Angus MacLise

DREAMWEAPON
The Art and Life of Angus MacLise 1938 – 1979
May 10 - May 29, 2011
BOO-HOORAY

DISCOGRAPHY
Angus MacLise The Joyous Lake 7 inch flexi, USA, 1970 flexi disc part of Aspen No. 9. The Joyous Lake is an excerpt from Invasion Of The Thunderbold Pagoda film soundtrack.

Angus MacLise Trance 7 inch, Fierce Records FRIGHT 010, UK, late 80s mail order pack offering Trance 45, piece of Angus chocolate, pack of Kathmandu papers, Angus incense cone, Far Out Angus badge and an Angus mail order list.

Angus MacLise Angus MacLise LP, Counter Culture Chronicles 1, 1997 side 1: Trance (Fierce single, 1988) / The Joyous Lake (Aspen flexi, 1970). side 2: Chumlum (soundtrack, 1964). numbered limited edition of 300 copies with insert. It has all the best available Angus material: Trance, the Joyous Lake flexi, and soundtracks from Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda and Chumlum in cleaned-up audio form.

Angus MacLise The Invasion Of Thunderbolt Pagoda CD, Siltbreeze SB-78, 1999 1. Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (St. Marks Epiphany) (39:05) / 2. Shortwave-India (1:08) / 3. Heavenly Blue Pt.4&5 (4:35) / 4. Blastitude (8:39) / 5. Humming in the Night Skull (8:12). all music recorded by Angus MacLise between 1968-1972. 8-page illustrated booklet with liner notes by Ira Cohen.	buy from \| \| \| \|

Angus MacLise Brain Damage In Oklahoma City CD, Siltbreeze SB-81, 2000 1. Another Druid's Nest (0:41) / 2. Haight Riot Mime (3:40) / 3. Epiphany (9:04) / 4. Loft Collage (2:26) / 5. Drum Solo (5:25) / 6. Dreamweapon Benefit for the Oklahoma City Police Dept. pt 1 (30:35) / 7. Dreamweapon Benefit... pt. 2 (13:09) / 8. Cembalum (3:48). 1, 8: NYC 1969 / 2: San Francisco CA 1967 / 3, 4: NYC 1970 / 5: NYC 1968 / 6, 7: NYC Cinematheque 1968. 8-page illustrated booklet with liner notes by Tony Conrad.	buy from \| \| \| \|

Angus MacLise The Cloud Doctrine selected tapes by Angus MacLise CD, Sub Rosa SR182, 2002 159 minutes of minimal electronic music, readings, soundtracks from the archives of Angus MacLise 1963-1976 featuring Tony Conrad, John Cale, Piero Heliczer, Beverly Grand Conrad and Hetty MacLise. tracks 2-5 on disc 2 feature a proto-Velvet Underground line-up with Angus MacLise, John Cale and Tony Conrad, recorded in New York 1965. disc 1: 1. Tunnel Music #1 (2:51) / 2. Tunnel Music #2 (4:48) / 3. Tunnel Music #3 (3:05) / 4. The First Subtle Cabinet (26:04) / 5. Description Of A Mandala (9:49) / 6. Thunder Cut (32:28). disc 2: 1. Chumlum (4:21) / 2. Trance #1 (5:23) / 3. Trance #2 (4:03) / 4. Two Speed Trance (5:07) / 5. Four Speed Trance (3:18) / 6. Shortwave Radio (2:53) / 7. Electronic Mix For 'Expanded Cinema' (27:49) / 8. Organ & Drum (4:00) / 9. Universal Solar Calender (19:41) / 10. Tambura Drone + Sine Wave Generator (3:07)	buy from \| \| \| \|

Angus MacLise Astral Collapse CD or LP, Quakebasket Qb-16, USA, 2003 1. Smothered Under Astral Collapse (4:15) Angus · voice and prepared tape. 2. 6th Face of the Angel (17:08) Hetty · organ. Angus · tape delays. 3. Beelzebub (5:09) Angus · bongos and prepared tape. 4. Cloud Watching (5:11) Hetty · piano, autoharp. Angus · cembalum, bells, tape delays. 5. Dracula (7:11) Angus · arp synthesizer and prepared tape. 6. Dawn Chorus (7:08) Angus · words, field recording, tape delays. all music composed by Angus MacLise. Recorded in New York City. Glossy gatefold cardbord sleeve. Also released on 180g vinyl.	buy from \| \| \| \|

Angus MacLise Counter Culture Chronicles CD +/- DVD, Nothing Songs NSCD-003, Japan, 2006 1. Trance (3:01) / 2. The Joyous Lake (6:44) / 3. Thunderbolt: Long Version (21:49) / 4. Doodlings (4:43) / 5. Chumlum (22:24) upgraded CD edition of the Counter Culture Chronicles LP, featuring additional tracks. This limited edition is avalianble in 500 copies. The first 100 copies come with a bonus DVD featuring Jonas Mekas' Exploding Plastic Inevitable and Ron Rice's Chumlum films.

Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad / Jack Smith Dreamweapon I LP, Boo-Hooray SMRGS-1, 2011 Side A: 1. Les Evening Gowns Damnées (December 20, 1964) (16:48). Side B: 2. S.O.S. (circa 1968) (13:28). Live recordings of Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, and Jack Smith from the MacLise tape archive. In a silkscreened sleeve. Edition of 500 copies.

Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad Dreamweapon III LP, Boo-Hooray SMRGS-2, 2011 side A: 1. Untitled (recorded October 18, 1968 at Tony Conrad's apartment (4:49). side B: 2. Short Drum and Viola Part 1 & 2 (Circa 1969) (4:49) / 3. Druid's Leafy Nest (undated) ( 7:26) / 4. Early Jams (undated) (6:46). A second LP of previously-unheard recordings of Angus MacLise and Tony Conrad from the MacLise tape archives. In a silkscreened sleeve. Available only on LP. Edition of 500.

Angus MacLise / Hetty MacLise Dreamweapon II CD-R or LP, Boo-Hooray SMRGS-3, 2011 1. Druid's Imprisoned Emerald / Split Rock Of Poetry (14:29) Angus MacLise & Tony Conrad 2. Untitled (4:02) Angus Maclise with Unknown Personnel 3.Organ Expo '69 (17:41) 4. Bash Bish (Excerpt) (0:42) 5. November 1965 (16:26) Organ [Bell] – Angus. Drone – Hetty 6. Universal Mutant Repertory Company Ira Cohen's The Invasion Of Thunderbolt Pagoda Film Soundtrack Performer – Angus MacLise, Henry Flynt, Jackson Mac Low, Loren Standlee, Raja Samyana, Tony Conrad, Ziska Baum available as an extremely limited run at the Boo-Hooray gallery for the Angus MacLise Dreamweapon Exhibit opening on May 10th 2011. packaged in rubber-stamped card sleeve with "II" handwritten on the cover. Black printing on the disc face. track 4 recorded in the Berkshires ca. 1968-1969. track 6 recorded 1968. the LP edition is released in a screen-printed sleeve and is limited to 500 unnumbered copies. It includes a risograph-printed facsimile of "Year", a broadside by Angus MacLise originally issued in 1965. The LP features significantly extended and remastered versions of four of the tracks from the "Dreamweapon II" giveaway CD-R. The second pressing is in a blue screen-printed sleeve, and is also limited to 500 unnumbered copies. 1. Bash Bish, Berkshires Group - Ca? 1968-1969 (1:42). 2. November 1965 (16:26) Bells – Angus. Organ – Hetty 3. Untitled (2:40) Cymbal, Drumes – Angus 4. Organ Expo 1969.

Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad / Beverly Grant / John Vaccaro Dreamweapon IV CD, Boo-Hooray, 2011 1. Angus MacLise: Poems 1971-1976 Recorded at the Millenium Film Workshop, NYC - September 17, 1976 (25:20) / 2. Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, Beverly Grant, John Vaccaro Recorded at Tony & Beverly's flat, 111 W 42nd St., May 10, 1968 (21:13). both tacks taken from the Angus MacLise tape archive and available exclusively with the Dreamweapon catalog deluxe edition. Edition of 81.

