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Robert Paredes as Composer:

#16 (Speakers)/Fiesta, for 2-channel tape (1991), Music & Arts CD 4830(1);
www.musicandarts.com/CDpages/CD4830d.html

Small Writing (to the memory of Kenneth Gaburo) (1993-94) for cello, speaking cellist and percussion, Innova 502;
www.innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=37

Forgetting and Remembering and #17 (Speakers):…[in every moment {of] decay}, Innova 528;
www.innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=129

Robert Paredes as Performer:

John Rapson, Water and Blood, The Billy Higgins Improvisations; NWCD0252; 9 winds;
www.ninewinds.com/catalogue.html

John Rapson, Mafficked Simulacrum, available from .

Robert Paredes and Standard Air, available from .

The Timofeyev Ensemble, Rhapsody Judaica Marquis Classics;
www.marquisclassics.com/349_rhapsody.asp

Harry Partch Enclosure V;
http://innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=96

"One of the hidden greats of the American experimental tradition." (Innova)

I am interested in the play between two (among many) significant musical taxonomies, each in a state of constant opposition and interqualification with the other. In the first of these, the word "music" serves (traditionally) to denote a system or systems of pitch relationship-cum-organization for which sound functions as the required revelator. In this perceptual circumstance, pitch relationships constitute what might be called the large set and sound (or rhythm, or duration, or timbre, for that matter) function almost as (if) a subsidiary phenomenon (i.e., the background "carrier," if you will, of foreground pitch information). In the second taxonomy (and that nearer and dearer to me) the word "music" connotes an---idea/place---to which human beings come in order to construct and consider diverse sound-worlds (denotations) of their own and others’ making, for purposes of expression and redefinition, delectation and debate, reflection and inquiry. In this perceptual circumstance, sound is the larger set within which pitch-relationships---as beautiful sub-set---might be heard in the role of background "carrier" of foreground energies---say---or timbres---say---or keenings or razzberries.....say?

(Bob Paredes, liner notes)

Robert Paredes

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