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Alan Vega improvising over traditional instrumental track played by Robert Poss (guitar, slide guitar, fretless bass) for Susan Stenger's Soundtrack for an Exhibition (2006) at the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon curated by Mathieu Copeland. (Photo credit: Frank Schwere/Forma)

Suicide's Alan Vega sings For Susan Stenger's Soundtrack

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Unknown-Public-06-Eclectic-Guitars/release/2028580

From Issue 06 of the music quarterly on CD Unknown Public. Released in a cardboard box containing a poster, 3 sheets of paper with information, a 36-page booklet, a large plastic plectrum and a digipak with CD.

Unknown Public 06: Eclectic Guitars
Label: Unknown Public ‎– upcd06
Format: CD, Compilation 
Country: UK Released: 1995 Genre: Classical, Electronic, Jazz
Style: Modern Classical, Experimental, Free Improvisation

Full Tracklisting:

1	Gilles Gobeil –	 Associations Libres	3:05	
2	Bert Lams –	 Yamanishi Blues	2:40	
3	Terry Edwards –	 Stack	2:12	
4	Robert Poss –	 Nagasaki Bells	2:56	
5	Seigen Ono –	 I Do Love You A Little	5:21	
6	Dave Draper –	 Colchester	5:42	
7	Elliott Sharp –	 Omonok	4:46	
8	G.P. Hall* –	 Sandstorm	5:32	
9	David Toop –	 Reverse World	5:50	
10	Billy Jenkins –	 Tall Straight Back Chair	1:20	
11	Jeremy Peyton Jones –	 18 Guitars	3:58	
12	Michael Starobin –	 Chase	4:43	
13	Michael Gibbs –	 Bloods Of Dust	8:58	
14	Nick Didkovsky –	 Dead Silence	5:25	
15	Billy Jenkins –	 Bedtime	1:00	
16	Peter Spencer –	 Scratchpad: Uncommercial Commercials: Diva In A Dug-Out Canoe	 0:32	
17	I.D. Mellish –	 Scratchpad: Uncommercial Commercials: Trailer	0:53	
18	Steve Appleton –	 Scratchpad: Uncommercial Commercials: Wah-Wah Pedal	0:26	
19	J-me –	 Scratchpad: Uncommercial Commercials: Gilbert And George Jingle	0:32	
20	Evelyn Glennie –	 Scratchpad: Uncommercial Commercials: Mazda Small Screen	0:41	
21	Tim Brady –	 Scratchpad: Uncommercial Commercials: Soma Pharmaceutical Sun Alliance	0:57	
22	Morgan Fisher –	 Scratchpad: Uncommercial Commercials: Miniatures Miniature	1:05	
23	Frank Zappa and Mothers Of Invention, The* –	 The Chrome-Plated Megaphone Of Destiny	6:29	

http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/music/cds/UPCD06.html

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Nagasaki Bells For Unknown Public 06 (1995)

It was more varied in pitch earlier. At first I thought it was machine noise, then it sounded like someone doing a Nicolas Collins piece in the open air.

I did a lot of noise reduction on this.

172 E 4th Street Feedback

http://www.allmusic.com/album/dugga-dugga-dugga-play-drill-mw0000956791  Review by Tom Schulte: "Dugga Dugga Dugga is an amazing collaboration of artists interpreting Wire's 'Drill.' The term is "collaboration," as opposed to 'compilation,' because due to final engineering by London artist Mark Gage (Vapourspace, Cusp, Carl Marks), the material was milled, sieved and refined so that the final recording amounts to a single composition, an extended version of "Drill" where one track seamlessly segues to the next, held together by the repeated, if transformed, theme. Wire, or now Wir, is so enamored of the piece that it appears on at least five recordings and has become a 30-minute portion of the band's live set. The alchemists of electronica called in to brew this 14-part potion are Baboon, Chris & Cosey, Electric Company, the Ex-Lion Tamers and others. No portion of the final product is directly identified as originating with any of the listed contributors. By finalizing the product as a continuous mix of variations, Wire elevated what could have been one more of many, awkward tribute albums into a cohesive, apotheosis of the piece, a grand opus of multiple derivations. This injection of a compositional, visionary element into what is an electronica concept album exploits the possibilities of the genre (simultaneous, parallel processing of a single problem in separate studio workshops) while retaining the theme-centered focus of enduring, great works of art." Band Of Susans' contribution was a hidden track at the beginning of the CD. Label: WMO (1998)

Drill (slammed 2015 MP3)

Frozen Flowers was commissioned by Alexandra Beller/Dances, and had its premiere in late July 2011 at The Institute For Contemporary Art, Boston. 

http://www.icaboston.org/programs/performance/dance/alexandra_beller_dances/

Credits: Composed, performed and recorded by Robert Poss. Publisher: Blessing And Curse Music (ASCAP)  

Frozen Flowers (2011)

Instrumental Mix from Band of Susans' first LP, HOPE AGAINST HOPE (1988)

I The Jury  Instrumental Bounce 2+ 16b

Intro Guitar Thing (partial) for KH

ROBERT POSS has performed and recorded with Rhys Chatham, Nicolas Collins, Ben Neill, Phill Niblock, David Dramm, Susan Stenger and Bruce Gilbert. In 1986, he formed the wall-of-guitars group Band Of Susans, which Rolling Stone Magazine described as "adamantly arty, brainy, visceral and bracing." BOS released two EPs and five full-length CDs (all produced by Poss) before disbanding in 1995. In 2002 Poss, whom Steve Albini once called "an enormously underrated guitar theorist," released two companion solo CDs Distortion Is Truth and Crossing Casco Bay on Trace Elements Records. At the time, Tape Op Magazine described him as a “guitar genius, drone meister …the master of treated and manipulated guitars.” Since his 2002 releases, Poss has composed and performed music for choreographers Sally Gross, Alexandra Beller and Gerald Casel, has worked with ex-Band Of Susans member Susan Stenger on a 96-day musical installation for the Musée d’art Contemporain in Lyon, France, performed at the premier of composer Phill Niblock’s piece "Stosspeng" in Krems, Austria and contributed music to an Albert Maysles/Kristen Nutile documentary, Sally Gross: The Pleasure Of Stillness. In 2009 he performed with Rhys Chatham and Robert Longo at a Metropolitan Museum of Art retrospective and participated in Chatham’s Crimson Grail project for 200 guitars at Lincoln Center. He has also collaborated with Austrian visual artist Margret Wibmer and filmmaker Cat Tyc, and has written guitar-centric articles for The Leonardo Music Journal and The Tone Quest Report. He resides in New York City and continues to perform his guitar and electronics pieces in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe.

Robert Poss

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