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"Daytime Viewing (1979-80) is an extended narrative song, based on a casual analysis of daytime television drama and the audience phenomena such programming addresses The piece explores the use of fantasy as a survival mechanism against loneliness, illustrating the human compulsion to inflate the mundane to mythological... -
On February 19, 1972, a crew of mostly Louisiana-raised musicians came together at the Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway in Soho to perform a wholly improvised concert This ensemble’s solos spring from collective improvisations and a tumultuous backbeat, loosely inspired by the creations of Coltrane, Coleman, Albert Ayler,...
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Presented together for the first time, American composer John McGuire’s Pulse Music series (1975-1979) blurs the popular narrative that Minimalism was a reaction against Europe’s angular, intellectual, inscrutable high-modernism McGuire, born in California, studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles and UC Berkeley before...
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4 Cuts Placed In "A First Quarter", the companion piece to Solos, is the sonic result of a collaboration with artist Lawrence Weiner As Landry remembers, “I was working for Keith Sonnier at Castelli Gallery and met Lawrence He asked ‘can you make a video for me’ So we did "To and Fro" At some point he was working on "A First...
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In 1978 Having Been Built on Sand was conceived as a vinyl edition and released by the Rüdiger Schöttle gallery in Munich with sleeve design by Weiner The piece consists of eight untitled tracks Lawrence Weiner, Tina Girouard, and Britta Le Va recite text with Dickie Landry’s woodwinds, all recorded in the natural reverb of...
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Carl Stone continues his late career prolific renaissance with a new album of sculpted, tuneful MAX/MSP fantasias Stone “plays” his source material the way Terry Riley’s In C “plays” an ensemble – with a loose, freewheeling charm connected to the ancient human impulse to make sound, melody, and rhythm from anything...
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Human Remains follows Creatures of the Deep and Black Sarabande as the final installment of a trilogy of piano based recordings by Robert Haigh for Unseen Worlds The trilogy marks the end of the late era of solo albums by Haigh before he steps away from music production The title, Human Remains, was initially based on a painting...
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Over the past several years, the recorded output of Carl Stone has been turned on its head In previous decades, Stone perennially toured new work but kept a harboring gulf of time between the live performances and their recorded release This not only reflected the careful consideration of the pieces and technical innovations that...
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