Mode Records Catalog

mode 198 Frank DENYER: Silenced Voices - Woman, Viola and Crow. Two Beacons. Tentative Thoughts, Silenced Voices. Ghosts Again. The Barton Workshop & others; Frank Denyer & James Fulkerson, music directors.

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mode 197 John CAGE: The Revenge of the Dead Indians: In Memoriam John Cage - a composed film directed by Henning Lohner.   

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mode 196 Iannis XENAKIS: Volume 8: Kraanerg — Kraanerg. Callithumpian Consort; Stephen Drury, conductor. First recording with restored analog tape.    

mode 194 Margaret Leng TAN: "Sorceress of the New Piano, The Artistry of Margaret Leng Tan" — Two Films by Evans Chan. Sorceress of The New Piano, The Maverick Piano. 

mode 193 John Cage: Volume 39: The Number Pieces 5 - Two²: Rob Haskins, piano I and Laurel Karlik Sheehan, piano II.  

mode 189-192 Roland AUZET: Percussion(s) - Series inactuelles. Includes works by Iannis Xenakis, Gerard Pape, Edmund  Campion, Darius Milhaud, Alain Bancquart, Karen Tanaka, Carlos Roque Alsina, Yoshihisa Taira, and Pierre Jodlowski. 3 CDs plus video DVD and 500-page book.

mode 188 Giacinto SCELSI: The Works for Double Bass - Nuits, Ko-Tha "Three Dances of Shiva", Dharana, Maknongon, Kshara, Okanagon, Mantram. Robert Black, double bass.  

mode 187 Maria de Alvear: Asking - Asking: Eve Egoyan, piano. First Recording.

mode 186 John Cage: Volume 38: The Number Pieces 4 - Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions on the Subjects of the Solo; Three.  Written for and performed by Trio Dolce, recorders. First Recordings.

mode 185 James Tenney: Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy - Poem, Ergodos I, Monody, Ergodos II, Seegersong #1, String Complement (with Ergodos II), Seegersong #2, Instrumental Responses (with Ergodos I), Ergodos III, Percussion Response (with Ergodos I). The Barton Workshop, James Fulkerson & Frank Denyer, directors.
First Recordings.

mode 184 Frances White: Centre Bridge: electroacoustic works - Like the lily for viola, double bass, and electronic sound; Centre Bridge for shakuhachi duo and electronic sound; A veil barely seen for viola and electronic sound; Walk through "Resonant landscape" No. 2 for electronic sound; Centre Bridge (dark river) for string quintet and electronic sound.

mode 183 Roger Reynolds: Whispers Out of Time - Symphony[Myths]: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kotaro Sato, conductor; Whispers Out of Time: Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Edwin London, conductor; Symphony[Vertigo]: La Jolla Symphony Orchestra, Harvey Sollberger, conductor. The first complete disc of Roger Reynolds' orchestral music.

mode 182 Aldo CLEMENTI: Works with Guitar - Serenata for guitar & 4 instruments; Dodici Variazioni for guitar; Albumblatt for guitar; Fantasia su frammenti di Michelangelo Galilei version for guitar; Otto Variazioni for guitar; C.A.G. for flute, violin, vibraphone & guitar; The Plaint for female voice & 13 instruments. ELISION Ensemble, Geoffrey Morris, guitar, and Carl Rosman, conductor.

mode 179 Earle BROWN: Tracer — Music for Violin, Cello, and Piano, Folio, Four Systems, String Quartet, New Piece, Special Events, Octet 1 and Tracer. Performed by Ne(x)tworks/Christian Wolff, conductor.   

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mode 178 Alvin LUCIER: Ever Present - Piper: Matt Welch, bagpipe; Fan: Miki Maruta, Ryuko Mizutani, Kayoko Nakagawa, and Yoko Nishi, kotos; 947: Jacqueline Martelle, flute; Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra: Brian Johnson, triangle; Ever Present: Drescher-Okabe-Armbruster Trio.

mode 177 Gavin BRYARS: The Marvellous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Early Years - Pre-Mediaeval Metrics: Ulrich Kreiger, Seth Josel; Made in Hong Kong: Ulrich Kreiger; 1, 2, 1-2-3-4: Ulrich Kreiger, Seth Josel, Eli Friedmann, Yayoi Ikawa, John Davis, Kenny Growhowski; The Squirrel and The Ricketty Racketty Bridge: Seth Josel.

mode 176 Giacinto SCELSI: The Orchestral Works 2 - Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola), Uaxuctum-The Legend of the Mayan City which they themselves destroyed for religious reasons, La nascita del Verbo. Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Rundel, Johannes Kalitzke, Concentus Vocalis, Chorusmaster: Herbert Böck, Wiener Kammerchor, Chorusmaster: Michael Grohotolsky. First Recording.   

