[silence] Cartridge Music & 5 Stone Wind reissued and remastered

[Brian Brandt]

Dear Silencers
Thought you might be interested in these latest from Mode Records.
Regards
Brian Brandt
www.moderecords.com
The John Cage Edition: http://www.moderecords.com/profiles/johncage.html


  **NEWLY REMASTERED AND REISSUED JOHN CAGE
  **

*Cage Edition Vol.4: Music for Merce Cunningham
*mode 24
http://moderecords.com/catalog/024cage.html*
*
John CAGE, David TUDOR, Takehisa KOSUGI
*Five Stone Wind* (1988)  /First recording/
Takehisa Kosugi, amplified violin, live electronics, bamboo flute
Michael Pugliese, 9 clay pots and tapes
David Tudor, live electronics
/For the Merce Cunningham dance 5 Stone Wind/

*Cartridge Music* (1960)  /First recording on CD/
Realization by David Tudor
Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese, David Tudor, phonograph cartridges & 
amplified small objects
/For the Merce Cunningham dance Changing Steps/

Originally issued in 1991 and out of stock for a few years, this long 
awaited reissue has been remastered from the original session tapes in 
hi-resolution 96khz/24-bit. The result is a more detailed and tactile 
recording with greater dynamic range. The booklet is presented in a new 
layout with rescanned photos and new French and German translations of 
the original texts written by Cage, Tudor, Kosugi, Pugliese and the 
MCDC's David Vaughan.
 
This CD is the first audio document of the collaboration between Cage 
and Cunningham, in expert performances by the core group of musicians of 
the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from the late 1980s. Two works have 
been chosen from different periods of their collaboration. In the 
infamous Cartridge Music, the performers make use of phonograph 
cartridges to play various objects, toys and furniture to create a 
cosmos of unusual sounds.

The 53 minute long Five Stone Wind is percussive in nature. The basic 
sounds from David Tudor are derived from recordings of earth vibrations 
which trigger the electronics and treatments. The unique percussion 
sound is created from hand-made clay pots modeled after African "Udu" 
drums, which can make sounds from room-shaking bass to high pitched 
ceramic slaps. Live percussion is added to eight pre-recorded drum 
tracks, yielding an exotic and other-worldly atmosphere punctuated by 
solos from Kosugi.

$14.99. For ordering information please see  
http://moderecords.com/order.html


  **THE Cage(Re)Mix PROJECT
  **

The Cage(Re)Mix project is an idea from its curator, Ulrich Krieger, to 
invite a wide pool of people from pop, avant garde and new music circles 
to make their own "remix" of Cage's music. The source materials, for 
copyright reasons, are all derived from Mode releases. Some of the 
artists involved are:
Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Jeff Mills (Underground Resistance), Mike 
Patton (Faith No More/Fantomas), Chris and Cosey (Carter Tutti, 
Cris&Cosey, Throbbing Gristle), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Thomas Köner 
(Porter Ricks), Terre Thaemlitz, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Robert Henke 
(Monolake), Carsten Nicolai (alva noto), Blue 'Gene' Tyranny, Morton 
Subotnick, Greg Davis, Stephen O'Malley (SunO))), Jonathan Bepler, Irmin 
Schmidt (CAN)
The actual CD will be released in late 2009.

The award winning DJ, audio remixer, and multi-media producer Terre 
Thaemilitz has released his contribution to the project as a limited 
edition 12" vinyl on his Comatonse  label. Side A is his 14-minute remix 
"Fagjazz study for 12 mode sources + 6 additions", side B is Simon 
Fisher Turner's remix of Terre's A side: "_cage tt sft ivft". It also 
features a handprinted cover designed by Terre.
Available from Mode for $14 
Special shipping applies for LPs:
Domestic: $5.25 (any additional LPs or CDs added to order are $1 each)
International:  equal  to the shipping cost of 2-CDs
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