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Awry
''Awry'' is a 10" vinyl EP by the American experimental electronic music ensemble Biota, released in 1988 by Bad Alchemy. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Awry'' liner notes. ;Biota * Tom Katsimpalis – organ, guitar, bass guitar, banjo, harmonica, tape, percussion * Mark Piersel – trumpet, guitar, bass guitar, psaltery, electronics, bells, percussion, engineering * Steve Scholbe – alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, guitar, bells, percussion * William Sharp – tape, electronics, soprano clarinet, engineering * Gordon H. Whitlow – bass guitar, guitar, piano, organ, accordion, percussion * Larry Wilson – drums, bongos * Randy Yeates – mbira, concertina ;Additional musicians * C.W. Vrtacek – piano (B5) ;Production and additional personnel * Bill Tindall – engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biota (band)
Biota is an American experimental electronic music ensemble. Musical career Amid a fertile creative environment in Fort Collins, Colorado, in the late 1970s, Biota's first recording projects were produced under the name Mnemonist Orchestra (shortened soon after to Mnemonists). Founded by fellow scientists and community radio engineers Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp, the Mnemonists ensemble of artists, musicians, and college-town bohemians released five self-styled albums between 1980 and 1984 on the group's Dys label. ''Horde'' (1981, Dys), a seminal album of electronically processed music, garnered critical attention — including from the Recommended Records/RēR label, who rereleased the LP in 1984 — for its groundbreaking use of unconventional sound manipulation and musique concrète techniques. After the release of ''Gyromancy'' in 1984, the group split into two collaborative factions: a visual-arts collective, which retained the name Mnemonists, and the musical grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Katsimpalis
Biota is an American experimental electronic music ensemble. Musical career Amid a fertile creative environment in Fort Collins, Colorado, in the late 1970s, Biota's first recording projects were produced under the name Mnemonist Orchestra (shortened soon after to Mnemonists). Founded by fellow scientists and community radio engineers Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp, the Mnemonists ensemble of artists, musicians, and college-town bohemians released five self-styled albums between 1980 and 1984 on the group's Dys label. '' Horde'' (1981, Dys), a seminal album of electronically processed music, garnered critical attention — including from the Recommended Records/RēR label, who rereleased the LP in 1984 — for its groundbreaking use of unconventional sound manipulation and musique concrète techniques. After the release of ''Gyromancy'' in 1984, the group split into two collaborative factions: a visual-arts collective, which retained the name Mnemonists, and the musical gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Yeates
Biota is an American experimental electronic music ensemble. Musical career Amid a fertile creative environment in Fort Collins, Colorado, in the late 1970s, Biota's first recording projects were produced under the name Mnemonist Orchestra (shortened soon after to Mnemonists). Founded by fellow scientists and community radio engineers Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp, the Mnemonists ensemble of artists, musicians, and college-town bohemians released five self-styled albums between 1980 and 1984 on the group's Dys label. ''Horde'' (1981, Dys), a seminal album of electronically processed music, garnered critical attention — including from the Recommended Records/RēR label, who rereleased the LP in 1984 — for its groundbreaking use of unconventional sound manipulation and musique concrète techniques. After the release of ''Gyromancy'' in 1984, the group split into two collaborative factions: a visual-arts collective, which retained the name Mnemonists, and the musical group, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinct
''Tinct'' is the eighth studio album by the American experimental electronic music ensemble Biota, released in 1988 by Recommended Records. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Tinct'' liner notes. ;Biota * Tom Katsimpalis – organ, guitar, bass guitar, autoharp, harmonica, recorder, bells, spoken word, production, mixing * Mark Piersel – trumpet, guitar, banjo, sheng, psaltery, ukulele, organ, percussion, spoken word, production, engineering, mixing * Steve Scholbe – alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, guitar, sheng, bells, percussion, production, mixing * William Sharp – tape, organ, bass clarinet, percussion, spoken word, production, engineering, mixing * Jim Steinborn – pipe organ, production, mixing * Gordon H. Whitlow – bass guitar, guitar, piano, accordion, production, mixing * Larry Wilson – drums, congas, bongos, bodhrán, production, mixing * Randy Yeates – mbira, piano, production, mixing ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumble (album)
''Tumble'' is the ninth studio album by the experimental electronic music ensemble Biota, released in 1989 by ReR Megacorp. Background The album was commissioned by the ReR label for the purposes of "using the maximum available parameters offered" by the nascent compact disc recording medium. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Tumble'' liner notes. ;Biota * Tom Katsimpalis – organ, guitar, bass guitar, banjo, harmonica, flute, cover art, design * Mark Piersel – trumpet, guitar, bass guitar, banjo, sheng, psaltery, ukulele, recorder, balafon, organ, tape, engineering * Steve Scholbe – alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, guitar, organ, autoharp, bells * William Sharp – tape, engineering, design * Gordon H. Whitlow – bass guitar, guitar, piano, organ, accordion, engineering * Larry Wilson – drums, bongos, bodhrán, bells * Randy Yeates – concertina ;Additional musicians * Deborah Fuller – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet. Bass clarinets in other keys, notably C and A, also exist, but are very rare (in contrast to the regular A clarinet, which is quite common in classical music). Bass clarinets regularly perform in orchestras, wind ensembles and concert bands, and occasionally in marching bands, and play an occasional solo role in contemporary music and jazz in particular. Someone who plays a bass clarinet is called a bass clarinettist or a bass clarinetist. Description Most modern bass clarinets are straight-bodied, with a small upturned silver-colored metal bell and curved metal neck. Early examples varied in shape, some having a doubled body making them look similar to bassoons. The bass clarinet is fairly heavy and is sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flute
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist or flutist. Flutes are the earliest known identifiable musical instruments, as paleolithic examples with hand-bored holes have been found. A number of flutes dating to about 53,000 to 45,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Jura region of present-day Germany. These flutes demonstrate that a developed musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.. Citation on p. 248. * While the oldest flutes currently known were found in Europe, Asia, too, has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excluding zoomusicological instruments and the human voice, the percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments.'' The Oxford Companion to Music'', 10th edition, p.775, In spite of being a very common term to designate instruments, and to relate them to their players, the percussionists, percussion is not a systematic classificatory category of instruments, as described by the scientific field of organology. It is shown below that percussion instruments may belong to the organological classes of ideophone, membranophone, aerophone and cordophone. The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, belonging to the membranophones, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
