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  • Jump The Circle, Jump The Line

    17507-2

    Artist: Thomas Buckner, Tom Hamilton

    Label: Mutable Music

    Vocal music by Thomas Buckner. Electronic music and voice processing by Tom Hamilton. Recorded live in concert, December 1, 2000; EMF at Engine 27, New York.

    Thomas Buckner: "Thirty-five years ago when I began to explore solo and group improvisation the idea was to make improvisations that sounded like compositions. I’ve evolved away from this idea gradually to the point where I want my improvisations, both solo and group, to sound (and be) unpredictable—to take me, my fellow improvisers and the audience to places we haven’t been before.

    "For this piece Tom Hamilton and I decided to carry independence as far as we can. Each part is developed independently, and the goal is not to modify our independent ideas in the act of putting them together. The "wild card" in this practice is the live electronic processing of the voice, for which Tom has developed a system that guarantees unpredictability while integrating the voice into the electronic soundscape. The result is an organic whole with independent but integrally connected parts."

    Tom Hamilton: "After a decade of wringing inspiration from observation, it is with great pleasure and some relief that I’ve returned (for awhile) to making pieces that address essentially formal procedures. This performance uses techniques of analog electronic synthesis to structure, phrase and pace the music, as well as to generate the actual sound material.

    "Revisited here is my crackpot theory - that art after Euclid has been in a c...