STEVE TITTLE PRIVATE ELECTRONIC LP CDN-EXPERIMENTAL-NWW

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STEVE TITTLE

(One of the) Merely Players LP

Nerve Records 02  

Music for tape, acoustic / electronic instruments & voice. A really unique album.

Some info on the release:  Extremely rare private release from canadian composer Steve Tittle. This album contains studio versions of a few of the pieces that i perform in my solo concerts. Some of the instruments used are Korg and Arp synthesizers, trumpet, flugelhorn, bamboo sax, broken-down guitar, and various percussion. The tape was produced in my home studio and at the Experimental Sound Studio of the Dalhousie Music Department. It was recorded on TEAC 4 and 8-track machines and mixed with a TEAC model 5 mixer to a TEAC 35-2 half track deck. It was entirely a one-man operation. Tittle was one of the first canadian composers to compose for the electronic music medium, together with Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, R. Murray Schaffer, Udo Kasemets, Hugh LeCaine, Bernard Bonnier, Istvan Anhalt, Bengt Hambraeus and others.

In 1970 Steve Tittle joined Dalhousie University, where until 1990 he was associate professor of composition and theory. Founder and co-designer of the Dalhousie Experimental-Electronic Sound Studio, he also inaugurated an improvisation ensemble, Murphy's Law ensemble, which has evolved into the new music ensemble. He was a 1971 charter member, secretary and artistic director (1981-6) of NOVA MUSIC ("inNOVAtions in MUSIC", an ensemble which preceded Murphy's Law by two years) and in 1989, together with several other Halifax professional musicians, created its successor, Upstream. In these enterprises, and in numerous solo and ensemble appearances in the city, as conductor, organizer, trumpet and flügelhorn player, and mallet percussionist, he was a catalyst for new music performance life in the Maritimes, in particular introducing the potential of synthesizer and tape composition to the region. Tittle has performed with other noted composers and musicians, including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg.

Tittle is a prolific composer, primarily in smaller forms. Drawing on influences from jazz, minimalist (Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young), and non-Western musics, he creates in each piece an original statement that is subtle, novel, and engaging both for the performer and the listener. Works such as orange-blossom book, it is all there all the time, where there is no other (only we), let it shine all the time, messages (four), and what finally matters most is grace are poised between Western and Asian aesthetics: an impression of timelessness and of the mobile tend to disguise tight control of material and logical, dynamic conclusions. The interplay between tape and performer in innocence and natural right, salvation dharma band, and only/other/always achieves a linear unity and contrapuntal contrast that is both lyric and deft.

Tittle has been commissioned by the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia, Music Gallery New Music Concerts, CBC Radio, the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, the Kronos Quartet, Lawrence Cherney, Rivka Golani, Philippe Djokic, the Atlantic Camera Trio, the Karr-Lewis Duo, Scotia Festival, Technical University of Nova Scotia, and Dalhousie University. Tittle has also recorded music for several films, including Farmers Helping Farmers (1987) In Love and Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet (1984)My Urban Garden (1984) Miller Brittain (1981)and The Ross Family Mystery (1980).    

Condition: Cover and vinyl lie in mint  / new condition.

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