Bedhaya Guthrie/Bedhaya Sadra
LARRY POLANSKY

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Artifact Recordings ART 1023

HMSL or Hierarchical Music Specification Language flaunts its flexibility on this recording from one of its developers and top promoters, Larry Polansky. From Woody Guthrie/Javanese gamelan fusion to a resynthesis of Ruth Crawford's Piano Study in Mixed Accents and even farther afield to a work for two electric guitars and rock band, Polansky effectively demonstrates some of the diverse possibilities of the 20 year-old compositional computer language. Other works included on this recording demonstrate Polansky's affection for microtonality and gradual modulation. While the scores may be primarily computer generated, this music maintains a human soul.

Bedhaya Guthrie/Bedhaya Sadra (9:24)
Daniel Goode, clarinet, kemanak; Larry Polansky, Central Javanese pelog gender, kemanak

Choir/Empi's Solo (12:05)
Tape and voice. Co-composed with Marie Pauline-Esguerra. Marie Pauline-Esguerra, voice

The Casten Variation (3:37)
Sarah Cahill, piano

Three Anna Studies
Computer; Anna Diamond Polansky, voice
Study: Anna, the long and the short of it (0:56)
Four Voice Canon #9b (6:7:8:9) ("Anna Canon") (4:07)
Study: baa baa birthday have you any star? (1:46)
(Anna Diamond Polansky, Eleanor Wilson, voice)

51 Melodies (12:00)
Larry Polansky, Nick Didkovsky, electric guitars; Greg Anderson, electric bass; Leo Ciesa, drums

Piano Study #5 (for Just Fender Rhodes) (14:14)
Larry Polansky, returned Fender Rhoades electric piano