DISCOGRAPHY WARREN BURT



1. "Aardvarks V: Study for Symphony" (1977) on Australian Digital Music; Move Records MS3027 (LP), Melbourne (1978)

2. "Quivering Aesthesia on the Downs" (1978) on New Music 1978/79; Innocent Records NON-007 (LP), Melbourne (1980)

3. "reLoopse" (1979) on New Music 1980; Innocent Records NON-008 (LP), Melbourne (1980)

4. "Song" (1976), "Dawn" (1977), "Chords" (1979), "Yackandandah Dance" (1979), "After Monk" (1979), "reLoopse" (1979), "Autobiographical Changes" (1980), "Dr.Burt's Disco-Fat Arkestra Plays Their Greatest Hits" (1981) on Song Dawn Chords; Rash Tapes R002 (cassette), Melbourne (1981)

5. "Five Adventures of a Stunned Mullet" (1979), "Just Improvisation" (1979); (reel to reel tape) Lingua Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1981

6. "Studies no. 1-4" (1982) on NMATAPES 1 (cassette); NMA Publications, Melbourne (1982)

7. "You want, maybe, something a little intense diatonic?" (Study # 15) (1982) on The Musician's Tape (cassette); Serge Modular Music; San Francisco (1983)

8. "Trivial, yes, but not vacuous" (1983) on Computer Music (cassette); NMA Publications, Melbourne (1984)

9. "for Ives and Jobim" (1979) on Mima Yearbook Vol. 1; (video) Modern Image Makers Association, Melbourne (1986)

10. "Justice, Equality and Beatings I" (1984) on I.S.Journal #2 Cassette Supplement (cassette); International Synergy, Los Angeles (1986)

11. "Improvisation in Two Ancient Greek Modes" (1987) (excerpt) on From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments, vol 2 (cassette), Experimental Musical Instruments, Nicasio, Ca. (1987)

12. "Samples III for Computer Processed Orchestral Sounds" (1987) (excerpt) on NMATAPES 6 (cassette); NMA Publications, Melbourne (1988)

13. "Music for Tuning Forks" (1985-87) Extreme Records XCT-014 (cassette); Melbourne (1988)

13. "An Eminently Performable Piece" (1982) on Anthology of Australian Music on Disc, vol. 6 (CD); Canberra School of Music, Canberra (1989)

14. "Anyway You Can Always Put Language Down to Experience" (1989) and "of course" (1988) (Collaborations with Chris Mann) NMA Publications (cassette), Melbourne (1990)

15. "Three Inverse Genera" (1990) on Austral Voices; New Albion Records NA028 (CD); San Francisco (1990)

16. "Nicks'Bagatelle" and "Mr. Yasser's Piano" from "Chaotic Research Music" (1989-90) on Musicworks 48 (cassette), Musicworks, Toronto, Ont. 1990

17. "Random" (1989) (excerpt) on Contemporary Music Review, vol 6, pt. 1 (cassette supplement), Harwood Academic Publishers, London, 1991

18. "Anyway You Can Always Put Language Down to Experience" (with Chris Mann) (1989) (excerpt) CD voor de Instabiele Media (CD), V2 Gallery, den Bosch, Netherlands (1992)

19. "Improvisation with Vineta Lagzdina" on Best Seats in the House, Melbourne Improvisers Association/NMA Publications (cassette), Melbourne, 1992

20. "Parts of Speech (The New Consonants)" (1992) on Machine Messages, ACMA 1 (CD) Australian Computer Music Association, Melbourne, 1992

21. "Improvisation for Tube Extended Wind Instruments" (1992) by Warren Burt and Brigid Burke (excerpt) on From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments, Vol. 9 (cassette) Experimental Musical Instruments, Nicasio, Ca. 1993

22. "War is a Dumb Idea" (1991) on Australian Piano Miniatures, Michael Kieran Harvey, piano, RED 9401 (CD), Red House Editions, Melbourne, 1994.

23. "Etude 28 (in 40 tone Equal Temperament)" (1993) on Network: Volume One Discus Records 3CD (CD); Sheffield, England.

24. "Remembering Griffes" on Anthology of Australian Music on Disc, vol. 23 (CD), Mardi McSullea, flute; Warren Burt, live computer; Canberra School of Music, Canberra, 1994.

25. "A Fig Tree (In a Post-Coltrane Environment, 1/f Is Too Highly Correlated)" from "Chaotic Research Music" on Anthology of Australian Music on Disc, vol. 22, (CD), Canberra School of Music, Canberra, 1994.

26. "Tuning the Furniture of Chaos" (1994) on Land of 10,000 Leaks: Minnesota Alternative Underground, (cassette) Ramco Records, Minneapolis, 1995.

