ALEA NOVA
- is a group of musicians...
- is a way of performing music...
- represents a return to an era...
- is a repertoire...
- distributes this
repertoire...
- Jim Cuomo -(Duoglide) clarinet - saxophones - glidophone - piano - domra
- Jo Haemer -(Duoglide) guitars
- Kathy Fors -(Cacophony Society) accordion - recorder - horn
- Jim Baldwin -(TuTu Band) trombone - baritone - euphonium
- Greg McMickle -(TuTu Band) trumpet - alto - soprano trombone
- Wade Evans -(TuTu Band) guitar - bass guitar
- Nan Haemer -(Portland Symphonic Choir) voice - clarinet
- Space and Distance are Time and Duration
- Position and Movement are Pitch and Intensity
- Distribution and Decision are Orchestration and Composition
- ALEA NOVA does not improvise collectively.
- ALEA NOVA performs music adapted to their needs.
- Starting with Banshee and The Aeolian Harp
- Continuing through Imaginary Landscapes
- On to Durations, Extensions, Intersections, and Projections
- Passing through Electric Springs
- Navigation by Illiac and HPSCHD
- Ending in C
by Jim Cuomo
- DRY RALPH for trombones and others.
- choose from among several phrases.
- play each in any order
- atonal
- FOR ZEBULON PIKE AND HENRY for solo and reeds, brass, and strings
- choose from among several phrases.
- work through from beginning to end.
- tonal
- GODOT? OH. HE LEFT for reeds, brass, and strings.
- numbers are notes.
- size is volume.
- position is register.
- conducted.
- atonal
- ZETOS 1,...,4 for brass and strings
- normal notation.
- very simple to perform
- written with an IBM 7090.
- in 1967.
- tonal
- ZETOS 3,...,5 for sliding instruments
- graphical representation.
- slowly evolving cluster.
- written with an IBM 7090.
- in Fortran
- in 1967.
- tonal(?)
THE LAST DRUM for soprano, saxophone, and percussion
- ritual theatre.
- voice and sax in quasi-normal notation.
- percussion (metal) in graphical system.
- can be conducted.
- tonal
OZARK MIDNITES for solo and brass, reeds, and strings
- move from phrase to phrase.
- in order.
- slowly to ending.
- can be conducted.
- tonal
MACHINA EX DEUS for brass and guitars
- pegs, slides, pistons and valves
- tonal
ALEA NOVA began by performing music by others
- Vexations by Erik Satie
- Ostinato II by Henry Cowell
- Sonata for Clarinet by John Cage
- Cheap Imitation by John Cage
- Round by Charles Hamm
