The Studio One Backstage Pass gives free access to my personal collection of work that spans several decades. Written, created, and produced with the collaboration of close friends.
Studio One – Written, Created and Produced
Primzahlräume
Inspired by Karlheinz Stockhausen early experiments creating a new musical language with electronic music. This album creates an alien world using with pure sine wave tones using only frequencies derived from prime numbers. Listeners are encouraged to move through the sonic spaces and engage in the constantly shifting beats and timbres that are produced from the interplay of different prime numbers.
Dodecaphonic Requiem
New Orleans funeral music tradition re-engineered using the dodecaphonic serial technique devised by the Second Viennese School in the early 20th Century.
Left to right; Ron Rooney (bass), Brian Berrow (vocals & guitar),
Jim Williamson (drums) & Vic Berry (guitar)
Stag Night Tapes
A reunion of the legendary Dumbwaiters 1987 as they prepare for their first and only London gig. The true story of the gig came about with the restored sound tracks recorded during the alcohol fuelled rehearsals that resulted in the near disaster and premature break up of the band.
Objét Trouvé
A digital mash up of archive recordings from the days of the Dumbwaiters made available as an Audio CD, some classic tracks are now online.
Invisible Hand
Vic’s original guitar recordings made in one take on a portable digital recorder and later made in a novel miniature collection of instrumental pieces.
In the Bleak Mid-Winter
An arrangement of G. Holst In the Bleak Mid-Winter performed by Vic Berry using multi-tracked recordings of 7 trombone parts
Stag Night Tapes
“… sounds like a job for the disembodied spirit of Avant Garde music, Vic Berry, for whom the term “recording medium” is as malleable and manipulable as the wind.”
— Brian Berrow,
October 2021.
Primzahlräume
“Very impressed. There’s an otherworldly quality to them that is quite hypnotic. And you’re spot on with the Germanic framing as there is something Stockhausen/Krautrock to their mood. Listening, I felt impelled to hum or tap over the top, as if some could be layered to create greater complexity.”
— Jim Williamson,
October 2021 .
VicBerry.net 