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Title: Looking Up
Artist: Stephen Katz





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CD DB103 $15 $12.99


1. seven
2. bitterroot (prelude)
3. treetops
4. 8 days of eve
5. surfacing
6. playground
7. friends & foes
8. ponies
9. looking up

LINER NOTES:

Looking Up
Looking Up is a collection of improvisations and compositions from these sources:

1. Seven was improvised in my studio using looping machinery (see below) and minimally edited for the final version.

2. Bitterroot is the prelude to a much longer as-yet-unrecorded piece. This track was performed live (without looping or multi-tracking) at the New Directions Cello Festival in June, 2002.

3. Treetops is an improvisation which became the foundation for a multi-track piece used in a score for Wire Monkey Dance company of Holyoke, MA.

4. Eight Days Of Eve is a live-loop piece but was recorded for this disk one track at a time.

5. Surfacing was composed for a dance by Lesley Farlow, teacher at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

6 - 9. These tracks were improvised while I watched painter Leandro Soto (Arizona State University faculty) create a vibrantly colorful painting on a large sheet of white paper.

- STEPHEN KATZ