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01. DAVID BEHRMAN - Statement Against the War
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02. DAVID BEHRMAN - My Father's Grocery Store
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03. DAVID BEHRMAN - Watercross Well
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04. DAVID BEHRMAN - Letter from S.N. Behrman, August 22, 1939
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05. DAVID BEHRMAN - Letter from Siegfried Sassoon, September 1, 1939
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06. DAVID BEHRMAN - Everyone Sang
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01. DAVID BEHRMAN - QSRL (1998)
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02. DAVID BEHRMAN - Viewfinder (2002)
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03. DAVID BEHRMAN - A New Team Takes Over (1969)
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04. DAVID BEHRMAN - Touch Tones (1979)
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05. DAVID BEHRMAN - Pools of Phase Locked Loops (1972)
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ARTIST
BEHRMAN, DAVID
TITLE
My Dear Siegfried
FORMAT
2CD
LABEL
XI RECORDS
CATALOG #
XI 129CD
XI 129CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
4/14/2015
2021 restock. Two CDs for the price of one.
David Behrman
has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as musical compositions.
Sam Behrman
and
Siegfried Sassoon
met in 1920, when Behrman, then a young writer working at The New York Times, was sent to interview Sassoon at the start of the English poet's postwar American lecture tour. In that tour Sassoon was billed as "England's Soldier-Poet." He had a reputation both as a war hero and an anti-war poet and peace activist. Many years later, each author wrote about this youthful meeting, which inaugurated a long-lasting friendship and a correspondence, mostly conducted via trans-Atlantic letters between England and America, which continued into the 1950s.
My Dear Siegfried
provides a performance environment in which musicians interact with texts by the two authors and with music software designed to respond to the performers' actions. The texts and the software elements are arranged as a linear thread along which the piece progresses. In
QSRL
(1998) a sensor listens to what the performer is doing and a computer music system provides responses to information the sensor takes in.
Viewfinder
(2002) is a sound installation using software based on homemade synthesizer music of the early 1970s. In
A New Team Takes Over
(1969), homemade synthesizer modules were used in this piece to distort recordings made off the air of press conferences by members of the new Nixon administration following the American election of 1968.
Touch Tones
(1979), from the early days of music done with the help of newly-available, small, inexpensive "microcomputers," made use of a kind of primitive artificial intelligence scheme.
Pools of Phase Locked Loops
(1972) was one of four pieces made in response to commissions to the artists of the
Sonic Arts Union
(
Robert Ashley
,
Alvin Lucier
,
Gordon Mumma
, and Behrman). The recording is from a live performance at Radio Bremen in May 1972.
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