Various - Musicworks 74: Soundscape Minimalism FLAC
| Genre: |
Electronic / Jazz / Audiobooks / Classical |
| Performer: |
Various |
| Title: |
Musicworks 74: Soundscape Minimalism |
| Style: |
Free Improvisation, Radioplay, Field Recording, Experimental, Contemporary |
| Date of release: |
1999 |
| Label: |
Musicworks |
| Catalog Number: |
MW 74 |
| Country: |
Canada |
| FLAC album size: |
1640 mb |
| MP3 album size: |
2816 mb |
Tracklist
| 1 | –Marta Ptaszyńska | The Pale LavenderLyrics By [Poetry] – Modene DuffyPercussion – Carrie BioloPiano – Abraham StokmanSoprano Vocals [Mezzo-soprano] – Julie Bentley | 4:51 |
| 2 | –Sylvi MacCormac | Waves Of KokoroLyrics By [Words] – Sylvi MacCormacVoice – Barbara Bourget, Jay Hirabayashi | 10:45 |
| 3 | –Helen Hall | PowerlinesCello – James DarlingMixed By – Shelley CraigRecorded By – George Klaus | 34:18 |
| 4 | –Philip Gelb, Pauline Oliveros, Jon Raskin, Dana Reason | The Space BetweenAccordion, Conch – Pauline OliverosPiano – Dana Reason Saxophone [Saxes] – Jon RaskinShakuhachi – Philip Gelb | 9:34 |
| 5 | –Sylvi MacCormac | Voices Of A Place: Hildegard Westerkamp Inside The SoundscapeEdited By, Composed By, Recorded By [West Coast Canada Soundscape] – Sylvi MacCormacViolin – Blaine DunawayVoice – Hildegard Westerkamp | 6:35 |
Notes
Included with issue 74 of Musicworks magazine which features 'Minimal Concerns' by Nicholas Gebhardt (discussing minimalism and a new series of recordings from the Melbourne-based label Sigma Editions), 'The Piano Artistry of Dana Reason' by Dan Given (follows the career of Dana Reason ... a young Canadian improviser furthers her goals in San Francisco, pursuing her studies and playing with some of the music's top names), 'The Music of Marta Ptaszynska' by Maria Anna Harley (a look at the works of Polish composer), 'Explaining my Music: Keywords' by Tom Johnson (the minimalist composer and widely read commentator defines his artistic quest for audible truth as opposed to autobiographical self-expression), 'Conversing with Nature' by Sylvi MacCormac (reflections on Hildegard Westerkamp's 'Talking Rain'), 'Voices Never Failed Him Yet' by Chris Twomey (the new vocal compositions of Gavin Bryars˜Britain's renowned chamber ensemble composer taps the well-springs of voice with a new Requiem and solo songbook), and 'Between Seeing and Hearing' by Gayle Young (composer Helen Hall's creative exploration of electromagnetic radiation and its physical effects has resulted in a prize-winning film, Powerlines).
Track 1 is a soundscape composed for the Kokoro Dance Company.
Track 2 is an audio portrait of composer Hildegard Westerkamp.
Track 3 is an excerpt from the Between Waves CD, Sparkling Beatnik Records (SBR0006).
Track 4 recorded live in Chicago, June 9, 1995.
Track 5 is the soundtrack for Hall's film without narration. It was recorded at Star Studios, Montreal and mixed at Studio One, National Film Board of Canada.
