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Experimental Composers: Composers Inside Electronics

Sep 15, 2016: 1am - 2am
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Produced by Clocktower Radio.

John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, and Tom Hamilton, direct inheritors of the concepts and spirit of David Tudor, formed a group known for pioneering home-built electronics and early "Circuit Bending." In this concert, they present new and classic electronic works including Speaking in Tongues (2011) by John Driscoll for ultrasonic instruments, Rainforest I (1968) by Tudor for amplified table-top resonant objects, and a collaborative improvisation. Recorded December 2011 at Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York.

"Experimental Composers" is produced by Clocktower Radio and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. Writes Clocktower Radio, "Performances from new and established musical innovators. The unfortunate and unintended messages that come attached to a title like Experimental Composers are many. Still it is one of the few labels to come out of the world of music that has not been co-opted by promoters, corporations, journalists, or lawyers. This one just seems to have anti-market goo on it. Hooray. It's also just bad English (as if to imply that these poor souls are themselves, in their flesh and blood, some kind of experiment and, perhaps, even expendable). And then there is the spectre of defying the wisdom of the great Edgar Varèse who said something like, 'I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment."