Lions Are Growing like Yellow Roses on the Wind
Lions are growing like yellow roses on the wind
and we turn gracefully in the medieval garden
of their roaring blossoms.
Oh, I want to turn.
Oh, I am turning.
Oh, I have turned.
Thank you. The Digital Domain. A Demonstration
Composed by James A. Moorer and read by Charles Shere
Elektra/Asylum Records, 1983
Compact Disc, CD 9-60303-2 This album provides a sampling of work by composers at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Participants include: Renée Grant Williams, soprano; Stuart Dempster, trombone; Charles Shere, reader; Margaret Fabrizo, harpsichord; and George Marsh, conga drums. The album was concurrently released by Elektra in Hanover, West Germany apparently without Shere's reading.
Reviews Owens, David. "MIT Experimental Music Studio." High Fidelity 34 September 1984: MA24-25.
Notes that during a concert hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Experimental Music Studio, 3 March 1984, in Kresge Auditorium, James Moorer's performance of "Lions Are Growing Like Yellow Roses" fell flat.
Smith, Patricia. "Computers Make Music." Creative Computing July 1983: 111-112, 115.
Discusses the work of computer designer and composer Andy Moorer, Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Briefly mentions that two Brautigan poems (does not provide titles) were used in electronic music performance pieces. Says, his demonstration tape illustrates his techniques. In "Perfect Days," there are three distinct sounds: Charles Shere's voice as he reads the Richard Brautigan poem, the sound of a flute played by Tim Weisberg, and a modified sound that is part speech and part flute, that has the vocal qualities of speech, but the pitch of the flute. (111)
In another piece based on a Richard Brautigan poem, Moorer took the voice reading the poem and changed some of the dynamics of the speech, for example, by adding some reverberation to portions of it. (115) end hiding -->
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