Oswald, John - Discosphere

Tracks

		Track Name	Length
	1	Skindling Shades
	2	Amina
	3	Bell Speeds
	4	Field
	5	Nothing
	6	Short Attack
	7	Angle
	8	Melody
	9	Shane
	10	Prey
	11	Touch
	12	Love1
	13	Fence
	14	VT
	15	Beat
	16	Code
	17	The Case Of Death

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This is a wonderful compilation of short, effective, single themed pieces written for dance, or that had dances made to them or with them. From very delicate studies like "Skindling Shades" made from incendiary sounds, the wild rhythmic rock of "Angle" to the thousand-fold overdubbing of a tiny bell sound in "Amina" and the hilarious fractured mystery-tale "The Case of Death." Oswald points out the bones and flesh of our illusions with a funny kind of love.
-Allmusic

A porecelain figure in a pinwheel dress pirouettes perpetually 0n the lid of a box of music. The spinning mechanism also turns the gears which time the sonorous striking of tongs. The strikings sound as the dance is seen. Dance is being moved moving to sound or without or not. Dancing is what is watching is what is dancing. Music is the hearing of dancing. *

This album features soundtracks for dances. Some were created before dances and then adapted to them. Some were created after seeing some particular constructions of movement. All these sounds were made because of dance. Other soundtracks for dance, also by John Oswald, are not in this collection. Some of them are logically inseparable from hearing while seeing. The hearing alone is not enough. Portions of 'Shane', 'Baryshnikov', and 'Fence' are like that. The parts of the dances that are featured here are other portions of much longer works. The soundtrack to Bill Coleman's ballet 'Zorro' is performed live by Shelley Hirsch and David Moss. for instance, exists as a live recording, that is not included here, mostly for that reason.

"Wili", of the cover photo, is a solo which Sue Lee dances, and it is a companion piece to "Wounded", which was Oswald's only entirely collaborated dance by that time (except for 'Warm... more
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released May 10, 2020

Music – John Oswald
except 'Small Attack' by Holly Small & John Oswald
Photo: Bill Coleman – Tom Brazil
Collage – Holly Small
Photo: Denise Fujiwara – Stephen Katz
Photo: Holly jumping – Antonia Villa Señor
Photo: John Oswald & Holly Small – Vid Ingelevics
Photos: Sue Lee; Marvin Green & Sonia D'Orléans Juste – Cylla Von Tiedemann
Recorded, Mixed, & Mastered by Producer – John Oswald
Digital Transfer– Clive Allen
Design – John Oswald
Stills Editor [Film Prep] – Bob Wilcox
'Soine' title– Naoko Murakoshi
Executive-Producer For ReR Megacorp – Chris Cutler
Coordination Of the Manufacture of the original CD – Bill Sharp

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