27. "A Tribute to Jas Duke") for electronically processed voice and clarinet (1993) on Oracular Editions #1 (cassette), Warren Burt, voice; Brigid Burke, clarinet. Erik Belgum Publications, Minneapolis, MN. 1995

28. 39 Dissonant Etudes (Music for Microtonal Piano Sounds, Part 2) (1993) Tall Poppies 093, (CD) Tall Poppies Recordings, Sydney, 1996.

29. "Etude 1 (in 5 tone)" and "Etude 22 (in 43 tone)" from "39 Dissonant Etudes" (1993) on The International Scene Computer Music Journal CD Vol. 21, Cambridge, Ma. 1997.

30. "My Monodies #2" for quarter-tone guitar. Larry Polansky, guitar. On Leonardo Music Journal CD Cocks Crow - Dogs Bark - New Compositional Intentions, Leonardo Music Journal 7, 1997

31. "Homage to Jackson Mac Low" electronically treated voices. On "Crayon" - CD enclosed with Crayon - Festschrift for Jackson Mac Low's 75th Birthday, Brooklyn, 1997

32. "Two Mann-glings" on The Frog Peak Collaborations Project - dual CD from Frog Peak, FP007, Hannover, NH, 1998

33. "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" text by Gertrude Stein - opera for computer voices. On VOYS, Number 3, VOYS, INC. Minneapolis, MN 1998

34. "12x12: Evening in Landcox Park" for tuning forks and environmental sounds. On tuning@eartha.mills.edu produced by Neil Haverstick, Denver, CO. 1998

35. "In Delicacy There is Hope" for computer treated Chinese pop song. On Hope, Audio Research Editions, ARECD101, Liverpool, UK, 1998

36. "La Strega Bianca della Luna II" for computer sounds, on Sonic Circuits VI, Innova Recordings, Innova 115, Minneapolis, MN. 1998.

37. "Recitative/Tracing" for organ and tape. On Winded, Gary Verkade, organ, Innova Recordings, Innova 524 , Minneapolis, MN, 1998.

38. "German Music" (1979) for solo cello. Julia Ryder, cello. On Memory Unfolding: New Australian Works for Cello. ABC Records, Sydney, ABC 456-682-2, 1999.

39. "Amanda's Silhouettes" (1998) computer music on Trace, Audio Research Editions, Liverpool, 1999.

40. "Composed In Bed with David Tolley's Sounds" (1999) computer music made with David Tolley's double bass samples, on De/ReConstruction Suite No. 1 - David Tolley That Performance Project, Melbourne, 1999

41. "Installation for Three Laptops: Remembering Kenneth's Lemons" on The First Iteration Audio CD, Bug Records, Melbourne, BUG108, 1999

42. "A Little Lullabye for Lev and Clara, Reunited in Heaven" on Musicworks 76 CD Musicworks, Toronto, 2000

43. "Alternations Around Zero - Water" on Zero, Audio Research Editions, Liverpool, 2000.

44. Two Movements from "Three Swift Mornings on Mt. Gravatt" (1991), on Mosaics, Melbourne Composers League, Melbourne 2000

45. "Reality Check" 3 min excerpt on 2 CD set included with catalog to Horen ist Sehen * Oir es Ver * To Hear is To See, Edition AusArt, Vienna, 2000.

46. "Improvisation in an Ancient Greek Mode" (first half of "Improvisations in Two Ancient Greek Modes" on Experimental Musical Instruments - Early Years, Experimental Musical Instruments, Nicasio, Ca. 2000.

47. "Square Root of 11" (from "Five for the Coming of Spring" on A Musical Crossing in Space and Time 1999/2000 - Twenty Composers Talk to Clarence Barlow, WDR Koln, 2000.

48. "Beat Generation in the California Coastal Ranges (Vibraphone and Sine Waves)" on Clocked Out Duo - Every Night Same Dream, Clocked Out Productions, Melbourne, 2000.

49. "A Book of Symmetries for Loretta Goldberg" on Zygotones, Loretta Goldberg, piano and disklavier, Centaur Records, USA, 2000.

50. "Five Tango Permutations" on Homo Sonorus - An International Anthology of Sound Poetry, NCCA, Kaliningrad, Russia; Dmitri Bulatov, editor, 2001.

51. "Gating" on Gating, West Space, Melbourne, Michael Graeve, producer, 2002.

52. "Ethnic Static" and "Chinese Whispers" on Scent of Time, Move Records, Melbourne, MD 3263; Le Tuan Hung, producer.

