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chry-ptus
'Chry-Ptus' (1971). Originally two tapes which are to be played simultaneously, with or withour synchronisation, which does not affect the structure of the work, but creates changes in the game of sub-harmonics and overtones. Three variations on this piece were performed at the New York Cultural Center in 1971, with variations of amplitude and location modulation as well as synchronisation. Realised on the Buchla Synthesizer at the New York University. The booklet contains a text by painter Paul…
More electronic music by Badings
More electronic music by Badings: did we partly cover Badings' electronic music on the Popular electronics Boxset (Basta 3091412), here's the best of the rest, to say so. CD1: 'Capriccio' (1959) for violin and two sound tracks. 'Genese' (1958) music for five audio-frequency oscillators. 'Dialogues for man and machine' (1958) text and voice: Ramses Shaffy. 'The woman of Andros', 'Toccata' (1964).
Magic & Return
Editions Mego has finally reissued the woefully out-of-print complete recorded oeuvre of this massively influential and infrequently convening laptop supergroup. Unsurprisingly, it still sounds great. The Magic Sound Of...’ and ‘The Return Of...’, originally released in 1999 and 2002. Fenn O’Berg (Christian Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke and Peter Rehberg) first hit the scene after a surprise appearance at the Nickelsdorf Festival in 1997. Throughout 1998 and 1999 the trio toured extensively throughout A…
s/t
More lost Scandinavian sounds from Silence, this one being a folksier variant on the Träd Gräs tribal hoe-down formula. Lots of hand drums and long hair. Hippie as hell, but decidedly non-stinky. Fantastic! Handgjort (trans. "Handmade") recorded a legendary album in 1970 released by Silence Records. All covers were hand-painted by the band members. The music is moody underground folk with Eastern influences. The album sold very poorly and is a serious collector's item today. The original b…
Une saison
CD 1: “La Grande Vallée”. Concrete music composed in 1993/1996 at INA-GRM (Paris-France). Field recordings, electronic, analogic synthesiser, realisation and composition : Lionel Marchetti. Voice : Hélène Bettencourt. Additives voices : Frédéric Malenfer, Bruno Roche. Bass clarinette : Jean Andréo. Sib clarinette : Lionel Marchetti.“Portrait d'un glacier (Alpes, 2173m)”. Concrete music composed in 1998/2000 at INA - GRM (Paris-France). Field recordings, electronic, analogic synthesiser, realisat…
Periodikmindtrouble
Periodikmindtrouble is Ilitch's (a.k.a Thierry Muller) first album, released on Oxygène Rec. in 1978. This reissue present for the first time the complete works of Periodkmindtrouble such as it had been conceived and should be released at that time: as a double LP. So, here it is as a double CD (including a 12 pages color booklet) with the following musical works : the album Periodikmindtrouble in its entirety, plus the complete recordings of Innerfilmsequence, plus the unreleased track …
12 Sonate Da Chiesa
There is little doubt that Helmschrott’s Sonate da chiesa only bear a fleeting resemblance to their namesakes from the 17th and 18th centuries, which, emerging from Northern Italy, quickly rose to great popularity in Baroque Europe. Among the resemblances is their bipartite structure with slow and fast movement and, of course, the use of an organ. Far from expressing formal dependence, the archaic names of the movements lend the twelve pieces a Mediterranean superstructure, as it were. The manif…
A young persons guide
2CD collects some of this EMERALDS member's best work, previously-released on a number of ltd edition CD-Rs & tape releases over the last 4 years. Electric & acoustic guitar, vocals, tapes, & guitar-synthesizer performed & recorded by Mark McGuire 2007-2010. Although, only 24 years of age McGuire has racked up an impressive canon which most artists twice his age would have problems delivering. With his expert use of loops and layers, as well a superb ear for killer melody hooks makes AYPGTMM…
Inside piano
double CD edition'Friedl has developed his 'inside piano' technique to such a level of delicacy and precision, that any anticipated distinctions between instrumental and electroacoustic music, or between improvisation and composition are dissolved or transcended.' - Stephen Robinson, The Wire 'This is the first solo release of zeitkratzer's mastermind Reinhold Friedl. He teaches the grand piano how to sing and to sound like an orchestra, calling this new way of playing an old instrument I…
What Does The Brain Have To Do With It
Z'EV has been exploring and breaking ground in the audio and textual fields since the mid 1970s. Although best-known for his metal-based percussive performances, uns, his electronics and vocal-based whirlwind, was one of the most innovative (and individual) audio experiments of the early 1980s. uns's combination of sound poetics and voice treatments with dense sonic landscapes resulted in challenging, unique, and rewarding audio. A historical testament to the challenge uns presented appea…
Hauptweg und Nebenwege
A miniature for every day, a movement for every month, a cycle for the whole year: Hauptweg und Nebenwege, a musical diary inspired by Paul Klee.
