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Strategic Improv Laboratories

2001/01/30

In celebration of our 1 year anniversary, SIL2K has assembled a collection of some of our best game piece performances from the past year. It's entitled "SIL2K Plays Games" and you can get a copy for yourself at the Monday night shows for only $10. Featured are Stuart McLeod's "Caged" and "Pulse/Impulse", John Zorn's "COBRA" and Robert Henson's "Graffika". There is a limited run of 300 of these discs, and they have wonderful cover art by Carl Farrow. Pick up yours today!

2000/03/15

MP3.com rejected our COBRA: Turntables post attempt - they thought it was too controversial! Enjoy some mad skillz by DJs RockStarMatt, D-Rage, soultheft., Aaron, Slinky, FloorMatt, LabRat and jjustice. The files are large, but worth the wait!

Game #1 (5:23) High Quality [4.94 MB]
Game #2 (6:33) High Quality [6.00 MB]
Game #3 (6:34) High Quality [6.02 MB]
Game #4 (7:09) High Quality [6.55 MB]
Game #5 (11:51) High Quality [10.8 MB]

MP3.com

We've selected some of our best moments and compiled them in to a CD titled "Game Pieces - Volume I". It has 9 tracks, which are all available on our MP3.com site. There are Hi Fi and Lo Fi versions available to download, and you can order a CD right from that site! Here are the available tracks:

"Graffika" game #2, part 1 (recorded 02/23/00) [not available on DAM CD]
"Graffika" game #2, parts 1 & 2 (recorded at the premiere, 02/09/00)
"Graffika" game #3 (recorded at the premiere, 02/09/00)
"Pulse/Impulse": Gross Concerto, with featured soloists Stuart and Loren Dempster, movements 1-4 (recorded 02/02/00)
"Pulse/Impulse" excerpt (recorded at the very first SIL2K, 01/26/00)

2000/02/09

An excerpt from the additive-rich prepared guitar works of Bill Horist (0:46)
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2000/01/26

Angelina, James and Aaron interpret a "head double-quote" call from Stuart as part of his conducted piece "Pulse/Impulse" (0:54)
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