Voices + Sine Waves Limited Edition CD out today!
Now available!
a special edition of 100 CDs of my album Voices + Sine Waves.
Individually hand-numbered and signed copies are available now for only $10. Click here to purchase your copy
Voices + Sine Waves is a collection of short works by Randy Gibson written over the last 10 years. These works represent the most primal and basic of materials; voices ethereal and guttural; sine waves pure and distorted. Most of these pieces have been scores for short films or dances, but exist on their own as recordings of a single performance.
Exclusive to this CD release, and not available for download, is the raga influenced The Third Pillar with its Lowest Primes and Memories of The Second Pillar from Apparitions of The Four Pillars III-iii-2010 20:02:56" - 20:20:17" (Brooklyn). Following the world premiere of Apparitions of The Four Pillars, The Third Pillar immediately struck us all as the most melodic and raga-like of the Pillars, and thus the most readily suitable for a short-form recording. The third take of the evening recording session, The Third Pillar..., is a single improvised performance by Randy Gibson on toy organ, William Lang on trombone, and Drew Blumberg on violin.
There will not be a second printing of this CD, and The Third Pillar will only be available on this recording. Don't miss the opportunity to own this remarkable collection of works.
The Third Pillar and Voices + Sine Waves
Just over a week ago Will Lang, Drew Blumberg, and I got together to record a short version of Apparitions of The Four Pillars to be included on a limited edition physical version of Voices + Sine Waves. This new piece is called: The Third Pillar with its Lowest Primes and Memories of The Second Pillar from Apparitions of The Four Pillars III-iii-2010 20:02:56" - 20:20:17" (Brooklyn) and I'm really happy with how it turned out.
It's 17 minutes of droning raga-inflicted melodies all drawn from The Third Pillar. The physical version of Voices + Sine Waves is going to be limited to an edition of 100 signed and numbered units, and this will be the only place this piece will be available.
There's no release date yet for the album, but it should only be a couple of weeks.
Apparitions – Avant Premiere
Thank you to everyone who came out to the World Premiere of Apparitions of The Four Pillars. It was an amazing and meditative night.
I've uploaded a bunch of the photos to Flickr here and this is one of my favorites:
Drew Blumberg and Tom Chiu - Photo by Travis Dubreuil
The projection created by Oscar Henriquez is a true psychedelic pleasure to perform in.
The avant-premiere, with Will Lang on trombone, will take place on February 27th at 8PM at Wild Project, 195 East third street - as a part of the Avant Music Festival,
I hope you can join me for another immersive meditative experience.
Process and Apparitions of The Four Pillars
In a week, we will be presenting the world premiere of my latest piece, Apparitions of The Four Pillars, as part of the Avant Music Festival - I wanted to share a bit about my process on what has turned into the most radical work I've written in a long time.
Ever since I got my first toy organ in early 2009 I've been brewing a piece that would involve a number of organs, sine waves, and performers. Something modular, and maybe a little tiny bit more portable than the behemoth that is Doleo Æternus.
It’s been a Big week
On Tuesday I released my first album. Voices + Sine Waves is a collection of my short works from the last 10 years. With a beautiful cover and minisite/booklet designed by Oscar Henriquez, and exquisite mastering by Mike Rugnetta and Bailey Math, It’s a package I’m extremely proud of. I’m so glad to be able to share my work with a larger audience, and I think these pieces provide a great intro to the work I’m doing.
Also on Tuesday, we launched the brand new Avant Media website. A monumental achievement for us, this new site represents a new direction, and a fresh start. Completely rebuilt from the ground up, the site provides a much more in depth experience of the work that we do over there.
Of course, rehearsals have been progressing spectacularly for Doleo Æternus which is set to premiere in NYC on November 21st. Yesterday was the first rehearsal with our new guitarist, and it went spectacularly. I’m getting very excited about the wildly talented group of people we’ve put together for this concert. Plus we’ve just confirmed dates for our spring performance of Mémoir-en-Ciel in Los Angeles – those will be announced shortly.
Like I said,
A Big Week.
Voices + Sine Waves
On October 6th, Avant Media will be releasing my first solo record, Voices + Sine Waves.
This album represents key moments from my last 10 years of work. From one of my earliest pieces, Julia, to my most recent, Shiver, these works run the gamut from quiet and serene to intense and visceral with a healthy dose of raga and just intonation just for good measure.
These are some of my favorite short pieces in my collection, and I am really looking forward to sharing them with the world.
Reflections on my time in Italy
It was an odd week to say the least.
I'm not entirely sure what happened, but somehow I went from creating new work on a strange baroque organ to cooking for 20 for a week and getting a pretty awesome tan.
It's not that I didn't enjoy my time in Italy, I definitely did. It ended up almost being a proper vacation - something I haven't had in a long time. I just didn't go there with the plan of having a vacation. I had fully expected to be cooped up in a dark church for a week listening to drones and trying to write. Instead I sat in the hot sun and cooked in a hot kitchen.
I did meet some amazing people, and reconnected with some old friends. The Monastery was able to put together a group of truly, fantastically talented individuals to take part in a strange little performance that, unfortunately, was much more about entertainment than it was about art - and there's nothing wrong with entertainment - it was the right thing to put on in the little labyrinthine town of Calvi dell'Umbria - it just wasn't why I was there, and it's not what I'm interested in doing these days.
I've since come up with some new ideas for new pieces, and I'm hoping to find ways to work with many of the people that I met while I was there. Who knows, it may turn out to have been an incredibly beneficial experience.
Just not in the way I thought it would be.
New and Formless Work
In one week I'll be performing a new work for organ and sine waves at the Labirinto Festival in Calvi dell'Umbria while in residence at the Art Monastery. I'm not sure yet what form this performance is going to take yet. I'm currently thinking that it's going to be the first step in a series of works titled Do You Remember ... that I've been sort of vaguely planning for the last six months. that would involve the multitude of toy organs I've been tuning as well as sine waves and sustaining instruments (strings/voices ?).
However, I'm not sure what the tuning of this baroque organ is going to be. It's been described to me as "strangely tuned" - and this is by early music people. I'm actually sort of looking forward to the challenge of having only one day with a massive instrument that I don't really know how to play, in a tuning that could potentially be anything, and trying to create something beautiful from it. I tend to get caught up in the theory of my work, often at the loss of initial spontaneity, so this will be an interesting, and hopefully rewarding, prospect for me.
It will be recorded, so hopefully those of you who can't make it to Italy (and, i'm guessing, that's probably most/all of you) will be able to hear at least a bit of what I've done.