Lost / Found
This double CD with 44 (!) tracks is a welcome re-release of this essential compilation which was initially released on Tarantulla Productions. A must-have for wave / minimal / electro fans! New artwork.
An unrhymed chord
an unrhymed chord is a deceptively simple piece. from the score we see that each performer picks a single sound, sustains this sound for one to fifteen minutes in each half of the piece, and that amplitude is inversely proportional to duration. it does not seem like much in the way of instructions for a piece that lasts just over an hour. however, after I started making a realization I quickly realized how dynamic the situation the piece presents actually is. I had never heard a music quite li…
1980-82
A collection of recordings from Spains Esplendor Geométrico recorded between 1980 and 1982. Very much like a spanish Suicide, Esplendor blend soundscapes, industrial noises, vocals and early drum machines to brilliant effect
Crippled Symmetry
Music and carpets? Well, the latter's slightly irregular patterns certainly inspired Morton Feldman to write his Crippled Symmetry (1983). "With Feldman, composing more and more takes on the nature of writing a diary; he weaves and knots his sounds like the Turkish nomads make their carpets, the ones he admires so much for their asymmetrical deviations in pattern." (Ulrich Dibelius) It is just these deviations from the standard, that which is slightly shifted, slightly out of place, that Feldman…
Hebdomadaire op. 62
52 pieces of the year for a pianist: in Hebdomadaire, Michael Denhoff carries on the noble tradition of cyclic piano music in his own inimitable way.
Diktat
RESTOCKED This is another great piece of musique concrete from Michel Chion. Never published before ! Composed in 1979 at the GMEM studios in Marseille. Comes with a 16 page booklet with texts from Michel Chion and Lionel Marchetti.TheWire beautiful review Michel Chion proposes three different modes of listening : causal, semantic and reduced. The first relates simply to a sound’s source or causal agent. The second involves a desire to extract meaning, or meaningful action. Reduced listening …
The Dream House / Dedications To Flea
The Dream House is the first album of new material from Windy & Carl in five years. Recorded at their home studio in Dearborn, MI it consists of two tracks. The Dream House is in many ways the duo's simplest and most straight-forward release, concentrated as it is on two evolving pieces. It is also Windy & Carl's most ambitious recording, with the duo deliberating on longer forms. Windy & Carl are capable of sustaining melodic ideas and patiently apply attention to singular musical gestures. Win…
7. Sinfonie
Recorded on October 19, 1985 in Orfeum, Graz as part of the Sterischer Herbest festival. Originally released on Dieter Roth's Verlag as a double C90 in an edition of 200 copies.
Der Engel der Geschichte
Vinko Globokar advises listeners to "make up their own movies to the music." The Slovenian-French European does not believe in explaining music. And the deeply moving expressiveness of his orchestral trilogy Der Engel der Geschichte, "The angel of history," inspired by Paul Klee's painting "Angelus Novus" and now documented by this recording of the exemplary SWR production, certainly speaks for itself. The listener encounters three disturbing sound images: the first, "Zerfall," refers to the dis…