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  • Suitable For Framing

    17517-2

    Artist: David Rosenboom, J. B. Floyd & Trichy Sankaran

    Label: Mutable Music

    David Rosenboom and J. B. Floyd, pianos; Trichy Sankaran, mrdangam and kanjira.

    On April 19th, 1975, at Northern Illinois University, three musicians met in a milestone event from which emerged a unique, improvising trio with two pianos and South Indian percussion. Fortunately, it was recorded and excerpts released on a long out of print LP. This CD recaptures the essential essence of the entire evening of musical discovery with previously unreleased music recovered from digitally reprocessed tapes recently discovered in diverse states of preservation.

    J.B. Floyd's long career as pianist/composer/improviser has included classical recitals and solos with orchestra, new music solos and group collaborations, jazz improvisations, and multi-media presentations. He is currently chairman of the Department of Keyboard Performance at the University of Miami.

    David Rosenboom is known as a pioneer in American experimental music who has explored ideas about propositional music, the spontaneous emergence forms in music, media, and the human nervous system, since the 1960s. He is currently dean of the School of Music at California Institute of the Arts.

    Trichy Sankaran is a top ranking, virtuoso mrdangam vidwan who has composed and performed in Indian, jazz, electronic, Afro-American, gamelan, and chamber orchestra styles. He is currently director of Indian Music Studies at York University, Toronto, and founding director of the Kalalayam institution for the percussive arts.