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	Bufo Variations In 2004, on a visit to Accra, Ghana, Steven Feld became interested in the way that common toads (Bufo regularis) defined time and space with their night-time croaking as they flanked city roads. He also met Nii Otoo Annan, a percussionist with knowledge and expertise in both Ghanaian traditions and avant-garde jazz and improvisation. In early 2006, Feld asked Nii Otoo to listen to a short Bufo soundscape he had just created for the first Ear to the Earth concert in New York. Taking the headphones off, Nii Otoo connected the dots: "You hear, Prof, it is like what I have been showing you in our music. The crickets are sounding like the bell with very strict time, and the kawkawdene (the toad's name in Ga, Nii Otoo's first language) are the master drummers, making many rhythms on top." Feld became interested in the dynamic interplay of the acoustic ecology of toad and cricket sounds with the practices of Ghanaian polyrhythm and multiple meter. This CD explores that interplay. It includes some of Feld's compositions based on natural recorded sounds in Ghana and Ni Otoo's improvisations with them. It's fascinating to hear. It's a superb improving musician interacting with the rhythms of the natural world. VoxLox  =>  SF302  $16.00
	Music At The Crossroads Neva Pilgrim, soprano, joins Max Lifchitz, pianist, and the North/South Consonance Ensemble in performances of Emma Lou Diemer's 'Sextet', Alexandre Rudajev's 'Petite Suite Parisienne', Marilyn Ziffrin's 'Three Songs Of The Trobairitz', Allen Brings' 'Five Bagatelles', and Richard Toensing's 'Angels'. NS Recordings  =>  NS105  $16.00
	Philip Corner: Extreme Positions Philip Corner (b 1933) studied composition with Henry Cowell and Otto Luening and musical analysis with Oliver Messiaen. During the 1960s and 70s he was an active member of Fluxus, a founder (along with James Tenney and Malcolm Goldstein) of the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble, the resident musician and composer for the Judson Dance Theatre, and co-founder of Gamelan Son of Lion (with Barbara Benary and Daniel Goode). This 2-CD set is the first comprehensive overview of his work, including many of his key compositions, and is an ideal introduction to an important but overlooked figure of the American avant-garde. Compositions for trombones are 'For 2 Trombones No. 2' (1960), 'Calling! OM ('from the ¦70s')', 'attempting whitenesses' (1964), 'Round Sound' (1963), 'One Note More Than Once' (2005) (two performances), 'An Earth Breath Trilogy' (2005), 'Big Trombone' (1963). Ensemble compositions are 'Zen Om ('from the ¦70s')', 'Just Another 12-Tone Piece' (1995), 'Sang-Teh, movement III' (1960¡61), 'Passionate Expanse of the Law' (1959), 'Lovely Music' (1961¡62), 'When They Pull the Plug' (2002), 'Chopin Prelude I: The V9 chord which begins the Chopin D Major Prelude . . . as a revelation' (1969). Listen to this MP3 excerpt: For 2 Trombones No. 2 (1960) Big Trombone (1963) New World  =>  NW359-2  $29.00
	Bell & Winter Festival of Greek Macedonia During Christmas and New Year's weeks of 2000-2001, Steven Feld traveled in Greece with Dick Blau and Angeliki and Charles Keil to record a CD for their book Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia. Feld's CD soundscape is accompanied by a portfolio of photographs by Blau. Together they evoke the world of Romani families in the ancient crossroads town of Iraklia (Jumaya), moving through the marketplace, the cafes and homes of the Roma neighborhood, the town church, and several New Year's parties. Throughout the trip Feld was taken by the presence of bells in the countryside, in local villages, and in winter festivals. This CD features these keynote sounds of animal bells, town and church bells, and belled festival performers interacting with Romani instrumental trios, as well as with bagpipes (gaida) and frame drums (defi). Listen to this MP3 excerpt: Belled Goats of Assiros Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM381  $17.00
