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RON GEESIN/ 2011
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Prints on paper: Portraits 3 | | Medium: | Giclée on Japanese matte paper | | Size (inches): | 16.5 x 11.7 (paper size) | | Size (mm): | 420 x 297 (paper size) | | Edition size: | 25 | | Catalog #: | PP_0224 | | Description: | From an edition of 25. Signed, titled, date, copyright, edition in pencil on the reverse / Aside from the numbered edition of 5 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs.
"In 1981, helped by royalties from Atom Heart Mother and hours of TV music for Schools' maths and science programmes, I afforded a Fairlight II music computer. This further extended my palette of possibilities. An E-mu Emax and an early Mac were soon embraced. Now, I'm a confirmed E-mu man and continue with Macs - brand loyalty - but don't really care what the gadget is, so long as I can get something out of it. There's a problem now: I really need a permanent assistant to read the Logic Audio manual, just to tell me what to do. It's more than 'drowning in software' - we are a digit in the word! I'm glad one of mine still curls up a bit."
- Ron Geesin
Ron Geesin -
Ronald 'Ron' Geesin (born 17 December 1943, in Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland) is a British musician and composer, noted for his quirky creations and novel applications of sound. He is probably best known as the orchestrator and organizer of Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother" in 1970, after the band found themselves hopelessly deadlocked over how to complete it. Geesin first collaborated with the band's Roger Waters (the two shared a love of golf) on 1970's unconventional film soundtrack Music from "The Body", sampling sounds made by the human body. Ron Geesin played piano with 'The Original Downtown Syncopators', a Dixieland band emulating the 'Original Dixieland Band' during the 1960s. The band was based in or near, Crawley, Sussex, UK.
Career:
After his first solo album, A Raise of Eyebrows, in 1967, Geesin went on to launch one of the first[citation needed] one-man record companies, Headscope, with the self-released As He Stands, Patruns, and Right Through. In 1971 he produced the pastoral Songs for a Gentle Man by Bridget St John. Many of his electronic compositions were used as soundtracks to ITV's 1970s and 1980s television broadcasts for schools and colleges.
In the 1990s, Headscope released a pair of CDs, Funny Frown and Bluefuse, melding modern technology with appropriated and found sounds. In 1994, Cherry Red Records released the Hystery CD, an overview of his career. In 1995, Cleopatra Records released his Land of Mist CD, a collection of instrumental ambience. In 1995, See For Miles Records re-issued his first two vinyl albums on CD. Headscope followed in 2003 with the CD Right Through - and Beyond, a reissue of his last vinyl album, unissued material and a Sour New Year suite.
Geesin has long been interested in the potential for environmental sound and video installations. In 1970 he produced a sound-work for the British pavilion at the Osaka world fair. During the 1990s, he collaborated with the artist Ian Breakwell on video projects such as the large-scale work Auditorium and live art pieces such as Christmas Carol in which four synchronised figures dressed in Santa Claus costumes performed in Newcastle's Northumberland Street, having been banned from the Gateshead MetroCentre.
One of his rare appearances with other artists on the same album was on the extraordinary record "Miniatures - a sequence of tiny masterpieces" (Cherry Red Records, 1980) produced by Morgan Fisher. Like all the other 50 tracks on the album, Ron's exhilarating synth/vocal/banjo track "Enterbrain Exit" was about one minute long.
His 2011 album, a dense, continuous masterwork 50 minutes long, is called "Roncycle1" and is available from Tonefloat Records in Holland.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Geesin
Music from The Body -
Music from The Body is the soundtrack album to Roy Battersby's 1970 documentary film The Body,[1] about human biology, narrated by Vanessa Redgrave and Frank Finlay. The music was composed in collaboration between Pink Floyd member Roger Waters and Ron Geesin,[1] and employs biomusic, including sounds made by the human body (slaps, breathing, laughing, whispering, flatulence, etc.),[1] in addition to more traditional guitar, piano and stringed instruments. The date of this album places it between Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother,[1] the latter also featuring Geesin as a collaborator.[1] The album's final track, "Give Birth to a Smile", features all four members of Pink Floyd, plus Geesin on piano, although David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright are uncredited.[1] The LP features a different track listing to the original film soundtrack, and a 3 sided acetate does exist of the full version[citation needed]. The cover of the album features a Transparent Anatomical Manikin (TAM).[2]
Waters would not release another solo album until 1984's The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking.[1]
Personnel:
Roger Waters: Bass Guitar, Vocals, Guitar, Vocalizations
Ron Geesin: Guitar, Cello, Hammond Organ, Harmonium, Piano, Banjo, Mandolin, Various Stringed Instruments, Vocalizations
David Gilmour: Electric Guitar (On "Give Birth To A Smile")
Nick Mason: Drums (On "Give Birth To A Smile")
Richard Wright: Hammond Organ (On "Give Birth To A Smile")
"Give Birth to A Smile" also features a chorus of female singers, who sing in the background while Waters sings his verses but who then take over the refrain as the song continues. The album does not credit them, and neither Waters, Geesin, nor any books on the band have ever mentioned who they were.
It is not clear whether Waters played on any of the tracks that he did not co-write. Some sources indicate that he performed the bass guitar and vocalizations on "Mrs. Throat Goes Walking".
References:
1. ^ a b c d e f g h Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus,. ISBN 0-7119-4301-X.
2. ^ Transparent Women. Retrieved on 2011-06-23.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_from_%22The_Body%22
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