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		Laetitia Sonami Praised in the New York Times for her "sparse ... allusive pieces conjuring half-remembered dreams ... like a human antenna searching the air for sounds, like a deity summoning forth earth-shaking rumbles" and in the Village Voice as "a striking talent ... inexplicable, compelling... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Jarryd Lowder			Jarryd Lowder In his performance of the enigmatical "Autoharp" for Roulette TV, the vibrating strings of Lowder's original instrument are picked up live and visually amplified onto a screen, while other images (rotating numbers) appear mysteriously between the beat frequencies (like those on a film sound... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Laetitia Sonami
		Frankie Mann Noted for the often gently humorous social commentaries of her live electronic and computer music (eg. "I Was a Hero" from "The Mayan Debutante Revue", and "How To Be Very Very Popular"), Frankie Mann is also a skilled programmer who has built her own electronic performance instruments since... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Nneng			Nneng The intermedia band Nneng creates live audio and video improvisations of spectacular beauty and intensity. Vidicians Benton Bainbridge and Nancy Meli Walker focus small cameras on a wide variety of found objects (human hair, puffballs, chains of metallic and organic ... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Frankie Mann
		Christian Marclay Initially a student at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Christian Marclay became more fascinated by the energy of punk rock music and the aesthetics of performance art as practiced by artists like Vito Acconci and Joseph Beuys. In 1980, he organized a festival called Eventworks to explore... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Lenny Pickman			Lenny Pickett For almost two decades, composer-performer-arranger Lenny Pickett has created the sound of the wailing saxophone that opens and closes the popular Saturday Night Live television show where he is now the musical director. Pickett first gained popular attention for his brilliant solos on Tower of Power's 1973 breakout album... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Christian Marclay
		Min Xiao-Fen Min Xiao Fen from Nanching, China, is a major performer on the Chinese lute-like stringed instrument called the pi'pa, and an exponent of traditional and classical Chinese music who has played with major orchestras throughout the world... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with ned Rothenberg			Ned Rothenberg In hundreds of solo concerts throughout Europe, North and South America, and Japan, composer-performer Ned Rothenberg has performed his amazingly original form of instrumental music. He also leads the ensembles Double Band, Power Lines and Sync and was a founding member of New Winds... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Min Xiao-Fen
		Billy Bang The renowned violinist, composer and improvisor Billy Bang was born in Mobile, Alabama, grew up in the South Bronx, and studied with the brilliant composer-performer Leroy Jenkins. In the 1970's, he formed The Survival Ensemble, and later co-founded The String Trio Of New York... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Phil Niblock			Phill Niblock Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock, who runs the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York, writes noble, hypnotic, majestic music constituted of sustained sounds for large instrumental ensembles of the same family (e.g. all strings, all flutes, all trombones, etc.) that very gradually change... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Billy Bang
		Janene Higgins & Zeena Parkins Harpist Zeena Parkins, who has played in many contemporary groups such as Butch Morris's Conduction, the Skeleton Crew, John Zorn's Cobra, the quintet No Safety (which she co-founded), and The Gangster Band, and video artist Janene Higgins have been ... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Toryano/Hughes-Freeland			Ela Troyano & Tessa Hughes-Freeland ...are co-founders of the New York Film Festival Downtown as well as award-winning filmmakers: Troyano's include "Latin Boys Go to Hell", "The Bubble People" and "Totem of the Depraved", and Hughes-Freelan, who has created "Baby Doll", "Dirty", and "Nymphomania" is also... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Higgins/Parkins
		Guy Klucevsek Accordionist and composer Guy Klucevsek has created a repetoire unlike that of any other player of that instrument through the commissioning of over 50 works from as many composers who exhibit a wide range of musical imagination from the plaintively melodic to the energetic and quirky. He has performed throughout Australia... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Elliott Sharp			Elliott Sharp Elliott Sharp is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who plays electric guitar, steel guitar, bass guitar, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, and other instruments. Sharp studied music with Morton Feldman, was one of the first to use samplers and computers in performance... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVDDVD set with guy Klucevsek
		Shelley Hirsch A prize-winning vocalist, composer, and performance artist, Shelley Hirsch's works for concert hall, recordings, film and television draw upon experiences from her own real (eg. her splendid autobiographical radio play "The Vidzer Family") and imagined life (eg. "Now I Am Yours" and the dynamic "War of Dreams") ... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Chris Cutler			Chris Cutler Pop music legend Chris Cutler has been involved in experimental music since the early 1970's, primarily with the British ensemble Henry Cow which alternated complex thoroughly-composed pieces with spontansously improvised sessions in concert tours, recordings, dance and theatre projects... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Shelley Hirsh
