Album Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes, equivalent to 2 LPs + 1 track
Silonics retrospective album Channeling Apollo/Art Dance Classics (1989 - 2001) features several works created in collaboration with choreographers for contemporary dance performances, plus some other experimental art music tracks, which are yet to be choreographed.
Gary McKie - Grand Piano, Alto Sax & other woodwinds, Khene - Laoation Mouth Organ, Suling Besar - Balinese Bamboo Flute, Jaw Harp, Analog Tape-Loops, Samples, Akai S1100, Kurzweil 1000 GX, Roland Sound Canvas, M, MetaSynth, Super-Collider, Digitech TSR-12 Effects Processor, Akai EWI1000 Midi Sax, Roland JX-8P Polyphonic Synthesizer
Birgit Holdinghausen - Overtone singing (sampled) on tracks 4 and 8
Ken McKie (1931 - 2002) - Jazz Drumming (sampled) on track 3
Track 1 - Recorded at my home studios in Elsternwick and Rainbow
Tracks 2 to 7 - Recorded at my home studio in North Fitzroy
Tracks 8, 11 - Recorded at La Trobe Uni Music Department Lab A
Tracks 9, 10 - Recorded at La Trobe Uni Music Department Studio
Track 12 - Recorded and mixed on two stereo analog tape decks during Tape Lab classes at La Trobe Uni Music Department
Written, Performed, Recorded, Mixed by Gary McKie (1989 - 2001)
Mastered by Lachlan Carrick at Moose Mastering (2019)
Art, Design, Text and Layout by Gary McKie
- Artist Photo: 'Twin' Celluloid Etching (1970) Digital Edit (2022)
- CD Cover: [Soma 7]: 'Piscean Playground' Digital Photo Art (2022)
- Page: 'Miro Movie Portrait' Linocut Print (1984) Digital Edit (2022)
It is acknowledged that this music was created on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation and respect is paid to indigenous elders past, present and emerging and it is recognised that sovereignty was never ceded.
SILONICS aka Gary McKie composes electro-acoustic, musique concréte and electronic music, collaborating
with
choreographers and producing independent works. Working directly with unique sound palettes for each project,
experimenting with field recordings, improvising with original samples and warping instrumental timbres, continues
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