The first instalment (Series #1) of recordings from the UglyBeautyCage Archives has been posted under www.archives.org. Check it out! You can download all these great tracks from UglyBeautyCage Archives - Series No. 1.
These 4 spontaneous compositions came into existence as the fruits of unrehearsed playing and spontaneous improvisation by the duo of Ralph Lichtensteiger and George Koehler, on Nov 21, 1999.
They are part of a larger blizzard of hardcore dada that evolved during a series of rehearsals, to investigate and develop material for our UglyBeautyCage project, and in preparation for two concerts in Frankfurt which were held on March 31 and April 1, 2000. There are no overdubs on these recordings.
Beginning To Feel Constructed:
Instruments used: electric guitar, MiniDisk player (scratching), prepared piano corpus
Dialogue 1:
Instruments used: electric guitar, bowed electric bass, flute, harmonica, MiniDisk player (scratching), prepared piano corpus
Dialogue 2:
Instruments used: electric guitar, electric bass, violin, harmonica, flute, MiniDisk player (scratching), prepared piano corpus, voice
Plant Trouble:
Instruments used: voice, electric bass, electric guitar, MiniDisk player (scratching), prepared piano corpus
For a selection of live recordings from the Zeil 5 Concert, Frankfurt, as well as photo documentation of the concert preparations, see under:
Zeil 5 Concert (Live, 2000) 2CD package
Photo © Ralph Lichtensteiger
More sound investigations, that form a part of the overall UglyBeautyCage project, can be found under the following:
Dialogue with John Cage (one)
UglyBeautyCage - Audio-visual-semantic incubator (a collection of TEXTS USED)
Dialogue with John Cage (two)
101 Questions and Answers re John Cage
Study Pieces 2002 & 2003
From Here To Emptiness
For more recordings from musique trouvé, see under musique trouvé, all available CD's