		Jerome Cooper Pointing out that many cultures, other than American, consider accomplished drummers as valued soloists, Jerome Cooper has stated his goal to "improve the quality of American music" in this and other respects. He more than proves his case here with a captivating solo... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Philipp Johnston			Phillip Johnston Saxophonist-composer Phillip Johnston is a prolific writer of film scores (including music to classic silent films commissioned by the American Museum of the Moving Image and the Film Society of Lincoln Center), dance and theatre music, television and advertising... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Jerome Cooper
		Robert Black Double bass and electric bass virtuoso Robert Black combines classical acoustic traditions and computer, MIDI, and video technologies in his work. He has also commissioned pieces from over 50 composers including John Cage, Paul Dresher, James Sellars, Christian Wolff and Michael Gordon. He has given solo concerts... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Pauline Oliveros			Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros is internationally renown for her innovative electronic music, meditative accordion solos, and visionary, breakthrough works that create new relationships among performers by means of attentional, consciousness-raising, group improvisation strategies (many of which are collected in... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Robert Black
		Saadet Turkoz A singer of Kazakh and Turkish origins who lives in Zurich, Switzerland, Saadet T¸rk–z has appeared internationally with such instrumental improvisors as Elliott Sharp, Freddie Studer and Werner Ludi. In this videotape, she performs her arrangements of Kazakh and Turkish... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD set with William Parker			William Parker Characterized by the Village Voice as "the most consistently brilliant free bassist of all time", William Parker has been in demand as a performer with such notable avant-jazz musicians as Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, Billy Higgins, Sunny Murray, and Cecil Taylor.... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD set with Saadet Turkoz
		Michael Gordon Raised in Nicaraqua in an Eastern European community, Michael Gordon's music has the vitality and directness of much of world music. Educated at Yale University, Gordon's music nevertheless grows from intuitive procedures which embrace minimalism with flavors of folk styles... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with D. & G. Gamper			David & Gisela Gamper Composer/performer David Gamper is an accomplished designer of electronic music studios and constructor of electronic music instruments. He studied at the University of California at San Diego with Pauline Oliveros and Roger Reynolds, then worked in Vermont as a goat farmer, town energy coordinator ... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Michael Gordon
		Henri Hills Experimental filmmaker Henry Hills was a seminal figure in the 1980Ìs San Francisco and downtown New York art scenes, and he continues to generate unique and exciting works that are screened and broadcast on television worldwide. His films are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Ikue Mori			Ikue Mori Ikue Mori began her musical activity playing drums with the seminal DNA band (with Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright) in the late 70Ìs, and developed her unique methods of performing improvisations with drum machines which eventually led to her creative uses of the laptop computer ... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Henri Hills
		Tenesse Rice Dixon tarting from a painting and writing background, Tennessee Rice Dixon was one of the first artists to work in digital animation (for example, her award-winning CD-ROM "ScruTiny in the Great Round" and her CD-ROM "aCount") and then in live performance animation... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Doria Villa			Doris Vila Doris Vila is renowned for her installation and theatre pieces (e.g. "The Book of Air", "The Spatial Rights Modulator", "Theatermachine") where passing viewers or actors trigger video, holographic and sound events. As a visual artist, she has worked in a variety of media... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Tenessee Rice Dixon
		Mark Feldman The career of composer and violin virtuoso Mark Feldman exemplifies the American musicianís experience of performing a wide-ranging variety of musical styles: trained as a classical violinist, he has played with avant-garde jazz improvisors (e.g., Pharoah Sanders, Ray Anderson... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Jim Staley			Jim Staley Composer/trombonist Jim Staley is renown for his groundbreaking solo performances and collaborations with advanced music creators including Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Morgan Powell, David Weinstein, Takehisa Kosugi, Ikue Mori, Robin Holcomb, and many others... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Mark Feldman
		Sainkho Namchylak The remarkable vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak was born in the Republic of Tuva (South Siberia, Russia) in 1957. She received her first training there as a folk singer and later studied music at the Gnesinsky Institute in Moscow where she mastered techniques of traditional Tuvan throat singing (khoomei) and Western overtone... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Davey Williams			Davey Williams Emerging from the 1970's avant-garde scene in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, guitarist Davey Williams developed his unique style independently from so-called "centers of culture". Williams, author of the shortest novel in the world "Peanut" which is also the only word in the text... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Sainkho Namchylak
