[NewMusic] W.A. Mathieu

[Matthew Goodheart]

On Nov 1, 2007, at 7:53 AM, Jon Raskin wrote:

> I didn't dig deep enough into this site and I used to have this LP  
> before it was liberated one day.

Yeah, the original LP was cool (mine got "liberated" too). It was  
funded by someone, maybe even Thomas Buckner? So they didn't charge  
for it, they just gave it out. It even had something that said to  
pass the album on to someone else, so "Let's keep music free."  This  
new CD has some things on it the LP didn't have, though. Of course,  
the CD ain't free. . . times have changed.

mg

> 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
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Matthew Goodheart
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