Stillpoint – Maps Without Edges (1996)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Blade Water Stone 09:13
2. Tract 18:03
3. Blade Water Stone 2 13:44
4. Prophecy Mesa 09:15
5. Blade Water Stone 3 06:13

Hallucinogenic collaboration project featuring Eddy Sayer (Lights In A Fat City),

Nick Parkin (Tuu, Red Shift, TouchSound) and Martin Franklin (Codetrippa, Tuu).
Stillpoint develops arcane themes of deeply ambient dense using ancient percussions,

electronics, gongs, bells and woodwinds.
Recorded live in an underground studio opposite the British Museum in London.

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Maggi Payne – Crystal (1986)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Ahh-Ahh (Ver 2.1) 09:10
2. Subterranean Network    11:24
3. Phase Transitions 10:32
4. White Night 10:04
5. Solar Wind 09:52
6. Scirocco 10:25
7. Crystal 09:57

Maggi Payne is an American composer, flutist video artist and co-director (since 1992) of the Center For Contemporary Music,

in Mills College, where she teaches recording engineering, composition, and electronic music.

She also freelances as a recording engineer and editor and a historical remastering engineer.
Her work involves electroacoustic, instrumental, and vocal works along with works involving visuals, 

including dancers outfitted with electroluminescent wire and videos using images ranging from nature to the abstract.
She has performed throughout the world, and her work has been published on various labels.
She received two Composer's Grants and an Interdisciplinary Arts Grant from the National Endowment For The Arts

and video grants from the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships Program and the Mellon Foundation.
Also four honorary mentions from Bourges, and one from Prix Ars Electronica,

and was an Artist In Residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA.
She began recording professionally in 1968 in Chicago.
Her first electronic compositions were made using the Moog Synthesizer.
While at the University, Gordon Mumma showed her how to built her first ring modulator from one of his circuit designs.
There she also formed an improvisation group that was dedicated primarily to the exploration of timbre.

After composing electronically generated music for several years,

she turned to the acoustic world for an even richer, more constantly variable sound palette.
Sound sources were varied from tiny stepper motors, to signals traveling through space and faulty faucets.

Her process involved layering sounds, convolution, granular synthesis,

time stretching, digital signal processing, and extreme equalization.
"Crystal" was originally released in 1986 on vinyl by the Lovely Music label

and in 1991 was reissued on CD format featuring three bonus tracks.

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M87 – Noctilucent Threnody (1999)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Mu Cephei I 06:50
2. M8 (Lagoon Nebula) 16:16
3. NGC 7538 09:05
4. Arcturus 09:15
5. OQ172 05:45
6. P Cygni 12:27
7. NGC 6726/27 19:41

M87 was created in 1995 by Huw O. Davies, inspirationally catalysed by a television documentary about Black Holes

and aiming to create music which expressed the strangeness and extremity of these elusive celestial objects.
Davies aided by his technical level as a guitar player

but also limited by his inexistent technical knowledge on any other instrument,

spent over a year developing and perfecting notation, playing, and recording techniques which would enable him

to produce an alien orchestral sound with nothing but his 13 guitars and a bit of recording equipment.
As the musical concept expanded, he recorded several hours of material (including a titanic 78-minute piece),

samples of which were sent to a wide variety of record labels.

Reactions were quite uniform in their incomprehension and disbelief,

which resulted in a mixture of triumph and frustration, since no one seemed to know quite what to make of the music

and therefore no one seemed to know quite whether to offer him a deal.

In the summer of 1997, however, Davies contacted Supernal Music following an advertisement in a mail order catalogue,

where the label expressed interest in bands inspired by Astronomical, Astrophysical, and Cosmological subjects.
Recorded at Singularity Studios, in winter of 1997 "Noctilucent Threnody" was released in 1999 as a limited edition CD

and was the first of a planned ten albums, most of the material for which had already been recorded.
Davies is currently working on a remastered and remixed version of the "Noctilucent Threnody",
complete with several bonus tracks, that were originally recorded at the time, for a possible inclusion on the album.
In addition the second M87 album is in the making under the title "Abyssal Symphonies".
Davies is also involved in his two other projects, Devoid and Cziltang Brone.

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