The MaDam Electroacoustic Improvisation Collective based in Spain performs the first in Pisaro's 34 piece Harmony Series, which attempts to create the conditions for a harmonic situation without giving any actual notes, just numbers, durations of tones, and pauses; this work is based on "swell piece (for alison knowles)" (1967) by James Tenney.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2017 Country: Germany Packaging: Cardstock 3 page foldover Recorded at the Teatro Pradillo, in Madrid, Spain, on September 4th, 2013, by ēlvaro Barriuso .
"This piece was, as the title indicates, the first of the 34 pieces that would eventually become the harmony series. In this and all the other pieces in the series, i attempted to create the conditions for a harmonic situation without giving any actual notes. The main stimulus for this was swell piece (for alison knowles) (1967) by James Tenney (one of the postal pieces). I had reason to perform that piece several times in 2003/4 and marveled at how any group we assembled would find the "right" harmony without anything being said. So sometimes was the first piece i made that tried to do that: By specifying only numbers and durations of tones and the pauses between them. It is dedicated to Tenney."-Michael Pisaro