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Video of music performed by Steve Horowitz
The Re–Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Music by Tizoc Estrada, CalArts alum
Miss Bello - electric guitar, loops stations, and cell phone

Music by Chris Adams
Lumenix Citx Mix - modified acoustic city sounds from around Dallas, TX

Music by composer Alexandra Gardner
Luminoso - guitar and sampled sounds
Marblehead - sampled toy marbles on tape

Music by Bob Clendenen - composer, songwriter, friend of Randy
Calling (2002) - electric trumpet and computer
We Bid You Goodnight - an arrangement of a public domain song

Music by Guillermo Silveira
Estudio de paz
Nanomusic - a piano composition inspired by nanotechnology and imaginary nanosounds

Music by Michael Jon Fink
Celesta Solo (1981)
Temptation to Flower (1995 - excerpt)
I Hear It in the Rain (excerpt)

Mystery System - a Tzadik CD by Lukas Ligeti
Pattern Transformation
Moving Houses
Independence
New York to Neptune
Delta Space

Music by Loons in the Monastery - Jennifer Lowman and Samuel Claiborne
Stranger Than Truth

Music by R. P. Collier Thumb Piano Project
Brassy 2 - a feedback extravaganza using a brass planter, 10 pieces of spring steel, a pitch shifter and a speaker rigged inside a large tin can...thumb piano music for whales!
Lightspill - a Thumb Piano Project video soundtrack

Music by Malcolm Goldstein
Configurations in Darkness (excerpt in realaudio)
An improvisation on a folksong that was recorded in Gacko, Bosnia-Herzogovina as sung by Halima Hvre in 1935, and later transcribed by Bela Bartok as an exile in New York City in the 1940s. It is one of several such songs incorporated into the ensemble composition, 'Configurations in Darkness', composed in 1995; the music as a kind of landscape of sound from which solo song evolves, '... discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh' (Jean Genet; 'Prisoner of Love'). This performance is an improvisation from the larger ensemble piece and, as the original, offered as a gesture of hope for the endurance of peace in Bosnia-Herzogovina (as elsewhere, endlessly).

Music by Jack Vees
The Restaurant Behind the Pier
...utilizes "hammered-on" harmonics with an underlying bass part to create a piece that might appeal to new age audiences, yet it goes far beyond the merely pastel and pleasant. The layers of harmonics and 'natural' notes interlock and wrap around each other in a rigorous pattern, demonstrating Vees' skills as a composter as well as his bass technique. This same hard-nosed sense of structure is evident in his other original pieces.

Music by Andrew Earle Simpson
Summer-Night Songs
Robert Faub, soprano saxophone; Jessica Suchy-Pilalis, harp
Summer-Night Songs combines soprano saxophone and harp in a beautifully sonorous ensemble. The work's central section depicts a summer rainstorm, with cadenzas for each instrument.

Music by Peter Dragotta
Color Test Pattern 3:18 is an audio collage of four views of how to reach "the almighty."

Various projects by CalArts New Media Instructor Mark Trayle

A surf tune by Arthur Jarvinen
Endless Bummer, for Randy
Performed by Arthur Jarvinen (bass) and Ryan Francesconi (guitar)
Also read Arthur Jarvinen's stories about Randy Hostetler
(copyright Arthur Jarvinen 1990, published by Leisure Planet Music)

Randy playing "8"in RealVideo

Excerpt from Randy Hostetler's P[L]ACES - a music collage for five percussionists, various brass instruments, piano, acoustic and amplified guitar, washtub bass, power tools, spoons, lamps and taped materials.
January 1998 performance at New York's MATA Festival, produced by Philip Glass.
Performers include Lisa Bielawa and Eleanor Sandresky, former artistic directors of MATA, the Talujon Quartet, Jack Vees and several members of the Philip Glass Ensemble, with Beatrice Jona Affron conducting.

(Additional information on the world premiere (and on Rob Tate's video documentary of the performance) can be found in Randy's Room.)

Music by composer Chien-Yin Chen
A Little Siankwede But Not Too Much
performed by the TALUJON Quartet, January 1998 MATA Festival in New York City.
Chien-Yin Chen draws her inspiration from both percussion usage in the Peking Opera and the "one-man-one-tone" music of Siankwede, the only composer in Siachilaba, a village of the Tonga people residing in western Zimbabwe which she has visited.

Music by Eleanor Sandresky - composer, pianist and member of the Philip Glass Ensemble
Mathematically Inclined
performed by the TALUJON Quartet at the January 1998 MATA Festival in New York City.

Music by R. Wiley Evans
Yotakit
Found sound at Laguna Seca, Erik Satie performance applause, and a popping light bulb.

Music by James Bohn
Two Preludes for Piano (MIDI realizations)
prelude # 4
prelude # 8

Music by Pauline Oliveros
The Wheel of Time (excerpt)
from a 1983 performance at the California Institute of the Arts Contemporary Music Festival.
Scores and recordings of Pauline Oliveros's works are available from Deep Listening Publications.

Music by Pamela Z - performance artist from San Francisco, CA
Pop Titles 'You'

painting by Keesje Fischer

"Everly" by rF.

Music by

Music by Tim Bonenfant
Solo for Bb Clarinet

Music by flutist Anne La Berge
Flute Craziness
A small, computer-manipulated sample from the piece Down in the Mouth

Music by LA's Sonus Quartet
Tall Tales and Stories