	New Computer Music A compilation of computer music including Michel Waisvisz' 'The Hands (excerpts)', a remarkable performance device developed by Waisvisz during the 1980s. Also on the CD: Clarence Barlow's 'Relationships for Melody Instruments', James Dashow's 'Sequence Symbols', Stephen Kaske's 'Transition Nr. 2', Paul Lansky's 'Idle Chatter', and Curtis Roads' 'nscor'. Wergo  =>  WE100  $21.00
	Sudden Music David Rothenberg's new book, subtitled 'Improvisation, Sound, Nature', is a testament to the creative, surprising power of improvisation. Rothenberg draws on his own extensive travels to Scandinavia, India, and Nepal to describe from close observation the improvisational traditions that inform and inspire his own art. He weaves memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection to present a musical way of knowing that can closely engage us with the world and open us to its spontaneity. The accompanying audio disc features eleven original compositions by Rothenberg, none of which have been previously released on CD. Included are a duet with clarinet and white-crested laughing bird, and another duet with clarinet and Samchillian TipTipTip Cheeepeeeee, an electronic computer instrument played by its inventor, Leon Gruenbaum. Also featured are multicultural works blending South Indian veena and Turkish G-clarinet with spoken text from the Upanishads; a piece commissioned by the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival with readings of texts by E. O. Wilson accompanied by clarinet and electronics; and improvisations based on Tibetan Buddhist music, Japanese shakuhachi music, and the image of a black crow on white snow. As George Lewis said, "At the crossroads of music, poetics, and philosophy, David Rothenberg tells stories in the manner of the finest jazz musicians, revealing the beauty and excitement of improvisation ..." If you're interested in improvisation, this book is a must. University of Georgia Press  =>  MB208-4  $29.00
	Computer Music Tutorial This is the definitive book for the current technology of computer music. Curtis Roads' 'The Computer Music Tutorial' is a comprehensive text and reference that covers all aspects of computer music, including digital audio, synthesis techniques, signal processing, musical input devices, performance software, editing systems, algorithmic composition, MIDI, synthesizer architecture, system interconnection, and psychoacoustics. Profusely illustrated, it uses hundreds of charts, diagrams, screen images, and photographs to present basic concepts and terms. Written for non-technical as well as technical readers, the book provides a clear, step-by-step introduction to the entire field of computer music techniques. Indeed, the material in this book was compiled and refined by Roads during a period of several years teaching classes at Harvard University, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Naples, IRCAM, Les Ateliers UPIC, and in seminars and workshops in North America, Europe, and Asia. 904 pages. Paperback. MIT Press  =>  MB110-10  $66.00
	Microsound Curtis Roads, prolific author of excellent books on computer music, now gives us this pathbreaking book on microsound, i.e. sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music -- notes and their intervals -- into a more fluid and supple medium. The sensations of point, pulse (series of points), line (tone), and surface (texture) emerge as particle density increases. Sounds coalesce, evaporate, and mutate into other sounds. Composers have used theories of microsound in computer music since the 1950s. Distinguished practitioners include Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. Today, with the increased interest in computer and electronic music, many young composers and software synthesis developers are exploring its advantages. Covering all aspects of composition with sound particles, Microsound offers composition theory, historical accounts, technical overviews, acoustical experiments, descriptions of musical works, and aesthetic reflections. The book is 392 pp., with illustrations, accompanied by an audio CD of examples. MIT Press  =>  MB207-8  $51.00
