[NewMusic] W.A. Mathieu

[Jon Raskin]

I didn't dig deep enough into this site and I used to have this LP before it was liberated one day.  It was a nexus point to be sure for improvisation with many threads. One that hasn't been acknowledge that much was is that Charles Moffett and family with Butch Morris, Glenn Spearman and David Murray.    There wasn't lot of cross connection going on but Butch Morris used to come to early improv workshops at the Blue Dolphin on 17th street circa 1974
 
Jon Raskin



----- Original Message ----
From: Matthew Goodheart <matthew at matthewgoodheart.com>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:35:45 PM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] W.A. Mathieu

A more historic recording, with similar but more fleshed out liner  
notes is the Ghost Opera Company:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/wamathieu9

It's a really interesting recording, more in tune with some of the  
things that are happening on this scene than Game/No Game. It's  
really amazing to think that SF Conservatory had improvisation as a  
required course in 1970. . . Also interesting to listen to the "free  
improv" of that time, and hear what has changed and what hasn't: the  
Ghost Opera stuff is gestural and pitch based, so interest in timbre  
is not that apparent. But the gestural stuff is actually pretty  
similar to a lot of things I've heard recently. I think it's an  
important, though not so well known,  piece of Bay Area history, and  
Mathieu's methods for getting musicians to interact is highly  
developed and valuable.

mg


On Oct 31, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Jon Raskin wrote:

> Some interesting history and thoughts from the liner notes of a duo  
> record
> of W.A. Mathier and George Marsh.
>
> http://cdbaby.com/cd/wamathieu7
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Matthew Goodheart
composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
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