[10] Agony and Ecstacy of the Heir Apparent (28 46 p5th C)
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[11] Frank Church River of No Return (For Organ and Small Percussion)
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[12] What The World Does Not Know (For Voices, Piano & 21 Sound FX)
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Catalog No: FLX64 (LN451)
Title: Jazz from HAL 9000
Sound Artist: Frank Rothkamm
Visual Artist: Holger Rothkamm
Label: Flux Records
Length: 36:00 (2160s)
Composed: 2016
Location: Los Angeles
Instruments: Formula
Kurzweil K2500
EMU Procussion
Atari Formula
Roland JV-1080
Korg M3R
Roland SC-33
Release Date: 09/28/2016
Format: Digital
Tags: IFORMM
Long before Lady Gaga bought his house, Mr. Zappa (\"just another Frank from LA\") opinionated in an interview: \"If you want to be a musician, you just have to realize that nobody is gonna care.\" To prove him wrong, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave Frank Zappa a \"Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist)\" Grammy for his \"Jazz from Hell\" record that was \"performed\" without any musicians or instruments on a computer. To be sold in stores this all-instrumental \"Jazz from Hell\" had to carry a sticker that read: \"Parental Advisory Explicit Content\" and the \"Explicit Content\" was neither Rock nor Jazz, but his own brand of complex music made on a $200,000 Synclavier music computer.
Even more expensive was the HAL 9000, a sentient computer that controlled the systems of the \"Discovery One\" spacecraft and interacted with the ship's astronaut crew in both the film and novel entitled \"2001: A Space Odyssey\". It was mostly depicted as a camera lens containing a red dot. As Arthur C. Clarke opinionated in \"The Lost Worlds of 2001\": \"As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. However, about once a week [sic!] some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley [Kubrick] and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution.\" Arthur was quite the character.
These are the facts. \"The world is the totality of facts, not of things\", as Ludwig Wittgenstein opinionated. As a matter of fact, I'm going to be frank; this is what \"Jazz from HAL 9000\" is: Just another purely algorithmic Wiener Process that produced 12 endless streams of complex music. This ain't no \"Jazz for the Jet Set\". Quite Zappa-esque? No, Rothkamm-atic! But is anyone gonna care?
