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Ben Patterson
Liverpool Soundworks Volume One
Audio Research Editions ARECD-203
CD
£13.99
First in a two-volume set of compiling a bunch of otherwise-unavailable works from this Fluxus founder and consistently confounding avant provocateur. “The Liverpool Song Lines” works a series of solo voice scores inspired by Aboriginal song-lines in a series of new aural topographies. “The River Mersey” is a site-inspired updated adaptation of Patterson's “Duo 1961 For Voice and String Player” that originally appeared on Alga Marghen's great Early Works collection and features a performance with the Frakture Big Band at the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, that took place in October 2002. The disc comes packaged in a mini-LP style card sleeve with full colour inner wallet.
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Ben Patterson
A Fluxus Elegy
Alga Marghen Plana-P 17VocSon061
LP
£15.99
New limited one-sided LP from this modern composer presents an elegy to Fluxus by encoding the names of various key players (including John Lennon. LaMonte Young, Yoshi Wada, Yasunao Tone, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Philip Corner, Takehisa Kosugi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Henry Flynt, Joseph Beuys, Henning Christiansen et al) in the form of International Morse dots and dashes which were 'performed' on a keyboard with a voice-pattern setting going through a loop unit and a mixer and straight to cassette. Front cover reproduces the original score. Edition limited to 345 copies.
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