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Rodney Oakes: Music for MIDI Trombone

Read "Music for MIDI Trombone" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Experimental in the broadest sense of the word, the music on Rodney Oakes' Music for MIDI Trombone ventures into new realms, both technological and artistic. Electronic treatment of the trombone is thus far something of an oddity in music. Oakes takes a broad approach to this challenge, using a pitch-dependent MIDI controller and introducing sparse independently-composed electronic accompaniment. He offers similar treatment to the alp horn, a 9-foot long Polish instrument which exists solely to play a solitary E note. ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Redux

III Records
2009

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Music for MIDI...

Innova Recordings
2001

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