The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort

Upon his acquisition of the Synclavier system, Frank Zappa used this as a compositional tool, placing into it various segments of a broad spectrum of works - both past and present. These pieces were often 'played' into further works and thus he viewed it as an 'entity' of musicians, which he called "The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort" [TBPDGC]. Here he used "Consort" in the same sense as 'Consort of instruments' e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consort_of_instruments Members of this consort would be dependent upon the pieces thus contained within the program. Some works on which TBPDGC exist are: •Francesco Zappa •Jazz From Hell •Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention •Civilization Phaze III •Resolver + Brutality