Doug Wyatt - Weapons and Hope

Solo computer-assisted synthesizer improvisations, and group collaborations, 1986-87.

1.	Weapons and Hope	3:23
2.	Father	11:10
3.	Simon's Song	6:52
4.	The Many Faces of Grey	7:19
5.	Attempt at Converting the Gods of Metal	11:58
6.	As the Lake Watches	4:48
7.	Dying Land	3:06
8.	Sand River	7:14
9.	Seed Men	7:44
10.	Sesame Seeds	8:34
11.	Those Who Stay	8:13
12.	Welcome	4:07
13.	Hope Springs	1:41
total: 86:09

All compositions by Douglas Wyatt, except (2) by Patrick Cahill, (7) by Wyatt/Chwazik/Fox, and (12) by Wyatt/Chwazik.

Patrick Cahill - (2) Chapman Stick; (4, 10, 11) Bass
Peter Chwazik - (3, 7, 12) Bass
Caprice Fox - (3, 7) Voice
Gary Gibbons - (3) Drums
Frey Faust - (4) Percussion, voice
Douglas Wyatt - (1-13) Keyboards and programming
OvalTune, a Macintosh program used on (2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10) was created by David Zicarelli.

Recorded October 1986–December 1987 at home, Ithaca, NY, except (3) at Chris Gibbons', Ithaca, NY, (4) at Audio-Visual Arts, New York, NY, and (7) at Peter Chwazik's, Clifton, NJ.

Digital transfer 3 Oct. 2022 (a few tracks were transferred in 2003). New cover art Oct. 2022.

Notes

N.B. The current set of tracks contains some 3rd-generation transfers. The 1st and 2nd generation tapes are around...

The title of this tape is also the title of a book by Freeman Dyson, about U.S. and Soviet policies towards nuclear weapons. He discusses, in the purely logical terms that are the only ones generals listen to, what most of us know intuitively, the lunacy of our present policies.

I chose Weapons and Hope for the title of this tape partly because of the emotional effect Dyson's book had on me. In a more abstract sense, Weapons and Hope also reflects my (mostly improvised) attempts to create something of emotional value in a highly technological context.