subtropics vol. 1: breath
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For thirteen years, the Subtropics Festival has been the premiere showcase for experimental music in Miami. The first in a series of live recordings from the festival's digital archives, this collection revolves around the sounds generated by breath and features performances by Robert Dick, Earle Browne, John Gibson, Needle & sony_mao, Thomas Buckner and Alvin Lucier, Gustavo Matamoros and Robert Gregory, and John Cage.



Click on the track list below for audio samples and more information on the tracks and artists featured:

Robert Dick: Molecular Motion
Earle Brown: December 1952
Jon Gibson: Stalling Into Elation
Needle and Sony_Mao: Samantha Fox Interview (algedonic loop)
Gustavo Matamoros and Robert Gregory: Crypsis
Alvin Lucier and Thomas Buckner: Music for Baritone and Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators'
John Cage: 'Empty Words'