Decade: The First Ten Years Of The Music Gallery

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A1	–Gotham City	Jan 26/85	0:37
A2	–Tim Brady Group	Feb 8/85 Leader – Tim Brady	0:27
A3	–Claude Ranger	May 11/85	0:39
A4	–Time Warp	May 3/85	0:29
A5	–Gil Evans [Toronto] Big Band	Dec 3/84 Leader – Gil Evans	0:48
A6	–Freddie's Band	Nov 2/84 Leader – Fred Stone	0:38
A7	–Julius Hemphill Trio	Oct 29/81 Leader – Julius A Hemphill	0:45
A8	–Don Thompson Trio	Aug 30/80 Leader – Don Thompson	0:47
A9	–Strangeness Beauty	Feb 5/83 Bass – David PiltchDrums – Mike Sloski*Saxophone, Keyboards – Ron Allen	0:45
A10	–Rob Frayne Group	Apr 5/85 Leader – Rob Frayne	0:45
A11	–CCMC	Apr 11/85	1:19
A12	–Les Ombres Canadiennes	Dec 31/82	0:18
A13	–Time & Space Limited	Door - Apr 13/80	0:15
A14	–Anna Banana & Bill Gaglione	Nov 6/80	0:20
A15	–Dennis Tourbin	Jan 17/81	0:35
A16	–David Mott & David Moss	Mar 12/81	0:30
A17	–Casey Sokol & Danielle Kassner	Rock Etude #14 - Feb 21/82	0:34
A18	–Steve McCaffery	Mar 11/78	0:34
A19	–The Dave Howard Singers	Jul 29/83	0:33
A20	–Sam Ashley & Barbara Golden	Dec 17/81	0:42
A21	–York University Women's Gleek Lubb	Mar 13/82	0:20
A22	–Michael Snow, Charlie Morrow & Steve McCaffery	Dec 14/80	0:34
A23	–Barre Phillips With Strings & Voices	Mar 10/84	0:27
A24	–Tristan Honsinger	Nov 6/81	0:20
A25	–James Tenney	Blue Suede - Oct 16/82	0:27
A26	–Sandor Ajzenstat	Bouncing The Ball - Jul 29/82	0:30
A27	–Milton Barnes	The Lord Is My Shepherd	0:25
A28	–Nora Hutchinson	Jan 10/82	0:23
A29	–Platform 7	Feb 22/85	0:57
A30	–Concrete Designs	Jul 30/83	0:20
A31	–Peripheral Vision	Jan 16/82	0:15
A32	–Michael Goldberg	Between - Mar 8/81	0:15
A33	–The Monday Night Orchestra	May 17/76	0:27
A34	–Sessione Milano	Mar 7/79	0:15
A35	–Chris Crawford & Robert Stevenson	Jan 5/80	0:18
A36	–Misha Mengelberg & Company	Nov 1/80	0:22
A37	–An Artists' Jazz Band	Dec 31/81	0:17
A38	–WAM (Wednesday Afternoon Madness)	Wednesday?	0:03
A39	–Eugene Chadbourne & John Zorn	Mar 30/78	0:28
A40	–Neighbours	Sept 24/80	0:17
A41	–John Mars & Stu Broomer	Mar 19/83	0:15
A42	–The Eric Stach Quartet	Oct 12/81	0:12
A43	–John Kamevaar With Maury Coles & Company	Jul 28/81	0:40
A44	–Phenomenensemble	Jul 24/81	0:17
A45	–Lubomyr Melnyk	Dec 5/82	0:18
A46	–Polysonic	Jul 23/82 Performer – Axens, David Scurr	0:17
A47	–Michael Phillip-Wojewoda*	What I Do - Jul 31/82	0:16
A48	–Nobuo Kubota	Dec 5/81	0:14
A49	–Richard Purdy	Eschatology - Feb 18/83	0:16
A50	–Eric Ross	Oct 20/83	0:40
A51	–Ted Dawson	May 23/81	0:45
A52	–Peter Wetzler	Still Life - (1983?)
A53	–Iannis Xenakis	Dec 4/76
A54	–David Rosenboom, Richard Teitelbaum	Nov 6/82	0:22
A55	–Ernst Reiseger*	May 15/83	0:19
A56	–Peter Saunders	Fun With Metronomes, Tuners, Sax & Bass, From Rory's Birthday Fun - May 7/85	0:18
A57	–The Maury Coles Big Band	Nov 12/83	0:15
A58	–Owen Sound	Dec 9/78	0:17
A59	–SSSP	Sept 20/80 Featuring – Jim Montgomery	0:18
A60	–Andrew Timar Et Al	Nov 24/79	0:18
A61	–Newband	Oct 22/79	0:12
A62	–Randy Raine-Reusch	Mar 24/84	0:20
A63	–William Beauvais	Jan 30/82	0:17
A64	–Peter Griggs & Iris Brooks	Aug 3/81	0:20
A65	–Slow Boys	Jan 8/81 Featuring – Dallas Hallas, Erica America	0:40
A66	–Miguel Frasconi	May 12/85	0:28
A67	–Barry Prophet	Nov 3/83	0:18
A68	–Trichy Sankaran & Karaikuddi Subramanian*	Apr 3/85	0:37
A69	–Paloma Enriquez	Feb 21/82	0:25
A70	–Al Henderson Group	Aug 27/80	0:16
A71	–The Pat Labarbara Quartet	Dec 12/82 Featuring – Pat Labarbara	0:14
A72	–The Kings Of Sming	Nov 30/84	0:12
A73	–Pyramid	Jul 17/82	0:18
A74	–Ania Zoom	Untitled - Mar 17/83	0:25
