Television & The Bomb ~A 'Trailer' followed by 'Greetings from in front of a TV set'.

Television & The Bomb

Trailer
14 Jan.'88 - Breck's Nook, York. (originally for quad. tape)
An advert for the piece 'Surface Quartet' ('88), it is actually the 'frame' material from that piece before splicing.

Greetings from in front of a TV set

I Vertical Hold (The Coming Of Sound)
20 Feb.'84 - Derwent, York. (originally for quad. tape)
Loosely inspired by the work of painter Bridget Riley. "...the coming of sound" was a comment about the transition from silent movies to the 'talkies'. The piece was made in the days of physically splicing tape - there are dozens of cuts.

II Horizontal Hold (Muzak)
3 Jun.'84 - Derwent, York. (originally for quad. tape)
From the old days of the television test-card - and the test-card muzak, gently smeared across the screen (horizontally).

Partched
4 Dec.'89 - Chingford.
Mixed for a TV company, this uses a jump-loop study created from an excerpt of a Harry Partch work, mixed in with other bits and pieces.

Fazed dog/The Letter (CD mix)
31 Jan.'92 - Chingford.
The underlying recordings were in collaboration with Peter Garvey & John Godfrey. We would spend hours in my studio messing about with loops and samples, this was created from a collection of messings about called the 'Ice smile loops' ('91).

Rising Fugitive
2 Jul.'96 - Westcott (original) 24 Jun.'99 - Pyhra. (for harp, televisions and live electronics.)
A CD version of the piece Rising '--', the second name being chosen from what was on the TV at the time. This is a realisation for unreal harp* although the live version is for four real Irish harps.

Hidden States
14 Mar.'86 - Derwent, York. (originally for quad. tape)
Atomic war "as seen on TV". ('Land of Hope & Glory' and 'God Bless America' are hidden in the intro.)