Symposium on Kenneth Gaburo from 2010 is now on the web

Waaaay back in 2010, Nate Wolley organized a symposium on Kenneth Gaburo's work that took place at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn.  The participants were Nate, David Dunn, Larry Polansky, Chris Mann and me - via Skype.  Many years later, in 2017, the symposium was transcribed and put up on the web on the Wolf Notes website.  I just discovered that it's there, so I'm passing on the URL.  It's interesting reading, all these years later.  Chris is, of course, no longer with us, so it's interesting to read his comments, and to feel his presence through his language (he'd have something to say about that, I'm sure) (probably the Satie quote about anyone who's interested in his music after his death is a necrophiliac...).  For Gaburo scholars, or the curious, here it is: 

https://wolfnotes.org/2017/05/03/kenneth-gaburo/

MOVE 50 - A new CD to celebrate 50 years of Move Records!

Move Records is Australia's leading Classical Music label, and they're 50 years old this year.  3 Cheers for Martin Wright and the whole Move team!  And to celebrate, they've released a CD with 24 composers writing short pieces (most played on piano by the amazing Michael Keiran Harvey) to celebrate.  Here's the front cover:

and here's the rear cover, with the cast list (as they say on cop shows, "the usual suspects").

 My "Postlude" (made with the Arturia realization of the classic Fairlight Computer Music Instrument (CMI)) is track 20 on this CD.  For more information about the CD, and where to get it in physical form or as a download, go to http://www.move.com.au/disc/move-50.

The Three Latest Reviews in Soundbytes Magazine

And the March 2019 issue of Soundbytes is out now, and I have three reviews in it:

http://soundbytesmag.net/music-for-tablets-synclavier-go-from-synclavier/

This one is a honey - the iOS port of the Synclavier 2.  Pure fm/additive/frame-based synthesis microtonal goodness from the late 70s/early 80s, now on your iPad.  And Synclavier Pocket for your iPhone or iPod!  I've been having a lot of fun with these.

http://soundbytesmag.net/review-walker-by-uvi/

More utilitarian, this one, but a lot of fun - a complete Foley footstep making sample set from UVI.  My colleague George Papanicolaou and I reviewed this one and were pretty impressed.

http://soundbytesmag.net/review-sound-dust-collection-2-for-kontakt-from-spitfire-audio/

And from Spitfire Audio, a collection of 5 of compositional sample-set developer Pendle Poucher's Sound Dust sample sets.  These are quite wonderful.  Each of them is a complete compositional environment, all cleverly conceived and all flawlessly realized - they run in Kontakt Full - well worth checking out.  And they're all fairly inexpensive!