mode 175 Roland DAHINDEN: Flying White - String Quartet No. 2 "mind rock", String Quartet No. 5 "poids de l'ombre"; Binaural Recordings: String Quartet No. 4 "flying white" and String Quartet No. 3 "mond see". Klangforum Wien String Quartet, Annette Bik and Sophie Schaffleitner, violins, Dimitrios Polisoidis, viola and Andreas Lindenbaum, violoncello.

mode 174 John CAGE: Volume 36: One¹¹ and 103 - One¹¹: a film without subject by John Cage, produced and directed by Henning Lohner. 103: for large orchestra, the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln or Spoleto Festival Orchestra with Arturo Tamayo and John Kennedy, directors.       

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mode 171-173 Iannis XENAKIS: Xenakis Percussion Works - The first complete set of Xenakis' percussion ensemble, percussion duos, and solo percussion works: Persephassa, Psappha, Dmaathen, Pléïades, Komboï, Kassandra, Okho, Oophaa, and Rebonds. Steven Schick, red fish blue fish.

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mode 170 George CRUMB: Black Angels and Makrokosmos III - Two classic Crumb compositions of the 1970s expertly performed by members of The Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic under the direction of conductor Juan Pablo Izquierdo.

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mode 169 Chaya CZERNOWIN: Pnima...ins Innere - Opera in 3 Acts, DVD only. The opera is composed of an opening and three scenes. It incorporates dramatic lighting and staging along with video, making it a perfect work for the DVD medium. Also includes a 24 minute interview with the composer.   

mode 166 Luigi Dallapiccola and Goffredo Petrassi: Musica da camera - Luigi Dallapiccola's Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera for piano, Tartiniana Seconda and Parole di S.Paolo; Goffredo Petrassi's Sestina d'autunno "Veni Creator Igor", Seconda Serenata Trio, Dialogo Angelico for 2 flutes; Ensemble Dissonanzen.

mode 165 The Arditti Quartet - Mexico: New Music for Strings - Juan Felipe Waller's De jaque, sal, gala y luna; Hebert Vázquez's String Quartet No. 1; Germán Romero's Ramas; Iván Naranjo's Uno; Rogelio Sosa's Espasmo fulgor; Hilda Paredes' Uy u'tan.

mode 164 Tim Hodgkinson: Sketch of Now - Vers Kongsu II, Aici Schiteaza pe Acum, Fighting/Breathing, Fragor, De Yoknapatawpha, Further into Hard Stone.

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mode 161-163 Luciano BERIO: The Complete Sequenzas and Works for Solo Instruments - 4 CD set including the first COMPLETE recording of the Sequenazs and alternate Sequenazs, plus all of Berio's works for solo instruments (except solo piano).

mode 159 Giacinto SCELSI: The Piano Works 3 - Aki Takahashi, piano. Suite No. 10 "Ka", Quattro Illustrazioni, Sonate No.3, Cinque Incantesimi.    

mode 158 John CAGE: Volume 34: The Piano Works 7 - Chess Pieces, Sonatas and Interludes, Chess Serenade; Margaret Leng Tan, piano & prepared piano. 
  

mode 154/155 Yvar MIKHASHOFF: Opera — Virtuoso Fantasies, Paraphrases and Transcriptions of Verdi, Puccini, Bellini, Berg, Debussy, Bussotti and Volans. (2-CDs)

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mode 153 John Luther ADAMS: Strange and Sacred Noise - performed by Percussion Group Cincinnati.
 

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mode 152 Iannis XENAKIS: Music for Strings - Syrmos, Aroura, Voile, Theraps, Analogique A+B, Ittidra; John Eckhardt, Ensemble Resonanz, Johannes Kalitzke.

mode 151 Frank DENYER: Faint Traces - Out of the Shattered Shadows 1 & 2; Faint Traces; Music for Two Performers; Play; Passages — Barton Workshop

mode 150 Walter ZIMMERMANN: The Echoing Green - Chamber Works 1986-89 - Wstenwanderung for piano; Geduld und Gelegenheit for cello and piano; Lied im Wüstenvogelton for bass-flute and piano; The Echoing Green for violin and piano; HCD Ensemble and guests.

