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lucky kitchen     Sparkling Composers Series
 

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Solo CDs by electronic composers, new and old, whose work give us the feeling of shiny generosity and warmth. These works are fully "musical" in their harmonic range and rhythmic constructs (with or without backbeat), yet they are also fully developed ideas (a rare bird).

These CDs contain a vague idea of narrative using meditative compositional techniques, which are to be read like a book. Oppositional audio techniques, such as improvisation vs. composition, digital vs. acoustic, weave expressively around each other within the landscape of composition.

They are works that open a door and step back so you can come in for a warm drink. We know their stories, we would like you to know them as well.

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alejandra and aeron 2001-2002

 

 

 
 

Advanced composers schedule:

()()()LK012 A.F.R.I. Studios (Cologne) Goodbye If You Call That Gone
History binds us to the past, along with unquenchable memory. Deep, yet glittering heavy electricity works that fill the room and leave what stays behind.
Release Date: Oct 2001

LK013 Aerospace Soundwise (Chicago) Monologue with Accompaniment()()()
A lonely poet living in big city, USA, making intense multitrack compositions of moving wallpaper. He reflects with humor, sadness, wonder and romance from his DAT tapes recorded over the past ten years of his life.
Release Date Oct 2001

()()()LK014 Alejandra and Aeron (La Rioja, Spain) The Tale of Pip
One morning Pip was lying on the wet grass, looking at the rain coming. Bright compositions that may or may not be for children, and may or may not be quiet harmonica solos. Hand printed 12 page color artisan book by A&A and Extrapool, NL.
Release Date: Sept 2001

LK015 Joshua Abrams (Chicago)()()()
Solo works made in the freezing dead of winter in a warm Chicago attic. Abrams composes and plays each track solo with instruments including double bass, sampler, piano, and field recordings of water, whistling, and finger snapping to create narrative portraits.
Release Date: January 1 2002

()()()LK016 Toshiya Tsunoda (Yokohama, Japan) Pieces of Air
"Listening to the sound occurring within a certain place, there is a noticeable gap in time from sound sources as they occur and the moment these sounds are heard." -Toshiya said.
Intense stable state field recordings of natural noise selected with the ear of a musician.
Release Date March 1 2002

()()() LK017 Steven Vitiello and Tetsu Inoue with Andrew Deutsch (New York)
Humming Bird Feeder VER0.02

Lovely, delicately sculpted, first-time collaboration between these veteran sound artists. It all started with Vitiello putting a contact mic into a bird feeder.
Release Date April 2002

()()() NOW SHOWING LK018 Toshiyuki Kobayashi (Japan/London)Drawing speed, coloring time
Lovely and delicate patterns of melodic timbres that
are not actually melodies, but spectral ghosts roaming over a miniature landscape.
Release Date Sept 2002

()()() NOW SHOWING LK019 Stephan Mathieu (Germany) Die Entdeckung des Wetters
Calm, gorgeous sounds from this hardworking yet relaxed German musician and dedicated family man.
Release Date Sept 2002

LK020 Thom Kubli (Cologne) Labortag
"My father was a scientist also, so we probably have similar experiences with the perception of science as human as it is." -Thom told us.
DNA-like twisting and delicate compositions based on recordings from the Frauenhofer-Institut, a well-known German genetic engineering lab.
Release Date Oct-Nov 2002

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