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.
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.
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.