HORWOOD, MICHAEL - Musique Concrète Realizations by Michael S. Horwood of Two Poems by Robert Creeley
Michael Horwoods audio work during his academic period at the University of Buffalo comes from one of the most optimistic periods in American 20th century avant-garde music. The mere spill over of interest in composition from the New York City schools brought state of the art facilities and faculty to UB in 1968 Incidentally new professors Lejarin Hiller, Lukas Foss and poet Robert Creeley were key in developing students keenness into radical new music. \r\nIn early 1968, Michael obtained permission from Creeley to take his two poems The Pattern and Dimensions in a new direction. Creeleys poetry is difficult to set musically. It is frequently dense with complicated meanings, often running together. The Pattern is based solely on Creeleys reading of the poem and the entire piece consists of manipulations of his reading using the standard magnetic tape manipulations of the day: slowing down, speeding up, splicing, backwards playback and overlay. Of particular happenstance is the fugato on the line let X equal X, X also equals X" morphing into the word "sex." In Dimensions, Creeleys narration occurs over and through the dense texture. His voice blends into a mangled and distorted free improvisation on cello and percussion. Michael Horwood is also known for his releases on Opus One, Sound of Pig, Albany records and previously on Beniffer Editions with Convergence. Edition of 300 White Vinyl 7"s, comes in a Screenprinted gatefold Jacket." - Beniffer Editions.
After nearly a decade of false starts, multiple game plans veering off the rails, and a handful of shattered hopes and/or dreams, the odyssey is finally complete—the new Fusetron site is here.
This is the first phase of a multipart rollout that will span the next few months: the currently browsable stock includes miscellaneous new releases from the past 8+ months (we have a lot of catching up to do), plus approximately a third of our backstock. Note that we’ve reduced/slashed prices on many titles and will continue to do so in order to make room for new stock. We’ll also be expanding / tweaking / improving / debugging the site itself (for example, we still have work to do on the automated international postage system, not to mention the inevitable inventory discrepancies that come with transferring an ancient and massive database to a new system).
Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently “sold out” items are likely to resurface.
Finally, once our general backstock is up (probably in the next two or three months) we’ll begin making our extensive stockpile of rarities available online for the first time: tons of random out-of-print titles, "deadstock," warehouse finds, secondhand collectibles, etc., accumulated over the past few decades.
Frequent/returning customers will be getting early access to these items. Details to follow on how this will work (a priority mailing list? a 'frequent flyer'-like program?), but it will not be based on dollars spent. We want to reward those who consistently support us, especially in the discogs marketplace era (to those who show up trying to poach five copies of a one-off rarity, and nothing else, ever… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).
So—we suggest you take some time to dig through the site—even we’ve been surprised by what’s been turning up, and there’s much more to come.