Angus MacLise New York Electronic, 1965 LP, Sub Rosa SRV355, Belgium, 2014 this album features tracks previously released on The Cloud Doctrine, focusing on those recorded in 1965 in New York City. the original release was on silver vinyl, and the repress was on black vinyl. Released as 7 x FLAC files on Bandcamp on April 30, 2017. Side 1: 1. Electronic Mix For 'Expanded Cinema' (27:49) Electronics, Angus MacLise Recorded and performed by Angus MacLise November 1965 Side 2: 1. Tunnel Music #1 (2:51) 2. Tunnel Music #2 (4:49) 3. Tunnel Music #3 (3:19) Electronics, Angus MacLise Recorded by Doug Snyder for Don Snyder's Multimedia Shows, circa 1965 4. Trance #1 (5:23) 5. Two Speed Trance (5:07) 6. Four Speed Trance (3:19) Instruments and treatments, Angus Maclise, John Cale and Tony Conrad Recorded by Tony Conrad in his studio, New York, 1965 ANGUS MACLISE, AGE 27, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 1965, LEAVES THE VELVET UNDERGROUND FOR FAR AWAY LAND Upon its release in 2002, The Cloud Doctrine stuck out among Angus MacLise's discography. While most of his previously-released recordings featured long improvisations on the cimbalom, The Cloud Doctrine presented a perfect summary of his work, from organ and percussion pieces (with Hetty MacLise) to recitations – MacLise is seen as a poet of a certain talent, but this aspect of his art has been consistently overlooked – drone-based experiments (notably with Tony Conrad, extremely present on the album, and John Cale), and purely electronic compositions – a path (almost) nobody knew MacLise had explored. Miraculously salvaged by Gerard Malanga, these archives provided a new perspective on the artist's whole body of work and expanded considerably his artistic palette. And so we are now able to draw a whole record's worth from MacLise's early electronic music. Most of these pieces were not realized in camera (unlike most electronic music at the time); they had ties to live performance, either improvised on the spot or remixed to suit live performance demands. They fit the concept of expanded cinema, one of many deprogramming initiatives of the era that prepared the advent of multimedia – sound, pictures projected on several juxtaposed screens, pictures spilling out of the frame, music constantly remixed as the unending return of something different, and feedback. We don't know for sure, but we can imagine that in participating to these novel decompartmentalization approaches, MacLise most probably wanted to create a world and experiment it, to plug out of daily reality and meld with a collective intensity that was hardly ever matched. And it was little known – if not largely ignored – that electronic music had played a part in these rituals. All this happened in New York, in 1965, while Angus MacLise was 27 years old and was (still for a little while) a member of The Velvet Underground. Guy Marc Hinant, Brussels, Marc 2014

Angus MacLise Tapes 3 cassettes (set of 3 C60s), Pleasure Editions, USA, 2015 a 3-cassette compilation of unheard music from MacLise’s vast and wide-ranging reel-to-reel back catalogue containing everything from tape experiments to folk jams, spoken word to synth noise insanity—all animated by the remarkable spirits of MacLise and his cohorts. Set of 3 c60s. Edition of 100. I: A: 1. SR8041 B: 1. DS8067 2. SR8041 II: C: 1. Trance 2. SR8041-B 3. DS8043 4. Summer 1978 5. DS8093 D: 1.DS8068-B 2.TC8028 III: E: 1. TC8017 F: 1. DS8045

Angus MacLise The Kathmandu Cycle single-sided cassette, Counter Culture Chronicles 22, 2019 recorded at The Millennium Poetry & Multimedia Performance, New York, 17 September 1976. The cassette comes with a laser printed J-card and insert. 1. Jiri 2. The Cloud Doctrine 3. Desintegrator 4. The Mother Tongue 5. Canon During his stay in Kathmandu in the 1970s, MacLise occasionally made trips to the west. Together with his wife and son and in the company of Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt, he travelled to Paris in 1975. And one year later he read poems during the Millennium Poetry and Multimedia Performance in New York City. The recording of this reading, dubbed directly from the master tape, was released on cassette by Counter Culture Chronicles in 2019. Against a background of Nepalese music recorded by MacLise himself, the poet is heard reading seminal works in a slightly sped up voice.

Angus MacLise Tapes 3 CD box set, Art Into Life 020, Japan, March 3, 2023 Jim O'Rourke completed a new sound restoration and mastering of the recordings in 2023. The 3CD box comes with a miniature poster, a sheet of track list, and each CD comes with a paper sleeve which reproduces the original cassette sleeve artwork. Tapes I 1-1 Dracula - A Panic Opera (10:17) 1-2 Drum And Flute (9:47) 1-3 Drum, Harmonium, Electric Viola (8:53) Viola [Electric Viola] – Bill Breeze* 1-4 Epiphany - Tanberg Session (19:59) 1-5 Drum, Harmonium, Electric Viola, Violin and Flute (10:07) Viola [Electric Viola] – Bill Breeze* Violin, Flute – Hilary Harris (2) Tapes II 2-1 Trance (2:56) 2-2 Excerpt From 4-track Mix For "Panic Opera" (10:10) 2-3 Hetty MacLise Discussion With Bob Masters (1:04) Voice – Bob Masters (4), Hetty MacLise 2-4 Summer 1978 (1:40) 2-5 Summer 1978, Cont. (0:52) 2-6 Summer 1978, Cont. (2:12) 2-7 Organ Drone + Electronic Drone Mix (11:56) 2-8 Hetty MacLise Discussion With Bob Masters Cont. (2:00) Voice – Bob Masters (4), Hetty MacLise 2-9 Excerpt From Untitled (3:50) 2-10 Shortwave Mix (7:29) 2-11 Mahakala Puja (16:00) Tapes III 3-1 Night Wing #3 (29:36) 3-2 Excerpt From “Gamelan #1... Sturm Und Drang... Trance #2" Cont. (7:28) 3-3 Excerpt From “Gamelan #1... Sturm Und Drang... Trance #2" Cont. (4:30) 3-4 Excerpt From “Gamelan #1... Sturm Und Drang... Trance #2" Cont. (4:07) 3-5 Excerpt From “Gamelan #1... Sturm Und Drang... Trance #2" Cont. (1:16) 3-6 Excerpt From “Gamelan #1... Sturm Und Drang... Trance #2" Cont. (1:17) 3-7 Excerpt From “Gamelan #1... Sturm Und Drang...Trance #2" Cont. (6:45)

