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This LP was three years in the making. I started recording it
one evening after a messy end to yet another underground art space in
Boston landed me- by happy coincidence- right upstairs from the
Basement 247 recording studio, owned and operated by veteran Boston
musician and engineer Jack Younger. He had come across a pair of 1950's
Cole Ribbon mics- of a series number, incidentally, to have been used
in the BBC Sound Studios. He was also rebuilding vintage tube gear,
like the pre-amp we used. (Incidentally, he is also in possession of an
Edison Wax Cylinder cutter).
I had long wanted to make an analog recording of my solo microtonal
work, especially that which utilizes harmonics, difference tones, and
other accoustic artifacts which seem to be compromised in the digital
recording realm. I was certain an analog recording would give a more
vivid picture of the strange and ghost-like world I experience when
playing, and the illusion of many more violins than are actualy
there. . . . . So I went downstairs to the studio in the
three decker in the evenings. and recorded. After many pieces were put
down, I selected these four. No further mastering or editing was done,
other than transferring the work to 1/2 inch tape from the 1 inch tape
on which it was recorded.
After the demise of the Zeitgeist Gallery in 2006, I moved with my
partner Hans Rickheit and our friend (and writer) David English to
Philadelphia. After getting settled, I sent the record off to be
pressed. Michael Anton Parker agreed to put it out on his label, Sprout
Music. The labels are silkscreened, as are the covers. A computer has
never laid silicon digits on this project. Which means you can hear all
the most quiet, impossible and ghostly details. . . . .
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