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MIDI computer compositions realized on sample-ROM synthesizers and
MIDI-acoustical pianos
| [ 1 ] Grande Rag Brilliante [Gary Noland] |
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| [ 2 ] Moving Moon [David Denniston] |
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| Piano Set [Richard Freeman-Toole] |
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| [ 3 ] I. Stranger in the Night |
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| [ 4 ] II. Rockin' |
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| [ 5 ] III. Monkey Mind |
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| [ 6 ] Migratory Music [Atsuki Sumi] |
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| Counterpoint Studies [Joseph Waters] |
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| [ 7 ] I. Trochlidae |
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| [ 8 ] Akademische Phantasie Variationen |
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| [ 9 ] Akademische Phantasie Variationen [Jack Gabel] |
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| [10] Desprendimiento (Detachment) [Guillermo Galindo] |
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About the Composers
Gary Noland,
a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Harvard University, founded the
Seventh Species
Composers Series in San Francisco in 1990 and brought it with him to Eugene in 1994.
His compositions are performed and broadcast around the world. His Romance for Viola
and Piano was recorded by violist Rozanna Weinberger and pianist Evelyne Luest on the
1996 CD release
Passion (NPM LD 003). He
runs a teaching studio for students of piano and composition in Eugene, Oregon.
His
Grande Rag Brillante was premiered on the air from the studios of KPFA Berkeley in 1991.
David Denniston
is an innovative and fun-loving composer of steadily increasing reputation who has had performances not
only across the United States, but with his latest WWW. project, all over the world. He is currently living
in Tallahassee Florida.
Richard Freeman-Toole studied music in Los Angeles from 1972-79 at Cal State
University Dominguez Hills, and UCLA, with Richard Bunger, Paul Reale, Roy Travis, and David Raksin. He lives
in Pullman, Washington where he teaches privately and continues to compose and work on his website for which
he is creating an on-line music appreciation course. Freeman-Toole's aesthetic embraces the expression
and manifestation through art of spiritual realities in the physical plane.
Atsuki Sumi, a published composer, poet and photographer, currently lives in Tokyo. He studied musical
theory and composition with Toru Tamura at the Masuashino Music Academy. His recorded works include
Sabbath
on the ALM label,
Ten-no-io on the North Pacific Music CD release
Shakuhachi Banquet, by Teruhisa Fukuda who has also included Atsuki Sumi's works on the ALM recordings
Esprits Animaux,
Esprits Animaux Part II and most recently
Gakuon Jyu.
Joseph Waters'
works are regularly performed around the world. Awards in composition including the National Endowment
for the Arts/Rockefeller Foundation, Regional Arts and Culture Council and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
grants. He taught music composition, theory and electronic music at Lewis & Clark College in Portland,
Oregon 1993 to 2001, and since then at Cal.State S.D. He is the Artistic Director of the North West
Electro-Acoustic Music Organization (NWEAMO) in Portland, Oregon. He also founded and co-directed
Network
for New Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1980s.
Jack Gabel's numerous
concert hall works for many different combinations of instruments and voices, with and without
electro-acoustic accompaniments and/or enhancements, are performed around the world. His mixed-media
works, alone and with collaborators, often employ musique concrete and poetry - frequently his own,
some of which has been published apart from its use in contemporary performance pieces and more
traditional settings for singers. Recorded works include
Hellenic Triptych, by Weinberger & Luest
on passion (NPM LD 003),
Turtle Island Dreams · Turtle Island Dances (NPM LD 002),
Etude for
the Rainy Season on Shakuhachi Banquet by Teruhisa Fukuda (NPM LD 001) and
Auto-Mobile on
The Junk Yard Concert (GR-734). In the last half decade he has been collaborating extensively with
choreographer
Agnieszka Laska.
Guillermo Galindo,
born in Mexico City, studied with Julio Estrada and Federico Ibarra at the Escuela Nacional de Musica
in Mexico City, and later at the Berklee College in Boston and Mills College in Oakland. Prizes include
the
Golden Apple Award, the Boston University
Redstone Award and a
Silver Plaque
from the Chicago Film Festival. He has been commissioned to write dance music for Mills College,
the University of California at Berkeley and the Asian American Dance Company in San Francisco.
In the last half decade he has been collaborating extensively with performance artist
Guillermo Gomez Peña.
