Arnold Dreyblatt/The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - Nodal Excitation (1982) {1998 CD}

Nodal Excitation is the 1982 album by Arnold Dreyblatt and The Orchestra Of Excited Strings. When it was released, all of the pieces were untitled, including the first CD pressing of it in 1998 but a vinyl pressing in 2015 titled each piece for the first time. Those titles in parenthetical form are listed below.


1. Untitled (Harmonics) (5:31)
2. Untitled (Addition) (2:20)
3. Untitled (Slow Changes I) (1:54)
4. Untitled (Slow Changes II) (6:56)
5. Untitled (Nodal Excitation) (7:06)
6. Untitled (Formation) (8:21)
7. Untitled (Bow And Arrow) (2:54)
8. Untitled (Lucky Strike) (2:39)

Composed by Arnold Dreyblatt

Arnold Dreyblatt-bass viols with excited strings
Michael Hauenstein-bass viols with excited strings
Peter Phillips-midget upright pianoforte
Greg Lewis-hurdy gurdy
Kraig Hill-portable pipe organ

Produced by Arnold Dreyblatt for Experimental Intermedia Foundation
Engineered by Jack Strang
Assistant engineer by Tom Newton
Recorded and mixed December 1981-January 1982 at Nickel Recording Co., Hartford, Connecticut

Remastered by Jim O'Rourke & Konrad Strauss
Tapes baked by Jay Zacharias at Quantegy in Chicago.
Technical assistance: Bob Bielecki