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Keith Fullerton Whitman

Generators

Label: Editions Mego

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Electronic

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Sold out at source... "Over the course of a year, Keith Fullerton Whitman performed a piece of live electronic music a few dozen times entitled "Generator." The debut was given in San Francisco at Root Strata's "On Land" festival at Cafe Du Nord on September 19th, 2009 … over the months that followed stagings took place in venues ranging from flooded basements to festival stages in Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Easthampton, Iowa City, Jamaica Plain, Northampton, Raleigh, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Somerville, & Washington D.C.
This LP covers the final two performances of the piece over two consecutive evenings ; the opening solo set from the final night of "High Zero" festival in Baltimore at the Theater Project, September 26th, 2010, then the performance during the "For Eliane" night of the "Propensity of Sound" festival dedicated to Eliane Radigue's work at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, September 27th, 2010. These recordings show the piece in two different iterations, taking two different trajectories entirely. They're considered as the definitive versions of the piece.
Composed for, and realized with a scalable selection of digital & analogue modular synthesis equipment, "Generator" was at attempt to wrest a viable performance-based music out what had until then been a solitary set of sound-design tools. The piece grew out of a frustration with the limitlessness of computer-based real-time synthesis & algorithmic / generative systems vs. their utter failure as performance solutions. It hinges heavily on the ideology of the "Playthroughs" system (in that the subtle tuning inconsistencies of a physical instrument - the electric guitar - could be amplified & multiplied) through the use of multiple layerings of different topologies of oscillator, yielding an unstable array of modal canons that drift in & out of "tune," causing all manner of inter-voice beating & assorted psycho-acoustic effects.
Keith Fullerton Whitman is a musician based in Cambridge, MA, USA. Previous releases include "Generator" (Root Strata #62, 2010), "Live Generators (1)" (Protracted View #041, 2010), "Live Generators (1.5)" (Agents of Chaos #7028, 2010) & "Chicago Generators" (Hyperdelic #7 , 2010) …

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Cat. number: DeMEGO 024
Year: 2012
Notes:

Side A was recorded on Sept. 27th 2010 at Issue Project Room as part of the "Propensity of Sound: For Eliane" Festival.
Thanks to Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Maxime Guitton, Lawrence Kumpf, Byron Westbrook, Reuben Son, Bryan Kasenic, Seze Pevres, and Eliane Rodigue

Side B was recorded on Sept. 26th 2010 at Theatre Project as part of the "Highzero" Festival.
Thanks to Martin Schmidt, John Berndt, Michael Muniak, Carlos Guillon, Drew Daniel, Jon Leidecker, Karl Ekdahl and many others.