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mode 148 Iannis Xenakis, Vol. 5: La Légende d'Eer - Electroacoustic Work for 7-channel tape.
 

mode 147 John CAGE, Vol. 29: The Piano Works 6 - Seven Haiku, Music of Changes, Suite for Toy Piano; Martine Joste, piano.

mode 146 Morton FELDMAN, Vol. 9: Composing by Numbers - The Barton Workshop plays graphic scores.

mode 142 George CRUMB: Makrokosmos Books 1 and 2 - Margaret Leng Tan, piano.

mode 141 John CAGE, Vol. 32: Number Pieces 3:  One⁸ - for cello solo with Bach.Bow; Michael Bach, cello with BACH.Bow.

mode 137 Jason ECKARDT: Out of Chaos - After Serra - Ensemble 21, Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor; Tangled Loops - Marilyn Nonken, piano; A Glimpse Retraced - Marilyn Nonken, piano, Ensemble 21, Paul Hostetter, conductor; Polarities - Ensemble 21, Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor.

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mode 136 Morton FELDMAN, Vol. 8: Marilyn Nonken plays Triadic Memories - Marilyn Nonken, piano.
  

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mode 133/134 Christian WOLFF: (Re):Making Music - Violist Pieces; Emma; Three Pieces; The Barton Workshop.

mode 132 Morton SUBOTNICK: Volume 2: The Electronic Works 2 - Sidewinder; Until Spring.
  

mode 131 Phill NIBLOCK: Disseminate - Disseminate Ostrava (Ensemble OCNM with members of the Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra); Kontradictionaries (The Kontra-Trio); Disseminate Q-O2 (Q-O2 Ensemble).

mode 130 John CAGE: "From Zero" - Four films on John Cage by Dutch director Frank Scheffer with Andrew Culver. Featuring John Cage and the Ives Ensemble. (DVD only) 

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mode 129 John CAGE, Vol. 29: Variations I, II and III; Lecture on Nothing (Helen Pridmore, voice), Motion Ensemble

mode 128 Elliott CARTER: Quintet for Piano and Strings; Quintet for Piano and Winds; Fragment II for string quartet; Retrouvailles for piano - Ursula Oppens, Arditti Quartet. Tempo e Tempi; Syringa-Lucy Shelton, Andre Solomon Glover/Ensemble Sospeso/Stefan Asbury; Jeffrey Milarsky.  Available on CD and DVD (DVD also includes 45-minute conversation with Carter, Arditti & Oppens and Frank Scheffer's film of the Quintet for Piano & Strings). Composer supervised recordings
    

mode 127 Mauricio KAGEL: Phonophonie for voice and tapes - Nicholas Isherwood, bass; Maurcio Kagel and Steffano Bassanese, sound direction; Transición II for piano, percussion and tape - Aldo Orvieto, piano; Dimitri Fiorin, percussion; Alvise Vidolin, electronics.

mode 126 Christian WOLFF, Vol. 5: Pebbles (written for Sabat/Clarke); Duo for Violinist and Pianist (2 versions) - Sabat/Clarke Duo. Composer supervised recordings

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mode 124 Alvin LUCIER: Navigations for Strings; Small Waves for string quartet, trombone, piano and two water pourers - Hildegard Kleeb, piano. Roland Dahinden, trombone. Arditti Quartet. Composer supervised recordings

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mode 123 John CAGE, Vol. 28: The Works for Piano 5 - Soliloquy; Three Easy Pieces; Four Walls - Haydée Schvartz, piano, Jack Bruce, voice

mode 120/121 Alain BANCQUART: Le Livre du Labyrinthe - Prologue; Icare; Labyrinthe / miroir; Solitude du Minotaure; Meurtre; Epilogue — Nicholas Isherwood, Ensemble Voxnova, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Carol Robinson, Jérome Voisin, Pascal Gallois, Claude Pavy, Roland Auzet, Emmanuel Curt, Thierry Briard, Virginie Tarète, Martine Joste, Sylvaine Billier, Brice Pauset, Pierre Morlet, Frédéric Baldassaré, Romain Garioud, Florian Lauridon, Michel Poulet, Frédéric Baldassaré, Romain Garioud, Florian Lauridon, Michel Poulet, Gerard Pape, Alain Bancquart

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mode 119 Morton FELDMAN, Vol. 7: Late Works with Clarinet - Clarinet and String Quartet; Bass-Clarinet and Percussion; Three Clarinets, Cello and Piano - Carol Robinson (clarinets); Diatoma Quartet, Paris.

