Harley Gaber: Ludus Primus/Ka Baird: Ludus Secondos, by Harley Gaber, Ka Baird

Harley Gaber: Ludus Primus/Ka Baird: Ludus Secondos

by Harley Gaber, Ka Baird

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Also includes expanded liner notes from the original CRI LP with a newly-commissioned essay by Ned Sublette, new artwork by C. Spencer Yeh made especially for this digital re-releasea and a bonus track ("Kata") featuring solo violinist Linda Cummiskey.

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	1.	Harley Gaber - Ludus Primus 11:45	info	buy track
	2.	Ka Baird - Ludus Secondos 09:04	info	buy track

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Nate Wooley, editor of the music journal Sound American, has
picked fifty vital LPs from CRI’s back catalog for special treatment and re-release in digital format. These releases, rather than being a downloadable rehash of existing material, propose to contextualize the historical piece by placing it alongside the work of contemporary artists who have been influenced by the CRI original.

Among the new material is a musical response to the original. This release includes an engrossing piece by Brooklyn-based sound artist Ka Baird. They have responded to the flutes and microtonal elements of Harley Gaber’s Ludus Primus by creating a dizzying piece for synthesizer, bansuri flute, and recorder called Ludus Secondos, in loving jest and with respect to the original.

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released August 3, 2023

Ka Baird is a musician, performer, composer and sound designer based in New York City. They are known for their live performances which include extended voice and microphone techniques combined with electronics and psychoacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds. They create a present tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension. They have worked/collaborated with many other musicians, artists, filmmakers and choreographers, both in structured compositions and in their dedicated practice of improvisation and interdisciplinary work.

C. Spencer Yeh was born in 1975 in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2009, Yeh’s first solo exhibition, Standard Definition, was presented at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. Yeh has toured and performed widely, and has recently presented work at the 2014 Liverpool Biennial; the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami; the Kinomuzeum at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; the Kunsthalle Stavanger, Norway; and in New York City at The Stone; The Kitchen; and ISSUE Project Room, among many other performances and presentations. He collaborated
with Triple Canopy for the 2014 Whitney Biennial. In Fall 2014 Yeh was featured in a Modern Mondays at the Museum of Modern Art, NY.

Ned Sublette is the author of The Year Before the Flood, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, and Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, and is co-author with Constance Sublette of The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. He has produced more than 150 episodes of the public radio program Afropop Worldwide, and is a co-founder of Afropop Worldwide Hip Deep, which brings the work of scholars to a radio audience. As a recording artist, his albums include Kiss You Down South and Cowboy Rumba. He leads immersive music seminars in Cuba.

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CRI (Composers Recordings, Inc.) was founded in 1954 by Otto Luening, Douglas Moore and Oliver Daniel. CRI was dedicated to the promotion of new music by American composers, releasing over 600 recordings on LP, cassette and CD over its 49 year history, New World Records assumed ownership of CRI in 2006, since which time its entire catalog has been digitized for streaming, download & CD-R purchase. ... more

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