"Brains": a CD of Audiophile Computer Music by Christopher K. Koenigsberg

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Scanned color JPEG image of the front cover of my CD, borrowed gratefully from the review of my CD in the online e-zine Sonic Boom .

Here's another review by Donna McCabe , which appeared in the 25th anniversary issue of the Computer Music Journal .

I've uploaded a rough essay I wrote on my piece The Rat's Nest, off the CD.

Added August 21, 1996: LCM for 12 Piano Sample, a musical composition using the principle of linear superposition, and emergent melodic and rhythmic entities.

Now available June 7, 1996: My MFA Thesis "The Insane and the Technical: Comments on My Music".

Contact Chris Koenigsberg
c/o PWOA Productions
Suite 705-405
1163 E. Ogden Ave.
Naperville, IL. 60563 USA
Internet: ckk@pobox.com

Radio stations and zines/newspapers/journals, contact me for a promo copy.

"Brains" is conveniently available for purchase from the The Electronic Music Foundation ,
and they even take Visa/Mastercard:
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Ask for Item # PW-100, "Brains" by Christopher K. Koenigsberg. Price is $14 plus shipping ($2 to North America/Mexico, $3 to South America, $4 to Europe, $5 to Asia/Australia).

"Brains is also available from "Forced Exposure"
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CD total time: 72 minutes, 26 seconds. Explanatory program notes included, and cool color cover art too.

Here's the track lineup, from the back of the CD:

1. Back to Nothing (1993) (9:08)
   CKK, Sgran granular synthesis trajectory scorefiles, RT digital mix.

2. The Rat's Nest (1993) (5:41)
   
   • Appropriation of digital garbage, for the little rat that shared the studio with me late at night...
     
   • Digital Garbage source: NeXTStep Mach "swapfiles".
     
   • CKK, SoundDesigner II editing, RT digital mix.

3. The Free Spirit (1993) (18:24)
   "I have been too much a free spirit to have cultivated artificial values of love" -- Yun Wang
   
   • Voices: Yun Wang (The Book of Ebony Night, and Chinese Song Dynasty poems)
     
   • Sound source: 2-second long Basement Artifact pump snippet.
     
   • CKK: phase vocoder time stretch, convolution with reverberant room impulse responses, Studer 24-track (Tac Scorpion mixing console).

4. "Brains" (1993) (6:44)
   My inspiration for the last 18 years of noisemaking...
   
   • Sound source: Voice of CKK's Dad (originally recorded in 1975).
     
   • CKK, SoundDesigner II editing, Akai S1000 Sample playback, Buchla Thunder controller, 24-track mixdown.

5. LCM for 12 Piano Sample (1993) (10:05)
   Algorithmic composition, groovy-process windowing.
   
   • CKK: algorithmic composition, 12 Opcode Vision sequences, 12 Akai S1000 piano sample voices, direct to digital mix.

6. The October Surprise (1992) (4:26)
   Completed shortly before the election of Bill Clinton. Alien gibberish.
   
   • CKK: HyperUpic graphic sonification, Korg DSS-1 percussion samples, 24-track mixdown.

7. Artifact #2? "ArtMix" (1993) (2:43)
   
   • Sound source: 18-second long Basement Artifact pump sound.
     
   • CKK, SoundDesigner II digital editing, RT digital mix.

8. Basement Artifact #1 (1992) (6:00)
   Live structured trio improvisation (human, Thunder, and sampler) recorded direct to DAT.
   
   • Sound source: 18-second long Basement Artifact pump sound.
     
   • CKK, SoundDesigner II editing, Buchla Thunder controller configurations, Akai S1000 sample playback.

9. Yellow Teeth Dub (1991) (4:37)
   YellowMan's got yellow skin, but I have yellow teeth.
   
   • Dean Rubine: Original 4-bar drum machine pattern, altered after Manfred Clynes' expressive theories.
     
   • CKK: Buchla Thunder controller configurations, nasty Yamaha TX81Z presets, dual Yamaha REV7 effects, 8-track, dub mix.

10. All the Same to Me (1993) (4:33)
    
    • CKK, Opcode Vision sequences, Akai S1000 sample playback unit, Zeta SMPTE/MIDI synchronizer, real Rickenbacker 4001 fretless electric bass, 6 vocal tracks (Beyer dynamic mike), 24-track, dub mixdown.

Recorded by CKK at Mills College, except #9 recorded by CKK at
Carnegie-Mellon University. Mastered at Monsterdisc, Chicago, with
engineer Jason Rau. Released by PWOA Productions.

All selections P & C 1994 by Christopher K. Koenigsberg. All rights reserved.
Dedicated to the memory of Benjamin Koenigsberg.