	Duets (Wesleyan) 2002 A series of duets by two well matched performers, multi-instrumental Anthony Braxton and trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum. The performances are energetic and inventive, at times humorous and often beautiful. The compositions include 'Composition 304 (+ 91, 151, 164), 'Scrabble', 'To Wait', 'All Roads Lead to Middletown', 'Improvisation' and 'composition 315 (+ language improvisation, 44). Performances by Anthony Braxton (sopranino, soprano, F alto, E-flat alto and baritone saxophones, E-flat, B-flat and contralto clarinets) and Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, trumpbone, shell and mutes). Innova  =>  NV187  $18.00
	Best Of Broadside: 1962 - 1988 This deluxe collector's set contains over 5 hours of great folksongs that were originally published in Broadside, the historic underground magazine. Started in 1962, Broadside magazine promoted social change and helped shape an era, predating the angry rock and rap of more recent times. And between 1962 and 1988, Broadside published 187 issues containing thousands of songs that came of out of the peace, labor, and civil rights movements. This collection contains more than five hours and 89 songs of music by Bob Dylan, The Fugs, Arlo Guthrie, Bernice Johnson Reagon, The Freedom Singers, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Ewan MacCall, Phil Ochs, Janis Ian, Malvina Reynolds ... all in all, it's 25 years of American politics and social concerns. The 5-CD boxed set measures 8-1/2' x 11' and is covered in classic black book layered with series of tip labels for a collage effect. Handsome full-size spiral bound 100+ page book is divided into 5 sections -- one CD inserts into each section divider. This is a fantastic collection! Smithsonian/Folkways  =>  SM318  $67.00
	Music Machine Since its inception in 1976, Computer Music Journal has led the field as the essential resource for musicians, composers, scientists, engineers, and computer enthusiasts interested in contemporary electronic music and computer-generated sound. In 'The Music Machine', editor Curtis Roads brings together 53 classic articles published in Computer Music Journal between 1980 and 1985, providing a cohesive and comprehensive survey of the major developments in computer music and related technology during the early 1980s. The book includes interviews with major figures in the field and articles devoted to composition, artificial intelligence, and the popular Music Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). Roads has written an overview of each of the book's seven parts, highlighting the major topics and placing the various articles in a thematic and historical context. 740 pages. MIT Press  =>  MB112-6  $49.00
	Leonardo V24 #4, 1991. Gateway by William C. Castell, Roger F. Malina, Mark Rais. Articles & Notes. Mike King: Sculptor: A Three Dimensional Computer Sculpting System  ·  Nik Semenoff and Christine Christos: Using Dry Copier Toners and Electro-Etching on Intaglio Plates · Karl Martin Holzhauser and Gottfried Jager with Walter Steffens: Game Strategies: A Multimedia Project  ·  Zhao Yixiong: Painting the Silk Roads: A Meditation on the Past · Pierre Y. Karinthi: A Contribution to Musicalism: An Attempt to Interpret Music in Painting · Jeffery Steele: Chance, Change, Choice and Order: A Structural Analysis of a Work by Kenneth Martin  ·  Shirley Thomas: Theodore von Karman: The Consummate Educator · Robin Baker: An Interactive Computer Video Game for the Design Museum: Using Technology to Teach Technology · Stephen Wilson: Technological Research and Development as a Source of Ides and Inspiration for Artists · Stanley David Gedzelman: Weather Forecasts in Art · Bulat M. Galeyev: The New Laokoon: A Periodic System of the Arts  ·  Paul Ryan: The Earthscore Notational System for Orchestrating Perceptual Consensus about the Natural World · Joe Davis: The Last Gateway Specials: The Space Shuttle and the Artist · Ronald F. Harwin: Safe Computing for the 1990s: A Chiropractors Explains How to Avoid Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive-Stress Problems. Art/Science Forum. Bulat M. Galeyev: Ars Electronica in the International and Soviet Versions  ·  Rod Murray: Holography Course, Royal College of Art. Abstracts. George Baker with Eric Peltzer: A Hanging Kinetic Sculpture for a Cruise Ship  ·  Dora Feilane: Image and Dance  ·  Ezra Orion: Intergalactic Sculpture. Word On Works. Martin Cox, Davis Gaw and Ed Koch, Reiko Goto, Michael S. Horwood, Steve Mann, Pauline Oliveros, Nancy Paterson, Paul Rutkovsky, Jill Scott, Jeffery Shaw, Dale Nason and Troy Innocent · Book reviews by David Carrier, John W. Cooper, Roger F. Malina, Leo Narodny, Cilfford A. Pickover, Stephen Wilson · Commentaries by David R. Topper. Speakers' Network. ISAST Member News. Leonardo / MIT Press  =>  MM710-4  $50.00
