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The voice of Italian-American avant-garde pioneer Kenneth Gaburo resounds throughout this disc, both figuratively and literally. He was the teacher of composers Warren Burt and Philip Blackburn as well as organist Gary Verkade, and much in the same way he incorporated his speaking voice in his own works, his students have used Gaburo's taped words in their posthumous tributes to him.
Burt's 'Recitative/Tracing' deconstructs its vocal text and uses pitch-to-midi conversion to literally turn the spoken phrases into musical phrases played on a heavily prepared and altered pipe organ. Blackburn's 'P.P.S.' juxtaposes a recording of Gaburo reading a letter written in Italian to his ailing teacher Goffredo Petrassi with a subtly shifting organ
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drone. Gaburo's own 'Antiphony X,' one of a series of works for various instruments and tape, exploits as fully as would seem possible the manifold wild and wacky whoops and glissandos that can be extracted from the king of instruments. Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Recitative/Tracing by Warren Burt
Performer:
Gary Verkade (Organ)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1994; Australia
Date of Recording: 1995
Venue: Live Clapp Hall, University of Iowa
Length: 16 Minutes 26 Secs.
Notes: This performance includes a pre-recorded tape.
2.
Antiphony X "Winded" by Kenneth Gaburo
Performer:
Gary Verkade (Organ)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1989-1991; USA
Date of Recording: 06/09/1993
Venue: Live Neander Church, Düsseldorf, Germany
Length: 33 Minutes 19 Secs.
Notes: This performance includes a pre-recorded tape.
3.
P.P.S. by Philip Blackburn
Performer:
Gary Verkade (Organ)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1994; USA
Date of Recording: 1995
Venue: Live Clapp Hall, University of Iowa
Length: 17 Minutes 35 Secs.
Language: Italian
Notes: This performance includes a pre-recorded tape.
Sound Samples
Recitative/Tracing (On Guns and Cock-fighting)
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