Lawrence Casserley - Discography

Last changed 31 July, 2009

Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble - The Moment's Energy

ECM Records - ECM2066

www.ecmrecords.com

Musicians:

Evan Parker - soprano saxophone; Peter Evans - trumpet, piccolo trumpet; Ko Ishikawa - shô; Ned Rothenburg - clarinet, bass clarinet, shakuhachi; Philipp Wachsmann - violin, live electronics; Paul Lytton - percussion, live electronics; Agustí Fernandez - piano, prepared piano; Barry Guy - double bass; Lawrence Casserley - signal processing instrument; Walter Prati - computer processing; Joel Ryan - sample and signal processing; Richard Barrett - live electronics; Paul Obermayer - live electronics; Marco Vecchi - sound projection

Recorded at the 2007 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, this line-up adds instrumentalists Peter Evans, Ned Rothenburg and Ko Ishikawa to the Ensemble, making it the largest version yet. Tracks consist of "The Moment's Energy I - VII" and "Incandescent Clouds".

Produced by Steve Lake

ECM Records, Postfach 600 331, 81203 München

Released June, 2009

Lawrence Casserley, Adam Linson - Integument

http://www.emanemdisc.com/psi.html

Musicians: Adam Linson - bass, live processing and sampling; Lawrence Casserley - signal processing instrument, voice

Tracks: stratum spongiosum, squamous epithelium, wandering leukocytes, basement membrane, cycloids, stratum compactum, chromatophores

Recorded Berlin, 13/14 May, 2007

Released April, 2009

Lawrence Casserley, Jeffrey Morgan - Room 2 Room

http://konnex-records.de

Musicians: Jeffrey Morgan - tenor and soprano saxophone; Lawrence Casserley - signal processing instrument

Tracks: Quaking Quacks, Martian Arts, Rhombic Rheums, Ayler Appears, Strange Roads, Lunar Lagoons, Questing Qualms

Recorded in Concert - 21 May, 2007, Kassel; 22 May, 2007, Köln

Special thanks to: John Rottiers, Radio Centraal, Antwerpen

Additional thanks: M Keul, H Scharfenberg, G Wissel, A Albert

Released January, 2009

Lawrence Casserley, Simon Desorgher - Music from ColourDome

Psi Records - psi 07.01

http://www.emanemdisc.com/psi.html

Musicians:

Evan Parker - soprano saxophone; Philipp Wachsmann - violin; Simon Desorgher - flutes; David Stevens; computer processing; Lawrence Casserley - signal processing instrument.

Released May, 2007

Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble - The Eleventh Hour

ECM Records - ECM1924

www.ecmrecords.com

Musicians:

Evan Parker - soprano saxophone, voice; Philipp Wachsmann - violin, live electronics; Paul Lytton - percussion, live electronics; Agustí Fernandez - piano, prepared piano; Adam Linson - double bass; Lawrence Casserley - signal processing instrument, percussion, voice; Walter Prati - computer processing; Joel Ryan - sample and signal processing; Richard Barrett - sampling keyboard, live electronics; Paul Obermayer - sampling keyboard, live electronics; Marco Vecchi - sound projection

The latest release from the EAE, recorded at the 2004 Free RadiCCAls Festival at CCA, Glasgow, adds Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer to the line-up. There are two pieces, "Shadow Play", a quartet by Parker, Casserley, Ryan and Prati, and "The Eleventh Hour", in five parts, Parker's new piece for the Ensemble.

Produced by Steve Lake

ECM Records, Postfach 600 331, 81203 München

Released July, 2005

 

Paul Rutherford, Robert Jarvis, Lawrence Casserley - Iskra3

psi records - psi 05.02

www.emanemdisc.com/psi.html

Tracks: Act 1 - Zenquahn, Ombuhl, Bodrivar, Falgoric; Act 2 - Brelfor, Felcrum, Mayilcra

Revolutionary improvised music for trombone and computers - "These playfully haunted pieces require as much time as you're prepared to give them, not because they're obscure and occluded, but because the sheer energy of Rutherford's playing and the reaction rate of live computer processors Lawrence Casserley and Robert Jarvis are so impressive you'll want regular action replays." Brian Morton - The Wire

Released May, 2005

Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble - Memory/Vision

ECM Records - ECM1852

www.ecmrecords.com

Musicians:

Evan Parker - soprano and tenor saxophones, khene; Philipp Wachsmann - violin, viola, live electronics, sound processing; Barry Guy - double-bass; Paul Lytton - percussion, live electronics; Agustí Fernandez, piano; Lawrence Casserley - Signal Processing Instrument; Walter Prati - live electronics, sound processing; Joel Ryan, computer, sound processing; Marco Vecchi - live electronics, sound processing

Sounds of the future and echoes of Evan Parker’s creative past commingle in this extraordinary live recording that blurs the boundaries between free improvisation, contemporary composition and electronic music. “Memory/Vision” is the third album in the critically-acclaimed series that began with “Toward The Margins” and continued with “Drawn Inward”. Stunning playing and/or sound treatments by all members of this English/Italian/American/Spanish edition of the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

Produced by Steve Lake

ECM Records, Postfach 600 331, 81203 München

Released October, 2003

 

HyperYak - Angelic Weaponry

Sargasso SCD28048

www.sargasso.com 

Tracks: Angelic Weaponry, Four Mountains, Hippogriff, Heaven's Wind, Installing Ley Lines.

