CARL STONE: Four Pieces: “Wall Me Do,”...

CARL STONE: Four Pieces: “Wall Me Do,” “Hop Ken,” “Shing Kee,” “Sonali.” EAM Discs 201 (compact disc). Another anthology of Stone’s witty blend of computer processing and sampling, these four prodigious pieces explore a variety of different techniques and sounds. “Hop Ken”--a jazzy theme and variations on the opening to Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”--represents Stone at his satirical best. The droning “Shing Kee” reveals a more mesmerizing music--almost a ballad--using a fragment performed by a female piano-bar singer. “Wall Me Do” and its subsequent re-working, “Sonali,” appear more improvisatory in their structure, though convincing as contrapuntal dance-like studies.