Glass, Works!

by L&M

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Comes in a jewel case with a photo print by Graham Holoch, a 14 x 14 poster by L&M, and a printed disc by Milo Moyer-Battick. Edition of 50.

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1.	Broken Bottle, 8 Wine Glasses, and Amplified Glass Pane 05:20	buy track
2.	Solo for 3 Bottles and Loops 05:28	buy track
3.	Amplified Glass Pane: Interlude 00:23	buy track
4.	Duo for 8 Wine Glasses 04:49	buy track
5.	Altered Glass Collage 1: Candy Town 03:17	buy track
6.	Altered Glass Collage 2: Horseabout 02:04	buy track
7.	Duo for 5 Wine Glasses and Feedback Loops 03:15	buy track
8.	Duo for 8 Bottles 05:35	buy track
9.	Duo for 2 Stem Amplified Wine Glasses on Amplified Glass Pane 04:13	buy track
10.	Performance for Glass Objects and Glass Speaker (Live at Massman Gallery, Oakland) 11:50	buy track

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L&M is a San Francisco Bay Area-based duo composed of Liam Herb (L) and Milo Moyer-Battick (M).

"Glass, Works!" is a three-part experiment in material-specific composition, musical games, and extended techniques.

Tuned wine and beer bottles blown as flutes and extended to their highest upper harmonic limits with fast airstreams and angled positioning. Crystal wine glasses are tuned and used for simple, process-based compositions, sometimes struck with mallets, rubbed with fingers, amplified through glass cutting boards, and fed back into themselves with walkie talkies and cell phones. Glass was thrown from the tops of dams and recorded and used both in unprocessed and resampled forms. Glass cutting boards are activated with contact microphones and used as conduits for other glass objects and as instruments played with the tips of fingers.

These are just a few of the sounds and techniques used in "Glass, Works!," an album that is just as much exploration in the collaborative spirit as it is in the material for which it is named.

"For me, every sound has its own minute form—is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, [and] lives out its own structure." —Annea Lockwood (1970, from the liner notes for "The Glass World of Annea Lockwood." Tangent Records TGS 104)

Part I: Batch House
1. Broken Bottle, 8 Wine Glasses, and Amplified Glass Pane
2. Solo for 3 Bottles and Loops
3. Amplified Glass Pane: Interlude
4. Duo for 8 Wine Glasses

Part II: Hot End
5. Altered Glass Collage 1: Candy Town
6. Altered Glass Collage 2: Horseabout
7. Duo for 5 Wine Glasses and Feedback Loops

Part III: Cold End
8. Duo for 8 Bottles
9. Duo for 2 Stem Amplified Wine Glasses on Amplified Glass Pane
10. Performance for Glass Objects and Glass Speaker (Live at Massman Gallery, Oakland)

The CD edition of "Glass, Works!" comes with an 18x19" screen printed poster featuring visual liner notes and poetic scores by L&M.

Performed and Composed by Liam Herb and Milo Moyer-Battick
Recorded and Mixed by Liam Herb in Berkeley, CA
Mastered by Henry Birdsey
Cover Photo by Graham Holoch. Album design by Milo Moyer-Battick

Instrument List: Crystal Wine Glasses, Glass Bottles (various sizes), Amplified Glass Cutting Boards, Glass, Flute, Glass Vases, Glass Bowl, Glass Mallet, Glass Marbles, Walkie Talkies & Cellphones (Track 7), Digital Sampler (Tracks 5 and 6)

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released July 22, 2022

Performed and Composed by Liam Herb and Milo Moyer-Battick
Recorded and Mixed by Liam Herb in Berkeley, CA
Mastered by Henry Birdsey
Cover Photo by Graham Holoch. Album design by Milo Moyer-Battick

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M = Milo Moyer-Battick

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