A75	–Mettle	Untitled - May 19/83	0:17
A76	–Keith Blackley Quartet	Untitled - Jan 9/83	0:19
A77	–John Toulson	Untitled - Aug 10/80	0:16
A78	–The Chris Chahley Group	Untitled - May 29/83	0:14
A79	–Rick Tait	Untitled - July 12/80	0:31
A80	–Michael White & The Trumpets Of Destiny	Untitled - May 18/85	0:17
A81	–Mauricio Kagel	Untitled - No Date	0:27
A82	–Casey Sokol	Mercer, For Two Pianos - /84	0:08
A83	–James Tenney	Bridge - July /84	0:44
A84	–Chance Encounters	Untitled - Jan 29/83	0:15
A85	–Bentley Jarvis	Untitled - Jan 22/85	0:17
A86	–Marten Altena*	Untitled - Oct 12/79	0:20
A87	–Air Raid	Untitled - May 5/78	0:25
A88	–Peter Cusack	Untitled - Oct /79	0:23
A89	–John Zorn	Untitled - Dec 1/84	0:30
A90	–CCMC	On Tour In Stuttgart - Feb 8/83	0:55
A91	–Martin Bartlett	Untitled - Jan 19/79	1:12
A92	–Don Buchla* & David Rosenboom	Untitled - Jan 19/79	1:20
A93	–David Keane	Untitled - Jan 18/79	1:10
A94	–Norma Beecroft	Untitled - Feb 29/80
A95	–Miarianne Amacher*	Untitled - Feb 26/82
A96	–Electronic Art Ensemble	Untitled - Feb 25/82
B1	–Elliot Carter*	Untitled - Sep 30/83	0:20
B2	–Paul Theberge	Untitled - Apr 27/85	0:18
B3	–Alexina Louie	Untitled - Mar 30/85	0:25
B4	–Composers' Brass Group	Untitled - May 9/82	0:21
B5	–James MacDonald	Untitled - May 17/80	0:27
B6	–Lubomyr Melnyk & Honey Novick	Untitled - July 8/78	0:19
B7	–Gayle Young	Music For Columbine Ensemble - Jan 7/78	0:31
B8	–New Music Co-op	(From) Seven Chorales - Apr 2/78 Composed By – Andrew Timar	0:24
B9	–Richard Teitelbaum	Untitled - Oct 30/82	0:31
B10	–Tibor Szenzo*	Untitled - Aug 4/83	0:30
B11	–Bob Becker & Company	Untitled - Mar 23/80 Featuring – Bob Becker	0:26
B12	–John Rea	Untitled - Mar 2/85	0:20
B13	–Phil Werren*	Phases - Nov 18/78	0:23
B14	–Jim Millan	The Wedding March - Jul 7/82	0:26
B15	–Magnetic Manifest	Untitled - Oct 4/80	0:23
B16	–Hildegard Westerkamp & Norbert Ruebsaat	Untitled - Feb 18/84	0:29
B17	–Susan Frykberg	Untitled - Feb 20/83	0:37
B18	–The Not So Japanese Kinetic Ensemble	Untitled - Jul 5/80	0:17
B19	–The Canadian Electronic Ensemble*	Untitled - Jan 30/79	0:48
B20	–MacBeck Studios	Untitled - Dec 3/78	0:15
B21	–Don Garbutt	Untitled - Dec 11/77	0:22
B22	–Peggy Sampson	David Rosenboom's Seduction Of Sapentia Composed By – David Rosenboom	0:28
B23	–Carlton Vaughn	Untitled - Jan 9/82	0:20
B24	–Convergence	Untitled - Oct 28/78	0:22
B26	–Jim Hiscott	Untitled - Nov 25/79	0:17
B27	–I Ching	Untitled - Jan 20/80	0:41
B28	–David Mott	Untitled - Oct 14/84	3:00
B29	–Bill Westcott	Untitled - Aug 14/80	0:18
B30	–Ron Allen	Untitled - Aug 17/80	0:17
B31	–Doug Wilde & Nancy White	Untitled - Aug 30/80	0:19
B32	–Geordie Macdonald & Friends	Untitled - Apr 28/80 Featuring – Geordie Macdonald*	0:18
B33	–Bob Brough Quartet	Untitled - Nov 14/82	0:16
B34	–Rob Frayne/Kim Ratcliff Quintet	Untitled - March 13/83 Featuring – Kim Ratcliff*, Rob Frayne	0:14
B35	–Eric Harry Quartet	Untitled - Jul 20/80	0:13
B36	–SKREEF	Untitled - Mar 29/85	0:20
B37	–Larry Dubin & Casey Sokol	Untitled - Mar 20/76	1:06
B38	–Gordon Monahan	Piano Mechanics	1:09
B39	–Gordon Monahan	Tape Pulling	1:10
B40	–Gordon Monahan	Speaker Swinging	1:26
B41	–The Glass Orchestra	Untitled - May 19/85 Performer – John Puchiele, Miguel Frasconi, Paul Hodge, V. Eric Cadesky	5:16
B42	–John Oswald	Untitled - May 19/85	3:19
B43	–Victor Coleman & Al Mattes	Untitled - Feb 16/84	3:14
B44	–Four Horsemen, The*	Untitled - May 19/85	6:15
B45	–CCMC	The Last Ten Years	3:58
B46	–Holland Festival Previe Finale	Untitled - May 19/85 Featuring – CCMC, Horsemen, The*, John Oswald, Victor Coleman	2:20

