Jazz from HAL 9000 (2016), by Frank Rothkamm

Jazz from HAL 9000 (2016)

by Frank Rothkamm

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1.	Ensemble Royale (For Trumpets, Trombones, Saxophones, Piano, Bass & Drums (25 49 1 16 9 122)) (3:00) opus 598 (2016) 03:00
2.	A Drunken Sailor early in the Morning (29 57 1 16 1 12 1 126) (3:00) opus 599 (2016) 03:00	buy track
3.	The Little Elephant (For Trumpets, Ghost Metal, Timpani, Tubular Vox & Pizzicato Strings) (3:00) opus 614 (2016) 03:00	buy track
4.	Drum and Bass (For Drums & 2 Basses 39 64 2 12 1 12 1 126)) (3:00) opus 46 (2016) 03:00	buy track
5.	Silver (For Piano, Brass, Synth & Percussion (28 46 p5th A)) (3:00) opus 603 (2016) 03:00	buy track
6.	Kitty Kitty Bang Bang (For Guitar, Organ, Prepared Piano & Small Percussion) (3:00) opus 600 (2016) 03:00	buy track
7.	Spontaneous Combustion Engine (For Drums, Sine Wave & Organ) (3:00) opus 601 (2016) 03:00	buy track
8.	Tabla Periodica (For Tabla, Synth Organ & Synth Percussion (48 24 1 16 64 36)) (3:00) opus 597 (2016) 03:00	buy track
9.	Gold (For Drums, Balinese Percussion & Synth Voices (28 46 p5th B)) (3:00) opus 604 (2016) 03:00	buy track
10.	Agony and Ecstacy of the Heir Apparent (28 46 p5th C) (3:00) opus 605 (2016) 03:00	buy track
11.	Frank Church River of No Return (For Organ and Small Percussion) (3:00) opus 602 (2016) 03:00	buy track
12.	What The World Does Not Know (For Voices, Piano & 21 Sound FX) (3:00) opus 610 (2016) 03:00	buy track

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Catalog No: FLX64
Title: Jazz from HAL 9000
Sound Artist: Frank Rothkamm
Visual Artist: Holger Rothkamm
Label: Flux Records
Length: 36:00 (2160s)
Composed: 2016
Location: Los Angeles
Instruments: Kurzweil K2500
EMU Procussion
Formula
Roland JV-1080
Roland SC-33
Korg M3R
Release Date: TBA
Format: Digital
Tags: IFORMM

Long before Lady Gaga bought his house, Mr. Zappa ("just another Frank from LA") opinionated in an interview: "If you want to be a musician, you just have to realize that nobody is gonna care." To prove him wrong, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave Frank Zappa a "Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist)" Grammy for his "Jazz from Hell" record that was "performed" without any musicians or instruments on a computer. To be sold in stores this all-instrumental "Jazz from Hell" had to carry a sticker that read: "Parental Advisory Explicit Content" and the "Explicit Content" was neither Rock nor Jazz, but his own brand of complex music made on a $200,000 Synclavier music computer.

Even more expensive was the HAL 9000, a sentient computer that controlled the systems of the "Discovery One" spacecraft and interacted with the ship's astronaut crew in both the film and novel entitled "2001: A Space Odyssey". It was mostly depicted as a camera lens containing a red dot. As Arthur C. Clarke opinionated in "The Lost Worlds of 2001": "As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. However, about once a week [sic!] some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley [Kubrick] and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution." Arthur was quite the character.

These are the facts. "The world is the totality of facts, not of things", as Ludwig Wittgenstein opinionated. As a matter of fact, I'm going to be frank; this is what "Jazz from HAL 9000" is: Just another purely algorithmic Wiener Process that produced 12 endless streams of complex music. This ain't no "Jazz for the Jet Set". Quite Zappa-esque? No, Rothkamm-atic! But is anyone gonna care?

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