SHIM | Big Tiny Music | BTCD 00001
SHIM is the first compact disc released by Big Tiny. Produced by Keith Hedger and issued in a cardboard envelope in 1996, the eleven-track album documents the Tampa Bay experimental music ensemble’s movement between composed and improvised music.
The CD includes a live performance of Gustavo Matamoros’s In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant, recorded at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, on September 15, 1995.
IN GATED MEMORY OF GENTLE GIANT
Keith Hedger requested the work, which was performed by Hedger on trumpet and David Irwin on clarinet, with Gustavo Matamoros controlling the live electronics.
Each player performed into a separate microphone connected to an independently operating noise gate. When the amplitude of either instrument crossed its gate’s threshold, fragments of a prerecorded Noise Melody assembled from Gentle Giant recordings emerged. The two musicians could therefore activate one gate, the other or both gates through the dynamics of their playing, incorporating the recorded material into their improvisation.
The performance appears on the CD as an 8′37″ track.
Read about In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant in Selected Works.
TRACK LIST
- Invention for Twin Llamas — 7′00″
- Threnody (for Miles Davis) — 1′58″
- In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant — 8′37″
- Interlude 1 — 6′40″
- Nag — 1′38″
- Plague — 4′36″
- Pudding — 1′27″
- Cherry Pickin’ (for Don Cherry) — 9′00″
- Kibuki — 9′00″
- Fuzzy Logic — 0′57″
- Sea Jerky — 5′30″
In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant composed by Gustavo Matamoros. All other compositions by Keith Hedger.
Steve Rosicky appears on guitar and keyboards on tracks 1, 8 and 9. Tracks 2, 5, 7 and 10 are solo trumpet improvisations by Keith Hedger.
PERSONNEL
Keith Hedger — cornet
T. J. Glowacki — bass
David Irwin — clarinets
David Manson — trombone
David Pate — saxophones
Jim Stewart — percussion
Steve Rosicky — guitar and keyboards
RELEASE DETAILS
Released July 1, 1996
Big Tiny — BTCD 00001
Compact disc in cardboard envelope
Produced by Keith Hedger
Mastered by Jim Beckwith at Common Touch, Tampa
Funded in part by the Pinellas County Arts Council ARF Grant Program and the Tampa Bay Composers’ Forum.
ORIGINAL PACKAGE
The original package contains the complete track list, personnel and production credits, together with liner notes by Keith Hedger describing the compositions and improvisations heard on the album.