Angus MacLise Tape cassette, Counter Culture Chronicles 150, December 2023 edition of 35 copies, with two inserts. A reissue of Angus MacLise's Kathmandu Cycle with added material from other, long out of print, CCC releases. Design by Andre Koolmes. A: 1. The Kathmandu Cycle (taken from CCC #22) B: 1. Szabo Loft 2. Universal Mutant Rain (taken from Green Groceries magazine #1, CCC#55) 3. Trance (taken from Fierce 7", CCC #1) 4. The Joyous Lake (taken from Aspen magazine #9, CCC#1, CCC/Nothing Songs Ltd. #3) 5. Doodlings (taken from CCC #55, CCC/Nothing Songs Limited #3)

Various Artists Gerard Malanga - Up From The Archives CD Sub Rosa SR170, 1999 includes Cloud Asylum, a two-minute instrumental recorded in 1966. Angus MacLise (1938-1979) holds a peculiar place in the annals of New York underground culture of the 1960s. He was a poet who rarely published and a musician who rarely performed, yet his secret output was prodigious nonetheless. In 1980, a year after Angus died, Dia Art Foundation began taking an interest in his writing and music, and invited me to coordinate, annotate and create the Angus MacLise Archive, consisting of all extant work, which in the final tally numbered 135 poems and 93 music tapes, plus numerous pieces of invented calligraphy. In that Angus's inclusion here is an abbreviated section from a much larger serial work, Cloud Asylum, my remarks remain solely fixed on the music he created directly for the medium of recording tape. Angus is easily identified as a "non-literate" composer - someone who makes music without any accompanying notation or transcript--a music non representative in style. Cloud Asylum, as a whole, is a curious amalgam of titles and exotic instruments. In shaping the music's content through the instruments he used--I say 'used' rather than played--the music emerges from within rather than through any kind of rehearsed arrangements. Angus never regarded his music as separate from his poetry, but to make music out of the rhythm of his own inner being--somatic. It is, namely, the re-creation of self through the music he's made that comes closest to poetry's essence. On a snowy night in December 1978, I happened to run into Angus near Washington Square Park and invited him for a drink at One University Place, the last of Mickey Ruskin's restaurant-bars. We reminisced a bit about past projects and what lay ahead. He'd shown me a new poem which I marvelled at, asking if he'd send me a copy. He said he would, but never got around to doing it. We were not to meet again. Angus died several months later, on June 22--the summer solstice, in Kathmandu. Gerard Malanga, New York, 1999	buy from \|

John Cale - Tony Conrad - Angus MacLise - La Monte Young - Marian Zazeela Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara (1965) CD Table of the Elements TOE-CD-74, 2000 Angus MacLise plays percussion. Day of Niagara was recorded in New York City on April 25, 1965. there is some controversy between the MELA Foundation and Table of the Elements regarding this recording - see MELA Foundation's statement on this release.	buy from \| \|

John Cale Dream Interpretation: Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume II CD Table of the Elements TOE-CD-79, 2000 track 6 is Hot Scoria with Angus MacLise on Cimbalom, recorded on March 2, 1964 or 1965	buy from \| \| \|

John Cale Stainless Gamelan: Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume III CD Table of the Elements TOE-CD-80, 2000 track 3 is Terry's Cha-Cha with Angus MacLise on hand drums and tambourine, recorded in May 1967.	buy from \| \| \| \|

Various Artists The Wire Tapper 6 - Special Edition 2CD The Wire Tapper 6, October 2000 double CD set given away free with The Wire's 200th issue, October 2000. track 14 is Universal Mutant #3 (MacLise / Standlee / Samyana), recorded in Woodstock, 1969.

Various Artists Green Groceries no. 1 CD, 2000 CD given away with Green Groceries magazine no. 1. track 2 is Szabo Loft (probably 1969) [7:48] by Angus MacLise with Angus MacLise on bass tamborine and Szabo on guitar. track 10 is Universal Mutant Rain (probably 1969) [5:06] by The Joyous Lake including Loren Standlee on voice, flute & tape echo chamber, Ziska Baum on voice & dulcimer, Raja Samyana on guitar & tape echo chamber, and Angus MacLise on tamborine & bongo.

Various Artists An anthology of noise & electronic music / first a-chronology volume #1 2CD SUB ROSA SR190, 2002 track 6 on disc one is Trance #2 by Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad and John Cale.	buy from \| \| \| \|