Maritime
RitesMaritime
RitesFeaturing the foghorns and other maritime sounds of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and solo improvisations by John Cage, Joseph Celli, Clark Coolidge, Alvin Curran, Jon Gibson, Malcolm Goldstein, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, and Leo Smith
In the middle 1970s I began to formulate ideas and projects leading to the
making of music outside the concert halls—often in large open and naturally
beautiful sites. Ports, rivers, lakes, caves, quarries, fields, and woods, always
ready sources of my musical inspiration, now became my new music theaters. —Alvin
Curran
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 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 composition of selected "musics" from Curran's natural sound collection.
A book, designed by Melissa Gould, illustrating many of the environmental sound works described above. Includes The Lake; The Fog Bank; An Alternative Fog Bank, An Installation; The Docks; The Bridges, Part One, The Brooklyn; The Crossing 2o; and The Waterworks.
Arranged by Alvin Curran, Pianist Aki Takahashi takes on other Beatles songs arranged by John Cage, Peter Garland, Kentaro Haneda, Akira Onoue, Yoriaki Matsudaira, Haruna Miyake, Barbara Monk-Feldman, Raphael Mostel, Carl Stone and Frederic Rzewski. Hard to find Japanese import.
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No World (Trio) ImprovisationsJoseph Celli, reeds and electronics, and Jin Hi Kim, komungo and changgo drum, in a series of trio improvisations that include West African drummer Mor Thiam, Australian didgeridoo player Adam Plack, vocalist Shelley Hirsch, violinist Malcolm Goldstein and Alvin Curran on electronics. 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."
Item number Comp-CD-14; Compact disc $16.00
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The Hub: Wreckin' BallLive computer network music with guest artists Alvin Curran and the Rova Saxophone Quartet. A collection of pieces by John Bischoff, Mark Trayle, Chris Brown, The Hub, in collaboration with Ramon Sender Barayon, Tim Perkins, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Phil Stone and Alvin Curran. Includes Crybaby, Waxlips, Wheelies, Hub Renga, Vex and three other cuts.
Also a contributor in SOURCE Magazine. Please refer to SOURCE heading (in Rare Collector's Items section) for details.
Curran is an American composer and performer of instrumental, electronic and environmental music familiar to new music audiences throughout Europe and the USA. Since co-founding the group Musica Elettronica Viva (with Rzewski and Teitelbaum) his musical activities include solo performances, large urban sound events, vocal improvisation groups and experimental radio works. Curran has collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Cornelius Cardew, T. Kosugi, Pauline Oliveros, Charles Morrow, Clark Coolidge, Willem de Ridder, Simone Forti and many others.
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