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Buzz Gravelle: Prologue from "They go on mumbling. . . "

Josef Matthias Hauer:  Zwolftonspiel Sept 1956

Buzz Gravelle: Carnival Skies at Dusk

Buzz Gravelle: March from "They Go on Mumbling. . ."

Buzz Gravelle: Fretless Study No. 1

Asynchronous remote improvisation by members of the Music for People collective:
Julie Harris: MIDI percussion
Todd Rogers: viola, violin
Mary Ann Lanier: voice
Nicole DeVault: voice, harp
Alan Duff Berman: electric guitar, mix
Olen Hsu: percussion, piano
Anna Brzeski: voice

Percussion Salad

Asynchronous remote improvisation by members of the Music for People collective:
Julie Harris: MIDI percussion
Todd Rogers: viola, violin
Mary Ann Lanier: voice
Nicole DeVault: voice, harp
Alan Duff Berman: electric guitar, mix
Olen Hsu: percussion, piano
Anna Brzeski: voice
Mastered by Waves Audio

Percussion Salad 2023 (Waves remaster)

Beatmap with Klang Soundiron and Korg Drum Designer, Arturia Analog IV for the fake fretless bass, and two guitar tracks.

Starting Point

Part one of a two-part solo flute work I composed for Lynn Schubert (now Lynn Schubert-Clausen) in 1982, somewhat inspired by Denise Levertov's poems, Emblems I and II, from her book Life in the Forest. This is from a cassette recorded at the live performance and there's some background noise and audio artifacts but it's such a good performance that I had to post it.

Wing 1 for Solo Flute by Alan Duff Berman

Composed by Jim Gable for Alan Duff Berman in 1987, this is a live performance (and possibly the premiere) at the Norris Theater in Palos Verdes, CA. The tape accompaniment played on the boom box was created by Jim from analog samples taken from my guitar--every single note as a separate sample, along with sounds of hitting the guitar in various places, plucking notes between the nut and the fretted note as well as between the bridge and the fretted note, etc. So the work ends up being a duet between the live classical guitar and a richly multiplied instantiation of that same guitar. Thanks very much to Jan Paulshus for doing the digital transfer of the 33-year-old 10-inch reel of the concert.

Music for Guitar + Ghetto Blaster

Classical guitarist Alan Berman specializes in performing uncommon guitar music, including music he has transcribed for guitar with other instruments and voice. His chamber groups  Joy of Sextet, Signs of Life, and now the Never on Time Ensemble have presented concerts in Los Angeles from the late 1970s to the present. Also present here are sound files for his publishing company, California Guitar Archives, which has been publishing uncommon music and recordings for classical guitar since 1985.

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