SASSAS is no longer active. From 1999 – 2019, sound. and then SASSAS (Society for the Activation of Social Spaces through Art and Sound) produced and supported experimental music programming throughout greater Los Angeles. Its flagship concert series, sound., began three years prior to SASSAS incorporating as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and ran for 20 years. This website remains online as an archive of the sound. concert series, as well as other SASSAS projects such as soundShoppe and Welcome Inn Time Machine and celebrates the artists, venues, staff, donors and volunteers who helped make it all happen.

soundCds and SASSAS Records can be purchased at Happy Squid Records.

soundCD no. 1

$28.00

Double CD of live recordings from SASSAS’ sound. concert series between 1998 and 2001.

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Tracklisting

DISC 1:

  1. Nels Cline – acoustic guitar; Michael Intriere – cello; Heather Lockie – viola; Rod Poole -just intoned acoustic guitar; Rick Potts – double bass (April 30, 2000 excerpt 9:16)
  2. Mitchell Brown – tape loops; Joe Potts – Chopped Optigan; Ama – vocals; Maya – vocals; Vetza – vocals (January 30, 2000 excerpt 5:49)
  3. Rod Poole – just intoned acoustic guitar, The Fire Left to Come (September 26, 1999 excerpt 10:00)
  4. Joseph Hammer – Ampex 600; Marina Rosenfeld – record players; Mike Watt – electric bass (August 16,1998 excerpt 3:54)
  5. Don Bolles – turntables, Revox A77, cassettes, CDs; Joseph Hammer – Ampex 600; Rick Potts – Dr. Sample, kalimba, Synare, a toy; Joe Potts – Chopped Optigan; Gabie Strong – percussion (February 28, 1999 excerpt 4:51)
  6. Nels Cline – acoustic guitar, Solo Tidbit (April 30, 2000 excerpt 4:54)
  7. Miya Masaoka Orchestra, What is the Difference? (Don Bolles – turntables, Revox A77; Alex Cline – percussion; Julie Fowells – violin; Michael Intriere – cello; Lynn Johnston – woodwinds; Miya Masaoka – conductor/composer; Rick Potts – synthesizer, sampler; Scot Ray – trombone; Sara Schoenbeck – bassoon; Harry Scorzo – violin; G.E. Stinson – guitar) (August 29, 1999 excerpt 5:16)
  8. Nels Cline – electric guitar, effects; Michael Intriere – cello; Lynn Johnston – bass clarinet; Devin Sarno – electric bass; Rich West – percussion (March 28, 1999 excerpt 6:28)
  9. Rick Potts – double bass, Thumblina (April 30, 2000 excerpt 5:44)
  10. Vinny Golia – woodwinds; Vince Meghrouni – drums, harmonica, flute, voice; Mark Trayle – electronics; Tom Watson – electric guitar (March 26, 2000 excerpt 5:01)
  11. Michael Intriere – cello, No Espresso (April 30, 2000 excerpt 8:12)
  12. Bonnie Barnett – vocals; Carla Bozulich – effected guitar vocalizing, Little keyboard thing; Rick Potts – musical saw, Dr. Sample, Do You Dig? (January 20, 2000 excerpt 2:46)

DISC 2:

  1. Voice Of The Bowed Guitar: Joseph Hammer, Rod Poole, Doug Williford – just intoned acoustic guitars (June 17, 2000 excerpt 8:11)
  2. Sara Schoenbeck – bassoon (July 22, 2000 excerpt 4:48)
  3. Solid Eye: Steve Gregoropoulos – analog synths; Joseph Hammer – Ampex 600; Rick Potts – Hinge-neck electric guitar, musical saw, Dr. Sample, analog synthesizer and kalimba (September 29, 2000 excerpt 6:33)
  4. Philip Gelb – shakuhachi; Pauline Oliveros – accordion tuned in just intonation, Below The Clouds (July 28, 2001 excerpt 6:06)
  5. Lynn Johnston – baritone saxophone, Turf (July 22, 2000 2:58)
  6. Carla Bozulich – constructor/host, voice to play with; Geoff Brandin – man in the cassette coat pushing tape recorder buttons to trigger voices; Nels Cline – bass recorder; Audience button pushing collaborators – distributed cassette players; David Scott Stone – low-frequency oscillator, Carla Bozulich’s Fake Party: Audience Cassette Tape Improv (August 27, 2000 excerpt 3:29)
  7. Vinny Golia – sopranino saxophone, Screaming faces on your naked foot (July 22, 2000 9:58)
  8. Pauline Oliveros – accordion tuned in just intonation, Pauline’s Solo (July 28, 2001 excerpt 10:12)
  9. Extended Organ: Mike Kelley; Paul McCarthy; Fredrik Nilsen; Joe Potts; Tom Recchion (September 29, 2000 excerpt 10:10)

 

Additional information

Weight 2.3 oz
Dimensions 5 × 5 × 0.24 in