Various - Music From Mills
Various - Music From Mills
Label: Mills College
Catalog#: MC 001
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Classical, Electronic, Jazz
Style: Free Jazz,
Modern Classical, Musique Concrete, Post-Modern, Experimental
Credits:
Artwork By [Cover Image] - Jasper Johns
Artwork By [Design] - Tony Agpoon
Compilation Producer, Compiled By - David Rosenboom
Engineer [Recording]
- Richard Povall (tracks: A1, B1, B3, D2)
Other [Administrative Assistance]
- Jody Diamond , Larry Polansky , Mary Hill , Theony Condos
Producer [Recording Studio Production], Edited By [Tape Editing] - Richard
Povall
Notes: Released in celebration of the centennial of the chartering of Mills
College 1885 - 1985.
Mastered at Wakefield Manufacturing.
Comes with
4-page 12" square-sized booklet.
A1 is a part from "Six Sonatas For
Cembalo", composed 1936-1940, recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music
Recording Studio.
A2 composed 1981-82, recorded in concert by Sudwestfunk
Radio, Baden-Baden, Germany, May 1982.
A3 composed 1953, recorded in a Mills
Performing Group concert, October 17, 1969.
A4 composed 1958, recorded in
Summer, 1961.
B1 composed 1979, recorded at the Center for Contemporary
Music Recording Studio.
B2 is part of the opera "Atalanta (Acts of God)",
finished in 1985. The original sound materials are taken from an anecdote for
videotape directed by Lawrence Brickman.
B3 composed 1976, recorded at the
Center for Contemporary Music Recording Studio.
C1 recorded at Roulette, New
York City, June 1985. Comissioned for Merce Cunningham's dance "Pictures" in
1984.
C2 composed 1975, recorded live in a Composers' Coop concert on June
8, 1975.
C3 composed 1966.
D1 composed 1985.
D2 composed 1957,
recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music Recording Studio.
D3 composed
1967.
D4 composed 1978.
E1 composed 1984, recorded at Powerplay
Recording Studios AG, Switzerland.
E2 composed 1975-76. Created at the
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford
University.
E3 recorded on April 8, 1979, at a concert in the Mills College
Student Union.
F1 composed 1980, performed at Cornish Institute in Seattle,
March 1984.
F2 composed 1974, recorded at the composer's home studio,
Oakland 1974, partly reprocessed at the Center for Contemporary Music 1981.
F3 composed 1981, recorded live in the Mills College Concert Hall during a
Mills Tape Music Center reunion concert on March 20, 1981.
F4 composed 1985.
Tracklisting:
A1 Lou Harrison Sonata No. 2 (2:43)
Harpsichord -
Susan Summerfield
A2 Terry Riley The Ethereal Time Shadow (Excerpt) (9:20)
Voice, Synthesizer - Terry Riley
A3 Luciano Berio Chamber Music (7:10)
Cello - Bonnie Hampton
Clarinet - Donald O'Brien
Conductor -
Jean-Louis LeRoux
Harp - Marcella DeCray
Mezzo-soprano Vocals - Olivia
Stapp
Performer - Mills Performing Group
A4 Dave Brubeck Summer Song
(2:56)
Arranged By [Orchestral Setting], Conductor - Howard Brubeck
Bass
- Eugene Wright
Concertmaster - Max Pollikoff
Drums - Joe Morello
Performer - Dave Brubeck Quartet With Orchestra, The*
Piano - Dave
Brubeck
Saxophone - Paul Desmond
B1 David Rosenboom In The Beginning:
Etude I (Trombones) (9:48)
Computer [Macintosh Computer Program For Just
Intonation Guide Tones] - Scot Gresham-Lancaster
Trombone - Toyoji Tomita
B2 Robert Ashley Flying Saucer Dialogue (7:14)
Keyboards, Engineer
[Sound Design], Mixed By, Producer - Paul Shorr
Producer - Lawrence Brickman
Voice - Jacqueline Humbert
Voice, Keyboards, Producer - Robert Ashley
B3 Anthony Braxton Composition No. 62 ( + 30 + 96) (5:48)
Saxophone
[Soprano] - Anthony Braxton
Synthesizer [Kurzweil 250 Digital Synthesizer] -
David Rosenboom
C1 David Behrman Interspecies Smalltalk, Part 2 (Excerpt)
(5:42)
Computer [Computer Music System], Producer - David Behrman
Engineer [Recording], Producer - Steve Cellum
Violin - Takehisa Kosugi
C2 Elinor Armer Thaw (5:51)
Piano - Lois Brandwynne
C3 Steve Reich
Melodica (10:43)
D1 Maggi Payne Subterranean Network (Excerpt) (7:21)
D2
Darius Milhaud Segoviana (3:14)
Guitar - Paul Binkley
D3 Pauline
Oliveros Alien Bog (Excerpt) (6:22)
D4 Anthony Gnazzo Asparagas (4:49)
E1 Katrina Krimsky Apparitions (9:15)
Engineer [Recording] - Ron Kurz
Piano - Katrina Krimsky
Producer - Irmin Schmidt
E2 Larry Polansky
Four Voice Cannon # 3 (1:49)
E3 Pandit Pran Nath Dira Dira T? N?: Tar?n?,
T?n-T?l, Madhya-Layal Raga Bhairav? (Excerpt) (12:29)
Tabla - Benjamin
Wertheimer
Tambura - Shabda Kahn
Tambura, Voice - Terry Riley
Voice
- Pandit Pran Nath
F1 Janice Giteck Breathing Songs From A Turning Sky
(Excerpt) (7:29)
Bassoon - Bruce Grainger
Cello, Producer - Walter Gray
Clarinet - William McColl
Engineer [Recording] - Albert Swanson
Flute - Jane Lenoir
Percussion - Jarrad Powell , Matthew Kocmieroski
Performer - New Performance Group, The
Piano - Roger Nelson
F2
Robert Sheff Remembering (2:27)
Composed By - Robert Sheff
Voice,
Electronics - "Blue" Gene Tyranny
F3 Ramon Sender Audition (Excerpt) (2:54)
Harp [Modified Autoharp] - Delia Moon , Moses Moon
Violin [Modified
Dalruba] - Ramon Sender Morningstar*
F4 Morton Subotnick The Key To Songs
(Excerpt) (8:29)
Electronics [Yamaha Tx-816 And Qx-1 Electronic Music
System] - Morton Subotnick