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Books by WSU faculty
Music
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Handmade
By Paul Ely Smith
From Paul Ely Smith:
I've just released my first new recording in years, "Handmade." This is the long-awaited recording of my music for Thomas Arthur's performances.
In the mid-1980s I played in an acoustic music trio called Ellipsis, and Thomas lived in the same house with two of my bandmates. Sometimes when we rehearsed, Thomas would come downstairs and start to juggle to my music, and in 1984, we decided to perform at the Northwest Folklife Festival and the Vancouver Folklife Festival. The response was exhilarating. When the band broke up, Thomas and I kept working on our performances, and as the choreography got more complicated we worked more and more with recordings. In the mid-1990s, as I developed a particular guitar style to accompany my opera Cassandra, and Thomas' movements transcended juggling with balls to an entirely new language of dance with objects, spiral branches and roots, video projections, and so on, we developed a repertoire that allowed us to bring these new voices together in live performance.
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The Dozier-Jarvis-Young Quartet: You Guys From Around Here?
Dave Jarvis and Horace Young, associate professors, School of Music; Dody and Dick Dozier
A studio recorded collection of both contemporary jazz (electric/fusion) and traditional jazz (acoustic) from one of the most popular jazz groups performing in the Pacific Northwest.
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