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Scenes From The Rearview Mirror
Limited Sector 001 "Like you've taken a lot of drugs and you're watching the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade and it's going really slow." -- Darren LaDelfa A slowly evloving tableau for vintage analogue synthesizers. Originally presented as a wedding gift to Chris Ball and Karen Gustafson on April 20, 1996. Special handmade first commercial edition of 50, each individually numbered. 32 seconds of "Scenes" can be had as a MPEG-1 Layer II file (500K) Ten dollars. |
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Dawn Planes
Limited Sector 002 Distant aircraft appear to form coincidental chords that hang endlessly in the sky, never moving but always changing. To be played very very softly. Originally released in 1993 as 88 minutes on a cassette, this new 74-minute edition was prepared in March 1998 for CD release. Handmade first edition of 50, hand-painted disc design, each individually numbered. Twelve dollars. Date of release: June 12, 1998. |
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Mobeo
for eight shuffling machines Limited Sector 003 Sixty-two minutes of irregularly repeating gestures on piano, rhodes piano, and vibraphone with three bass clarinets forming long chords underneath and, every few minutes, a gong. Dedicated to Gary Tseng. Handmade first edition, unnumbered. Also available as a kit of eight CDs to be played all at once in random-shuffle mode. Contact Limited Sector for more information. A typical minute and a half of Mobeo can be experienced in the form of a MPEG-1 Layer III (.mp3) file, 1.4MB, and there are some technical notes about the use of MiniDisc in the realization of this piece. Ten dollars. Date of release: January 18, 1999. |
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Soft Selections
Limited Sector 004 Three nice pieces from 1992-1995 to be enjoyed at lower volume levels. Pianoscape One (excerpt in mp3 format, seventy-five seconds, 912K) Handmade first edition, unnumbered. Ten dollars. Date of release: April 18, 2001. |
limited sector trivial music series
because some things are barely worth putting on a CD
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I Hate The Piano
volume one: I Play the Piano Until I Go Into Anaphalaxic Shock Limited Sector Trivial Series 0.001 Sixty-five minutes of throwaway piano music by Dave LaDelfa, recorded 1990-1991 on cheap tape at KCSB-FM Santa Barbara. Painstakingly remastered for CD March 1998. Unnumbered handmade edition in a cheap brown paper envelope. The apotheosis of pointlessness. Four dollars. |
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Offered Ayres
Limited Sector Trivial Series 0.002 Two-disc set featuring almost two hours of disposable electric keyboard improvisations and ambiences by Dave LaDelfa created as background music for the radio program "Off The Air." Originally recorded on a hi-bias cassette labeled with a crayon, but now available on CD with indifferent liner notes by OTA co-conspiritor Jon Leidecker and pictures of the cassette. Unnumbered handmade edition with the look and feel of a grocery bag. Astounding. Ten dollars. |
Where not otherwise noted, all the music on this page is written, arranged, produced by Dave LaDelfa. Copyright applies to all content, musical and textual.