Michael Ormiston - Voice, Morin Khuur, Flutes, Jaw Harps, Bowls, Shawm, Electronics
Jeff Higley - Tibetan Singing Bowls, Cymbal, Jaw Harps, Flutes, Voice
Simon Desorgher - Ethnic and Modern Flutes
Lawrence Casserley - Signal Processing Instrument, Percussion, Monoharps, Voice, Mozeño

"HyperYak, at a time when much improvisation has become calory conscious, are unafraid to create snorting, shaggy music with heavyweight ambitions." Clive Bell, The Wire 

 Sargasso, PO Box 10565, London N1 8SR

Released June, 2003

Lawrence Casserley - The Edge of Chaos

Sargasso SCD28042

www.sargasso.com

Tracks: Ragnarök (Parable 1), Grey Relief in Four Parts (Tàpies 1), "X", Infinit (Tàpies 2), "Y", Cardboard with Knotted Rope (Tàpies 3), Brown Gray and Red Relief/Everything and Nothing (Tàpies 4/Parable 2)

"Over the edge of everything you looked, deep in thought." - Peter Altenberg

"One of them erupted in a victorious clatter, unbeleivably harsh, with something of a gargle and of a whistle. From that moment things changed." - Borges, "Ragnarök

"Behind his face and his words, which were copious, fantastic and stormy, there was only a bit of coldness, a dream dreamt by no one." - Borges, "Everything and Nothing"

Sargasso, PO Box 10565, London N1 8SR

Released June, 2002

 

Dividuality

Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Lawrence Casserley

Maya Recordings - MCD0101

Tracks: Frondescence, Dividuality, Aulos (duo EP & LC), Shifting, Scion (duo BG & LC), Zool (duo BG & LC), Spinney, Transmute, Calyx

Evan Parker, Soprano Saxophone; Barry Guy, Chamber Double Bass; Lawrence Casserley, Signal Processing Instrument.

"They have met many times before - Barry Guy and Evan Parker - two tributaries of this never-the-same-river-twice. But this time their confluence can send them in contrary directions: The moment that is now is confused with the moment that was then; details are waylaid in a shadowy cave. The interventions and extensions produced by Lawrence Casserley act like uprooted storm-blown trees casually thrown across the river. He is also the storm.

"A little of the rigorous clarity of the basic duo is sacrificed for a music which is smudged and realigned with details recovered from the process of its own making and strengthened by the stretch and stress of this intense knotting. The echo hunts the note, the shadow separates from its root.

"Its elusiveness is its energy" From the liner notes by Declan O'Driscoll

Maya Recordings, Griffinstown, Skeoughvosteen, Co Kilkenny, Ireland

maya@eircom.net

Released July, 2001

 

Lawrence Casserley - Labyrinths

Sargasso Records - SCD28030

www.sargasso.com

Four pieces for acoustic instruments and computer instruments: 'Labyrinth', for Percussion, Voice, Flute and Computer; 'The Garden of Forking Paths', for Guitar and Computer; 'The Monk's Prayer', for Bass Flute and Computer; 'Vista Clara', for Piano and Computer

Performed by: Simon Desorgher, Flute and Bass Flute; Richard Durrant, Guitar; Carol Morgan, Piano; Lawrence Casserley, Live Computer Processing

Each of these sharply contrasted pieces is a study in matching the design of the computer sound processing instrument to the associated acoustic instrument and to the expressive requirements of the piece - in each case the instrument and the piece are one concept.

"There is always a natural cohesion between, say, a guitar and its electronic counterpart; one may be the transformation of the other, but the two sources are always one instrument. It is this unity that makes Casserley's performances so intriguing. In the hands of the wizard, electronics become powerful means of expressivity and lyricism taking the listener through labyrinths of sound." from the introduction by John Palmer

Sargasso, PO Box 10565, London N1 8SR

Released October, 1999

 

Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble - Drawn Inward

ECM Records - ECM1693

www.ecmrecords.com

Musicians:

Evan Parker - soprano and tenor saxophones, khene; Philipp Wachsmann - violin, viola, live electronics, sound processing; Barry Guy - double-bass; Paul Lytton - percussion, live electronics; Lawrence Casserley - Signal Processing Instrument; Walter Prati - live electronics, sound processing; Marco Vecchi - live electronics, sound processing

Tracks:

The Crooner (for Johnny Hartman); Serpent in Sky; Travel in the Homeland; Spouting Bowl; Collect Calls [Milano-Kingston] [ Bugged]; aka Lotan; Reanascreena; At Home in the Universe (for Stuart Kauffmann); Writing on Ice; Phloy in the Frame; DrawnInward

