A. On the Other Ocean 23:30
- Bassoon - Arthur Stidfole
- Engineer - "Blue" Gene Tyranny
- Flute - Maggi Payne
- Cello - David Gibson
- Engineer - Richard Lainhart
side A ~ rec. at Center for Contempo Music, Mills College [Oakland, Ca], Sept. 18, 1977
side B ~ rec. at the State University of New York at Albany, June 9, 1977
'In 1977, Behrman began to use a computer and homemade synthesizer to 'listen' to players and react to what they played. Figure in a Clearing and On the Other Ocean are his first pieces. Extremely sophisticated, yet extremely simple; totally committed to technology, and yet totally human, highly abstract, yet highly emotional. On the Other Ocean, drifts placidly on six pitches. Arthur Stidfole plays lush, sustained bassoon tones, Maggi Payne adds slow flute lines of great warmth, and a microcomputer, Kim-1, provides sustained electronic tones that respond automatically to the instrumentalists. Figure in a Clearing, moves somewhat more erratically on its six pitches. David Gibson's cello tones blend miraculously with the triangle waves of the computer's response, and man and machine seem finally and irrevocably joined.' ~ lovely press release
the unimaginative cover art almost betrays how encroyably fresh & tonally rich this rekordin is. if you slept on the previous behrman post, it comes highly recommended as well. notes
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