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IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN EXTRA 2006
In addition to interviews of 12 musicians/1 group residing in Berlin (Gregor Hotz, Nicholas Bussmann, Merle Bennett, Thomas Ankersmit, Ignaz Schick, Hans Strobl, Pure, Annette Krebs, Andrea Neumann, Caramel Empties, Alessandro Bosetti, Boris Baltschu…
IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN EXTRA 2003
This is a special issue supplementing the well-received IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN 2002-2003 (IMJ-301), the launch issue of an annual magazine (published last December). While the annual magazine provides an overview of the year's trends, each EXTRA…
IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN 2005
The 2005 edition of the annual Japanese-English magazine Improvised Music from Japan is devoted entirely to recent albums. Over 350 releases (with a cover photo for each) are presented. The albums, mainly from 2004-2005, span a wide range of styles--…
IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN 2004
Magazine (English and JAPANese) with interviewes FROM Kazue Sawai, Yukiko Tanaka, Samm Bennett, Tetuzi Akiyama, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Masahiko Okura, Sachiko M, Taku Sugimoto, Kazuo Imai, Aki Onda, texts by Tetsu Saitoh, Michel Doneda, Otomo Yoshhide… …
IMEB OPUS 30 1970-1983 / Vol 2 1984-1999
colossal 6-disc set of obscure early concrète music: a lovely anthology celebrating the 30 years anniversary of Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), formerly Groupe de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (GMEB). Rea…
I.D. Art #2
When the Los Angeles Free Music Society 10 CD set came out I eagerly flipped through the contents to see what treasures had finally been made available again. Much to my surprise the early compilation I.D. Art #2 was not included in this otherwise ma…
Futurism & Dada Reviewed
Archive aural document collection edited by James Nice and originally released via Sub Rosa in 1989. This unique CD compiles over an hour of original sound recordings made between 1912 and 1959 by luminaries from both 20th Century art movements, incl…
From A To Z
From A to Z offers ten enticing selections of compelling, engaging electroacoustic music. It's a specially priced compilation that's an excellent introduction to the Starkland label. The diverse music ranges from Tod Dockstader's powerful musique con…
FREE ZONE APPLEBY 2003
Duos, quartets and quintets of FREE improvisations by Tony Coe (clarinet), John Edwards (bass), Alan Hacker (clarinet), Sylvia Hallett (violin, voice, sarangi), Marcio Mattos (cello), Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Philipp Wachsmann (violin, electron…
EXTRACT PORTRAITS OF SOUNDARTISTS
Since we started the label Nonvisualobjects two years ago, many collaborations with artists worldwide have arisen, a large, growing network has evolved and an extensive body of work has been formed that we would like to explore and try to sum up. The…
Erratum #4 / Sound Review / Art + Noise + Poetry
Sound poetry and poetry of sound. Edited and assembled by Joachim Montessuis. Joël Hubaut, Erik Samakh, Atau Tanaka, AGF, José Iges, Lee Ranaldo, R.H.Y. Yau, Rainier Lericolais, Francisco López, Gary Hill, Charles Pennequin, Ira Cohen, Phill Niblock,…
Erratum #3, Revue Sonore / Sound Review
This lengthy compilation offers up a mixed bag of the fascinating and the wearisome. Peak bits of said fascination here would have to be Gregory Whitehead, Gilles Richard and the duo of Patrick Muller and Jean-Francois Bory, who all offer up wonderfu…
ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC FROM SWEDEN
Electroacoustic musics from Sweden. Bengt Hambraeus, Jan W. Morthenson, Sten Hanson, Ake Hodell, Sven-Erik Bck, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Rune Lindblad, Tamás Ungvary, Bengt Emil Johnson, Akos Rózmann, Pr Lindgren, Rolf Enström, Ake Parmerud, Anders Blomqvi…
DIY Canons
"The pieces on this CD are all based on the ideas in Larry Polansky's four voice canons, a series of pieces he began in 1975. These canons are usually "mensuration canons," which means that the tempi of successive voices is proportional to their star…
CULTURES ÉLECTRONIQUES 18
Bourges 2005 , Concours international de Musiques et d'Art sonore Electroacoustique
CULTURES ÉLECTRONIQUES 17
30e Concours International de musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques, Bourges 2003. With Maurio Mary 'Signes émergents', Laurent Soulié 'Ecorde de lune' for tape and instruments (TM+), Ambrose Field 'One hell of a place to lose a cow', Gerald …
Compromize
Ten years ago the Wahrnehmungen label from Mainz, Germany, founded by the group PD was renamed Selektion (and PD changed to P16.D4). In 1984 artists joined Selektion to form a new kind of artistic project for music (S.B.O.T.H.I., SLP) as well as for …
COLOGNE - WDR Acousmatrix 6
Sixth volume in the Acousmatrix series. "Incredible sampling of lesser-known, but more than equally-important recordings of Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Karel Goeyvaerts, Paul Gredinger, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Henri Pousseur, Bengt Hambraeus, Fra…
