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The 226 Series 2006 Performance Season	Spin-17 and Friends
The 226 Series 2005 Performance Season	Spin-17 at CBGBs
Ed Chang	Spin-17 at Tonic 2001
Motoko Shimizu	More!

Unreleased Music Downloads (MP3 format)

226 Series 1st Anniversary Show

Motoko Shimizu (turntable),
Matt Hannafin (percussion),
Brian Moran (electronics),
Ed Howard (electronics),
Maria Chavez (turntable),
Ravi Padmanabha (percussion),
Noriaki Watanabe (electronics),
and Ed Chang (direction).

HERE.

Spin-17 Sergio (2000) 3.1M - Similar to and composed simultaneously with "Parisian Idyll", this one is the Sergio Leone/Ennio Morricone spaghetti shootout complete with harmonica and feedback...

Spin-17 Cirkus (2000) 1.7M - Surreal carnival atmosphere with "over-the-top" sound design. The "musical" portion was composed by Motoko Shimizu.

Ed Chang HitchMix (2001) Drum & Bass remix of "Psycho (Main Title)" (Bernard Herrmann) 2M - This was done with a Playstation and MTV Music Generator with ProTools. This is a relatively "straight" remix compared to the Otomo thing, but is somewhat influenced by Squarepusher and Alec Empire.

Spin-17 Sax & Turntable duo improvisation (1999) 2.3M - These are 4 takes in a row of a sequence for "The Chronicles of Momo" puppet production in the scene where Spin-17 is about to get arrested but play music instead. The police officer did not receive it very well.

Motoko Shimizu/Blaise Siwula Voice/Sax duo improvisation at COMA (2000) 4.1M - This was recorded by Blaise during one of COMA's duos/trios/ensemble sections. This was a "first meeting" improv.

Doug Theriault Solo Guitar & Electronics 3.8M - This piece dates a couple years but is an example of Doug's "nastier" side when he was doing more circuit-bending and guitar deconstruction. Totally intense.

Ed Chang Memory (1999) Electro-acoustic composition for Otomo Yoshihide's Remix project (rejected!) 3.9M - This is one of 4 remixes of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero record "Consume Red". This was done in part using a hand held mike recording room sounds while a manipulated version of the original piece was playing on the stereo. In theory this is a remix...but maybe I cheated a little too much...?

Momo 2.4M

"Dracula Lugosi" - Mina 1.2 M (featuring Motoko Shimizu, Matthew Heyner, Rich Gross, Michael Evans, Samara Lubelski) (2000) - This is part of a live recording of the "Dracula Lugosi Suite" performed at Roulette in October, 2000. This particular section was written primarily by Motoko Shimizu. This piece implies Mina Harker's heroic/tragic seduction by Count Dracula.

Minus Live in Oregon 1998 3.9M (Ed Chang, Dave Trenkel(bass), Mark France(guitar), Henry Franzoni(drums)) - Avant-groove rock with improv skronk sax.

(Check out the "Released" downloads from our CD Samples page which includes 2 tracks each of Ed Chang, Spin-17 and DUAL.)

Ed Chang/Blindfold : Picture Show CD Original credits and liner notes

Archival Compositions and Scores for Improvisors

Spacing Pieces #1-14 (1993-1996) (Ed Chang) Compositions for discrete sound
100 Clarinet Moments (1997) - (EC)Composition consisting of "moments" (respects to K.S.).
MAP (1996) - (EC) Composition for 2 of any instrument using matrix of sound attributes.
Schema (1997) - (EC) Series of simple structures based on "theme" creation in improvised music.
Channels (1997) - (EC) Duo composition for improvisers to "switch channels" musically.

Essays (This is stuff written years ago when I still had enough hubris to actually write about such an intangible subject)

The Barbaric/Complex Nature of Free Improv Music (1996) (E.C.)
Why Improv Sucks (1996) Controversial tongue-in-cheek analysis of the limitations of typical free improv. (E.C.)
Definitions of Improvised Music (1995) (E.C.)
2001 Journal (I guess nowadays this would be called a “blog”)

Motoko Shimizu's Iron Maiden Concert Review

Some Past Tour Listings

Kaoru Abe & Masayuki Takayanagi reviews from Opprobrium

Quodlibet-friendly Radio station contact reference

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