The Binary System: From the Epicenter. (CD)
Atavistic 117: released Nov., 1999.

Roger C. Miller: piano, prepared piano, toy piano.
Lawrence C. Dersch: drum kit, duct tape solo, wind machine.

Glyphs for the song titles used in cover art are by the artist.

01. Core Sample
02. The Epicenter
03. 1-Shift
04. Amazons
05. Buttonwood Tree Jungle
06. Boxation Overload
07. The Floating Red Wall
08. Generator
09. Warp Drive
10. Smoking Mirror (Tezcatlipoca)
11. Two Doorways
12. I make out Shapes (Shin Zhelentovui)

Amazons was originally recorded on No Man is Hurting Me in the early phase of Maximum Electric Piano.
Tracks 10-12 are spontaneous improvistions.


REVIEWS:

The Boston Globe. Feb. 2000: "A genre-shredding unit."

Epitonic, June 2000: "Cinematic, energetic, and incredibly powerful, this piano/percussion duo is sonic avant-impressionism guaranteed to rattle your fillings."

Carbon 14, Jan. 2000: "Structured compositions played with all the virtuosity required, and skin-of-your-teeth clink and clanking improvs that manage to be both wild and structured sounding at the same time!! It's a crunching steamroller of subtlety, a hard-rocking gamelan eschewing electric Marshall punch in favor of shadowed explorations of the piano's inner mysterium! Bravo, Gentlemen!!"

Musings, UK, June 2001: "The outstanding Binary System... Their playing is dark, rhythmic and sometimes repetitive, Roger Miller attacking his piano interior with ceaseless inventiveness while Larry Dersch unhurriedly rolls out the beats."