Underwhich Audiographics Series ◆◆◆
Four Horsemen - BootlegEdition of 100
1981
Side A.
Allegro 108
One Voice Alone: A Canon*
Time Dying (Still Echoing Light)**
How to Speak: A dialogue for Gertrude Stein
Voyeur Dream
Call Direct
Bad Weather
What We Do (A Line of Stein)
Once
Orchidist to Order
Side B.
On a Line of John Cage’s
Readings
Sally Wants to go to the Seashore, Will You Help Her Find Her Way?
Theme
The Oldest Voice in the World
voice Carl Laupe
** voice Pat Elliot
What follows is a compilation of lost performances culled from old rehearsal tapes and cassette & reel-to-reel recordings of concerts by the Four Horsemen. It is the first part of a projected series & our intent is to preserve what are, in many cases, the only re- cordings of pieces no longer in our repertoire &/or early versions of pieces that in their final form took a much different direction. The ephemeral nature of performance is an ongoing, often wordless, dialogue between performers & audiences & we hope, thru this project, to document moments in that dialogue that still strike us as relevant. The quality is, as the title announces, bootleg, i.e. uneven, but the pieces & performances are their own best argument for what we have done.
Four Horsemen
TORONTO February 8 1981
SIDE ONE
ALLEGRO 108 (Nichol). Recorded May 7, 1972 at the Toronto's Actor Studio.
ONE VOICE ALONE a canon (Laupe). As above. Performed by the late Carl Laupe & Steve McCaffery. This text was later incorporated into Mischievous Eve.
TIME DYING (STILL ECHOING LIGHT) (Four Horsemen & P. Elliot). Recorded February 1972 at the home of the late pianist, singer & poet, Pat Elliot. Performed by Pat Elliot & the Four Horsemen.
HOW TO SPEAK: A DIALOGUE FOR GERTRUDE STEIN (Four Horsemen & P. Elliot). Recorded March 2, 1972, at Burton Auditorium, York University. Pat Elliot; piano & voice: Paul Dutton; piano & voice: Steve McCaffery, bpNichol & Rafael Barreto-Rivera; voice, whistles & percussion.
VOYEUR DREAM #2 (Dutton). Recorded January 23, 1973, at Mohawk College, Hamilton. Performed by Dutton, McCaffery & Nichol.
CALL DIRECT (Four Horsemen). As above. Performed by all four.
BAD WEATHER (Four Horsemen). Recorded March 1974 at the St John's Campus of the University of New
Brunswick.
WHAT WE DO (A LINE OF STEIN) (Four Horsemen). As above. ONCE (McCaffery). As above. Performed by Steve McCaffery.
ORCHIDIST TO ORDER (Barreto-Rivera, Dutton, McCaffery). Recorded December 1975 at the Bohemian Embassy, Har- bourfront, Toronto. Performed by the composers.
SIDE TWO
ON A LINE OF JOHN CAGE'S (Four Horsemen). Recorded March 2, 1972, at Burton Auditorium, York University, Downsview, Ontario.
READINGS (Four Horsemen). Recorded at The Westbury Ho- tel, Toronto, April 8, 1977. Performed by Rafael
Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton & Steve McCaffery.
SALLY WANTS TO GO TO THE SEASHORE WILL YOU HELP HER FIND THE WAY? (Barreto-Rivera, Dutton, McCaffery). As above.
THEME (Four Horsemen). Recorded at Therafields Farm,
Dufferin County, Ontario, January 1, 1972. This is an earlier version of the piece included on Canadada.
THE OLDEST VOICE IN THE WORLD (Dutton). As above.
The second tape in this series- FINAL REPETITIONS: THE PITTSBURGH TAPES -should be available in the fall of 1981.