MOTM

Going over my reciepts for taxes, I noticed that my first MOTM order was a
year ago today!

BTW, anyone interested in "Classical" electro-acoustic music should give a
listen to Japanese composer Otomo Yoshihide new CD Cathode, on Tzadik.
There's a 17 minute piece, Cathode #1, which is constructed from classic
tape editing and manipulation of a set of ensemble improvisations. It's
dedicated to Takemitsu, and you can hear his influence, very nice, and the
timbre of the analog tape manipulations really adds something. Another
piece does similar operations using hard-disk editing, to very different
ends. The rest of the disc is kind of difficult listening, working with
some extremely high-pitch difference tone phenomena, cool if you like that
stuff (I do), but not exactly relaxing...

Also, while I'm being off-topic, are there any Synergy fans on the list
(Larry Fast, not the instrument). I just realized that, over the years, I'd
never really listened to any of his work, except for the early Peter
Gabriel records, which I love. Any recommendations of where to start?

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Dave Trenkel : improv@...
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On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 improv@... wrote:

> Also, while I'm being off-topic, are there any Synergy fans on the list
> (Larry Fast, not the instrument). I just realized that, over the years, I'd
> never really listened to any of his work, except for the early Peter
> Gabriel records, which I love. Any recommendations of where to start?

  Start with his first album, "ERFRO".  Electronic Realizations for Rock
Orchestra.  One of my first EM purchases (in 1975) and still one of my
favorite EM albums.  You can then pretty much follow the albums in release
order from there.  (Sequencer, Cords, Games, Semi-Conductor--a compilation
double-album from the first threee albums as well as some other stuff,
Audion, Jupiter Menace--which is mostly reworked material from the above,
Computer Experiments and Metropolitan Suite.

  Something about ERFRO sets it apart from his other stuff.  If you get
only one Synergy album, that is the one.

  Computer Experiments is 45 minutes of algorithmic composition as a Paia
8700 computer (a 6503 CPU running at 440KHz using 1K of RAM) controls a
Prophet-5 and various other analog gear.  The program running on the 8700
is called "Pink Tunes", which I still have and could probably run again on
my 8700--though I would probably rework everything to use modern
microcontrollers if I were to make an algorithmic composer as, say, a 2U
module.

Crow

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In a message dated 00-04-09 12:23:51 EDT, you write:

<< Otomo Yoshihide new CD Cathode, on Tzadik. >>


dave,
you make it sound interesting........i`ll have to try and watch for it......
best,
dave v.

In a message dated 00-04-09 18:06:55 EDT, you write:

<<  I think I still have
 the program listing.
 >>


thomas,
should it turn out you no longer have the program listing, let me know as 
i`ve got the polyphony that has it. i, too, spent many hours with an 
8700/kybd/2xquash and serge running pink tunes. 
best,
dave v.

Thanks for the CD recommendation. I for one will be checking that out.

I have everything Synergy has done (on vinyl if not CD). His first album,
"Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra" is good. It suffers from pretty
much one level of dynamic range, but this album is worth it for "Slaughter
on Tenth Avenue" if nothing else.

If you want to start with something just a bit more recent, I recommend
"Metropolitan Suite."

Larry's web site:

http://synergy-emusic.com/

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:ken.tkacs@...]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 7:29 AM
> To: 'motm@egroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [motm] MOTM Anniversary
>
>
>
> Thanks for the CD recommendation. I for one will be checking that out.
>
> I have everything Synergy has done (on vinyl if not CD). His first album,
> "Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra" is good. It suffers
> from pretty
> much one level of dynamic range, but this album is worth it for "Slaughter
> on Tenth Avenue" if nothing else.
>
> If you want to start with something just a bit more recent, I recommend
> "Metropolitan Suite."