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Trevor Wishart & Friends / Trevor Wishart
Beach Singularity & Menagerie

Album UK 1979 on York Electronic Studios label
Electronic and Classical (Experimental, Post-Modern)

Beach Singularity was performed on the beaches at Morecambe, Cleveleys, St Anne's & Southport in the summer of 1977. Beach Singularity is an excerpt from a day long happening in which the composer performed with an ensemble that featured saxophonist Lyn Dobson avant-tuba player Melvyn Poore, vocalist Poppy Holden and clarinet improviser Robin Coombes. This performance was designed somewhat like a social intervention, where the musicians performed in conjunction with tape-music and electronics broadcast from small portable stereo systems scattered along the English sea-side. Menagerie began life in 1974 when Trevor Wishart asked a number of well known British performance artistis to build small assemblages for an exhibition in which each object would be accompanied by appropriate taped sounds. The exhibition, consisting of eleven assemblages, was first prepared for the Birmingham Arts Lab and presented there in January 1975. The accompanying tapes were all made at The University of York Electronic Music Studio by Trevor Wishart. Comes with 4-page A4 booklet and two advertisement inserts. Reissued on CD by Paradigm in 1997 (PD 03).

Musicians

	Trevor Wishart & Friends , album by
	Trevor Wishart voc, *1946 GB album by, tape, performer, vocals, producer, tape, featuring, sound source
	Robin Coombes cl, clarinet
	Martin Mayes frh, *1952 GB horns, vocals, producer, tape
	The Palm Beach Orchestra , orchestra
	Dick Witts key, percussion, vocals
	Richard Coldman g, producer, tape
	Lyn Robson , saxophone
	Melvyn Poore tu, *1951 DE tuba
	Poppy Holden voc, AU vocals
	Michael Banks , featuring, sound source
	Keith James eg, *1954 featuring, sound source
	Roland Miller , featuring, sound source
	Peter Coleman , GB featuring, sound source

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