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Obedience School

from SNAKECHARMER (ART 1001, 1989) by Chris Brown

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OBEDIENCE SCHOOL (1986) is a piece for an improvisor and a home-made computer controlled signal-processor, which is a bank of eight different voltage controlled effects modules coupled to a digitally controlled mixer. The piece is defined by a program that changes the nature of the signal processor (voltage and effects mix) based on data derived from the performer's sounds. The soloist is the master, feeding the computer and commanding its obedience, but the servant has a life of it's own, and both are snared in a symbiotic relationship that is never entirely predictable. In this performance I am playing an electric percussion keyboard I invented in 1981 called the "Gazamba". It is essentially a prepared electric piano made from the shell of a Wurlitzer electric piano, fitted with percussive tone genrators made from small metalic objects such as springs, twisted music wire, tuning pins and strings.

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from SNAKECHARMER (ART 1001, 1989), track released December 31, 1988
Chris Brown, electric percussion piano

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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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