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SMUT --- 1994

recorded at ACME STUDIOS, Mamaroneck, New York mastered by RORY YOUNG on the AKAI DD1000 For CHOREA LASCIVIA, thanks to Louisa Kamps and the family of Thomas Stehling for permission to reprint translations from Medieval Latin Poems of Male Love and Friendship (Garland Publishing, 1984), and to Mark Steinbrink. For Matarile, thanks to the children's musical coach, Lanchy, and to Yolanda Torres, Bernardo Palombo and Dorothy Potter. Special thanks to Komar and Melamid and Ronald Feldman. all music by DAVE SOLDIER, ASCAP except Matarile by RORY YOUNG and DAVE SOLDIER, ASCAP published by RIGGLIUS MUSIC ©℗ 1994 DISK UNION CHOREA LASCIVIA (1991) The texts are adapted from homo- and heteroerotic Latin poetry of the Middle Ages. Dedicated to Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz. English translations of II, V, VII, & VIII by the late Thomas Stehling by permission of his family. Translations of I & IV by Soldier. I. DUM CAUPONA VERTEREM — from the Carmina Burana II. AD PUERUM ANGLICUM — Hilary the Englishman (12th century) IV. MISER, MISER — from the Carmina Burana V. GRAFFITTI FROM A NINTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT — rhymes scribbled in the margins of a 9th century textbook VII. PARISIUS PARIDI — Serlo of Wilton (c. 1110-1181) VIII. LETTER TO AUSONIUS — Paulinius of Nola (c. 353-431) MATARILE (1993) The form of this piece emulates the way children reflect their surroundings. Built into the structure are several "mirrors". Like opposing mirrors in a barber- shop, the children imitate the world, and we in turn imitate them imitating the world. In Matarile, we try to evoke 1990's New York as Karlheinz Stockhausen evoked 1950's Cologne, Germany in Gesang der Junglinge (1955-56). The children we recorded meet twice a week to sing meringue and religious songs of Our Lady of Lourdes in Harlem. They range in age from five to ten, except for fourteen-year old Wilson Arias who contributed the rap fragment. Most of the timbres, including most of what appear to be electronic effects, are actually derived from sounds made by the children. These are supplemented by unidentified children recorded in Harlem in the 1950's and city noises. (On the back cover): 1-8 performed by CHOREA LASCIVIA on Matarile (9): CHILDREN'S CHOIR OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES, Harlem, New York A project of HIP'S ROAD DISK UNION 2-13-1 Iidabashi Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo 102, Japan (On the OBI-Strip): HIP'S ROAD COMPOSER SERIES Tomoyo T.L. ([l351744])