A LARGE COLLECTION OF ARTICLES FOR SOUNDBYTES AND WUSIKSOUND MAGAZINE

From 2007 until 2023, I wrote regular articles, reviews, essays for Wusiksound Magazine (2007-2009) and its successor, Soundbytes Music Magazine (2011-2023).  In 2023 Soundbytes Music Magazine ceased publishing and its website disappeared from the web.  Musiksound Magazine is still archived in a couple of places on the web, but access is difficult.  So in June 2024, I gathered all the articles I wrote for both magazines, converted them all to pdf, and collected them into the zip file you can download for free from here:

http://www.warrenburt.com/storage/Soundbytes%20reviews%20Compete%202007-2023.zip

I hope you find something of use in this collection.  There are software reviews, book reviews, interviews, and a bunch of other stuff.  Even the reviews of obsolete software usually have something interesting to offer, I found in going through the collection.  All the URLs in the articles are unchanged.  This means most of them, especially those referring to Soundbytes articles, will not work.  But the content of the articles is still there, so there should be something of use here.  Enjoy!

HOLIDAY MAKER RECORDS RELEASES 50 YEAR OLD PIECE FOR THE FIRST TIME

In 1974, at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (as it was then known), we performed, among other pieces of mine  "Mr Burt His Memory of Mr White His Fantasy on Mr Dunstable His Musick," for 2 toy organs and 2 toy pianos.  Performed inside a Pagode by Kim MacConnell.  Other pieces by myself and David Dunn were also performed on the concert. For the 50th anniversary of the performance, we performed thie piece again, at the 11th Hour Theatre in Fitzroy.  Holiday Maker Records released a cassette of the original 1974 version, which also has "Flying Pickle Music No 3" for synthesizer (2024) at the end of side 2.  Here's a link to the Bandcamp site: 

https://warrenburt.bandcamp.com/album/mr-burt-his-memory

More pictures of the original event, and program notes for the original concert can be found here about halfway through the article.

http://www.warrenburt.com/my-history-with-music-tech2/  

Here's the info on the release from the Bandcamp Site: A 1974 live recording of a re-working of a re-working of early Renaissance music by John Dunstable (actually Thomas Tallis) Warren Burt incorrectly remembered hearing British composers John White & Christopher Hobbs perform in London in 1970. Performed by Mr. Burt & three others on 2 toy pianos and 2 toy organs inside a Pagode by Kim MacConnell at the La Jolla Museum in San Diego, USA on 11 August 1974. Recorded to C120 cassette & being released now for the first time 50 years later.

credits

released August 30, 2024

Composed, programmed & performed by Warren Burt
Recorded by Warren Burt
Mastered by Owen Penglis
Liner notes by Warren Burt
Photography by Kim MacConnel
Cassette design by Andrew Hodges

Tracks 1 & 2 recorded in 1974 on C120 cassette
Sunrise organs played by Warren Burt & Susannah Ganus
Toy pianos played by Ronald Al Robboy & Nancy Werner
Track 3 recorded in 2024

Performers in the 2024 version at 11th Hour Theatre were Warren Burt, Andrew Byrne, Elizabeth Drake and Joe Major.  Many thanks to them for participating in a wonderful afternoon.

NOSTALGIA FROM 35 YEARS AGO - THE 3DIS DANCE PROJECT

In 1988-89, I was part of a group of 6 people who did a project called "Hear the Dance, See the Music" which used Simon Veitch's 3DIS system.  The group consisted of Simon, me, Ros Bandt, Jane Reshauge, Shona Innes and Sylvia Staehli.  Recently, we got a request to make one of the pieces "for Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross" available on the web.  This led me and Simon to convert the original video tapes from the VHS masters into something more usable and web friendly.  Here are the links so you can have a look:

• 3DIS demo https://youtu.be/aW3abcBKxtg

Hear The Dance See The Music

• Away With Words https://youtu.be/H2hLSPwg8rM
• For Percy & Burnett https://youtu.be/enzOMghEcZo
• Inside Out https://youtu.be/LwNkL0veL-0
• Free Trade Zones https://youtu.be/HO4nf7qC3_M
• Mungo https://youtu.be/vNS60Xm3vB0
• Random https://youtu.be/OMLhNCWMsYs 

 And here's a link to an article about the pieces:

• http://www.warrenburt.com/storage/selected_articles/BurtFairExchangesWOD5.pdf

Over a year ago, I did a VEIrtual Concert at Experimental Intermedia

Over a year ago, on March 24, 2022, I did a vEIrtual concert for Experimental Intermedia in New York.  The concert consisted of me playing a 55 minute long video piece I had done in 2020, which, due to the pandemic, had never been played anywhere else.  So it was played here.

http://www.experimentalintermedia.org/concerts/22/MarchVirtual2022/burt.shtml

And now, what with post-pandemic confusions and all that, I'm just getting around to posting a notice that it occurred.  So this is about as "out-of-real-time" as you can get.  But the piece " 9 Live Chaotic VCV Rack Pieces, Sept-Nov. 2020" is pretty good, I think, so now, I'm sharing it with you.  Enjoy.

A new review in Soundbytes

I'm back at Soundbytes.  Here's my review of UVI's latest offering - Quadra:Traveller.  Polyrhythmic heaven, anyone?

https://soundbytesmag.net/review-quadra-traveller-from-uvi/

Enjoy!