- The ReR Quarterly - Selections From Vol. 2

The RéR Quarterly is a sound magazine, featuring commissioned pieces, projects, live recordings, found sounds from all over the world. Plus 64+ page A4 magazine with theoretical and practical articles, texts, artworks, provocations.

Tracks 1, 4, 7, 15 : from Quarterly Vol.2 No.2
Tracks 2, 10, 11 : from Quarterly Vol.2 No.1
Tracks 3, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 : from Quarterly Vol.2 No.3.
Tracks 8, 9, 18, 19, 20 : from Quarterly Vol.2 No.4.

[b]1[/b] : recorded somewhere in Acton in 1987 (about ten years after the original instrumental from Charlie Haden's [i]Chairman Mao[/i] from the LP 'Old and New Dreams')
[b]3[/b] : This track consists of 2 different live recordings of the same piece edited together; first half is from a concert in Milano 12/12/1986, the second from a live performance in Pantigilante, near Milano, 29/05/1987.
[b]4[/b] : the original sounds were taken from a 1959 recording by [i]Le Choeur des Moniales Benedictines du Precieux-Sang[/i] from Mt. Laurier, Quebec. The recording was called 'Polyphonie Gregorienne' and [i]Christi Crucifixi Ultima Verba[/i] was one of the songs on the LP.
[b]5[/b] : Recorded Jan. 30, 1988 at Rotary Totem, Los Angeles.
[b]6[/b] : Recorded at 'the forest' (Skog Skattegard, Sturefors, Sweden) in July 1987.
[b]8[/b] : Completed 1987.
[b]9[/b] : All done in December 1987 at mumble-mumble studios pic.
[b]10[/b] : Produced for BBC 1's Saturday live show. Released by arrangement with BBC enterprise Ltd. (p) BBC 1987. As the programme title indicates, this was a live improvised performance.
[b]11[/b] : Recorded February 1986 at the Frigo Palace.
[b]13[/b] : Recorded in Milano. The sounds of missiles are taken from television news (Beirut reportage). While Giovanni tries to play the electric guitar, Roberto massacres his solos with a ring modulator.
[b]14[/b] : Recorded in Luciano's bedroom, April 1987. Remixed and edited in the Kitchen, December 1987.
[b]16[/b] : Recorded live for KUSC-FM radio at a concert presented by the independent Composers Association on March 10, 1987 at the Japan America Theatre, Los Angeles.
[b]17[/b] : Recorded at Cluster Studio, Oslo
[b]18, 19, 20[/b] : composed and arranged by Jean Derome as part of the soundtrack to "Paul Strand, Under the Dark Cloth", a film by John Walker. Recorded September 1988 at the National Film Board of Canada.