XI RECORDS
"YPGPN (Young Person's Guide to Phill Niblock) is the long-awaited re-release of a 2 CD-set that was a joint production by the UK based Blast First label and The Wire magazine in 1995. It includes the following works: Held Tones (1982-94) Barbara Held, flute; ...
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XI121 | XI RECORDS
"No one is doing what Phill Niblock is doing. Niblock takes the building blocks of music and stacks them in inimitable formations. In Four Full Flutes, adjacent tones beat violently against one another while clouds of harmonics hover above the wavering drone....When the ...
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XI101 | XI RECORDS
"The basic ingredients of Paul Panhuysen's art, both visual and aural, are all here, and I think that can be fairly well summarized with three words: minimal, rational and libertarian. The partitas are minimal, because there is really only one idea - playing unamplified ...
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XI122 | XI RECORDS
"I like to think of The Chord Catalogue as a sort of natural phenomenon--something which has always been present in the ordinary musical scale, and which I simply observed, rather than invented. It is not so much a composition as simply a list. I have often tried to ...
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XI123 | XI RECORDS
"The six (or seven) pieces on these CDs document live performance works that span 1996 to the present. Most of the solo pieces are structured improvisations, in that they have a broad form that is repeated from performance to performance while the detail is always quite ...
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XI131 | XI RECORDS
"There are any number of ways to hear Warren Burt's music for tuning forks; as many ways as there are listeners, probably. The most immediate one is simply to revel in its beauty and enjoy the music as sound. Or, to be more accurate, as clouds of sound; sonic colors ...
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XI130 | XI RECORDS
My Dear Siegfried provides a performance environment in which musicians interact with texts by the two authors Sam Behrman & Siegfried Sassoon and with music software designed to respond to the performers' actions. The texts and the software elements are arranged as a ...
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XI129 | XI RECORDS
"Debut collection of works by this MN composer, includes various pieces for solo, duo and small ensemble, performed by: Guy Klucevsek (accordion), the SoHo Quartet (Mary Rowell, Mark Feldman, Lois Martin, Erik Friedlander), Relache (clarinets, saxophones, bassoon, ...
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XI114 | XI RECORDS
