:19
6. Les Yeux Dans les Roues 2:15
7. Soixante Quatre Durees 11:37









A very obscure Hungarian LP of bird song.
Beautiful, complex calls presented at their original speeds and then much slower
Notes from the jacket as follows.

Side A 24:17

Side B 20:53








Mirra Alfassa



Also known as The Mother, I recently came across Mirra Alfassa for the first time in the sixth episode of Louis Malle's Phantom India (1969), at the ashram of Pondicherry. Alfassa was the spiritual guru to that area. Cameramen were not allowed to film her, only record her voice. What she said, the sound of her voice - I was so struck by it... This is a beautiful book...

The Mother speaks 1:36

Translation: It never happens the same way twice. Generally, it happens when we least expect it. And it’s usually when we’ve surrendered our so-called knowledge, our convictions, and abandoned all hope that we enter a state where we’re able to receive it. Revelation is always present. It’s always here. We’re the ones who don’t let it in. Knowledge is always present. Enlightenment is always present, floating above everything, ready to be received. It’s only because we’re so completely blinded by everything we think we know and want to do that we can’t receive it. But at the moment we surrender, for whatever reason, it makes us a bit passive and open, and that’s when we receive it.
...





"Phantom India"



Hours of beautiful footage documented by filmmaker Louis Malle in the early 1960s. This has just recently been made available on dvd, and I couldn't more highly recommend something to see, or hear. So for that matter, here are the sound environments of it all which I recorded and spliced out the French commentary from

episode 1 - the impossible camera 15:27
episode 2 - things seen in madras 17:34
episode 3 - the indians and the sacred 17:00
episode 4 - dream and reality 19:47
episode 5 - a look at castes 25:26
episode 6 - on the fringes of indian society 10:44
episode 7 - bombay 28:10







Turkish ney solo



Manipulated with the fast-forward and rewind buttons on a cd player.
November 17, 2007

1. Track 1 8:30






Rye Beach, New Hampshire



July 2007

1. "birds, backyard, wind in the trees, road" 2:07
2. "ocean" 6:28






music for
MORT


Musical excerpts from the play MORT, which I arranged and performed music for in its first two and only performances on August 3 and 4, 2006. These particular collage pieces consist of sound only from music by Morton Feldman. They were assembled collaboratively with tenor saxophonist/composer Sam Hillmer

#24
Broken Music
Himalayas
Jigsaw
Luft






Impressions x 10



July 7, 2007

The sound of ten different recordings of John Coltrane playing "Impressions" going simulatenously. Rather difficult to listen to, but interesting I think...

1. "Impressions x 10" 20:54






FRACTAL




March 4, 2006

The sound of a bell I sampled and explored, from an old episode of Police Squad (the joke was a suspect's name, Eddie Cassalas, "rang a bell," so a bell kept going off).

"FRACTAL"






RACHMANINOFF OFF



Rachmaninoff-off 3:37








SOUND COLLAGE

July 2005

Various musical excerpts affected and blended together with the computer.


Collage



BEATSHELL 1.4

April 18, 2005

In collaboration with drummer, composer and long-time friend Doug Hirlinger, Beatshell 1.4 was assembled over the course of many weeks, sending a sound file back and forth to each other through e-mail. An initial sample from an electronic piece by composer Charles Wuornen got us going, from which point sounds were set from sources such as Fellini's Satyricon (Ilhan Mimaroglu), Kieslowski's Dekalog, Morton Feldman, Mario Davidovsky, Olivier Messiaen, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, John Cage, Harrison Birtwistle, George Crumb... many old things going back to the days of mini disc recorders and the Manhattan School of Music library.

Beatshell 1.4



CHINATOWN RECORDINGS, LOOPS



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