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mode 117 Chaya CZERNOWIN, Vol. 2: Shu Hai in an Orchestral Setting for voice, orchestra and live electronics; Shu Hai Practices the Javelin for solo female voice, 9 recorded voices & live electronics (Ute Wassermann, voice; Basel Sinfonietta/Johanness Kalitzke, conductor); Six Miniatures and a Simultaneous Song (Elision Ensemble).

mode 112 Morton FELDMAN, Vol. 6: String Quartet #2 — The FLUX Quartet (6 hours duration). Available as 5-CD set or single 24-bit DVD, both in deluxe slipcase.   

mode 111 Walter ZIMMERMANN, Vol. 1: Schatten der Ideen; Ursache und Vorwitz; Distentio; Shadows of Cold Mountain - Ensemble Recherche.

mode 110  Peter GARLAND: Another Sunrise; I Have Had to Learn the Simplest Things Last (for John Cage); Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Cottage - Aki Takahashi (piano & harpsichord), Essential Music.

mode 109 Christian WOLFF: Look She Said: Complete Works for Bass - Look She Said; Jasper; String Bass Exercise out of "Bandiera Rossa"; Dark as a Dungeon; Untitled; Robert Black, basses.

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mode 108  John CAGE, Vol. 26: The Orchestral Works 3 - One9 and 108 for sho- & large orchestra - Mayumi Miyata (sho-), Symphony Orchestra of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk/Ken Takaseki & Harry Vogt.
First recordings

mode 106  John CAGE, Vol.25: The Works for Piano 4 (featuring performance by John Cage) - Works for Prepared Piano: Works of Calder (1949-50) - including original film soundtrack with Burgess Meredith, narrator; John Cage, percussion & tape collage; Totem Ancestor (1942); Triple Paced (1944); Music for Marcel Duchamp  (1947). Works for Piano: ONE2  (1989, written for Ms. Leng Tan, first recording of version for 3 pianos); Ad Lib (1943); Triple Paced (1944); Jazz Study (1943) - Margaret Leng Tan (pianos)

mode 105  Bernadette SPEACH: "Reflections". When It Rains, Llueve for piano;  Viola for viola & piano; Trio des Trois III for viola, cello & piano; Chosen Voices for prepared guitar & toy piano; Angels in the Snow for piano; Woman without Adornment for reciter, voice, guitars, bass & piano; les ondes pour quatre for string quartet - Arditti Quartet, Anthony de Mare, piano; Rozanna, viola; Lois Martin, viola; David Heiss, cello; Jeffrey Schanzer, guitars; Bernadette Speach, piano; Thulani Davis, reciter; Alva Rogers, voice; Mark Dresser, bass

mode 104  John CAGE, Vol. 24: "A Cage of Saxophones I". Ryoanji for 4 saxophones & percussion; Five for two saxophones, two bowed pianos & accordion; Four5 for 4 saxophones; Five4 for saxophone quartet; Hymnkus for 2 saxophones, 2 pianos, accordion & 2 percussions - Ulrich Krieger, saxophones; with other saxophonists plus Mario Bertoncini, piano; others.

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mode 102  Giacinto SCELSI, Vol.3: "Music for High Winds". Ixor for clarinet; Suite for flute & clarinet; Pwyll for flute; Tre pezzi for Eb clarinet; Rucke di Guck for piccolo & oboe;  Preghiera per un' ombra for clarinet;  Ko-Lho for flute & clarinet; Three Latin Prayers for clarinet - Carol Robinson, clarinets; Cathy Milliken, oboe; Clara Novakova, flutes, piccolo

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mode 101 Henry COWELL, Vol. 2: "Dancing with Henry: New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell" - Suite for Small Orchestra (1934); Heroic Dance (1931); Sound Form No. 1 (1937); Ritournelles from "Marriage at the Eiffel Tower" (1939); Reel No. 2 (1934); Dance of Sport ("Competitive Sport," 1931); Atlantis (1926) [all first recordings]; Suite for woodwind quintet (1934); Four Combinations for Three Instruments (1924) - California Parallèle Ensemble/Nicole Paiement, conductor and director

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mode 98/99  Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum: New Electroacoustic and Electroacoustic Music from CCMIX Paris: Iannis XENAKIS: Mycenae Alpha; Polytope de Cluny; plus works by Jean-Claude Risset, Julio Estrada, Curtis Roads, Brigitte Robindoré, Nicola Cisternino, Daniel Terruggi, Takehito Shimazu, and CCMIX's director Gerard Pape. 2-CD set with 56-page book

mode 97 Morton SUBOTNICK, Vol.1: Electronic Works-Touch (1969); A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (1978); Gestures (1998-2001, first recording) - Joan LaBarbara, voice. Hi-resolution 24-bit mastering from original analogue master tapes. Composer supervised. Simultaneous DVD release in 5.1 Surround Sound contains the above plus: Gestures interactive DVD-ROM allowing you to explore and compose your own versions of the piece using your computer's mouse plus  video: Subotnick interviewed by NPR's New Sounds John Schaefer; and Subotnick in conversation with Joan LaBarbara and writer Melody Sumner Carnahan. Composer supervised. 

