Paul Geffen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>"Winded"
>Works for Organ and Tape by, of, and for Kenneth Gaburo (1926 - 1993)
>
>Warren Burt: Recitative / Tracing (On Guns and Cock Fighting) ...
>
>The first, Warren Burt's "Recitative," is very quiet and calm.  It uses
>Gaburo's voice as its starting point.  Burt took a recording Gaburo made of
>his "Pentagony," a "linguistic composition," and processed it by computer
>to create the tape part for the new piece.  The organ part, too, is based
>on this recording of Gaburo's voice.

Since the US-American born Burt has been based in Melbourne for years,
the composer is rather better known here than in his homeland; & he has
a fairly substantial discography here as well.  He's also an alternate
filmmaker of considerable talent - i know; because i personally organised
a Warren Burt cinema day in the late 80s - & the two forms fuse in the
off-beat String Trio #2: process music at its best, the score calls for a
single soloist who performs each part sequentially in a bushland setting...
the result needs to be (filmed or videoed) & edited together to create the
final take (there were other oddities to the work which don't need to be
explored here).  Not surprisingly, perhaps, much of Burt's music has a
good-natured hippy quality - a more humorous Hovhaness, if you like - which
makes him one comtemporary composer i actively seek out of for the sheer
pleasure of his work; but he's also a unreconstructed technoboffin: good
old fashioned click&bang computer music isn't completely unheard of in his
oeuvre....

All the best,

Robert Clements <[log in to unmask]>
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