Skip this release. If you have the time, drive to a small, forgotten town in the middle of South Dakota and check into the local motel. Around 2:06am or so, fill your motel room's bathtub with lukewarm water, shut off all the lights, get in the tub, close your eyes, and play Alvin Curran's 'Canti Illuminati.' Afterwards, you should be sufficiently disturbed for the next two to three weeks.
for Rova Saxophone Quartet and electronics --- "The music itself, like an experimental voyage, sets out to see what, if anything, lies beyond 'improvisation'. To this end both determinate and indeterminate notations are employed together with a special interactive system, which can reproduce electronically anything the players play -- as they play it, or any time after, and in some cases even before. The heart of the piece is a computerized electronic system enabling each player to pilot one or more Midi synthesizers directly from his own instrument. A flexible computer program 'conducts' or spontaneously structures the concert, which in spite of formally notated sections or the highly conditioned improvisational tendencies of the players, produces an ever new version of the work with each performance." -Alvin Curran
