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Part 1: LIGHT (8 min.)
Part 2: DARK (8 min.)

In LIGHT ON A WALL players try to incorporate ideas of slowness (just this side of motionlessness), inexorability, inevitability, and “sun-time” into their playing. Mental images include the angularity of light hitting the wall, various wall textures as the light plays and cascades over them; shadows and shapes created by the sun on the wall; interruptions in the sunlight (clouds, trees etc.); all of the above but with the ability to speed up and slow down the sun’s movement, as in a time-lapse film shot; and the reverie that observing all these phenomena often produces.

Each player has a “shadow instrument”, an electronic instrument that listens to his or her note output and responds in a very specific way. The MIDI note stream is first examined by a piece of computer software which has been programmed with a sequence of scales that follow the time line of the work. Theses scales form “legal” note sets that the shadow instrument will play in that time period. When a player plays one of these notes, the shadow instrument will sound that note also. Notes outside of the current note-set are ignored by the shadow instrument, thus the player decides how much he or she wishes to “go along” with the direction of the work at any given moment. The note sets change approximately every minute or so, moving from a group of 3 to 9 available notes by the end of each of the two sections. The note groupings are the same for each player, and follow the same progression. In addition, a fourth player (Perkins) plays a software instrument on which the player can choose when to play a note (or chord) but the computer decides which notes of he current “legal” set will be sounded. This version of the piece was recorded live at Paul Dresher’s studio in Berkeley, and mixed at Scott Fraser’s studio in Los Angeles.

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from THE BIFURCATORS: gang of 2 (ART 1012, 1995), released December 13, 1995
Scott Fraser: Electric guitar.
Philip Perkins: Computer-controlled synths and sampler, MIDI performance controls.
Doug Carroll: Electronic cello.
Tim Perkis: Computer-driven synthesizer.

Recorded live at Paul Dresher's studio in Berkeley, and mixed at Scott Fraser's studio in Los Angeles, 1994.

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ARTIFACT RECORDINGS is a project of Ubu, Incorporated, an artist-run, non-profit organization supporting experimental and electronic music based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our download and compact disk series is dedicated to representing a living experimental music tradition that continues to thrive in the cracks between the commercial, academic and classical music establishments. ... more

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