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RA01 is a stunning audio achievement! Listen to it in stereo from your computer or a DVD player. Or listen to it through a 5-channel DVD-player setup for the full surround audio experience. But don't miss it!

The full title is 'Recombinant Art 01', and the DVD not only contains magnificent sound, it's conceptually interesting. The composers are Matteo Milani, Agostino Di Scipio, Tawm Perkowski, William Meadows, Edmund Eagan, Zlatko Tanodi, José Luis Gonzàlez Castro, and Robert Scott Thompson. Producer Edmund Eagan chose the compositions and then said to the composers: Take these five sounds, add 17 vocalized syllables of your choice, and add a sound byte from your full-length work, then recombine the sounds, syllables, and sound byte to create a 30-second sound piece that will act as a 'trailer' to the full-length work. And as a result of those words, all of the compositions on this DVD are separated by short interludes that, in fact, often contain the composers' voices. It's an interesting idea.

The range of the sounds is also interesting. You could think of it as a sonic hyper-reality that extends from string quartet to quasi-cinematic sound effects to the emergent properties of mathematical algorithms. Milani's 'Signal Flow' surrounds you with distant rumbling machines, hissing steam leaks, electrical discharges, and spacecraft whipping by with metal wings that actually flap. Di Scipio's 'Nattura allo Specchio / Nature in the Mirror' evolves human sounds from delicate bacterial impulses. Perkowski's 'Corrosis Permanganate' takes you through a hostile world of gun shots, lightning strikes, windstorms, horses, radio scanning, and vocoded speech describing "the badlands" and "the grand finale of a mighty symphony of the elements". Meadow's 'Folded' flies you upwards to the stratospheric regions of the tinkly upper partials of a string quartet. Eagan's 'To In' combines words, sounds, a chilly drippy night, trucks on a highway, crickets ... Tanodi's 'Animus-Anima' extends false realities from phonorealistic thunderstorms to harmonized soprano to orchestral climax to a baby's crying. Castro's 'POM' layers plucked string-like flurries with stochastic impulses and chirps, oscillators at random pitches, and an ambient background. Thompson's 'Eclipse' is about textures that evoke the slow steady transformation of a lunar eclipse on a cold clear night.

Having heard the music, you may ask: "How did they do it?" There's a hint in the subtitle: Artists Using Kyma. Kyma is a software-based electronic music production system that resides in a black box that sits next to your computer. And the diversity and audio quality that came out of that system is very impressive indeed.

Twelfthroot => TW200-2 $23.00

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	Recombinant Art 01 RA01 is a stunning audio achievement! Listen to it in stereo from your computer or a DVD player. Or listen to it through a 5-channel DVD-player setup for the full surround audio experience. But don't miss it! The full title is 'Recombinant Art 01', and the DVD not only contains magnificent sound, it's conceptually interesting. The composers are Matteo Milani, Agostino Di Scipio, Tawm Perkowski, William Meadows, Edmund Eagan, Zlatko Tanodi, José Luis Gonzàlez Castro, and Robert Scott Thompson. Producer Edmund Eagan chose the compositions and then said to the composers: Take these five sounds, add 17 vocalized syllables of your choice, and add a sound byte from your full-length work, then recombine the sounds, syllables, and sound byte to create a 30-second sound piece that will act as a 'trailer' to the full-length work. And as a result of those words, all of the compositions on this DVD are separated by short interludes that, in fact, often contain the composers' voices. It's an interesting idea. The range of the sounds is also interesting. You could think of it as a sonic hyper-reality that extends from string quartet to quasi-cinematic sound effects to the emergent properties of mathematical algorithms. Milani's 'Signal Flow' surrounds you with distant rumbling machines, hissing steam leaks, electrical discharges, and spacecraft whipping by with metal wings that actually flap. Di Scipio's 'Nattura allo Specchio / Nature in the Mirror' evolves human sounds from delicate bacterial impulses. Perkowski's 'Corrosis Permanganate' takes you through a hostile world of gun shots, lightning strikes, windstorms, horses, radio scanning, and vocoded speech describing "the badlands" and "the grand finale of a mighty symphony of the elements". Meadow's 'Folded' flies you upwards to the stratospheric regions of the tinkly upper partials of a string quartet. Eagan's 'To In' combines words, sounds, a chilly drippy night, trucks on a highway, crickets ... Tanodi's 'Animus-Anima' extends false realities from phonorealistic thunderstorms to harmonized soprano to orchestral climax to a baby's crying. Castro's 'POM' layers plucked string-like flurries with stochastic impulses and chirps, oscillators at random pitches, and an ambient background. Thompson's 'Eclipse' is about textures that evoke the slow steady transformation of a lunar eclipse on a cold clear night. Having heard the music, you may ask: "How did they do it?" There's a hint in the subtitle: Artists Using Kyma. Kyma is a software-based electronic music production system that resides in a black box that sits next to your computer. And the diversity and audio quality that came out of that system is very impressive indeed. Twelfthroot => TW200-2 $23.00
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