A rare document of the unique musical vision of woodwind player and composer Richard Wood, featuring performances and collective improvisations by a group which includes several of Wood's closest co-conspirators.
From the back cover of the original cd, in Wood's own words:
"This music is designed to be listened to and re-listened to, anticipating that the experience will be new each time. It focuses on the improvising moment - subconscious melodies and unheard-of modulations, simultaneous rhythms, and the force of the dice-toss. Its improvisations are built out of the blues, Bach, New Orleans, and information from Ornette, Art Tatum, Tito Puente, John Cage, Louis Armstrong, Harry Partch, Big Joe Turner, Sun Ra, Charles Ives, Lester Bowie, simultaneous voices in space, pre-vocabulary language in time definite and infinite, mambo, raga, gagaku, and the natural silences in the sounds of earth and sky.
Music is a spiritual act of intense responsibility. Sounds may be frivolous and flounder, or they may be unidirectional like a school of fish interrupted. Still they rise. Vibrations expand into the universe; therefore, space is kept in mind for this music."
credits
released March 4, 2022
Dick Wood - alto saxophone, flute, whistle, boom box
Dan Clucas - cornet, flute, octokoto, other sounds
Hal Onserud - bass
Mark Trayle - live electronics with Supercollider graphics
Marty Mansour - drums, percussion
on tracks 1 and 3:
Dan Ostermann - trombone with space mute
Chuck Manning - tenor saxophone, percussion
recorded by Scott Fraser at ARCHITECTURE, Los Angeles
June 15 & (tracks 1 & 3) Oct. 19, 2008
mastered April 2011,
Newzone Studio, Los Angeles
Wayne Peet, engineer
all compositions by Richard Wood
produced by Paul Wood
cover photo by Steve DeGroodt
model Sapna Khurama
liner notes Paul Wood
graphics Patt Narrowe
special gratitude to Scott Fraser, Bobby Bradford, Nels Cline, Bonnie Barnett, Woody Aplanalp, Lewis Jordan, Ben and Linda Wood, Sue Dorsey, Lissa Callaghan, John Wood, Joanne Parker
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