David Cunningham -Grey Scale - CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 Error System (Bagfgab)

1.2 Error System (C Pulse Solo Recording)

1.3 Error System (C Pulse Group Recording)

1.4 Error System (E Based Group Recording)

1.5 Error System (Efga)

1.6 Error System (Abcd) (Bonus Track on CD Only)

1.7 Ecuador

1.8 Water Systemised

1.9 Venezuela 1

1.10 Guitar Systemised

1.11 Venezuela 2

1.12 Bolivia

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Grey Scale by David Cunningham, released 10 March 2023, includes the following tracks: "Error System (C Pulse Group Recording)", "Error System (EFGA)", "Ecuador", "Venezuela 1" and more. This version of Grey Scale comes as a 1xCD. -

David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954. His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists. His first significant commercial success came with The Flying Lizards' single "Money," an international hit in 1979.Originally released in 1976, Cunningham's first solo album Grey Scale has become a landmark statement of DIY minimalist composition - continuing in the vein of the wild explosion of arthouse experimentation from the early '70s. Cunningham, then a student at the Maidstone College of Art in Kent, drafted fellow student non-musicians and (using whatever instruments available) crafted an endlessly shifting sonic palette with an improvisor's keen sensitivity to space, texture and tone.As Cunningham states in the liner notes, his approach was to "pursue something (which may appear trivial or meaningless) so rigorously or relentlessly to the point that it reveals something new."Cunningham was influenced by live performances he was attending at the time by English composers Cornelius Cardew, Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman as well as free improvisors Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, David Toop and Paul Burwell.The inaugural release on Cunningham's own Piano label, Grey Scale was indeed "something new" in 1976. The artist quickly integrated his experimental sensibilities to produce art-rock pioneers This Heat, whose debut appeared on Piano in 1979. His popular success performing as The Flying Lizards (with two electro-punk albums on Virgin during the New Wave era) was presaged by this seminal work of fascinating sound collage and tonal freedom. First-time reissue.

Cover photograph from the videotape 'Snow Scale' (1975) by Steve Partridge. Small Group Structures - Error System. The players play a repeating phrase in time with each other, each phrase lasting the same length of time, forming an overall long pulse based on the sum of the individual parts and a short rhythm pulse which is continuous as long as this preliminary structure is held. As soon as one player makes a mistake that mistake is made basis of repetition unless it is modified by a further mistake. Each player proceeds at his own rate of change. The rhythms become more complex (assuming that any mistakes made are rhythmic errors); the long pulse fragments into individual parts. All the players play at equal loudness, in a restrained and precise manner. Mistakes should not be made deliberately in an attempt to change the music according to the whim of any one individual. The music may be finished by a prearranged signal amongst the players. Duration is unspecified but a number of short performances may be more interesting than one long one. 4-panel digipak with 8-page booklet. Durations not mentioned on the release, instead taken from CD with software. Track 6 previously unreleased.

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SPRV175.2

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