Carl Stone: Debut reissued, Guelaguetza in Austin
American Electro-Acoustic composer Carl Stone has informed us about his busy schedule over the upcoming months. Plenty of good news are included, as Stone's album „Al-Noor“ (Intone, 2007) is still garnering impressive sales and iTunes customers being granted the pleasure of downloading a free bonus track to that record over at the Intone site. And then Stone's long out of print debut from the early 80s is making a comeback: „I'm happy to announce the reissue of my first recording, Woo Lae Oak, which originally came out as an LP on the Wizard label (curated by Joan La Barbara) in 1983.“ Carl Stone reported, „Forced Exposure has called this reissue a "stunning drone work, rescued from oblivion, and an absolute minimalism classic." Unseen Worlds in Austin is the label that has put it out. This release was remastered for CD, with original artwork and new accompanying notes by Phill Niblock.“ „Woo Lae Oak“ is already available in either digital or physical form. The Austin connection,meanwhile, is proving to be a fruitful one, as Carl Stone is preparing for a moutwatering performance at the Austin Museum of Digital Arts.
On 5th of March, the Unseen Worlds label and Carl Stone will present the rendition of „Guelaguetza“, a work for electronic digital sound and images originally commissioned in 1996 by the (San Francisco) Bay Area Composers Forum. This piece will be of great interest to fans, friends and foes of Carl Stone alike, as it substantially differs from his trade-mark technique of using samples from one particular piece for his own work: „Guelaguetza“ taps into various sources and glues them together into a new entity.
„The work shifts seamlessly from sections in which dozens of short digital samples are rhythmically layered and sequenced in a dense web of sonic references to sections in which deal with a single artist or work in more depth.“, the organisors at the Austin Museum of Digital Art, host to the concert, announced. They also pointed to the shift in accompanying imagery: „When the work was premiered, the visual aspect of Guelaguetza was a series of static photographic images. The piece has recently been revamped and the images will now be dynamically transformed through a variety of digital manipulations that parallel many of Stone's signature audio processing techniques.”
For anyone interested in Carl Stone's as ever fresh and unfettered opinion on a wide range of new music-related issues, his regular blogs over at the New Music Box site should definitely be of interest.
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