Malcolm Goldstein
A Sounding Of Sources
FormatCDLabelNew World RecordsGenreSound Art
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Malcolm Goldstein has been labeled an “improviser” and a “composer-violinist” (or merely a violinist). What this CD once and for all shows is that he is indeed those things, but encompassing them all is the fact that, profoundly, he is a composer. As he points out, “At the core of Baroque music was the integration of composition and improvisation,” and Goldstein brings the perspective and focus of a seasoned performer to this undertaking. In this way his music represents a further evolution of that compositional-improvisational dialogue begun in the early 1950s in the aleatoric, “chance” pieces of composers like John Cage, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and Morton Feldman.
As a composer/violinist/improviser Malcolm Goldstein (b. 1936) has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s in New York City as a co-founder with James Tenney and Philip Corner of the Tone Roads Ensemble and as a participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde, and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. His "Soundings" improvisations have received international acclaim for having "reinvented violin playing," extending the range of tonal/sound-texture possibilities of the instrument and revealing new dimensions of expressivity. Since the mid-1960s he has integrated structured improvisation aspects into his compositions, exploring the rich sound-textures of new performance techniques within a variety of instrumental and vocal frameworks.
Format
Configurations in Darkness (1995)
An improvisation on one of the Bosnia-Herzegovinian folksongs in the ensemble composition, as an overture to the complete music.
Recorded on August 24, 2002, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado.
Configurations in Darkness (1995)
Recorded on November 20, 1996, at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland.
A production of Swiss Radio DRS
Ishi/timechangingspaces (1988)
Acoustic art/radio work
Producer: [...], Studio Akustische Kunst, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, broadcast in 1988.
Licensed by WDR mediagroup licensing GmbH
Ishi/"man waxati" Soundings (1988)
Recorded on May 4, 2005 in the Lombrives caves, Ussat-les Bains, France.
All compositions published by the composer (BMI).
Digital mastering: [...] SoundByte Productions, Inc., NYC
TT: 69:26
Ishi/timechangingspaces ℗ 1988 WDR Köln
Configurations in Darkness ℗ 1996 Schweizer Radio DRS
This compilation ℗ & © 2008 Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.
Made in U.S.A. [on CD]
Packaging: standard jewel case with 28-page booklet
Release notes
Configurations in Darkness (1995) An improvisation on one of the Bosnia-Herzegovinian folksongs in the ensemble composition, as an overture to the complete music. Recorded on August 24, 2002, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado. Configurations in Darkness (1995) Recorded on November 20, 1996, at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland. A production of Swiss Radio DRS Ishi/timechangingspaces (1988) Acoustic art/radio work Producer: [...], Studio Akustische Kunst,…
| 1 | Configurations In Darkness | 10:09 | |
| 2 | Configurations In Darkness | 25:48 | |
| 3 | Ishi/timechangingspaces | 20:01 | |
| 4 | Ishi/"Man Waxati" Soundings | 13:16 |
- Malcolm Goldstein
- Composed By, Liner Notes
- Jim Fox
- Cover [Cover Design], Design [Cover Design]
- Klaus Schöning
- Liner Notes
- Peter Garland
- Liner Notes
- Paul Zinman
- Mastered By [Digital Mastering]
