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Roger Doyle – Charlotte Corday

Posted on July 11, 2011 by cranio

Charlotte Corday

Here’s another fine release of this Irish composer. Roger Doyle is better know for his work with Operating Theatre, who now has evolved into a music-theater company. Excellent electronic experimental or electro-acoustic tracks. Tracks 1 & 2 recorded in 1989 at the Square Studio, Dublin, and at the Studios of GMEB. Commissioned by the Groupe de Musique Experimental de Bourges (GMEB). Tracks 3 & 4 recorded in 1976 at the garden-room of the composer’s parents’ house, Malahide, County Dublin, at the studios of the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht State University, and at the 1976 St. Patrick’s Day parade, Dublin. Charlotte Corday was released on CD by Dom Bartwuchs, Artware Production (DOM BW 04, ARTWARE 05) in 1992. Limited edition of 700 copies.

Tracks:

  1. Charlotte Corday
  2. The Lament Of Louis XVI
  3. Thalia Parts I And II
  4. Thalia Part III

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Operating Theatre – Miss Mauger

Posted on November 16, 2007 by cranio

Totally different than Rapid Eye Movements, on Miss Mauger Roger Doyle displays his skills as an composer. Miss Mauger is an mix of modern classical with electronic minimalism, will not appeal to everyone but still in my opinion a nice album. Everything was composed on on the Fairlight Computer Music System: The Fairlight was designed by two Australian engineers, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie who had already established the Fairlight company manufacturing and selling video special effects boxes. The prototype was known as the QASAR M8 (1978) subsequently developed into the Fairlight Computer Music Instrument in 1979. The Fairlight CMI was the first commercially available digital sampling instrument, instead of generating sounds from mathematical wave data, the sampler digitises sounds from an external audio source via an analogue to digital convertor for re-synthesis or processing. The original Fairlight models used two standard 8 bit 6800 processors, updated to the more powerfull 16 bit 68000 chips in later versions. The Fairlight was equipped with two six octave keyboards an alphanumeric keyboard and an interactive VDU where sounds could be edited or drawn on the screen using a light pen. The whole instrument was controlled by proprietary software allowing editing, looping, mixing of sounds as well as the ability to draw sound waves and sequence samples. During the early eighties the fairlight and the Synclavier were the high-end option for synthesis and sampling and way beyond the reach of all but the most up-market studios. This situation came to an end with the advent of complex and affordable digital synthesisers and samplers by instruments such as Ensoniq’s “Mirage” (1986), Emu Systems’ “Emulator” and AKAI’s S1000 sampler range. Miss Mauger was released on vinyl by Kabuki Records (KAOT 6) in 1983. Blue Light + Alpha Waves and Rampwalk where previously released as a 7″ by CBS in 1982.

Tracks:

  1. Gloss + Eggshell
  2. Elation After Hours
  3. No Come
  4. Syllable
  5. Dragon Path
  6. The Confectioners
  7. Miss Mauger
  8. Blue Light + Alpha Waves
  9. Positive Disintegration
  10. Rampwalk

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