Various ‎– Music From Mills

Label:

Mills College – MC 001

Format:

3 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation

Country:

Released:

1986

Genre:

Classical, Electronic, Jazz

Style:

Free Jazz, Modern Classical, Musique Concrète, Post-Modern, Experimental

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Lou Harrison –	Sonata No. 2 Harpsichord – Susan Summerfield	2:43
A2	Terry Riley –	The Ethereal Time Shadow (Excerpt) Voice, Synthesizer – Terry Riley	9:20
A3	Luciano Berio –	Chamber Music Cello – Bonnie Hampton Clarinet – Donald O'Brien Conductor – Jean-Louis LeRoux Harp – Marcella DeCray Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Olivia Stapp Performer – Mills Performing Group	7:10
A4	Dave Brubeck –	Summer Song Arranged By [Orchestral Setting], Conductor – Howard Brubeck Bass – Eugene Wright Concertmaster – Max Pollikoff Drums – Joe Morello Performer – Dave Brubeck Quartet With Orchestra, The* Piano – Dave Brubeck Saxophone – Paul Desmond	2:56
B1	David Rosenboom –	In The Beginning: Etude I (Trombones) Computer [Macintosh Computer Program For Just Intonation Guide Tones] – Scot Gresham-Lancaster Trombone – Toyoji Tomita	9:48
B2	Robert Ashley –	Flying Saucer Dialogue Keyboards, Engineer [Sound Design], Mixed By, Producer – Paul Shorr Producer – Lawrence Brickman Voice – Jacqueline Humbert Voice, Keyboards, Producer – Robert Ashley	7:14
B3	Anthony Braxton –	Composition No. 62 ( + 30 + 96) Soprano Saxophone – Anthony Braxton Synthesizer [Kurzweil 250 Digital Synthesizer] – David Rosenboom	5:48
C1	David Behrman –	Interspecies Smalltalk, Part 2 (Excerpt) Computer [Computer Music System], Producer – David Behrman Engineer [Recording], Producer – Steve Cellum Violin – Takehisa Kosugi	5:42
C2	Elinor Armer –	Thaw Piano – Lois Brandwynne	5:51
C3	Steve Reich –	Melodica	10:43
D1	Maggi Payne –	Subterranean Network (Excerpt)	7:21
D2	Darius Milhaud –	Segoviana Guitar – Paul Binkley	3:14
D3	Pauline Oliveros –	Alien Bog (Excerpt)	6:22
D4	Anthony Gnazzo –	Asparagas	4:49
E1	Katrina Krimsky –	Apparitions Engineer [Recording] – Ron Kurz Piano – Katrina Krimsky Producer – Irmin Schmidt	9:15
E2	Larry Polansky –	Four Voice Cannon # 3	1:49
E3	Pandit Pran Nath –	Dira Dira Tā Nā: Tarānā, Tīn-Tāl, Madhya-Layal Raga Bhairavī (Excerpt) Tabla – Benjamin Wertheimer Tambura – Shabda Kahn Tambura, Voice – Terry Riley Voice – Pandit Pran Nath	12:29
F1	Janice Giteck –	Breathing Songs From A Turning Sky (Excerpt) Bassoon – Bruce Grainger Cello, Producer – Walter Gray Clarinet – William McColl Engineer [Recording] – Albert Swanson* Flute – Jane Lenoir Percussion – Jarrad Powell, Matthew Kocmieroski Performer – New Performance Group, The Piano – Roger Nelson	7:29
F2	Robert Sheff –	Remembering Composed By – Robert Sheff Voice, Electronics – "Blue" Gene Tyranny	2:27
F3	Ramon Sender –	Audition (Excerpt) Autoharp [Modified] – Delia Moon, Moses Moon Dilruba [Modified Dalruba] – Ramon Sender Morningstar*	2:54
F4	Morton Subotnick –	The Key To Songs (Excerpt) Electronics [Yamaha Tx-816 And Qx-1 Electronic Music System] – Morton Subotnick	8:29

Companies etc

Mastered At – Wakefield Manufacturing

Credits

Compilation Producer, Compiled By – David Rosenboom
Cover [Cover Image] – Jasper Johns
Design – Tony Agpoon
Engineer [Recording] – Richard Povall (tracks: A1, B1, B3, D2)
Management [Administrative Assistance] – Jody Diamond, Larry Polansky, Mary Hill (2), Theony Condos
Producer [Recording Studio Production], Edited By [Tape Editing] – Richard Povall

Notes

Released in celebration of the centennial of the chartering of Mills College 1885 - 1985.
Comes with 4-page 12" square-sized booklet.

A1 is a part from "Six Sonatas For Cembalo", composed 1936-1940, recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music Recording Studio.
A2 composed 1981-82, recorded in concert by Südwestfunk Radio, Baden-Baden, Germany, May 1982.
A3 composed 1953, recorded in a Mills Performing Group concert, October 17, 1969.
A4 composed 1958, recorded in Summer, 1961.
B1 composed 1979, recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music Recording Studio.
B2 is part of the opera "Atalanta (Acts of God)", finished in 1985. The original sound materials are taken from an anecdote for videotape directed by Lawrence Brickman.
B3 composed 1976, recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music Recording Studio.
C1 recorded at Roulette, New York City, June 1985. Comissioned for Merce Cunningham's dance "Pictures" in 1984.
C2 composed 1975, recorded live in a Composers' Coop concert on June 8, 1975.
C3 composed 1966.
D1 composed 1985.
D2 composed 1957, recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music Recording Studio.
D3 composed 1967.
D4 composed 1978.
E1 composed 1984, recorded at Powerplay Recording Studios AG, Switzerland.
E2 composed 1975-76. Created at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University.
E3 recorded on April 8, 1979, at a concert in the Mills College Student Union.
F1 composed 1980, performed at Cornish Institute in Seattle, March 1984.
F2 composed 1974, recorded at the composer's home studio, Oakland 1974, partly reprocessed at the Center for Contemporary Music 1981.
F3 composed 1981, recorded live in the Mills College Concert Hall during a Mills Tape Music Center reunion concert on March 20, 1981.
F4 composed 1985.