Performance by Carl Stone

Description:

Carl Stone performed two sets in the Grand Luxe Hall that demonstrated his signature use of samples in live electronic music.

The evening opened with “Dong Il Jang” (1982), a composition performed on a stereo digital-delay harmonizer fed by a turntable. In performing the piece, he extracted short phrases from Motown records and various world music recordings. These fragments were then repeated at selectable rates and abstracted, creating complex and new rhythms.

Following an intermission, Stone performed “Kuk Il Kwan,” (1981), which uses pre-recorded materials supplemented by ambient sounds recorded in the city where the performance takes place, and sounds from the cities where the piece had previously been recorded. What resulted was a palimpsest of sounds from Vancouver, Brussels, Ghent, Utrecht, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.

Video and audio documentation is available upon request.