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My involvement in music, while lifelong, has been very private. But, as all work needs an audience, I recently have prepared a collection of two audio CDs.*
Music, however, can show only part of a personal idiom, so these discs provide only glimpses. If one is really interested in gathering pertinent ideas from or about me through my idiosyncratic utterings, it is also necessary to look more broadly - at improvisations, experiments and certain of my more serious delvings into various other media.**
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As shall follow (when I get to it), I'll recount sketchily my own many years of profound involvement in the arts - but particularly, of course, in music.
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Notes
* "Raw Inventions" and "Recursive Journeys".
These discs also contain arresting, innovative computer-synthesized works by our son, Warrick Vincent Bice.
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Warrick's life ended tragically in 1988.
An anthology edition of his music is
in progress.
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As a part of a networking effort, the discs were produced originally on cassette for friends in art and music who have expressed curiosity and want to investigate and listen.
I hope you might join that group.
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Disc One: Raw Inventions
This crude collection of primal period works reviews younger years. It examines improvisations directly dubbed from old (but to me fresh) audio tapes - some made as early as the 1950's.
Disc Two: Recursive Journeys
Works from 1984-97. By the late 1980's, through electronic sound and ambience controls composers were offered a unique inventive possibility: the "collaging" of sampled sounds and phrases in convincing simulation of live performance. This offered musicians and artists from various disciplines a new, creative-expressive domain. The music on this disc reflects that new freedom.
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** Although I have not previously sought entry into the music world, I have enjoyed national and international exposure in painting, photography, mural, stereoptic and video art. See Jack Bice Home Page.
My history as an artist, briefly:
Music and photography from about age twelve.
Later, my career expanded to painting, in particular (and graduate studies with
Max Beckmann,
Ben Shahn,
Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still);
to murals, video, audio collage, stereoptics and a few other divertissements.
I taught fine arts for thirty-five years, first as Painting Instructor at the University of Colorado Denver Center, and finally retiring as Professor of Fine Arts from SUNY College, Buffalo. In Siena, Italy, I directed art programs in conjunction with the University of Siena, the Scuola d'Arte di Duccio Buoninsegna, and the Academia Chigiana.
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