tracks

Occam V
Hélas! Et Comment
Touch Me Lightly
Captain Hume’s Galliard
Mistress Tittle’s Jig
Woodycock
Ricercar Secondo
Ricercar Quarto
C’est Force, Faire
Unfinished Song
Song
Durations II
Drei Kleine Stücke, Op. 11
Louange À L’Éternité De Jésus (From Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps)
Rice And Beans For Charles Curtis
Movement For String Trio, Op. Posthumous
Perspectives For La Monte Young
Unison Offset
Music For Awhile
Music For "Lester"

notes

[Fold-out insert]
1-1 (2012); 1-2, 1-9 (14th century); 1-3 to 1-6 (circa 1607); 1-7, 1-8 (1542); 1-10 (1998); 2-1, 2-2 (1960); 2-3 (1914); 2-4 (1941); 2-5 (2008); 2-6 (1925); 3-1 (1961-62); 3-2 (2001); 3-3 (1999); 3-4 (2009)

1-1 Recorded live at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, September 20, 2013.
1-9 Recorded [...] at Église de Notre Dame de Bon-Secours, Paris, May 2008.
1-10 Recorded [...] at Electric Avenue, Hamburg, 1998.
2-1 Recorded [...] at Warren Studio A, UC San Diego, March 2005. Licensed from MELA Foundation.
2-2 Recorded [...] at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, 2014. Originally released in 2019 by Important Records in the collection "Chamber Music: Alvin Lucier & Morton Feldman" (IMPREC468).
2-3 Recorded [...] at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, 2014.
2-4 Recorded live at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, April 2015 [...].
2-5 Recorded [...] at CPMC Studio, UC San Diego, October 2009.
2-6 Recorded live at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, November 2015 [...].
3-1 Recorded live at Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Hamburg, August 4, 2000. Licensed from MELA Foundation.
3-2 Recorded [...] at Warren Studio A, UC San Diego, 2001. Originally released in 2006 by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, in the compilation "Music Overheard."
3-3 Recorded in Hamburg, August 2000. [...] Originally released in 2002 by Beau Rivage (BR-014).
3-4 Recorded in San Diego, 2009. Originally composed for Luke Fowler's "Tenement Films".

[Liner notes 2-1 and 3-1]
La Monte Young (edited with Marian Zazeela)

[Inner O-case]
Thanks to La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi, Eliane Radigue, Alison Knowles, Spencer Gerhardt, Stéphane Roux, Anthony Burr, and Tom Erbe.

"Song" (1960) by Terry Jennings and "Perspectives for La Monte Young" (1961-62) by Richard Maxfield licensed from MELA Foundation.

[Outer O-case]
Cover photo [...], Charles Curtis, Westwerk, Hamburg, May 15 1999.

[O-cases, discs and fold-out insert]
© 2020 SALTERN

Incidental information:
Three discs in protective sleeves and 14.2″ x 14.2″ fold-out insert packaged in an inner O-case, housed in an outer O-case. Barcode printed on sticker affixed to the resealable plastic sleeve (back).
On hype sticker (plastic sleeve, front): "First comprehensive collection of recordings by renowned cellist Charles Curtis, including never-before-released music by Terry Jennings, Richard Maxfield, Éliane Radigue, Alison Knowles, and Curtis himself. Over two hours of music."

Edition of 500

credits

Design – Marco Del Rio, Tashi Wada
Liner Notes – Charles Curtis, La Monte Young, Spencer Gerhardt
Liner Notes [Edited With] – Marian Zazeela
Mastered By – Stephan Mathieu
Mixed By [Additional Mixing] – Anthony Burr
Performer – Charles Curtis
Photography By [Cover Photo] – Jutta Brandt
Photography By [Photo By] – Bernhard Oe, Frieda Curtis, Jutta Brandt
Producer [Produced By] – Tashi Wada
Screen Printing – Alan Sherry
Sleeve Notes – Tashi Wada

companies

Licensed From – The MELA Foundation
Copyright (c) – Saltern
Recorded At – ISSUE Project Room
Recorded At – Chapelle De L'hôpital Notre Dame De Bon Secours
Recorded At – Electric Avenue Studio
Recorded At – Warren Studios
Recorded At – Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
Recorded At – CPMC Studio, UC San Diego
Recorded At – Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival

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