keith fullerton whitman - live generators 1 (2x cassette)

second protracted view tape we’ve managed to stock (after the epic "synth night" set from last year ; apparently there were another 38 releases in between this & that !!! wonder what they were ...) covering the first four "generator" concerts from september & october of 2009 ... ... after my initial, exploratory phase of performing music with only a (steadily growing) eurorack modular synthesizer (as documented on the "split series" lps on no fun, amethyst sunset, ... and soon dekorder, amish, and others) i settled down with the "generator" patch / system ; a double 4-part canon (i.e. four sinewave oscillators and four pulsewidth ones) that works with tuning & tracking inconsistencies across the various make & model of oscillator to yield, at first, a swarming/buzzing field of closely tuned intervals ... then an ear-piercing, "inside your head" wall of shrieking overtone movement ... using this patch as a building-block, i started adding various sub-patches to modify the canons (recording them digitally at low bit-rates to emphasize the nyquist bleed, running them through a bucket-brigade for more harmonic congestion, filtering & frequency-shifting, etc...) as well as augmenting them with sounds from a commodore 64 emulator & even adding poly-rhythmic accents to "anchor" the piece ... as these concerts show the piece in it’s infancy, it feels nice to have them all available in one place ... for me it’s a keepsake of this very busy month :: ... the label gave the go-ahead to architect this all-clear edition, with professionally duplicated / imprinted tapes housed inside the elusive "side by side" double norelco (went to hell & back trying to track these down ; wasn’t easy !!!) with two separate laser-transparency inserts (one 5" x 14" "cover", then a 3.5" x 14" "insert") ... and while the fidelity ranges from the crystal-clear board-capture (c/o the norman conquest) of the "on land" set to the room-sound video-mic gristle of the "i hear a new world" piece (c/o feeding tube’s ted lee) the tape-duping levels the playing field & all come across as a coherent whole ...