""A good head-cutter knows it’s not what you play, but how you play it.”
Chris Brown, composer, pianist, and electronic musician, creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles. Collaboration and improvisation are consistent themes in his work, which is also founded on a practice of inventing and building electronic instruments. He teaches electronic music at Mills College, in Oakland, California, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM).
Fred Frith, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and fellow-explorer, creates music for and with acoustic and electric instruments, using the recording process as his primary compositional medium and working with film and video-makers, choreographers, painters, and sculptors, as well as musicians. Collaboration and improvisation are insistent themes in his work, which is also founded on a practice of re-invention and de-construction. He teaches composition and improvisation at Mills College, in Oakland, California, where he is continually inspired by his activities as football coach and avid bird-watcher."
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Tracklist
1 Telltale Streamers Of Dust 10:23
2 Nothing But Make Me 9:15
3 Swing Like Riddle 9:17
4 Thick Air 8:04
5 Sings The Foundation 11:20
6 The Way You Do The Things 3:42
Credits
Design [Graphic] ? Jonas Schoder
Executive-Producer ? Patrik Landolt
Mastered By [Engineer] ? Myles Boisen
Mixed By [Engineer], Edited By [Engineer] ? Philip Perkins
Music By, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar ? Fred Frith
Music By, Piano, Electronics ? Chris Brown
Photography By [Cover] ? Heike Liss
Producer ? Intakt Records
Notes
Recorded in January 2002 and August 2004, in Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland.
Mixed and edited at See a Dog, Hear a Dog studio, Berkeley in May 2006.
Mastered at Headless Buddha, Oakland, October 2006.
