Layers and layers and layers of wailing saxes (Ulrich Krieger), smearing violins (Malcolm Goldstein), Peruvian instrumentalists and twanging komungo (Jin Hi Kim) in Celli's post-minimal music for video. Over 70 minutes of pulsating sounds, including Andes for 7 Peruvian musicians and a mountain of televisions.
A stereo audio cassette featuring Celli's music for percussion. The recording includes Snare Drum For Camus with percussionists John Boudler, Camus Celli, Brian Johnson, and Jan Williams in an exploration of the timbral phasing of the snare drum. The Village Voice has stated, "...channeled violence...perceptual minimalism full of uncontrollable variations..." Also included is 8 Mallets Four Brian featuring Brian Johnson with multiple channels of mallet instruments. Recorded in Studio b ( the Toscanni studio!) of Radio City Music Hall.
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World ImprovisationsWith Joseph Celli, double reeds, Yamaha WX-7, and Jin Hi Kim, komungo, chongo, midi-komungo. A compact disc featuring 55 minutes of duo and solo improvisations by two virtuosic improvisors. Korean/American Jin Hi Kim has performed extensively with Elliot harp, Derek Biley, James Newton, Henry Kaiser and others where she has pioneered the fusion of the traditional Korean instruments, komugo (lap zither) and chongo (2 headed drum), as well as created the midi-komungo heard on this CD for the first time in recording. Joseph Celli performs on reeds, oboe and English horn (with and without reeds), the Indian double reed, Mukha Beena, and the Yamaha WX-7 midi breath controller. Celli explores the range of acoustic possibilities of these instruments as he develops a totally new and personal sound syntax.
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World (Trio) ImprovisationsJoseph Celli and Jin Hi Kim in a series of trio improvisations that include West African drummer Mor Thiam, Australian didjeridu player Adam Plack, vocalist Shelley Hirsch, violinist Malcolm Goldstein and electronic virtuoso Alvin Curran. Celli performs on reeds, oboe, English horn, and WX-7 midi breath controller. Jin Hi Kim performs on komungo, electric komungo and changgo drum. College Music Journal wrote, "The beauty of this work is that it's always new, always unique and never sends you home humming a tune. Instead, it leaves you full of ideas of your own and a sense that you have been exploring new cerebral turf."
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OboeA CD reissue of the original 1978 recording that includes works by Karlheitz Stockhausen, Malcolm Goldstein, Elliot Schwartz and Celli's Sky: S For J: for five English horns without reeds. When originally issued, Downbeat Magazine wrote, "...Boldly experimental...startling...." Celli performs on oboe, Engilsh horn, electric English horn, short wave radio and various sound modifiers with voice.
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Living TonesComposer Kim's bi-cultural chamber music features American contemporary virtuosi with Korean traditional musicians like National Living Treasure Jae-Guk Chung. Performers include flutist Robert Dick, vocalist Thomas Buckner, oboist Joseph Celli, and the Sirius String Quartet. "This is new music/world music at its finest, beyond political correctness, into the realm of the sublime, where words and cultural postures fall away." The Los Angeles Times
Item number COMP-CD-10; Compact dics $16.00
Composer and performer Phill Niblock with Joseph Celli, oboe and English horn.
A two cassette set with accompanying Maritime Rites poster. Maritime Rites is a series of ten environmental concerts for radio in stereo composed by Alvin Curran and co-produced by Melissa Gould. This series features the eastern seaboard of the United States as a musical source in collaboration with improvised musical performances by ten distinguished artists in the American New Music scene today: John Cage, Joseph Celli, Clark Coolidge, John Gibson, Malcolm Goldstein, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, Leo Smith and Alvin Curran. The program uses the natural sound as musical counterpoint to the soloists, whose improvisations are freely structured by Curran in his own tape mixes. The essence of Maritime Rites is improvisation: as nature is spontaneous and unpredictable so is the music of man. The two forces are brought together by Curran in a rich and harmonious concerto for man and his environment. Maritime Rites includes maritime bells, foghorns, gongs, whistles, regional bird and animal life. Comments from lighthouse keepers, Coast Guard personnel and other local people are woven impressionistically throughout.
A sixty minute tape of excerpts from concert productions at Experimental Intermedia Foundation from 1986 through 1988. This series of concerts has been produced continuously since 1973. The series boasts over six hundred performances and represents more than three hundred composers and artists. This video tape contains two to four minute samples of the work of nineteen composers: Warren Burt, Joseph Celli, Nicolas Collins, David First, Ellen Fullman, Malcolm Goldstein, Daniel Goode, Shelley Hirsch with David Weinstein, Earl Howard, The Hub (Chris Brown, John Bischoff, Mark Trayle, Tim Perkis, Scott Gresham-Lancaster, Phill Stone), Peter Kotik, Guy Klucevsek, Ron Kuivila, Mary Jane Leach with Camilla Hoitenga, Christian Marclay, Phill Niblock, Ned Rothenberg, Elliott Sharp and Susan Stenger.
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Radius: Volume 1Curated by Helen Thorington, director of the New American Radio series. Includes works by Sheila Davies, What is the Matter in Amy Glennon? - a witty, fast-paced and well-written merger of science, mythology and philosophy in relation to the Self; Helen Thorington, Partial Perceptions - an exploration of relationships between nature, machine and woman made possible by recent technologies - (with vocalist Shelley Hirsch and musician Joseph Celli); Terry Allen, Bleeder, - a fictional biography about an enigmatic Texas gambler, faith healer, gangster and hemophiliac - (with performance artist/actress Jo Harvey Allen - of David Byrne's True Stories film - as the storyteller.
Item number COMP-CD-16; Compact disc
For the past 20 years, Joseph Celli has devoted his time to the premiering of over 35 inter-media works created for him by various artists; to the producing of contemporary artists activities; and to the study and performance of double reed instruments from around the world. He has commissioned and collaborated with an eclectic and diverse group of artists working in new sound technology, film, video, performance and inter-media events. Celli is one of a handful of American virtuosi recognized for developing a new instrumental syntax and a new performance repertoire for his instruments, the oboe and English horn. He co-directed the 1984 and 1988 New Music America Festivals, co-founded and directed Real Arts Ways, and served on the boards of many alternative organizations. Since 1991, he has worked as an independent, unaffiliated, itinerant composer and performer on five continents. He is the founder and director of O.O. Discs, Inc.
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