	Native Planting Music by Robert Spalding Newcomb. This volume contains concert and studio improvisations realized during 2001-2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The track titles are 'Still the Mind', 'Matrices', 'Mixed Drums', 'Sketches in Autonomy and Integration', 'All Out', 'Shanti', '24 Chroma 2 X 3', 'Iso', 'Next Raga', 'Many Roads, One Path, No Net', 'Trapezoid', 'Currently of the Edge', 'You Are Not This Body'. Production, Composition, Performance, Recording, and Art Design by Robert Spalding Newcomb. Partial Music  =>  PA302  $16.00
	Point Line Cloud A deluxe two-disc CD + DVD featuring all new audio material by Curtis Roads along with interviews and original videos realized especially for this project by San Francisco artist Brian O'Reilly. Compositions include 'Sculptor' (2001), 'Half-life' (1999), 'Volt air I-IV' (2003), 'Fluxon' (2003), 'Pictor alpha' (2003), and 'Nanomorphosis' (2003). Additional features and visualizations include 'Sonal Atoms' (visualization by Woon Seung Yeo), 'Pictor Alpha' (visualization by Gary Kling), audio lecture by Curtis Roads at Stanford University (June 2004) and historical example of granular synthesis: Prototype (1975). Asphodel  =>  SA125-2  $17.00
	Music Signal Processing Edited by Curtis Roads, Stephen Travis Pope, Aldo Piccialli, and Giovanni De Poli, this book contains articles by Antonio Camurri, Sergio Cavaliere, Roger Dannenberg, Giovanni De Poli, Hankjan Honing, Stephen Travis Pope, Xavier Serra, Julius O. Smith III, Alvise Vidolin, and several other experts in the field, and represents a formidible overview of computer music technology. To quote the preface: "'Musical Signal Processing' is designed to be adopted in courses in musical sound synthesis and sound processing, in research centers, conservatories, and university departments of music, acoustics, computer science, and engineering ... " This is a coherent and instructive book where each chapter is divided into a tutorial and an advanced section, which should make the subject accessible to any serious musician interested in understanding the subject at a technical level. 475 pages. Hardcover only. Swets & Zeitlinger  =>  MB129-5  $112.00
	Otto Laske: Navigating New Musical Horizons Edited by Jerry Tabor, this anthology of articles by and about Otto Laske, noted composer and theorist, demonstrates how Laske has crossed musical boundaries and integrated ideas from a plethora of fields into his musicological thinking. The book deals with and contains Laske's background, his impact on musical thought, an interview with the composer, and selected articles and lectures on composing with computers, the nature of sound and the environment, cognitive musicology and the interface of music and psychology, linguistic theory and musical understanding, and the aesthetics of electronic music. Finely illustrated with clarifying scores and tables, the contributors include Jerry Tabor, Barry Truax, Michael Hamman, Gottfried-Michael Koenig, Joel Chadabe, Bernard Bel, Marc Leman, Jukka Louhivuori, Nico Shuler, and Curtis Roads, as well as Laske himself. 211 pages, charts, musical examples. Size 6" x 9-1/2". Cloth. Greenwood Publishing Group  =>  MB154-4  $115.00
