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The Rosetta Stone

Philip Perkins · 1986 · Tape · US · Fun 15

<div> The Rosetta Stone   side A The Rosetta Stone is a piece about translation, and the mental processes that contribute to it; about simultaneity -- the way multiple minds can hold the same idea at the same time but express this idea in very different ways; and about how very young children perceive sound and language as essentially the same phenomena-- with occasional windows of understanding. Also heard are the music and voices of: Zachary Perkins; Nancy Buddock; Zoe Orcutt; Linda Stouch; Guy Orcutt; San Francisco State Chorale (1979) singing “What Wondrous Love” (Trad.), Fred Goff, Conductor; Musicians and Cast Members of the Canton Opera Co. production of “Choosing a Wife” (Trad.), San Francisco, 1986 Special thanks to: 68 Films, Inc., The Residents. Horizontal   side B Horizontal was commissioned as intermission music for the theatre/performance piece show, “A Language Landscape,” in 1985. In it I was interested in “thinning out” the usually dense sound of my work by making a piece that was “horizontal’ in structure, spacious in texture, and which  would develop over a comparatively long period of time. Special thanks to; Lynette Taylor, Group One Productions. ©(P) 1986 Philip Perkins Prose electro-acoustics, location recordings, interactive processing Cover art and design -- Your Mom’s Unlimited FUN MUSIC 171 South park, San Francisco, CA 94107 (Fun 15) Write for catalog of music by Philip Perkins, Scott Fraser, david Ocker, and “Blue” Gene Tyranny. <div> </div> </div>

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The Rosetta Stone side A The Rosetta Stone is a piece about translation, and the mental processes that contribute to it; about simultaneity -- the way multiple minds can hold the same idea at the same time but express this idea in very different ways; and about how very young children perceive sound and language as essentially the same phenomena-- with occasional windows of understanding. Also heard are the music and voices of: Zachary Perkins; Nancy Buddock; Zoe Orcutt; Linda Stouch; Guy Orcutt; San Francisco State Chorale (1979) singing “What Wondrous Love” (Trad.), Fred Goff, Conductor; Musicians and Cast Members of the Canton Opera Co. production of “Choosing a Wife” (Trad.), San Francisco, 1986 Special thanks to: 68 Films, Inc., The Residents. Horizontal side B Horizontal was commissioned as intermission music for the theatre/performance piece show, “A Language Landscape,” in 1985. In it I was interested in “thinning out” the usually dense sound of my work by making a piece that was “horizontal’ in structure, spacious in texture, and which would develop over a comparatively long period of time. Special thanks to; Lynette Taylor, Group One Productions. ©(P) 1986 Philip Perkins Prose electro-acoustics, location recordings, interactive processing Cover art and design -- Your Mom’s Unlimited FUN MUSIC 171 South park, San Francisco, CA 94107 (Fun 15) Write for catalog of music by Philip Perkins, Scott Fraser, david Ocker, and “Blue” Gene Tyranny.

Format: Tape
Catalog no.: Fun 15
Country: US
Year: 1986
Discogs: #2627173 ↗

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