53. "A Post-Modern Object-Oriented Chaotic Cellular Microtonal Teledildonic Virtual Simulacra" on Apollo and Marsyas, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Paul Panhuysen, producer, 2002.



SCARLET AARDVARK TAPES (self-published cassettes) (Nos. 3, 4, 8, and 10-16 available thru Frog Peak Music, Box 1052, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA)

1. "Stalin" (1977), "Canonic Variations/Remove" (1977), "Blind Lemon Pledge Sings 5 Political Songs" (1977) "Ukelele Modules" (1977) "Drowning" (1977) on Burt: Work Nov. '76 -Mar. 77, private edition of 30, Melbourne (1977)

2. "Aardvarks V: Symphony" (1977) on cassette of the same name; private edition of 50, Melbourne (1977)

3. "Four Pieces for Synthesizer" (1981) on cassette of the same name; private edition of 150, Melbourne (1981)

4. "Studies for Synthesizer" (1982) on cassette of the same name; private edition of 100, Melbourne (1982)

5. "3 Part Inventions: Computer Improvisations" (1984) on cassette of the same name; private edition of 12 unique realizations, Waterford (1984)

6. "Three Environmental Compositions" (1984-85) 2 cassette set and 40 page booklet, private edition of 12, Melbourne (1985)

7. "Piano Quintet" (1983); "Solos: Degenerative Pleasures of the Text-Sound (for Herbert Brun" (1984); "On Sound Art" (1985), "Justice, Equality and Beatings 2B" (1985); "Almond Bread Harmonies II" (1985); "A Taxi to Temptation" (1985); "Post-Modern Waltzes" (1985); "Fantasia" (1986) on Warren Burt: Computer Music 1983-86; private edition of 35, Los Angeles and Waterford (1986)

8. "Voices, Tuning Forks and Accordion (1986), "Improvisation in Two Ancient Greek Modes" (1987), "Almond Bread Harmonies II" (1985) on Music for Tuning Forks, privateedition of 200, Melbourne (1987)

9. "Three Fantasias" (1986-88); Not for Public Consumption (1988); String Quartet No 4 (1987); Collaboration with Amanda Stewart (1987); for Caroline (1987) on Deep Water pelt Trouble for Mosasaurs, private edition of 50, Melbourne (1988)

10. "3 Fantasias" (1986-88); "Samples II"; "A Treasury of New Zealand Birds"; "6 Short Inventions in 6 Ancient Greek Modes"; "String Quartet No 4"; Justice, Equality and Beatings IV";"for Caroline"; "3 Identical Chains of Harmonies of 5 & 7 Rhythmically Related by 29, 30 & 31" (all 1987); on A 1987 Sampler, private edition of 100, Melbourne (1987)

11. "Not for Public Consumption"; "Canter's Deli"; "Musical Chaology"; "15 Spiralling Tetrachords"; "Riffs for Ross"; "From My Window" (all 1988) on Some Music 1988, private edition of 100, Melbourne (1989)

12. "Chaotic Research Music" (1989-90) on cassette of the same name, private edition of 250, Melbourne, (1990)

13. "Aardvarks IV" (1972-75); private edition of 50, Melbourne, 1991

14. "Le Grand Ni" (1978); private edition of 50, Melbourne, 1991

15. "Samples III for Computer Processed Orchestral Sounds" (1987); private edition of 100, Melbourne, 1991

16. "Some Kind of Seasoning: The Demo Tape: 16 Five Minute Excerpts" (1990-91), private edition of 250, Melbourne 1991.

17. "Some Kind of Seasoning" Complete. Four cassette set, with notes. Private edition of 5, Melbourne, 1991.

18. "Music for Microtonal Piano Sounds, part 1" (1992), private edition of 50, Melbourne, 1993.

19. "39 Dissonant Etudes (Music for Microtonal Piano Sounds, part 2" (1993), private edition of 50, Melbourne, 1994.

20. "THIS Harmony for 40 Minutes (Music for Microtonal Piano Sounds, part 3" (1994), private edition of 50, Melbourne, 1994.

21. "Variations on Sounds of Leif Brush"; "Transcribing Silence for Noise I"; "Scraps from the Lab Floor"; Transcribing Silence for Noise II"; "Pi and the Square Root of 2"; "Three Movements for Movement Controlled Sounds"; "for Roman Verostko"; "Remembering Griffes II"; "Vingt Enflures Sur l'Enfant Melvin" (all 1995) on New Experimental Computer Music 1995, private edition of 25, Northcote, 1995.

