Music By Phill Niblock

"In Five More String Quartets the musicians are tuned to specific pitches by calibrated sine tones as they play and the sound they produce is recorded, unprocessed, to multitrack tape. The piece is built up by means of multitrack recording. Early Winter has a different structure: a mixing of recorded instruments, computer controlled electronic instruments, and live instruments in the studio." Early Winter uses 38 sampled and synthesized voice, computer controlled. Recorded at Kampo and Baby Monster studios in New York. Mastered at Foothill Digital Productions in New York. Earlier versions of these pieces were commissioned by Thomas Buckner for a performance at Merkin Concert Hall in New York, in January 1991.