[silence] New Earle Brown release, and David Tudor reissue on Mode Records

[Brian Brandt]

Dear Silencers

Thought you may be interested in Mode's first full Earle Brown release, 
available now on CD or DVD.

Also, we are pleased to announce that our David Tudor CD of "Rainforest" 
(mode 64), long out of stock, has now been repressed and is available again:
http://moderecords.com/catalog/064tudor.html

NEW FOR APRIL on CD ($14.99)  and Surround-Sound DVD ($19.99):
Mode 179
EARLE BROWN  (1926-2002)
Tracer
Ne(x)tworks Ensemble
conducted by Christian Wolff

. Folio & Four Systems (1952-53)
. Octet (1952) for eight independent tracks of tape
. Music for Violin, Cello & Piano (1962)
. String Quartet (1965)
. New Piece (1971-72) for spatially distributed ensemble. FIRST RECORDING
. For Neil (1975) for violin solo. Written for Cornelius Dufallo. FIRST 
RECORDING
. Tracer (1982) for ensemble and 4-channel tape. FIRST RECORDING
. Special Events (1998-99) for cello and piano

Earle Brown first encountered the work of Alexander Calder in 1948, 
whose mobile sculptures Brown saw as a visual embodiment of the variable 
(impermanent) aesthetic that he was striving to create. This "Calder 
aesthetic" stayed with Brown throughout his several stylistic shifts. 
Whether he was writing twelve-tone serial music (Music for Violin, 
Cello, and Piano), conceptual graphic scores (Folio and Four Systems), 
composed material/open form scores (String Quartet, New Piece and 
Tracer), or "spontaneously composed" music (Special Events), all of his 
music shares Calder's sense of integral but "floating" variations, which 
Brown described as, "the construction of units and their placement in a 
flexible situation that subjects the original relationships to constant 
and virtually unpredictable, but inherent, change (the movement of the 
units as well as the movement of the viewer)."

. Brown belonged to a group of composers that today is referred to as 
the "The New York School" (the group active in New York in the 1950s 
that included Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff.) 

. The works recorded on this disc represent several of Brown's 
compositional styles. At least one piece was selected from every decade 
of his career, from the 1950s to the 1990s. The ensemble size varies 
from one player to fourteen.

. Performers include Christian Wolff and vocalist Joan La Barbara, both 
of  whom knew and worked with Brown for many years. 

. Several works call for spatialized ensembles spread throughout the 
hall, perfect for the surround-sound medium.

. The classic tape piece Octet is presented in new high-resolution 
transfers from analogue tapes provided by The Earle Brown Foundation in 
its 4-channel mix by the composer.

. The release of this DVD marks Ne(x)tworks' recorded debut. Ne(x)tworks 
is a collaborative ensemble of musicians creating and interpreting work 
that features a dynamic relationship between composition and 
improvisation. In performance and recordings, the group locates pathways 
into various types of notation systems and interfaces, striving for a 
meaningful dialogue with the past, present, and future of creative music.
.
Additional features on the DVD:
. This is the first DVD of Earle Brown's music.

. All performances captured with full video.

. 36-minute video interview with Susan Sollins (Brown's wife and an 
expert on his music), Cornelius Dufallo (founder of the Ne(x)tworks 
ensemble and Brown's godson), and Micah Silver (former director of The 
Earle Brown Foundation) on Earle Brown's life and work. The interview, 
filmed in HD (high-definition) is presented in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.

. Hi-resolution 24-bit 5.1 surround recording in DTS and Dolby Digital.

 From The New York Times review of Ne(x)tworks' Earle Brown concert to 
launch the CD/DVD:
"Ne(x)tworks, whose members also compose and improvise, has especially 
close links to Mr. Brown. The ensemble's director, the violinist 
Cornelius Dufallo, is the son of the conductor Richard Dufallo, a 
champion of new music who appointed Mr. Brown his son's godfather. And 
one of the earliest public appearances by the members of Ne(x)tworks was 
a 2002 performance of Mr. Brown's music in the singer Joan La Barbara's 
Carnegie Hall 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/carnegie_hall/index.html?inline=nyt-org> 
series When Morty Met John.Those connections have made Ne(x)tworks a 
compelling advocate for Mr. Brown's music."
-- Steve Smith, The New York Times, April 19, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/arts/music/19earl.html


NEWS UPDATES:

MODE'S DVD OF JOHN CAGES "ONE11 AND 103" PICKED AS DVD OF THE MONTH . 
GRAMOPHONE "EDITOR'S CHOICE"
"...the remarkable quality of these uniquely pure visual images, studies 
in light ranging from total black to total white. No colours. The play 
of lights brings up slowly moving circular objects eerily reminiscent of 
distant moons transmitted from outer space posing the eternal questions 
of existence. At times the scenario suggests cloud formations viewed 
from a plane. Cage's formulae for removing personal taste have 
paradoxically produced mesmeric images that only he could have devised.

Cage himself is interviewed but understandably seems tired compared with 
the sparkle of his younger self. But what a splendid project carried out 
with dedication by all concerned.
-- Peter Dickinson, Gramophone, April 2007
http://moderecords.com/catalog/174cage.html


AVAILABLE AGAIN ($14.99):
DAVID TUDOR
RAINFOREST
mode 64 (CD)
His electronic environment masterpiece in 2 different versions:
Rainforest Version I (1968)
for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
David Tudor & Takehisa Kosugi, live electronics
and
Sliding Pitches In The Rainforest In The Field: Rainforest Version IV (1973)
an electro-acoustic environment

Originally released in 1998 and out of stock for some time, this new 
pressing was made in part with the help of Mode's Japanese distributor, 
Elmo Limited (many thanks!).
http://moderecords.com/catalog/064tudor.html


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