Collections of themed recordings curated by John Noise Manis
1 – Promenade. Marching with hubcaps on B’way NYC (1978)
2 – First Picture. Gamelan ‘Antipode’ (1983)
3 – Promenade. Marching with kenongs in Vancouver (EXPO 1986)
4 – Second Picture. Gamelan ‘Vox’ (1980) (electric guitar and vocalizing)
5 – Promenade. Marching with hubcaps on B’way NYC (1978)
6 – Third Picture. Gamelan ‘Coming and Going’ (1983)
7 – Fourth Picture. Gamelan ‘S-D’ (Space Density Time Synch) (1981)
8 – Promenade. Marching with kenongs in Vancouver (EXPO 1986)
9 – Fifth Picture. Gamelan ‘Col TJ II’ (1982)
10 – Sixth Picture. Gamelan ‘Maya’ (1980)
11 – Promenade. Marching with hubcaps on B’way NYC (1978)
12 – Seventh Picture. Gamelan ‘Birdcount’ (1989) and gamelan ‘Italy Revisited’ (1978)
13 – Eighth Picture. Gamelan ‘=’ (1981)
14 – Nineth Picture. Gamelan ‘The Gold Stone’ (1985)
15 – Tenth Picture. Gamelan ‘Humoresque’ (1980)
16 – Eleventh Picture. Gamelan ‘Vox’ (1980) (Ensemble Continuum)
Collection: Somewhat Related
The brilliant idea by John Noise Manis (aka Giovanni Sciarrino) to organize this selection of “samples” from my gamelan-inspired musics following the order of Moussorgsky’s famous sound-picture gallery, makes particular sense here. Just as the original “Pictures at an Exhibition” makes sense of a variety of disparate sketches by turning them into an organic whole, here the all-too-evident singularities of the compositions chosen demonstrate how, on the basis of a unique and simple technical procedure, an extremely wide range of sound-possibilities may be made manifest.