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about the artists: a native of new haven, ct, double bassist and composer daniel barbiero has been active in improvised and experimental music and dance in the baltimore-washington area for several years as a performer, composer and ensemble leader. his music reflects his background in minimal, modal and non-genre specific improvisation, and interest in verbal, graphic and other non-standard methods of scoring for small ensembles. in addition to his solo work, he currently is a member of the free improvisation trio colla parte (with saxophonist perry conticchio and percussionist rich o’meara) and is music director for the nancy havlik dance performance group.
steve hilmy has been on the faculty of the george washington university music department since 1992 where he is the director of the electronic and computer music studio. he has won awards from such organizations as the southeastern composers league, ascap, bmi, the peabody conservatory, and the virginia center for creative arts. much of steve’s recent works have been cross-medium collaborations for dance, video, and live electronics.
about the album:take a sound consists of two improvisations for amplified double bass and realtime-electronic processing that daniel barbiero and steve hilmy performed in january and june of 2012. daniel also adds a solo bass improvisation that he later processed with a grunular synthesizer and dedicated to steve.
about the label: pan y rosas discos is a small netlabel based in chicago that focuses on experimental: noise, improvisation, and weirdo rock. we believe that music should be available to listeners for free and all the music that we release is licensed under a creative commons attribution-noncommercial-no derivative works 3.0 unported license.
