Stephen Vitiello.1 STEVE RODEN (ON THE BOARDS, SEATTLE, WA) As much as I enjoyed Roden's CD Transmissions (voices of objects and skies) (Fresno Metropolitan Museum/New Plastic Music), there was something even more satisfying about watching him build loops in a live setting--not to mention observing his strange habit of singing to a table. (Roden told me, "I sing 'Into the table' because I can't bear the thought of singing and looking at people ... it's my disappearing act!") [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2 ANDREW DEUTSCH Andrew Deutsch is a sound artist who teaches at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He also has work released by Anomalous Records, Institute for Electronic Arts, and Deep Listening, which can be found at Forced Exposure. , THE SUN (AND/OAR) A CD consisting of five long tracks in which the sounds of ocean waves were filtered through digital processors. There's an ambient quality to Deutsch's richly textured work (he describes each piece as having no beginning or end) but not one that easily settles into a backdrop. 3 A TROVE OF ARCHIVAL PERFORMANCES BY CHARLOTTE MOORMAN Madeline Charlotte Moorman (November 18, 1933–November 8, 1991) was an American cellist and performance artist. Moorman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied cello from age ten and won a scholarship to Centenary College (Shreveport, Louisiana) where she took (UBUWEB AT WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. .UBU UBU University of Bristol Union (Bristol, England) UBU Unified Biostatistical Utility UBU Universiteits Bibliotheek Utrecht UBU Ugly But Useful (golf; poor shot that ends up being good) .COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. ) I helped to gather these, but that doesn't seem sufficient reason to exclude them from my list. The pieces by Terry Jennings and Toshi Ichiyanagi are particularly musical, in contrast to the perhaps more familiar visually oriented performances featuring Charlotte as the "topless cellist." 4 CHRIS WATSON, NORTH BY NORTH WEST (BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. RADIO 4) Watson Wat·son , James Dewey Born 1928. American biologist who with Francis Crick proposed a spiral model, the double helix, for the molecular structure of DNA. He shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for advances in the study of genetics. , a former member of the British experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire, is also a master of location recording. North by North West (archived at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml) is a gathering of his haunting recordings of wind sounds from the British coastline and elsewhere. Watson's The Galapagos Islands--an audio diary of recordings on the famed archipelago, available at http://bulletin.touchmusic.org.uk/touchradio--is equally evocative. 5 ALARM WILL SOUND, ACOUSTICA: ALARM WILL SOUND PERFORMS APHEX TWIN (CANTALOUPE MUSIC) A friend told me that he was morally opposed to this recording. I remember having that discomfort hearing string groups play Jimi Hendrix, but Aphex Twin seems much more suited to such transformations. 6 TONY CONRAD Conrad, Latin king of Jerusalem Conrad, d. 1192, Latin king of Jerusalem (1192), marquis of Montferrat, a leading figure in the Third Crusade (see Crusades). He saved Tyre from the Saracens and became (1187) its lord. , BRYANT PARK MORATORIUM RALLY (1969) (TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS For the periodic table of the chemical elements, see . Table of the Elements is an American record label. It concentrates on re-released and specially-recorded experimental music, including many of the great avant garde musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries ) A fascinating, newly released archival document. This aural chronicle of an anti-Vietnam War rally taking place throughout the US, taped by Conrad from his midtown Manhattan apartment using one microphone pointed out of the window overlooking the rally and a second pointed at a television broadcasting live commentary, offers a unique, subjective view of a particular time and place. 7 GITHEAD, PROFILE (SWIM) Well crafted and carefully manipulated pop songs created by Colin Newman (of Wire), Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner), Malka Spigel, and Max Franken. It's amazing to hear Rimbaud become an unlikely rock god. 8 BOARDS OF CANADA, THE CAMPFIRE HEADPHASE (WARP RECORDS) Fully enjoyable and the best of what they do--even if they never go beyond their instantly recognizable take on pastoral electronica. Perfect head-phones music. 9 CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS, HIGHLY BRED AND SWEETLY TEMPERED (NORTH EAST INDIE) Smart twists and turns from this Seattle-based avant-garde pop duo, mixing found sound collage with guitar-laden melody. 10 RICHARD THOMPSON, GRIZZLY MAN ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK (COOKING VINYL) Guitar (by Jim O'Rourke) that's amazing in every way, with cello surprises from Danielle De Gruttola, created to accompany Werner Herzog's extraordinary "true story of a life gone wild." STEPHEN VITIELLO IS A SOUND AND MEDIA ARTIST AND A MEMBER OF THE FACULTY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF KINETIC IMAGING AT VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY Formed by a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968, VCU has a medical school that is home to the nation's oldest organ transplant program. . |
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