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| Frog Peak Music is an artist-run composers' collective dedicated to publishing and producing experimental and unusual works by its member artists, and is committed to the idea of availability over promotion. Frog Peak Music is a not-for-profit organization in which member artists determine the form and content of their own work. | |||||||||||||
BOOKS
Frog Peak Anthology. Conceived, edited and designed by Carter Scholz. Writings by Harrison, Corner, Diamond, Powell, Didkovsky, Garland, Polansky, Burk, Povall, Mann, Wendt, and others. FP07. $25.* Frog Peak Publication.
The Frog Peak Rock Music Book. Edited by Daniel Goode. Music for rocks and stones in a limited boxed edition of original scores. Scores by Goode, Oliveros, Wolff, Wood, Bobrowski, Lockwood, Goldstein, Kenney, Corner, and others. FP08. $25.*
Divisions of the Tetrachord by John Chalmers. A major work on tuning theory and experimental intonation. Edited by Larry Polansky and Carter Scholz, designed by Scholz. FP06. $35.* Frog Peak Publication.
New Music for Plucked Strings. Scorebook. Music by Tenney (Septet), Alrich, Simon, Polansky, and others. Includes two arrangements of Ruth Crawford's "Ricercari" for mandolin ensemble and soprano. FP03. $15. Frog Peak Publication.
Meta + Hodos and META Meta + Hodos, by James Tenney. Often called one of the great music theory books of the 20th century, this is only available thru FP02. $15.* Frog Peak Publication.
, even recent cultural history, place, art, and poetry in ordinary life. By Charles Shere. She05. $15. Frog Peak Publication.
8 Pieces. Carter Scholz. Remarkable computer compositions in complex intonational systems which combine rich compositional ideas with an elegant sense of sonority and formal imagination. A Frog Peak CD. FP23. $15.
Happily Ever After. Randy Hostetler. Frog Peak is pleased to offer this legendary 45-minute text piece for the first time on CD. Hostetler was an important young composer whose untimely passing was a great loss for American experimental music. His magnum opus, "Happily Ever After," is a fascinating tape work made up of many people telling stories. Each begins with "Once upon a time..." and ends with...happily ever after." Liner notes by Paul Lansky. A joint FrogPeak/Living Room Foundation project. FP22. $15.
Frog Peak Collaborations Project. 62 composers, 115 pieces on a sound/text by Chris Mann. Contributors include Warren Burt, Rainer Linz, Kristine Burns, Trojan Thearer, Ricado Dal Farra, Carter Scholz, Peggy Madden, Eric Lyon, Akira Rabelais, Philo T. Farnesworth. Double CD. FP19. $20. Frog Peak CD.
The Time Is Now. Melody Sumner Carnahan's words and their musical interpretation by composers Robert Ashley John Bischoff, Steven Clark, Marghreta Cordero, Nick Didkovsky, Barbara Golden, Joan LaBarbara, Elodie Lauten, Nessie Lessons, Maggi Payne, Larry Polansky, Brian Reinbolt, Laetitia Sonami, and Susan Stone. This book/CD production was a finalist in the Audio Fiction-Unabridged catagory of the 1999 Iddependent Publisher Book Awards. Co-produced with Burning Books. Boxed set: Frog Peak CD and 80-page booklet from Burning Books. FP20. $20.
James Tenney: Selected Works 1961-1969. Art07. $15.* Co-produced with Artifact Recordings. Produced by Larry Polansky and Lauren Pratt, mastered by Tom Erbe, contains Tenney's important computer music from the early 1960's at Bell Labs. Re-issued on New World Records.
Blow. Anne LaBerge. Virtuoso contemporary flute music by this Netherlands-based flutist/composer. Frog Peak CD. LaB09. $15.*
Thump Music. Thump Piano Duo. Music by Krause, Marquardt, Lyon, Paccione, Richards, Constable. FP13. $15.* Frog Peak CD.
Hallways: 11 Musicians and HMSL. Music by Polansky, Burk, Parson, Rosenboom, Scholz, Bischoff, Didkovsky, and Marsanyi. Produced by Jeanne Parson. FP09. $15.* Frog Peak CD.
Impossible Rags. Richard Povall.Music for two Disklaviers. FP005. CD. Frog Peak CD. $15.
Jim Horton Cassette Collection. Hor01. $25.* Jim Horton, one of the major figures in West Coast live computer music, was co-founder of the League of Automatic Music Composers
SPECIAL PROJECTS
The Frog Peak/Johanna Beyer Project is gradually preparing annotated editions of many of Beyer's scores. J.M. Beyer was an important but completely overlooked German-American experimental composer in the 1930s. Nine scores are now available.
The complete Lingua Press catalog, including a large number of Kenneth Gaburo's other writings, is also available from Frog Peak. Please request a complete Frog Peak/Lingua Press catalog of several hundred items.
Frog Peak is the only source for the remaining copies of Peter Garland's landmark Soundings Press editions.
A large collection of the scores and artworks of Philip Corner are archived and distributed by Frog Peak.
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