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*     Recent publications:
 

"Invention's Perspective on Improvisation" has been published on the READ pages of Crouton Music's website.  This is a revised version of an essay that originally appeared in Rubberneck magazine in 1996.  The ariticle discusses the history of several musical instruments (including the triolin, the palette, and the devil's fiddle) and offers some perspective on extended technique and improvisation.
 

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*     Recent recordings:
 

Earlier in 2007 Crouton Records released a 10" vinyl limited edition recording of new music for amplified palette by Hal Rammel recorded during the same sessions that produced the LOST DATA singles in early 2006.  This is currently available from Crouton Music.
 

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The LOST  DATA set of three 7" singles featuring new music for amplified palette by Hal Rammel is currently available from Penumbra Music at

Penumbra Music
POB 282
Grafton, WI 53025  USA

$15.00  (includes postage and handling for orders in the U.S.)

 
 

 
 

*     More news from 2007:
 

The trio Audiotorpe (Thomas Gaudynski, Steve Nelson-Raney, and Hal Rammel) can be heard on this podcast from Hotcakes Gallery in Milwaukee . . .  and a video portion of this concert is posted on youTube.

A review of Hal Rammel's 1996 recording Elsewheres (Penumbra CD001) can be found on Mike Khoury's blog.

A note on musical instruments designed and built by Hal Rammel can be found by scrolling down the page of Gérard Nicollet's blog.

Atavistic Records' compilation Eye & Ear includes Hal Rammel's "Weave & Raze," an electroacoustic compostion commissioned by the Outer Ear Festival in Chicago in 2003.  Originally issued as part of Corbett vs. Dempsey's visual art exhibiton of the same name in 2005, the disc also features vintage and recent work by Peter Brotzmann, Michael Snow, Sun Ra, Pee Wee Russell, Lou Mallozzi, and many others.

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