Alvin Curran - The Works (alternate edit)

from Modulisme Session 035 by VA. Serge-O-Voxes --- voices for the Serge III

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Alvin Curran is an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer. A genuine pioneer who - in the mid 60s - was the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva using Synthi AKS and Serge system from the early 70s. Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds. He was a professor of music at Mills College in California until 2006 and now teaches privately in Rome.

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« Since the early 1980’s the main focus of my work was using sampled sounds and /or diskklavier, all the while, composing for voices, and acoustic instruments…the radio and natural sounds in situ… The Works is a solo composition for Piano, voice and Electronics (made entirely on the Serge in the 70s). A melody in infinite permutations and masses of regenerated Serge modular synth sequences become the foreground and the background of a musically which initially joins my voice in an impassioned dialogue »

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from Modulisme Session 035, released February 14, 2021
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