Description: Additional Information from Movie Mars Product Description A wonderful overview of the variety of Wolff's work from 1950 through 1987. One of the legendary members of the now-called New York School (John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and Wolff), this album clearly tied with avant-garde music at Mills College, both in the Tape Music Center and the Center for Contemporary Music (much of this rich interchange is covered in the generous liner notes). The CD begins with Cage's famous "silent piece" "4:33" in which we hear the ambient surroundings of the concert hall which can be opened onto an amphitheater in the back, and onto gardens on the sides. Julie Steinberg is seated silently at the piano performing some unseen (to the CD listener) action that delineates the three movements of the silence "I. tacet, II. tacet, III. tacet." A performance of Cage's "Variations II" by the live computer-music band the Hub and David Gamper's EIS (The Expanded Instrument System environment) contains legendary composer Ramon Sender Barayon as Zero the Clown playing "Mairzy Doats' on an accordion which is processed electronically, and which seques seamlessly into "Traffic Prayers and Amnesia" written and narrated by Wendy Jeanne Burch, accompanied by Joe Catalano on the electric rebab with the ensemble. Another version of Cage's silent (or maybe "nothing special happening") piece is recorded with the audience enjoying a reception in the entrance hall, their sounds reflected and echoed from side hallways. The instruments begin again with David Gamper's "Deep Hockets," a lovely Terry Riley-like phase piece with the Deep Listening Band, which seques into a fabulous 45-minute improvisation with everyone called "The Last Chances." This CD delivers the meditative spirit inherent in American new music, the richness that comes from trusting fellow musicians to spontaneously produce from the deepness of their understanding. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny About Movie Mars All items are Brand New. We offer unbeatable prices, quick shipping times and a wide selection second to none. Purchases come with a 30-day Satisfaction Guarantee (minus Shipping & Handling fees) on all unopened products. All items are from licensed Distributors. We do not deal with any Bootleg or Used items!
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Format: CD
Release Year: 1998
Genre: Jazz, Avantgarde, Downtown
Run Time: 72 min.
Style: Avantgarde/Downtown
Artist: Christian Wolff (Composer)
Record Label: Mode Records
Release Title: I like to Think of Harriet Tubman