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		Laetitia Sonami Praised in the New York Times for her "sparse ... allusive pieces conjuring half-remembered dreams ... like a human antenna searching the air for sounds, like a deity summoning forth earth-shaking rumbles" and in the Village Voice as "a striking talent ... inexplicable, compelling... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Jarryd Lowder			Jarryd Lowder In his performance of the enigmatical "Autoharp" for Roulette TV, the vibrating strings of Lowder's original instrument are picked up live and visually amplified onto a screen, while other images (rotating numbers) appear mysteriously between the beat frequencies (like those on a film sound... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Laetitia Sonami
		Frankie Mann Noted for the often gently humorous social commentaries of her live electronic and computer music (eg. "I Was a Hero" from "The Mayan Debutante Revue", and "How To Be Very Very Popular"), Frankie Mann is also a skilled programmer who has built her own electronic performance instruments since... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Nneng			Nneng The intermedia band Nneng creates live audio and video improvisations of spectacular beauty and intensity. Vidicians Benton Bainbridge and Nancy Meli Walker focus small cameras on a wide variety of found objects (human hair, puffballs, chains of metallic and organic ... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Frankie Mann
		Christian Marclay Initially a student at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Christian Marclay became more fascinated by the energy of punk rock music and the aesthetics of performance art as practiced by artists like Vito Acconci and Joseph Beuys. In 1980, he organized a festival called Eventworks to explore... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Lenny Pickman			Lenny Pickett For almost two decades, composer-performer-arranger Lenny Pickett has created the sound of the wailing saxophone that opens and closes the popular Saturday Night Live television show where he is now the musical director. Pickett first gained popular attention for his brilliant solos on Tower of Power's 1973 breakout album... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Christian Marclay
		Min Xiao-Fen Min Xiao Fen from Nanching, China, is a major performer on the Chinese lute-like stringed instrument called the pi'pa, and an exponent of traditional and classical Chinese music who has played with major orchestras throughout the world... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with ned Rothenberg			Ned Rothenberg In hundreds of solo concerts throughout Europe, North and South America, and Japan, composer-performer Ned Rothenberg has performed his amazingly original form of instrumental music. He also leads the ensembles Double Band, Power Lines and Sync and was a founding member of New Winds... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Min Xiao-Fen
		Billy Bang The renowned violinist, composer and improvisor Billy Bang was born in Mobile, Alabama, grew up in the South Bronx, and studied with the brilliant composer-performer Leroy Jenkins. In the 1970's, he formed The Survival Ensemble, and later co-founded The String Trio Of New York... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Phil Niblock			Phill Niblock Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock, who runs the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York, writes noble, hypnotic, majestic music constituted of sustained sounds for large instrumental ensembles of the same family (e.g. all strings, all flutes, all trombones, etc.) that very gradually change... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Billy Bang
		Janene Higgins & Zeena Parkins Harpist Zeena Parkins, who has played in many contemporary groups such as Butch Morris's Conduction, the Skeleton Crew, John Zorn's Cobra, the quintet No Safety (which she co-founded), and The Gangster Band, and video artist Janene Higgins have been ... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Toryano/Hughes-Freeland			Ela Troyano & Tessa Hughes-Freeland ...are co-founders of the New York Film Festival Downtown as well as award-winning filmmakers: Troyano's include "Latin Boys Go to Hell", "The Bubble People" and "Totem of the Depraved", and Hughes-Freelan, who has created "Baby Doll", "Dirty", and "Nymphomania" is also... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Higgins/Parkins
		Guy Klucevsek Accordionist and composer Guy Klucevsek has created a repetoire unlike that of any other player of that instrument through the commissioning of over 50 works from as many composers who exhibit a wide range of musical imagination from the plaintively melodic to the energetic and quirky. He has performed throughout Australia... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Elliott Sharp			Elliott Sharp Elliott Sharp is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who plays electric guitar, steel guitar, bass guitar, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, and other instruments. Sharp studied music with Morton Feldman, was one of the first to use samplers and computers in performance... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVDDVD set with guy Klucevsek
		Shelley Hirsch A prize-winning vocalist, composer, and performance artist, Shelley Hirsch's works for concert hall, recordings, film and television draw upon experiences from her own real (eg. her splendid autobiographical radio play "The Vidzer Family") and imagined life (eg. "Now I Am Yours" and the dynamic "War of Dreams") ... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Chris Cutler			Chris Cutler Pop music legend Chris Cutler has been involved in experimental music since the early 1970's, primarily with the British ensemble Henry Cow which alternated complex thoroughly-composed pieces with spontansously improvised sessions in concert tours, recordings, dance and theatre projects... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Shelley Hirsh