	Digital Rewind MIT was among the first centers for important research and experimentation in computer music. The Experimental Music Studio at MIT was formed by Barry Vercoe in 1973. In 1985, it became the MIT Media Laboratory. And this 2-CD set documents the music that was produced. The first CD contains work composed with the studio's PDP-11 computer and Vercoe's Music 11 sound synthesis language. The second CD reflects the diversity of music created more recently. CD 1 contains Peter Child's 'Ensemblance' (1982), John Lunn's 'Echoes' (1980), Curtis Roads' 'Field' (1981), Martin Brody's 'Moments Musicaux' (1981), Charles Dodge's 'The Waves' (1984), Barry Vercoe's 'Synapse' (1976), William Albright's 'Sphaera' (1985), James Dashow's 'In Winter Shine' (1983), and Elliot Balaban's 'In My Future' (1979). CD 2 contains Jonathan Harvey's 'From Silence' (1992), a major work for ensemble and electronic sounds, and Jean-Claude Risset's 'Eight Sketches: Duet For One Pianist' (1994), a duet for pianist and a computer that listens and responds to the performance via a second piano. CD 2 also contains Michael A. Casey and Simon Atkinson's 'Strange-Charmed' (1999) and Mario Davidovsky's 'Synchronisms No. 9' (1989). The perfomances are by The Boston Musica viva, David Evans (piano), Joan La Barbara (voice), Marcus Thompson (viola), David Burge (piano), Nancy Anderson (voice), Jean-Claude Risset (piano), Rolf Schulte (violin); and, for the Harvey work, a small ensemble consisting of Karol Bennett (soprano), Lucy Stoltzman (violin), Marcus Thompson (viola), Dean Anderson (percussion), Kathleen Supove, John MacDonald, Diana Dabby (electronic keyboards), David Atherton (sound), Brent Koeppel, Ken Malsky, and Philip Sohn (computers and sound treatment), and Barry Vercoe (conductor). There is no charge for this 2-CD set. We'll include it as a gift with other purchases you make, provided only that you request it and that your request is consistent with the special offers that are in effect at the time of your request. If you're interested in receiving this CD and you're not sure about the offers of the moment, ask us. MIT Experimental Music Studio  =>  MI500  $0.00
	The Bern Nix Trio: Alarms and Excursions Performances by Bern Nix (guitar), Fred Hopkins (bass), and Newman Baker (drums). "Light as a feather, with depths implied through back-roads melody-to-melody improvising. One of the best jazz records of '93." (The Village Voice); " è never less than engaging." (The Wire); "... a witty debut album that walks a fine line between freedom and tradition, sort of Wes Montgomery in the Twilight Zone." (The Boston Phoenix). New World  =>  NW218  $17.00
	Frantic Mid-Atlantic Evelyn Ficarra has a wonderful gift for combining recorded sounds and acoustical instruments. Her music is provocative and fascinating, moving freely between her sound sources. She writes: "I usually like to begin using concrè:te sounds and voice. I am atracted to sound, not quite for its own sake, but for the meanings and structural potential it contains. The wider imperative, perhaps, being to make continuities between the physical world and the music. Music to me is never an abstraction: of necessity its an extension of lived, and heard, experience." In 'Search' (1997) for string septet and tape, the instrumental music appears to emerge magically from the recorded sounds, coming to the fore, and then finding a place of balance and statis. 'Deuce' (1993) for baroque flute, harpsichord and tape, begins with a pointalistic texture shared between the acoustical instruments, subtly joined by the recorded sounds, which then weave and dart through the mix. Also included is 'Those Roads' (1994) for tape, 'Plus Ca Change' (1991, revised 1998) for violin, marimba and tape, 'Source of Uncertainty - Model 266' (1993) for tape, and and 'Frantic Mid-Atlantic' (1995) for solo tape. Performances by the Gogmagogs (string septet), Alwyne Pritchard (voice on tape), David Le Page (violin), Daniella Ganeva (marimba), Eleanor Dawson (baroque flute), and Jane Chapman (harpsichord). Sargasso  =>  SG107  $18.00
	Pendler A two-CD compilation from Skraep, a new music organization in Copenhagen, based on a concert event created by Per Buhl Acs at a crossroads with multiple stages, live mixes, and a video installation. The compositions are Francis Dhomont's 'Chp Pendler Music', Otomo Yoshihide's 'Kiseru-Copenhagen to Shinjuku', Jakob Brandt's '9/10', Ruelgo's 'Tiraillement', PO Jorgens' '3rd Stone from Platform Seven', Jorgen Teller's '14 trax and a hut', Per Buhl Acs' 'Pendul', Yasuhiro Otani's 'Trample under-Subconscious', Headbutt's 'Stay Put', Dr. Mengelhause's 'Noodlesoup', Anton Ignorant's 'Routine Rumble', and Barry Truax's 'Pendlerdrom'. Skraep  =>  SK300-2  $19.00
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