mp3's o' stuff by Christopher Bailey
© 1994-2008, by Christopher Bailey. All rights reserved. Warning: Unauthorized reproduction, or commercial use, of these recordings is prohibited by Federal Law and subject to criminal prosecution.
Click
here
to hear a wondrous work of musique concrete that I wrote
in 2007 as part of a residence at
Harvestworks; it's a piece that remains sorta untitled; if you have an
idea for a title, let me know . . some people have let me know ideas already,
and I'm getting closer . . . .
Click
here
to hear the intensely exciting live performance of
Walking Down the Hillside at Cortona, and Seeing It's Towers Rise Before Me;
or
here
to here the less interesting but "purer" MIDI-demo version.
Click
here
to hear the MIDI demo version,
or
here
to hear the live, slightly messy, but highly exciting performance of
Ditty, a silly fun thing for 2 pianos tuned in 19-TET.
Click
here
to hear the electric-guitar version of
Arc of Infinity, for guitar and recorded-electronics, as performed by
the amazing
Carsten Radtke, guitar.
Sonata for piano is now
available on CD. Here are some excerpts from the astounding
recording by Jacob Rhodebeck:
A CD with Balladei (for piano and electronics), in an amazing
recording by Shiau-Uen Ding, is now
available.
You can listen to an excerpt here.
Click
here
to hear Aftermath, a 10'-long mysterious-sounding thing
for laptop performance.
Click
here
to hear a short Waltz in 17-tone Equal Temperament. (for
2 pianos).
An exciting, new, re-mixed version of
SL II:
Ooogaaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship
has been released as part of the
Electric Music Collective's second album,
Defiant,
which you can purchase from amazon.com. To
hear an excerpt from the new Ooogaah, click
here.
Click
here
to hear the dress rehearsal
or
here to hear the performance of
Meditation on the Lake .
(performed by String Orchestra of New York City, Alice Tully Hall, NYC)
Improvisation I, Dein Kuss has been realized in 3 different formations. You can
hear the 3 different versions here:
Click
here
to hear the synthesized version of Improvisation II, Kiss of the Gamelan Goddess.
Click
here
to hear 8 Terrains, peformed at Cincinnati Conservatory. For 2 electric guitars, 2
piano/kbds, 2 saxes, bass and live electronics.
Listen to excerpts from
Ow, My Head
and
Duude. The complete works
have been released on
Incandescence,
the first album of the
Electric Music Collective, available at
amazon.com .
The SL series:
Click
here
to hear an excerpt from a recent little techno ditty, with
vocal stylings by the amazing Hilary Poriss. (This will be released soon
as part of an album of tunes . . all of which I'm presently working on. . )
The Stuffed Ones
Click
here
to hear a little piece
In Memoriam Lou Harrison for
MIDI instruments (Roland XV-5050).
Click
here
to hear The Quiet Play of Lights on my Grandmother's Bedroom
Ceiling for piano, 'cello, and violin.
Click
here
to hear The Quiet Play of Busy Pipes for piano, violin, cello,
electric guitar, percussion, flute and
live electronics (performed superbly by the
NeXT Ens).
Click
here
to hear Timelash for piano, violin, cello and clarinet.
Click
here
to hear Abstraction #4 for piano.
Click
here
to hear Untitled for solo piano.
Note: the piano on which this was recorded was a bit out-of-tune.
Apologies---hope to get a new version up soon.
Click
here
to hear a "Latin" version of a passage from Mahler's
9th Symphony, 1st movement.
Click
here
to hear a MIDI demo of
Movement for string orchestra.
Click
here
to hear the theme song for the
DORKBOTNYC
electronic artists' forum.
Click
here
to hear the theme song for the
Artbots
robotic artists' forum.
Click
here
and
here
to hear some techno-ish improvs I did as The Artist Currently Known As
Ambient Tuna, part of a piece eventually to become
Prelude to Southside, which forms a massive prelude to
Brad Garton's
beautiful
Southside Silence.
I
II - Variations
III - Scherzo
IV - Finale
and a version of the 1st movement, tuned adaptively
to 7 limit-Just Intonation by
John DeLaubenfels, available in
MP3
format, which sounds a lot better
than the the midifile version.
Constrained Improvisations:
(note: though all performances were excellent, for recording quality reasons, I prefer nos. 1, 3, 2, in
that order.)
Musique Concrete:
Click
here
to read about and listen to the gigantic
Sand.
Listen to excerpts from
SL I: Conceptual Study
and
SL II: Ooogaaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship.
The complete works have been released on the
Electric Music Collective's second album,
Defiant,
which you can purchase from amazon.com.
a brief set of character pieces about my stuffed animals.
Click
here
to hear a fugue (Baroque-style, more or less) I wrote as an Xmas present
for someone.
Here's
a little tune I wrote in order not to scare my sister, age 4
at the time of writing.