Charles Cohen Music For Dance And Theater (1988)

CHARLES COHEN: MUSIC FOR DANCE AND THEATER These pieces are from various projects. I usually do my best work when someone else lays out some structure: a movement, a scene, a mood, or some kind of dynamic. My main instrument is a Buchia 200 Series. This system has lots of manual and control coltage functions and touchsensitive capacitive plates rather than an organtype keyboard. Also used variously are: Electro Comp 101, Anderton Matrix Drums, Putney VCS3, The Muse, Loland Drumatix, Casio CZ101, Mirage, and assorted processors and homemade devices. Improvisation is at the core of my work, both in sound programming and music execution, in the studio or live. Some selections here have technical flaws, but i am attaching greaterimportance to feel than polish and have included things which successfully convay the intended mood, even out of their original contexts. SIDE A: Landing on the Blue Plane (1976) was a dance, music, poetry performance piece by Group Motion Dance Theater.