John Vanderslice - The Cedars - VINYL LP

Album Tracks 1. Raw Wood 2. Harlequin Press 3. Song for Dana Lok 4. How the West Was Won 5. Interlude #1 6. Song for David Berman 7. Damage Control 8. Song for the Landlords of Tiny Telephone 9. Gaslight 10. Sleep It Off 11. Sonogram 12. North Coast Rep 13. Interlude #2

The newest entry into John Vanderslice's deep and undeniably remarkable catalog is White Wilderness, and it's a record like no other he's made before. Here are nine new and wildly impressive JV songs captured live over three days in a unique collaboration with the Magik*Magik Orchestra, a collective of classically trained musicians in the Bay Area led by artistic director Minna Choi. The Magik*Magik Orchestra have a comprehensive mastery of classic performance and repertoire, but also have a full appreciation of the aesthetics of indie and underground music. Album Tracks 1. Sea Salt 2. Convict Lake 3. White Wilderness 4. The Piano Lesson 5. After It Ends 6. Overcoat 7. Alemany Gap 8. English Vines 9. 20K

In his InchPulse MusicInch compositions of the mid-1970s, composer John McGuire forged a unique interpretation of European serialism. A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki and Gottfried Michael Koenig, McGuire moved to Cologne, Germany in 1970, where he become associated with the world-leading Studio for Electronic Music at Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne. Like Stockhausen, McGuire found his musical imagination both constrained and inspired by the technology that was available to him.A conversation with sculptor Hans Karl Burgeff led McGuire to think beyond the horizon and into limitless space. For InchVanishing PointsInch (1985-1988), McGuire used an entirely digital set-up for the first time a digital sequencer, eight Yamaha DX-7 synthesizers and a Studer 24-track digital tape recorder. The piece was conceived as a InchsequelInch to the Pulse Music series, but also a step forward from it. Whereas the Pulse Music pieces had employed steady streams of pulses, with Vanishing Points McGuire employed pulse layers that accelerate or decelerate against one another, vastly increasing the resulting rhythmic complexity.McGuire's exploration of music technology continued in InchA CappellaInch (1990-1997), written for his wife, the soprano Beth Griffith, known for her recording of Morton Feldman's InchThree VoicesInch made in 1983. Using samples, he created a four-voice choir of voice samples and arranged them into interacting parts. The composition faced challenges due to the organic nature of the human voice compared to the precision of synthesized sounds. This process involved extensive editing and a negotiation between the InchmaterialInch and the Inchoriginal conceptionInch. This sort of negotiation applies as much to the composition of a single piece as it does to the work of two decades. Album Tracks 1. Vanishing Points 2. A Cappella