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<label id="silverdoor" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/boutique/silverdoor/">
  <name>Silverdoor</name>
  <shortname>Silverdoor</shortname>
  <recording id="sido_010" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/sido_010/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/010_SIDO.gif" />
    <title>By the New Time</title>
    <subtitle>Electroacoustic Music from Ireland</subtitle>
    <catno>SIDO 010</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="sido_003" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/sido_003/">
    <artist>Roger Doyle</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/003_SIDO.gif" />
    <title>Babel; KBBL</title>
    <catno>SIDO 003/007</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>5xCD</code>
      <price>62.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Othermusic Magazine (New York City): February 16th, 2000 &#8212; Roger
    Doyle&#8217;s Babel (SIDO 003/007, Silverdoor, Ireland) 5 CD Box: Doyle has long been
    Ireland&#8217;s foremost exponent of musique concr&#232;te and experimental composition. His
    late &#8217;70s / early &#8217;80s work under the moniker Operating Theatre is somewhat
    legendary, with releases on Steven Stapleton&#8217;s United Dairies label. This astonishing set
    marks the culmination of his most ambitious work to date, recorded over a ten year span of
    time. The first 3 CDs alone are works of true genius that combine the finest elements of, say,
    Pierre Henry and Nurse With Wound. &gt; &gt; Granslost Magazine (Sweden): &#8220;Roger Doyle
    ought to be canonized (declared a saint!) [&#8230;] Those who have not heard this Babel
    collection have missed a whole lot in life. What drama! A lot of electroacoustic music
    composers are put to shame &#8212; they should all bow deeply for Roger Doyle. His music is
    warm, funny and richly elaborate &#8212; a gold mine!&#8221; [iv-00]</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="sido_008" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/sido_008/">
    <artist>Roger Doyle</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/008_SIDO.gif" />
    <title>Fairlight Memories</title>
    <catno>SIDO 008/009</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>The music on these CDs was composed on a Fairlight Computer Music Instrument
    between 1983 and 1988. Together with the Synclavier (made famous by Frank Zappa&#8217;s use of
    it) the Fairlight was among the first synthesisers controlled by a computer. It had a sampler,
    a sequencer (called &#8220;Page R&#8221;), on-screen waveform display &#8212; very popular with
    bands on Top of the Pops showing off their new Fairlights &#8212; and a central proccessor unit
    (CPU) that took two people to lift. In 1982 I was involved in a studio that bought one, and
    after two months teaching myself how to use it I warmed to its possibilities and limitations.
    There were things it did that no other piece of equipment has ever done since, yet at the same
    time I was forced to input material into the sequencer monophonically. The sequencer held up to
    eight monophonic lines, forcing me to think contrapuntally. This 8-voice polyphony was like
    having a constantly changing chamber octet at my disposal. By 1988 it was gathering dust in the
    corner of the studio having been superceeded by newer technology and fashion, so I made an
    offer and bought it cheaply for my own embryonic home studio. In 1990 I sold it and it drifted
    out of my life. I made great use out of it &#8212; sometimes composing pieces in a few hours
    &#8212; and have very fond memories of the Fairlight.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="sido_012" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/sido_012/">
    <artist>Roger Doyle</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/012_SIDO.gif" />
    <title>Thalia; Oizzo No</title>
    <catno>SIDO 012</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>The music on this CD represents Roger Doyle&#8217;s early works, re-packaged and
    re-mastered in 2002. It includes his extremely rare self-released 1975 debut LP &#8220;Oizzo
    No&#8221; and his second LP &#8220;Thalia&#8221; from 1978, originally released on CBS
    Classics, all on the one 77 minute CD. The earliest piece is Bitter-Sweet Suite for out-of-tune
    piano composed when he was 18, and the latest, &#8220;Thalia,&#8221; his first large-scale
    electronic piece, composed at the age of 26.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="sido_013" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/sido_013/">
    <artist>Roger Doyle</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/013_SIDO.gif" />
    <title>Rapid Eye Movements</title>
    <catno>SIDO 013</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Remastered and repackaged on CD. Electroacoustic music composer Roger Doyle
    attempted a &#8220;masterpiece before the age of thirty&#8221; in his composition Rapid Eye
    Movements in the late 70s. Upon its release in 1981, the UK Sounds magazine said:
    &#8220;without doubt one of the most exhilerating LPs and unorthodox concepts ever submitted to
    vinyl.&#8221; Now remastered and repackaged on CD with 3 extra tracks from the period, this
    work has just become available again and is of great musical and historical
    interest.</description>
  </recording>
</label>