		Jerome Cooper Pointing out that many cultures, other than American, consider accomplished drummers as valued soloists, Jerome Cooper has stated his goal to "improve the quality of American music" in this and other respects. He more than proves his case here with a captivating solo... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Philipp Johnston			Phillip Johnston Saxophonist-composer Phillip Johnston is a prolific writer of film scores (including music to classic silent films commissioned by the American Museum of the Moving Image and the Film Society of Lincoln Center), dance and theatre music, television and advertising... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Jerome Cooper
		Robert Black Double bass and electric bass virtuoso Robert Black combines classical acoustic traditions and computer, MIDI, and video technologies in his work. He has also commissioned pieces from over 50 composers including John Cage, Paul Dresher, James Sellars, Christian Wolff and Michael Gordon. He has given solo concerts... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Pauline Oliveros			Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros is internationally renown for her innovative electronic music, meditative accordion solos, and visionary, breakthrough works that create new relationships among performers by means of attentional, consciousness-raising, group improvisation strategies (many of which are collected in... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Robert Black
		Saadet Turkoz A singer of Kazakh and Turkish origins who lives in Zurich, Switzerland, Saadet T¸rk–z has appeared internationally with such instrumental improvisors as Elliott Sharp, Freddie Studer and Werner Ludi. In this videotape, she performs her arrangements of Kazakh and Turkish... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD set with William Parker			William Parker Characterized by the Village Voice as "the most consistently brilliant free bassist of all time", William Parker has been in demand as a performer with such notable avant-jazz musicians as Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, Billy Higgins, Sunny Murray, and Cecil Taylor.... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD set with Saadet Turkoz
		Michael Gordon Raised in Nicaraqua in an Eastern European community, Michael Gordon's music has the vitality and directness of much of world music. Educated at Yale University, Gordon's music nevertheless grows from intuitive procedures which embrace minimalism with flavors of folk styles... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with D. & G. Gamper			David & Gisela Gamper Composer/performer David Gamper is an accomplished designer of electronic music studios and constructor of electronic music instruments. He studied at the University of California at San Diego with Pauline Oliveros and Roger Reynolds, then worked in Vermont as a goat farmer, town energy coordinator ... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Michael Gordon
		Henri Hills Experimental filmmaker Henry Hills was a seminal figure in the 1980Ìs San Francisco and downtown New York art scenes, and he continues to generate unique and exciting works that are screened and broadcast on television worldwide. His films are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Ikue Mori			Ikue Mori Ikue Mori began her musical activity playing drums with the seminal DNA band (with Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright) in the late 70Ìs, and developed her unique methods of performing improvisations with drum machines which eventually led to her creative uses of the laptop computer ... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Henri Hills
		Tenesse Rice Dixon tarting from a painting and writing background, Tennessee Rice Dixon was one of the first artists to work in digital animation (for example, her award-winning CD-ROM "ScruTiny in the Great Round" and her CD-ROM "aCount") and then in live performance animation... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Doria Villa			Doris Vila Doris Vila is renowned for her installation and theatre pieces (e.g. "The Book of Air", "The Spatial Rights Modulator", "Theatermachine") where passing viewers or actors trigger video, holographic and sound events. As a visual artist, she has worked in a variety of media... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Tenessee Rice Dixon
		Mark Feldman The career of composer and violin virtuoso Mark Feldman exemplifies the American musicianís experience of performing a wide-ranging variety of musical styles: trained as a classical violinist, he has played with avant-garde jazz improvisors (e.g., Pharoah Sanders, Ray Anderson... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Jim Staley			Jim Staley Composer/trombonist Jim Staley is renown for his groundbreaking solo performances and collaborations with advanced music creators including Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Morgan Powell, David Weinstein, Takehisa Kosugi, Ikue Mori, Robin Holcomb, and many others... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Mark Feldman
		Sainkho Namchylak The remarkable vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak was born in the Republic of Tuva (South Siberia, Russia) in 1957. She received her first training there as a folk singer and later studied music at the Gnesinsky Institute in Moscow where she mastered techniques of traditional Tuvan throat singing (khoomei) and Western overtone... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Davey Williams			Davey Williams Emerging from the 1970's avant-garde scene in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, guitarist Davey Williams developed his unique style independently from so-called "centers of culture". Williams, author of the shortest novel in the world "Peanut" which is also the only word in the text... see clip \| buy VHS \| buy DVD DVD set with Sainkho Namchylak
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