IVOR DARREG

TAPES THAT EXPLORE

There has been a great deal of theoretical and speculative writing about experimental music or music of the future--often putting it off to the sixth Tuesday in Octembruary 3699. I'm not going to do that to you! I don't have to. My tapes that use new instruments or new scales or BOTH are here NOW. The individual compositions are in various styles and lengths, and may be combined to your order and copied onto reel-to-reel or cassette as you prefer.

Quite some years ago I already took care of conventional instruments like the piano and the customary idioms such as classical or romantic. Sheet music is still available, and I occasionally give recitals. I have not burnt my bridges behind me.

A very promising further step is to have compositions done on a computer or computer-controlled synthesizer; and I have already begun collaborating with others to accomplish this. One of my organ preludes is available in that form, permitting the use of just intonation with many pitches per octave. Besides that I have been overdubbing in different tuning-systems so that I need not wait for anybody else to master those scales. Here are some titles of available compositions:

PURPLE BEDROOM BLUES Electric guitar overdub in 19-tone

PIANO TUNA FISH SCALE The impossible recital that couldn't be live!

LULLABY FOR A BABY COMPUTER 17-tone

PRELUDES for guitar fretted to 19-tone system

COLORLESS GREEN IDEAS SLEEP FURIOUSLY 22-tone overdub with electric guitar and other instruments--several different versions

THE THREE AND A HALF LITTLE GREEN WOMEN IN THE FLYING SAUCER 22-tone

EXCURSION INTO THE ENHARMONIC A suite improvised on special organ in several systems

WELCOMING DANCE FOR THE ASTRONAUTS, AS PERFORMED BY THE GIANT COCKROACHES OF MARS Extended just intonation on special instrument

THE PHANTOM TRIO 12-string banjo, 19-tone guitar, and cello--I did it all by myselves.

PRELUDE TO AN AFTERNOON WITH THE DENTIST (Atonal)

IN LIMBO Suite composed for a play or film

GUITAR COMPOSITIONS in the thirty-one-tone and other tuning systems

For information write or phone: IVOR DARREG, 3612 Polk Avenue, SAN DIEGO CA 92104. Area 619, 284-7075.

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The ten back issues of XENHARMONIC BULLETIN; as weLl as a series of other publications on various subjects, are available on order.