CAPAC Musical Portraits #3

Here is another installment in the CAPAC Musical Portrait series posts.

This one features the Larry Lake record missing from the post of January 14,2013 (featuring the work of the other members of the Canadian Electronic Music Ensemble).At the time of that post, I was missing the record from the sleeve and I promised to post it if I ever found it.

Well,it's been a stretch but, (ahem)-
PRESTO! here it is- compliments (once again) of my father, who is much better these days at finding records than I am.

He is also responsible for finding the other two records in this post; part of a collection of some 60 or so Musical Portraits which he managed to find. These were among the duplicates,many of which he sent to me.

Thanks, Daddy-O!

I focused my attention here on records containing electronic music although acoustic instruments are also in evidence, both in the Bruce W Pennycook and in the Rudolf Komorous.

Larry Lake- Musical Portrait QC-1287
 
a1-Sonata (excerpt)
 
a2-Face (excerpt)

b1-Le Bord Du Son (excerpt)

b2- Cavatina (excerpt)


Bruce W Pennycook- Musical Portrait  (Series 3) QCS-1497

a1-gr,RR (excerpt)

b1-August Suite No 3; Intermezzo

b2- Three Complaints for Flute* and Countertenor
3- The Trouble With Geraniums

b3- Three Miniatures for Harp Flute and Clarinet
2- In Strict Tempo

b4- The Yonge Street Variations No 1 and 2

*(Note-The trouble with "The Trouble With Geraniums" is that the Flute is much too Guitar).-Dr E


Rudolf  Komorous- Musical Portrait QCS-1192

a1-York/1967/ (excerpt)

a2-part of a canon from Anatomy Of Melancholy/1974

b1-Rossi/1974-75/ (excerpt)

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FYI

FYI-in case you were wondering:
I know I haven't posted much lately-(an understatement if ever I heard one!), and it seems like all of my Rapidshare links of the past two years are now dead.
I'll post this (above) on a site which has proven relatively trustworthy so far (though not without its own inevitable drawbacks) but I'm not sure if they will be more or less dependable in the future...
That said, I plan to begin posting again with a little more frequency, but I also wonder how many of you may want re-uploads of past posts instead.Not many requests have come in, (and I haven't even filled any of those yet).
With the wretched state of the filehosting sites and the depressing uncertainty I feel toward them as a result, I wonder whether it's worth trusting any of them enough to make the effort.

Nonetheless, above is a post which I hope you will enjoy, whoever and wherever you are, and I hope you continue to have a Happy Holiday.

Best wishes from myself AND on behalf of our indefatigable host,
grey calx.

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

(Well, maybe not EXACTLY today, but close enough)
...that Uncle Willie closed up shop at UWEB; the  Residents fan club.

While I regret not having taken advantage of all of the "members only" Residents cd's offered there, I can still look back with some satisfaction for having taken advantage of the pool of like-minded musical minds to be found among the members there.

Ca. early 1992 I sent the following letter to Uncle Willie:

The result was a musical project which had 10 musicians (plus one who could substitute for any participant unable to maintain the strict schedule), each initiating a four-track cassette which would be sent around its own particular route, reaching all the participants twice, each person adding his or her part anywhere on the cassette (a total of 4:30 - 9:00 each time,(depending on the speed of the recorder). Each person thus had equal time and equal opportunity to choose whether to work alone (building up all 4 tracks alone), or adding their own part(s) to any existing part(s) played by anyone else,wherever and whenever an empty track allowed.

I received a number of letters (remember letters?) from respondents who wrote too late to join the project, one of which contained a very interesting cassette.(Many of the respondents sent me cassettes of their music). I thought it a shame that he could not participate in the "Buddy Project", and so I asked him if he would like to collaborate with me and one other Buddy whose music I found similar enough to inspire the idea of doing a side project of Christmas music.

This project took the name of BooDooRoo X-Mas.

It had 3 cassettes making the rounds of we three until they were full.
Boo recorded at regular or double speed
Doo recorded at double speed
Roo recorded at regular speed.

this created the unusual situation where only one of the participants (Boo) could actually hear the music made by the other two at the proper speed, while Roo heard Doo's music at half-speed
and Doo heard Roo's music at double speed.

It also created a situation where the mixdowns made by each of us sounded distinctly different, not only because of the preferential musical choices of each of us, but because of this speed discrepancy.

This is a selection chosen from the mixdowns made by Roo (about one half of the total music), in which Doo is heard usually as the slow,low sounds in the mix, Roo at regular speed, and Boo at either, depending on whose part he considered the primary focus when he added his part.

Boo is: Boojer Golder, later Foe Foe Foe Foe Foe. (Canada)
Doo is: Dr. Eyescope (Canada)
Roo is: Kim Kangaroo (Belgium)

Hope you enjoy it.
Merry Christmas Too All, and to All a Good Night.

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P.S. Be forewarned that the music here is distinctly LOW-FI.