Track Listings
| 1. Pressing Intent |
| 2. Tollways |
| 3. Dulce Wandr |
| 4. In Other Words |
| 5. Dansa |
| 6. Corrupted Database |
| 7. Unbroken Gesture |
| 8. Autumn Suite (excerpt) |
| 9. Bonsai |
| 10. Camouflage (excerpt) |
| 11. Substratum |
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About the Artist
Robert Spalding Newcomb is a composer who combines virtuosic solo nylon-string guitar improvisation with computer-assisted techniques to create a powerful and organic approach to musical composition.
Through extensive exploration of folk, blues and jazz improvisation and a background in designing large-scale real-time computer systems, he has gained concrete knowledge of how artistic and technological frameworks can be made to complement and extend their respective boundaries.
He has worked on product design and support for premier companies inthe securities (New York Stock Exchange), banking (Manufacturers Hanover Trust) and digital audio (New England Digital) industries.
He has also worked with choreographers and movement teachers in New York City to map dance and yoga to sound.
Robert 's unusual combination of skills brings the freshness and depth of perception required to forge a unique and significant artistic vision.
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All compositions of this release have their origin in improvisations performed on nylon-string guitars. In the work from 1975 through 1984, modification of the pure timbre of the guitar is achieved through the use of amplifiers, analog effects boxes, and objects used to 'prepare' the instrument. These objects included a paper clip interleaved through the strings at the bridge, an 1887 silver dollar used in striking the strings, and in one case, an A440 tuning fork moved across the guitar top. Digital delay and 'tape loop' effects are also used in two pieces from 1984. Compositions dating from 1988 to 1997 are created with a nylon-string MIDI guitar as an instrumental basis, and make extensive use of computer-based electronic MIDI sequencing.
The most recent piece is produced by software which works with a knowledge-base of musical experience derived from its analysis of several guitar improvisations. The actual sounds in created by MIDI tone generators 'programmed' by the software itself.
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One of the best VW recordings on the market.......2005-10-02
Dew-kissed music.......2000-11-21
Well, the Chandos/Hickox recording is as resonant and full-bodied as one could want, and contains some of the best music in the opera, (adapted and slightly altered by Maurice Jacobson.) Highlights include the love scene, which moves from the most intimately lovely folksong, ("...in the night time, I have heard you calling, calling..."), to a climax that would do the Richard Strauss of "Four Last Songs" proud in its estatic harmonies. In the finale, "Freedom at Last," VW hurls one exhilarating chord after another in the duet, "Oh, the sky shall be our roof...."
What feel-good music. (Rosa Mannion and Thomas Randle sing radiantly.)
If one is feeling a litte too dew-kissed and moist after such a springtime affair, a silica gel package is included in the form of "Death of Tintagiles." Touching music, but a drier VW, similar to "Riders to the Sea."
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