Archive release

Beach Singularity & Menagerie

Trevor Wishart & Friends / Trevor Wishart · 1979 · Vinyl-Lp · GB · YES 8

"Beach Singularity" - An environmental music event for the holiday beach: Designed somewhat like a social intervention, where the musicians performed in conjunction with tape-music and electronics broadcast from small portable stereo systems scattered along the English sea-side. Performed on the beaches at Morecambe, Cleveleys, St Anne's & Southport in the summer of 1977. This discs presents edited extracts from a day long happening in which the composer performed under the Palm Beach Orchestra with an ensemble that featured Lyn Dobson, Melvyn Poore, Poppy Holden and Robin Coombes. "Menagerie": Began life in 1974 when Trevor Wishart asked a number of well known British performance artists to build small assemblages for an exhibition in which each object would be accompanied by appropriate taped sounds. The exhibition, consisting of eleven assemblages, was first prepared for the Birmingham Arts Lab and presented there in January 1975. The accompanying tapes were all made at The University of York Electronic Music Studio by Trevor Wishart. This disc presents 6 items selected from the exhibition/concert. Trevor Wishart wishes to acknowledge the financial of the Arts Council of Great Britain & North West Arts in the pressing of this disc. ℗ 1979 mfd. in U.K. Comes in laminated sleeve. Includes 4-page A4 booklet with further details & photographs of the project "Menagerie" from Philip Martin Music Books, and two advertisement inserts. Runouts stamped. Reissued on CD by Paradigm in 1997 (PD 03).