Semi-Conducting: Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket

Chapter 14: We Were All Seated Around the Campfire


1: A Hidden Switch

2: I am Sitting in a Classroom

3: Worlds of Music

4: Four Ridiculously Large Speakers

Interlude: Multitrack

5: Playing with Chips

6: The Infinite Amplification of Silence (or I Ching for Dummies)

7: Old Guard Avant Garde

8: Newcastle to Narvik

9: The Eden Before Apple

10: A Bright Red Electric Guitar

Interlude: 33 1/3

11: Devil's Music

12: Planes, Trains and Step-Down Transformers

13: A Computer Walks into a Bar

14: We Were All Seated Around the Campfire

Interlude: Soundcheck

15: Still Lives

16: STEIM -- IRCAM with a Human Face

Interlude: Silence

17: Whistling in the Woods

18: Strange Heaven

19: Art School

Interlude: How Things Work

20: Hardware Hacking

21: Salvage

22: The Missing Switch

Interlude: Things I'd Like to Own

23: Surprise Me

Nicolas Collins, It Was A Dark And Stormy Night, Trace Elements CD (1992)
(Click on cover image for pdf of the booklet.)

TRACKS

Broken Light: I Corelli

Broken Light: II Locatelli

Broken Light: III Torelli
(Score for Broken Light.)

Tobabo Fonio

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
(Libretto for It Was A Dark And Stormy Night).

Various Artists, Imaginary Landscapes, Nonesuch Records CD/cassette, 1990. Produced by the author from recordings made during a festival of the same name he produced at The Kitchen in 1988. Link to CD tracks HERE.