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Open door and desire

by Dan Plonsey

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Superhero of Shirts 05:02
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Puzzle of the Presocratics 03:23
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Shadow of the Snake 04:21
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Zali Dali, and Eggplant Thali 11:09
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Duke's Flukes 02:48
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The Chicken's Shadow 05:49
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Open door Dinosaur 04:19
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Open door Triangle Fire 09:08
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Open door for Saxophones 08:51
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Hooray for U.S. Sweatshops in Asia! 06:12
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about

DAN PLONSEY in the linear notes of the Cd writes: «Of all the fields of study, music has proved the most resistant to modern ``scientific method.'' The door remains open to traditionally idealistic thought, dreams, and mystery. The voice of the saxophone is the voice of desire. Still, I had trouble coming up with a satisfactory title for this recording. This is the second of three volumes of music for (mostly) multiple saxophones, all played by myself. (The first is ``Ivory Bill,'' on the Music & Arts label.)
In addition to the saxophones, you will hear fragments of keyboard and voice, a bit of bird and traffic noise, and sounds of garment workers and their tapes of Vietnamese and/or Chinese music down below the recording studio.
Underlying the music is a collection of loosely related images, like the categories in a game show: small people on small worlds, frantic with desire for something other than what they know; melancholy mechanized garment workers; an accidental depiction of
intergalactic pizza delivery; things that rhyme with ``Dolly;'' animals' shadows; and the beauty of flocked wallpaper. The characters responsible for translating these images into sound have the intelligence of a child, an alien, or perhaps a small pig.
Improvising music, we learn that our attention must be tuned to the most subtle and distant sensory input: subliminal sound and ghostly impressions of motion are the cues which guide spontaneous composition, just as the small voices from the edges of society are the ones which will have the strongest impact upon the world tomorrow. Making this recording, I worked with sounds coming from the above and below, along with all the imperfection of my playing (strange to hear it so clearly, and so oddly reinforced by the layering!). On a couple pieces, I didn't listen to anything much at all. I would like to acknowledge the compositional assistance of producer Myles ``Earl Wacky'' Boisen, who performed real-time processing on the keyboard / saxophone / voice interludes.

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released November 29, 2022

All compositions by Dan Plonsey.
All saxophones and keyboards by Plonsey.
Recorded 1997, 98, and 99 at Guerilla Euphonics, Oakland, CA.
Engineering and real-time processing and effects by
Myles ``Earl Wacky'' Boisen, with engineering assistance by Jenya Chernoff.
Mastered by Boisen at the Headless Buddha Labs.
Produced by Boisen and Plonsey.
Cover art by Plonsey, with design and graphical assistance by Alan Anzalone.
Photo of Plonsey by Peter Hinds

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