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Release Date: 2002

Label: Matchless Recordings

(1) Plint was intended as a sixtieth birthday present for Konrad Boehmer, and is a studio piece derived entirely from piano-duo improvisations by FURT recorded in Berlin in December 2001.

(2) Gute Nacht was originally the first part of the performance Failed Experiment, given at the ICA in London in November 1997 by FURT together with vocalist Ute Wassermann and cellist Friedrich Gauwerky, and using seven songs from Schubert's Winterreise as its point of departure. This opening, however, involves no "live" activity apart from a single vocal event. It was produced at Walter Fabeck's studio in Watford, October 1997.

(3) Volksmusik was produced in Amsterdam for a performance in the Sammlung Essl (in Klosterneuburg, near Vienna) as part of the November 2000 Wien Modern festival. The ascendancy during that year of the fascist FPÖ– and its leading demagogue, Jörg Haider, had prompted many musicians to cancel engagements in Austria in protest; our response was to assert our freedom to make "entartete Musik", while making a gesture of solidarity with the opposition movement by including an item whose political nature could not be mistaken. Volksmusik features the voice of Charlie Chaplin.

(4) Ultimatum was performed live several times during 1999 and 2000. This final recording is of a slightly edited studio performance made in Amsterdam on 29 February 2000. It is the third part of a tetralogy entitled Out of Time (itself extracted from the longer, incomplete Day and Night cycles), which begins with Johannes- Passion (1993), continues with Angel (1995, released on CD by JdK Productions) and concludes with problem (2001). Ultimatum is dedicated to Karlheinz Stockhausen.

FURT would like to thank Frank Baldé and STEIM, DAAD, Karlheinz Essl, Walter Fabeck, Kersten Glandien, the Institut voor Sonologie, and Eddie Prévost.

Quote from Bertrand Russell in booklet

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