Biota – Rackabones (2xLP 1985)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Vagabones A 26:34

2. Vagabones B 26:12

3. Rackabones A 18:08

4. Rackabones B 17:57

American experimental music ensemble that created in 1979 in Fort Collins, Colorado

under the name Mnemonist Orchestra (shortened soon after to Mnemonists).
Biota founded by fellow scientists and community radio engineers Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp, 

the Mnemonists ensemble of artists, musicians, and college-town bohemians.
in 1984, the group split into two collaborative factions:

a visual-arts collective, which retained the name Mnemonists, and the musical group, Biota.
Biota adheres to an unpredictable method of organizing sounds that ideally invites listeners

to imbue proceedings with their own individualized interpretations and experiences

(much like interpreting a work of abstract visual art), thereby allowing for an element of "listener composition".

Such a concept is in keeping with notions of community collaboration

and song evolution inherent in many forms of traditional folk music.
Biota-Mnemonists has taken to the stage for live performance only twice,

in 1981, at the Colorado State University art school in Fort Collins, Colorado,

and in November 1990 at the then-annual New Music America festival, held that year in Montreal, Quebec.

 
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