Tim Hodgkinson al clarinetto dialoga con l'artista multimediale Zhuyang Liu, qui alle prese con il tradizionale strumento a corda cinese guzheng: l'esito è in This Is What Happens, album digitale disponibile su Bandcamp (o anche in cd, richiedendone copia direttamente a loro).

https://timhodgkinson.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-what-happens
https://zhuyangliu.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-what-happens

Già in passato aveva messo mano a file audio o video per (ri)creare a proprio piacere qualcos'altro: ora Ôm Perkuterr prende un po' della batteria di Chris Cutler da Bittern Storm Over Ulm (Unrest, 1974) e si inventa un grazioso omaggio ('Un clin d'œil à Henry Cow') suonando lui stesso tutto il resto. Su YT.

https://tinyurl.com/unclindoeil

A recuperare Horde (1981) e Gyromancy (1984) dalle autoproduzioni Dys a tiratura limitata ci pensò a suo tempo Chris Cutler per Recommended; ai due titoli precedenti, Mnemonist Orchestra (1979) e Some Attributes Of A Living System (1980), provvede ora - altrettanto meritoriamente - Walter Robotka per Klanggalerie: è l'epoca pre-Biota dei Mnemonists.

Against the fertile creative backdrop of late 1970s Fort Collins, Colorado, the American ensemble Biota's first recorded projects were produced under the name Mnemonist Orchestra (shortened soon after to Mnemonists). Founded by fellow scientists and community radio engineers Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp, the Mnemonists collective of fine artists, musicians, and college-town bohemians released five self-styled albums between 1978 and 1984 on the group's Dys label. Horde (1981), a seminal album of electronically processed music, garnered particular interest for its groundbreaking use of unconventional sound manipulation, musique concrète techniques, and early period instrumentation - including from the Recommended Records/RēR label, who rereleased the LP on its imprint in 1984. Following the release of Gyromancy (1984) the ensemble split into two collaborative factions: a visual-arts group, which retained the name Mnemonists, and the musical group, Biota.

https://www.klanggalerie.com/gg527
https://www.klanggalerie.com/gg549