just recieved some info on the new c74 label...
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Hello and welcome to some very important spam related to a record label
called c74.
Cycling '74 makes software for artists. People use the software to do all
sorts of powerful, inspired work: we are constantly amazed at the creativity
of the musicians who use our programs.
So we've started a music label. c74 will be dedicated to presenting the
full range of genres and contexts in which the community of composers and
performers who use our software work, from traditional electroacoustic music
to electronica and beyond.
Two lovely CDs are available right off the bat: "Fix It In Post" is a
collage of live performances from New York City's eclectic Freight Elevator
Quartet, and "./swank" is a live performance from electronic mavericks
Interface, a duo composed of violinist Dan Trueman and bassist Curtis Bahn.
We're also excited about upcoming releases from Amnon Wolman, Kim Cascone,
Bill Kleinsasser, Leslie Stuck, and Safety Scissors.
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Info on the first two releases:
The Freight Elevator Quartet Fix It In Post (Live, 1997-2000) [c74-001]
01 Pomoerotic8:53
02 Transform/Disappear6:20
03 Downtime is Becoming Less of an Option8:32
04 Seeming6:01
05 Acmend's Revenge3:05
06 Transparent5:27
07 How Does it Feel to Be Going Out of Style?4:18
08 Gilgamesh4:22
09 Bring Me My Mental Health7:06
10 Cellophane1:48
11 Ahmed Goes To Heaven4:42
12 Infrared5:13
13 Excerpt from "Berlin"1:49
14 File Under Futurism5:34
The Freight Elevator Quartet
R. Luke DuBois: Max/MSP programming, analog modular synths, guitar,
bass, keyboard, effects.
Paul Feuer: didjeridoo, keyboards, synth bass, programming.
Rachael Finn: cellos, effects.
Stephen Krieger: beats, drum machines, keyboard, sampling, effects.
with DJ Spooky, Elliott Sharp, Johnathan Lee, and Ken Thompson.
Released March 15, 2001
The Freight Elevator Quartet formed in late 1996, working out of the
historic Electronic Music Center of Columbia University and first
performing (in the freight elevator) at Knuckles, a monthly
visual-arts/multimedia/music event held on 125th Street in New York.
These led to a series of performances in NY clubs and art openings,
the release of their first two albums (their eponymous 1997 debut
and the 1998 "jungle album"), a collaborative album with DJ Spooky
(1999's "File Under Futurism") described by Alternative Press as
"one of the top ten albums of 1999", and their 2000 release "Becoming
Transparent" which "establishes the FEQ as dignified practitioners
of a rare, complex, and beautiful brand of future music" (URB Magazine).
The tracks on Fix It In Post were taken from live recordings by the
FEQ that chronicle the progression of their sound from their first
chaotic performances in a freight elevator to their performances in
support of their fourth album. Over this time, the quartet have
moved from their original instrumentation of cello, didjeridoo,
modular synthesizer, and drum machine to include samplers, keyboards,
guitars, basses, and a PowerBook running Max/MSP. The FEQ's largely
improvised live performances are reflected in the range of sound and
styles in the composite tracks, and highlight the juxtaposition of
technology with acoustic instrumentation and human improvisation.
For more info visit The Freight Elevator Quartet website at
http://www.FreightElevatorQuartet.com or the c74 website at
http://www.cycling74.com/c74/.
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interface ./swank [c74-002]
1.sphism ... 8:33
2.3b!z 1 ... 8:13
3.scrb ... 7:26
4.sedan ... 5:20
5.sdrone ... 7:32
6.sdoo ... 10:19
7.swank ... 10:16
8.3b!z 2 ... 8:23
sdoo features special guest, Perry Cook,
on his sensor-digeridoo, the DigitalDoo
Released April 15, 2001
Interface - a duo composed of violinist Dan Trueman and bassist Curtis
Bahn - integrates the more traditional digital and small-motor skills
that the improviser brings to the moment of creation with a powerful set
of extended instruments. In addition to the things that bowed string
instruments normally do, both of the instruments you'll hear in an
Interface performance-a 5-string vertical bass and a 6-string electric
violin together with its traditional bow-function as audio controllers
that allow their players to modify the sounds they produce in new and
unexpected ways as they improvise. The instrumentalists of Interface are
using their instruments, along with programs they've written using
Cycling '74's Max/MSP interactive programming software, as a way to
break down the barriers between the source of the sounds you hear and
the means of their transformation.
The result is a gesturally powerful hybrid of free improv and real-time
computer music. Combined with their musical skills and the flexibility
of their software tools, Interface creates protean groupings of
precomposed electronic sounds, real-time digital signal processing,
algorithmic composition, and sampling.
./swank was recorded before a live audience at Boston's Mobius Arts
Center on September 15th and 16th, 2000.
For more information on Interface and its instruments, see the Interface w
eb site:
http://www.music.princeton.edu/~crb/interface/interface.htm.
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c74 (
http://www.cycling74.com/c74/) is a label devoted to works by artists
the world over who use Cycling '74 software technology (Max and MSP, in
this case) to make extraordinary music and art. The label presents the
full range of genres and contexts in which the community of composers and
performers who use Cycling '74 software work - from traditional
electroacoustic music to electronica and beyond. c74 also features areas
of activity not recorded as such by other labels, such as live
performances of interactive systems, less predictable works by individual
artists who are already well known, and hybrid releases which may include
Cycling '74 software examples in a data portion of the CD.
Cycling '74 (
http://www.cycling74.com), headquartered in San Francisco,
CA, develops, distributes and supports innovative software for composers,
artists, and producers who dream of life above and beyond traditional
sequencing and media applications. Cycling '74 products include the Max
graphical programming environment, MSP, the Pluggo collection of
MAX/MSP-based audio plug-ins, and the interactive algorithmic
composition program M.
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