22. "Portrait of Erv Wilson"; "Portrait of John Chalmers"; "The 18'12" Suite"; "Three Cat Laxative Sonatas"; "Three Bicycles"; "With Proper Regard for Copyright"; "Palimpsest" (all 1996) on Black Mountain Days: Computer Music from Canberra 1996, private edition of 25, Canberra, 1996.

23. "Twenty Dekanies" and "Soft Journey Thru Two Hebdomekontanies" on Twenty Dekanies - Soft Journey Thru Two Hebdomekontanies, private edition of 40, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, Ca. USA, 1998.

A LISTING OF THE CD DOCUMENTATION PROJECT 1998-2000.

The following 64 Albums comprising 91 CDs were deposited in the libraries of the Australian Music Centre, Sydney, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Music Dept. Library, Canberra in September 2000, and at the Music Library of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and with the Electronic Music Foundation, Albany, NY, in May 2001, and the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne in December 2001.

1. Trilobites and Aardvarks (1969-71)

2. Sketches of Scenes and Seasons from Upstate New York (1971-72)

3. Anthology 1970-73

4. Harmonia Mundane (1974) (TWO CD)

5. Bobo the Clone...(1974)

6. Aardvarks IV (1972-5)

7. Four Quartets and a Canon (1975-76)

8. Nighthawk, Part 3, Bittern (1975-76) (TWO CD)

9. Pastorale (197-78)

10. Le Grand Ni Symphony (1978)

11. Two New York Drones (1979) (TWO CD)

12. Tasmanian "D" and Suite for Cheap Technology (1977-80)

13. Lo-Fi Melodic Electronics (1979-81)

14. From the Dreambooks and Lo-Fi Proposals (1980 & 86)

15. Four Pieces for Synthesizer (1981)

16. Studies (1982) for Synthesizer

17. Aardvarks IX (1982-84) (FOUR CD)

18. Three Environmental Compositions (84-85) and Two Environmental Pieces (FOUR CD)

19. Justice, Equality and Beatings 1 & 2 (1984-85)

20. Computer Music 1985 for Fairlight CMI

21. Music for Tuning Forks (1985-87)

22. Experimental Music for Orchestra (1969-97)

23. Samples I, II, III (1986-87) for Orchestra (TWO CD)

24. A 1987 Sampler

25. Electronic Music 1988

26. Fantasias, Quartets and Nocturnes (1986-88) (TWO CD)

27. Chaotic Research Music (1989-90) (TWO CD)

28. Some Kind of Seasoning (1990-91) Volume 1: Summer Music (TWO CD)

29. Some Kind of Seasoning (1990-91) Volume 2:Our Autumn Collection

30. Some Kind of Seasoning (1990-91) Volume 3: A Winter's Tunings (TWO CD)

31. Some Kind of Seasoning (1990-91) Volume 4: Spring Songs (TWO CD)

32. Chris Mann and Warren Burt: Collaborative Works 1977-1993 (TWO CD)

33. Texts and Music 1987-1998 (TWO CD)

34. Horizon Rerun (1994)

35. Drones 1994 (TWO CD)

36. Music from Movement 1993-1995

37. Five Chaotic Movements for David Tudor (1996)

38. Microtonal Fake Chamber Music 1993-1997

39. Harmonic Colour Fields (1996-97)

40. Randelli's Assortment (1994-99) (TWO CD)

41. Four Experimental Computer Pieces (1995-97)

42. Two Installation Pieces 1997

43. A 90s Miscellany

44. Sound Installations 1998: Horsham, Warrnambool and Sale (TWO CD)

45. Diversity (1997-98)

46. Music for Microtonal Piano Sounds (1992-98) (SIX CD)

47. Ear Cleaners: 15 Short Experiments in Hard Listening 1995-1999

48. Sorrento Suite (1998-99)

49. Two Improvisations October 1999

50. Installations, Radio Pieces, etc. August - November 1999

51. Music of the Pre-Neo-Cyberian

52. Lost and Abducted (2000)

53. Antipodean Collection: A Laptop Symphony (2000)

54. Two Live Computer Improvisations May and August 2000

55. Five Environmental Displacements (2000)

56. Winter Solstice Mix (1999-2000)

57. Playing in Traffic (2000-2001)(TWO CD)

58. Paul Panhuysen/Warren Burt: Number Made Visible Made Audible (2001)(TWO CD)

59. Five 23 Tone Pieces (2001-2002)

60. William Gillespie and Warren Burt: The WEFT Improvs (2002)

61. The Mossy Slopes of Mt. Meru (2002)

62. 13 July 02 Dancehouse Carlton Melbourne - Warren Burt & Eva Karcazag

63. Drawings, Voices, Splices and Fortune Cookies - A Varied Assortment 2000-2002

64. Some Numbers - December 2002



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