Credits

• Compiled By [Special Assistant] – Victor Coleman
• Compiled By, Composed By [Tape] – Casey Sokol, Sandor Ajzenstat

Notes

This tape has been organized into 12 'phrases' within which excerpts have been sequenced mostly by means of cross-fades. The 'phrase' groups, each consisting of 18 or fewer excerpts, have not been sequenced chronologically; nor have they been thematized according to their function at The Music Gallery (festivals, residencies, radio broadcasts, etc.), nor according to type of presentation (live vs. tape, performance art vs. concert, solo vs. group, composed vs. improvised, 'professional' vs. amateur). Because we were more interested in the common threads in the production and experience of the music itself, the sequences have been structured to hilight a spectrum of elements and attitudes common among the many and varied artists who have presented their work at The Music Gallery.

Realizing that the creation of a neutral document was neither possible or desirable, we have tried, in composing the sequences of excerpts and segments, to stay as close as possible both to the character of those excerpts involved and to the general spirit of The Music Gallery.

We regret having left out many of our most esteemed musicians and composers from this short compilation. Though we wished that this tape would reflect the strongly international character of the Music Gallery's ongoing productions, we have emphasized Canadian music since there is so much of it that is unknown outside Canada. The tape is composed of 139 excerpts which represent the work of approximately 500 performers recorded live in concert at The Music Gallery between 1976 and 1985.

(Notes for track B45) - Since the members of the CCMC are both the creators of the Music Gallery as well as its 'house band' they have consistently been the Gallery's most prolific performers. They have, over the course of the almost 1,000 concerts at home and abroad, archived approximately 5.5 million seconds, or 6.5 million hearbeats of music. These concerts originated from over 9.5 countries in and around those parts of the world which have, over the past two or three decades, demonstrated a high level of tolerance for this sort of thing. The editing of this 'history' is therefore designed to give the impression of a high-speed travelogue through the last decade in a manner not too inconsistent with the hyperactive experimental aesthetic of the group.

They would like like to thank all those persons who have shown them kindness, a good time, the way out of town, the nearest bathroom, and sympathetic support for the reasonableness of their artistic folly. They would also, breaking for a moment with the tradition of acknowledgement, like to express their own tolerance for those who still forget that all artists of the past have always been, of necessity, contemporaries in their own time.