DEMO - A PRAGA MUSICAL [2010/Teatro PRAGA]
Country: Portugal, Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP buy online | iTunes coming soon | play music video (youtube)
Original Cast Recording. Music composed by Kevin Blechdom, Christopher Fleeger and Andres Lõo
a co-production Teatro Praga and Teatro Municipal São Luiz
Christopher Fleeger - 1977, USA [2009/Karl Schmidt Verlag, KSV 042]
Country: Germany, Format: CD
sold out
"A document of the San Francisco-based improvisor's bracing, consistently satisfying early September performance at Silke Arp Bricht. Such a relief from the usual, respectable dull presence offered by other abstract sound artists... Fleeger's footage of venerable mice provide explicit links between militia postulations and dowagers' palms. Epic, and epicene." - Tom Smith
Composed and performed by Christopher Fleeger.
Recorded live by Tom Smith at @ Silke Arp Bricht (foyer), Hannover, on September 2, 2009.
"Documentarian Christopher Fleeger followed the Chicks' 2003 arena tour all over the country, recording the thoughts of the sign-carrying folks who gathered outside the shows to protest or support the controversial trio. The result is an artful, melancholy film [which] demonstrates how one country star's offhand remark ignited a passionate argument about the meaning of freedom and patriotism" - Chris Neal, COUNTRY WEEKLY
"While Barbara Kopple's Shut Up and Sing was good, many people complained that it was too much of a publicity piece about the band and didn't do much to address the controversy. Fleeger, with much less access than Kopple, gives us a much more creative and entertaining film."
- Andy Smith, Indie Grits Film Festival
BARPIECES: COMPUTER MUSIC INVENTIONS [2005/Ping, D100]
Country: USA, Format: CD more info | amazon | iTunes coming soon
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Ideas about gathering places as social and sonic resonators group this material. More narrowly, the focus became computer music performances which could maintain some revelatory utility in the hurly-burly of ordinary public listening-- in a bar, for instance. The resulting pieces are formally simple, relatively short in duration, and try to maintain distinct timbral surfaces.
Methods include the gas laws, lissajous curves, set transformations and fourier harmonizations of the ambience in performance spaces. The sonics range from simple synthetic waveforms, excited glass, wood and metal to slot machines, washers and other timbral pointers to the everyday world of the early 21st century.
COMPILATIONS
Three Minutes in a Carpark [2010/6_a inc] Country: Australia, Format: CD more info
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6_a inc presents... three minutes in a carpark, a collection of sounds
POPCORN [2010/Ultra Eczema, Ultra Eczema 82] Country: Belgium, Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP more info
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Collaboration Performance/Production with Lucas Abela & Kevin Blechdom [Side D, Track 6]
Produced in conjunction with the UE Popcorn Night(mare), 13/03/2010 at SCheld'apen, Antwerp.
All songs are based on "Popcorn", originally written by Gershon Kingsley (1969).
power/field 2 [2010/Anarchymoon Recordings, anok30] Country: USA, Format: 2 x CD buy online
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Field Recording: "Alouatta" [CD 1, Track 15]
San Francisco Music Festival 2008 [2008/SFEMF] Country: USA, Format: CD more info
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"Noisy Ball" [Track 13] from the album 'BARPIECES' originally released by Ping
Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 18 CD: WHY RECORD? LIFE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL PERFORMANCE [2008/MIT Press, LMJ18, E-ISSN: 1531-4812 Print ISSN: 0961-1215]
Country: USA Format: CD more info
BARNWAVE "Prancing" [Track 8] + text [pp. 93-94]
Sound Postcards, 39 Unreleased Audio Messages [2001/The Bookmakers Ed., Uovo 06] Country: Italy, Format: CD
sold out
BARNWAVE concert excerpt: "Heehaw Theme" [Track 5] CD enclosed to UOVO Magazine, ISSUE/16.
power/field [2007/Anarchymoon Recordings, anok15] Country: USA, Format: 2 x CD buy online
Field Recordings w/ Live Treatments: "Sea Gulls At Lake Ella" [CD 1, Track 3] & "Florida A&M University Homecoming Traffic" [CD 1, Track 4]
SloMo Video [2006]
Country: USA, Format: DVD more info
"Glitter Cowboy"
100 one minute long slow motion videos by 85 filmmakers & video artists
Far Afield [2005/Webbed Hand Records, WH055]
Country: USA, Format: File, MP3 more info
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"Painting" [Track 10]
"Somewhere in the spectrum between Musique Concrete and Phonography, is a vast gray area that is disowned and disputed by either side. This compilation treats this no-man's land as its playground." - Frederic Yarm
APPEARANCES
Bryan Saunders - Near Death Experience [2010/Erratum, EM006] Country: France, Format: Vinyl, LP Gatefold Sleeve more info
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Composed music for "The Social Masochist" [Track 1] & "The Store" [Track 4]
Ching Chong Song - Everything is for the Babies [2009/Olive Juice] Country: USA, Format: CD
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Live set from BARNWAVE Australia/New Zealand Tour 2009/2010
Kevin Blechdom plays piano, keyboards, and sings. Christopher Fleeger provides arena-sized real-time production via his self-programmed Max/MSP patches and a collection of membrane/mallet gestural controllers. During the show Fleeger and Blechdom exchange live MIDI data to synchronize real-time video software with the music.