Produced by Steve Lake

The booklet includes an in depth introduction by Simon Emmerson

"...a very engaging souvenir of master musicians at work...Drawn Inward is a very lovely release, and both the Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble and ECM Records should be commended." Colby Lieder - Sonic Arts Network 'Diffusion'

 

ECM Records, Postfach 600 331, 81203 München

Released June, 1999

 

Music of the Spheres - and other music by Simon Desorgher

Musicans:

Simon Desorgher - Flute, Bass Flute; Sally Mays - Piano; Lawrence Casserley - Computer Processing, Sound Projection

Pieces:

Music of the Spheres; Concert Studies 1 and 2; The Mature Person's Guide to the Flute; Trio; Improvisation for Bass Flute and Computer; PanDemonic for Giant PanPipes

"Improvisation" and "PanDemonic" composed by Lawrence Casserley and Simon Desorgher; all other pieces composed by Simon Desorgher.

This CD is mainly of music by my long-term collaborator Simon Desorgher, however two of the pieces are joint compositions, and two others feature me as a performer. In addition I devised the computer programs for "Music of the Spheres", "Improvisation" and "PanDemonic", while the design and construction of the giant panpipes was a collaboration between Simon and myself.

"Music of the Spheres" was composed to be played in the Giant Bubble (above). The sound of the flautist suspended in the centre is radioed to the shore, where the computer turns it into an orchestra of flutes. "Concert Studies" 1 and 2 are part of a series of six exploring extended techniques for solo flute. The Mature Person's Guide to the Flute is a set of contemporary variations on the well-known Purcell tune, for flute and piano. Trio for flute and tape combines extended flute techniques with electronic and concrete sounds. "Improvisation" uses my Signal Processing Instrument with Simon on Bass Flute. "PanDemonic" is our show-piece for the giant panpipes with extensive computer processing.

Available from: Simon Desorgher, 30 Penwortham Road, Sanderstead, Surrey CR2 0QS - or from Sargasso Records

Released March, 1999

 

AL-JABR

Various Musians vs. Disinformation

 

Ash International {R.I.P.} Ash 4.3

www.touch.demon.co.uk/ashint.htm

 

Seven different artists respond to the Disinformation CDs 'R&D1' (Ash2.9) and 'R&D2' (Ash 9.2)

 

London's Overthrow - Evan Parker

Pandemonium - Tactile

Booming Bass - Jim O'Rourke

Parabolas - Simon Fisher Turner

Raxor - Mechos

´K`h´mkߣ#ñ¹ - Lawrence Casserley

Synaptic Radio - T:un[k] Systems

 

"the science of restoring what is missing and of equating like with like"

"the surgical treatment of fractures"

"the bringing together of elements"

"the part of mathematics which investigates relations and properties of structures

by means of general symbols"

Released March, 1999

 

Live at "Les Instants Chavirés"

Evan Parker with Noel Akchoté, Lawrence Casserley and Joel Ryan

LEO Records - LR255

www.atlas.co.uk/leorecords/

Recorded in concert December 20, 1997 at "Les Instants Chavirés", Montreuil, France. Recording Engineer and Line Producer Jean-Marc Foussat. Produced by Evan Parker and Leo Feigin.

Instant 1 (E/J); Instant 2 (N/L); Instant 3 (E/J/L);

Instant 4 (N/J/L); Instant 5 (N/J); Instant 6 (E/N/J/L)

"It is of course fundamental to the music making process in these improvisations that there is a real time communication between the players in which it becomes impossible to analyse events in terms of simple input and output relationships. The output from one moment can become the input for the next moment and several layers of such loops may be superimposed. In social terms this is true of all free group improvisation but here the mechanisms of signal processing put these "feedback loops" (in the classical cybernetic sense of the term) at the core of the process. The individuals are encouraged towards mutual dependency by their collectively chosen music making means." Evan Parker, liner notes

"This is the next frontier for spontaneous music ensembles. Out of many squabbling voices one beautiful, contemporary noise; out of chaos, clarity." Gil Gershman, Motion.

Released March, 1998

 

Work in progress

FMR sampler 3 (from Avant magazine). One track with Evan Parker.

1997

Solar Wind

Touch TO:35

www.touch.demon.co.uk

Evan Parker - Soprano Saxophone; Lawrence Casserley - Signal Processing Instrument

"He walked into the shreds of flame. But they did not bite into his flesh, they caressed him and engulfed him without heat or combustion. With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another." (Borges - The Circular Ruins)

Pachacamac; Epicycles; Coyolxauhqui;

The Central Region (for Michael Snow); Tlaloc; Solar Wind

"One of the most astonishing electroacoustic records this year" Testcard

"...sculptured slithers of shimmering unstable filtered tones...the gritty dirt of chaos...gated turbulence engulfed by searing long tones...key clicking foregrounds with power and presence...digital drips in a sea of bright white sound...It's an awesome CD." Jim Denley, Resonance

Released October, 1997

Groundwork

Music of Melvyn Poore

Random Acoustics RA005

Lawrence appears on a couple of tracks on this CD, and was also responsible for some of the recordings.

 

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