Recorded at Skywalker Ranch, August 1992 except: • Track 4 recorded July, 1991, Skywalker Ranch • Track 3 recorded October, 1990 at Different Fur • Track 7: Voice sampling of I.F. Stone produced at Studio PASS, New York.
Special thanks to Janet Cowperthwaite, Celia Gilbert, Kate Gilbert, Brooke Gladstone, Fred Kaplan, Terry Riley, Esther Stone and Judy Stone.
Tracks 3, 4, 6, 7 & 9 were written for Kronos. Track 2 was arranged for Kronos.
Track 3 was commissioned by the Wexner Center, Canada Council and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Track 4 was commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New Music America Miami and Doris and Myron Beigler.
Track 6 was commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.
Track 7 was commissioned by Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Center for the Arts at Penn State University.
Track 9 was commissioned by the Beigler Trust.
Cover: Hommage, 1974. Typewriter, flames, propane. Courtesy of the Hess Collection.