Matt Heckert's Mechanical Sound Orchestra heard here in concert with all of the attendant hums, clicks, creaks, and other nonverbal communications you might expect from an orchestra full of remote-controlled metallic behemoths that attack each other and assorted props. Heckert was an active participant in Survival Research Laboratories, launched in 1979, with Mark Pauline and later went solo. This program was assembled in 2006 by composer/producer John Duncan for his Cross Radio series out of Italy.
"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."