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Transparent Messenger
1994 CD
Experimental
Free Improvisation

Main image
Hermit Foundation
engineer [recording] Jiří Sláma
engineer [recording] Petr Werich
graphics [art] Petr Kvíčala
layout Michal Bouzek
layout Vladimír Vimr
liner notes [translated by] Charlie Citron
liner notes [translated by] David Miller
liner notes [translated by] Sarah Fraser
mixed by Miloš Vojtěchovský
photography by Radovan Kodera
sleeve notes, other [concept] Miloš Vojtěchovský
Recorded At Plasy Monastery
Edited At Avik
Mastered At Avik
soundspace from the festival in Plasy

recorded at The Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic, 30 June - 3 July 1994
- tracks 1, 3 and 7 in St. Bernard Chapel
- tracks 2 and 8 in St. Benedict Chapel
- tracks 4 and 5 in Refectary
- track 6 in Metternich Hall

Digital editing and mastering by AVIK, Plzeň, 22-25 July 1994

Track 2 is a meditation on sound in resonant spaces, originally designed for Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, 1992; always altered for the particular resonant space
Track 3 is a fragment from Bird Pieces
Track 7 composed in 1971, revised 1980
Track 9 is an interactive sound field