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mode 95 Giacinto SCELSI, Vol. 2: The Orchestral Works 1-Hymnos (1963) for organ & 2 orchestras; Hurqualia (1960) for large orchestra; Konx-Om-Pax (1968) for large orchestra & choir; Canti del Capricorno (selections) (1962-72) for voice, with & without instruments - Pauline Vaillancourt, soprano, Douglas Ahlstedt, tenor, Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic and Concert Choir, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, conductor

mode 93 Aaron COPLAND: Piano Fantasy (1957); Charles IVES: Piano Sonata No. 1 (1902-10) - Sara Laimon, piano

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mode 92 Giacinto SCELSI, Vol.1: The Piano Works 1- Sonata No. 2 (1939); Sonata No. 4 (1941); Suite No. 9 "Ttai" (1953) - Louise Bessette, piano

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mode 91  KAIJA SAARIAHO: New Gates
Cendres (1991/6) alto flute, cello and piano Grammaire de Reves (1988-9) for soprano, contralto, 2 flutes, harp, viola & cello (Alison Wells, soprano. Mary King, alto); Solar (1993) for ensemble; New Gates (1996) for flute, harp & viola. Performed by Champ d'Action/James Wood, conductor

mode 90  PAUL KOONCE: Walkabout and Back
Electroacoustic compositions: Walkabout (1998); Hothouse (1996); Pins (1992); The Flywheel Dream (1994)

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mode 88 John CAGE, Vol. 23: The Works for Violin 3 - Two4 (version for violin & piano and version for violin & sho) - Irvine Arditti, Stephen Drury, Mayumi Miyata

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mode 86  JOHN CAGE, Vol.21: The Orchestral Works 2: Etcetera (1973) -- The Callithumpian Consort of New England Conservatory conducted by Tamara Brooks, Stephen Drury and Charles Peltz; Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras (1986) -- New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tamara Brooks, Marsha Hassett, Charles Peltz and Laurie K. Redmer. FIRST RECORDINGS, COMPOSER SUPERVISED

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mode 84/85 John CAGE, Vol.20: Cage Performs Cage, The Text Pieces 1 - Series re Morris Graves; Art Is Either a Complaint or Do Something Else; What You Say — John Cage, speaker. (2-CDs, deluxe box with inserts and texts)

mode 82/83 Morton Feldman:082_3feldman Vol. 3 - Complete works for Violin & Piano - Sabat/Clarke Duo. 2-CDs

mode 81 Luc FERRARI:081ferrari Vol.1 - Chansons pour le corps (1988-94) . for voice, 2 clarinets, percussion, piano & synthesizer (Elise Caron, voice); Et si tout entière maintenant. (1986-87), conte symphonique for voice, orchestra & tapes (Anne Sèe, voice, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique/Yves Prin).

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mode 80 Iannis XENAKIS: Xenakis Vol.4 — Complete Piano Music — (Herma, Evryali, Mists, A.r.) plus Dikhthas for violin & piano (Jane Peters, violin); Palimpsest for piano & ensemble (Society for New Music/Charles Peltz). Aki Takahashi, piano.  Series Aki Takahashi Vol.2. (Reissue)
*Winner of the Diapason d'or Prize   

mode 77 Chaya CZERNOWIN: Afatsim - chamber works performed by The Arditti Quartet, Mayumi Miyata (sho), John Fonville (flutes), SONOR, Harvey Sollberger (conductor)

mode 76 Lydia Kavina, Theremin076theremin: Music from the Ether - original compositions for theremin by Bohuslav MARTINU: Fantasy for theremin, string quartet, oboe & piano.; Percy GRAINGER: Free Music #1 for 4 theremins + works of Joseph Schillinger, Isidor Achron, Kavina, Freidrich Wilckens, Jorge Antunes and Vladimir Kamorov. With Joshua Pierce (piano), Elizabeth Parcells (soprano), Portland String Quartet

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mode 71 John CAGE, Vol. 18:  The Choral Works 1 — Hymns and Variations for 12 amplified voices; Four2.; Living Room Music; ear for Ear.; Four Solos.; Five-Vocalgroup Ars Nova/Támas Vetö.

mode 70 Roger REYNOLDS: Watershed IV (Steven Schick, percussion with TRAnSiT, live sound spatialization); Eclipse for computer generated sound (with video by Ed Emswhiller); The Red Act Arias. (excerpt, for 5-channel sound) + interviews with Reynolds, Schick, others. Interactive DVD with video and true 5.1 Surround Sound.