Jean Schwarz
Jean Schwarz (born 1939 in Lille) is a French composer of electroacoustic music and an ethnomusicologist. He joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris in 1969, while working as a CNRS engineer in the ethnomusicology department of the Musée de l'Homme. His tape and studio works draw on jazz and other musical traditions. He is known for pieces such as Erda and for his music for dance, film and jazz musicians. Jean Schwarz composed Erda in 1972.
Year Of The Horse / L'Enfance De Vladimir Kobalt (LP)
Very rare LP of very beautiful electro-acoustic music for Carolyn Carlson's ballet and Petrika Ionesco's theatre production, released on Schwarz's own Celia Records in 1980.
Maison Rouge (LP)
Very rare and much sought-after LP of very beautiful rhythmic electronic music for Pierre Sala's theatre production, released on Schwarz's own Celia Records in 1980.
Unreleased & Rarities / Mémoire Magnétique, Vol. 3
Discounted Bundle. Transversales Disques returns with two historically vital releases that reconfigure our understanding of French electroacoustic music: Jean Schwarz's Unreleased & Rarities (1972-2002) and Bernard Parmegiani's Mémoire Magnétique, Vo…
Unreleased & Rarities (1972-2002)
Transversales Disques presents Unreleased & Rarities, a revelatory collection spanning 1972-2002 by electronic music pioneer Jean Schwarz - thirty years of secret compositions from one of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) most dedicated yet ov…
Transe, Musique À Trois Dimensions
1997 release ** "Pianist and composer Patrick Scheyder, in a group or solo, explores improvisation, its expression, and the mechanical or technical means—here, the piano—of generating it. Thus, alongside encounters with jazz—including a constantly ev…
Panorama
Deluxe Tip-On jacket LP including exclusive and extensive liner notes. Remastered from the original master tapes. Transversales Disques proudly presents Panorama, an excursion through rare French soundtracks & other rarities mostly never reissued or …
Mano A Mano
Mano a Mano is a collective composition from Jean Schwarz and Daniel Teruggi composed in 1991.
Roundtrip
An unreleased 1977 Paris concert by Don Cherry and GRM composer Jean Schwarz, with Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Naná Vasconcelos and Michel Portal: spiritual jazz and electronics, kept for over 45 years in Schwarz's archive.
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Quatre Vingts
Both a jazz drummer and ethnomusicologist, Jean Schwarz offers a unique vision that expands upon Luc Ferrari’s imagined Presque Rien environments and the tweaked rhythmic workouts of Bernard Parmegiani’s Pop’eclectic series of jazz collages. Througho…
Makinak - Capriccio
Composed in the Celia records studio, December 1993, and January 1994. Commissioned by INA grm. As per Jean Schwarz's own words “At the very beginning, there was rhythm”... Rhythm never stopped to be among the heart of all kinds of musical forms, suc…
Dilin Dalan
Ongi, Welcome, Dilin Dalan, Oyez, Sing good people in this encounter with pure tradition, ethnomusicological travel, sound transformation and electroacoustics! The ancestral percussion, Txalaparta, rediscovered by the Artze brothers, dialogue with th…
Quatre Saisons
The general idea of this piece was to imagine a fresco comparable to a Lied, where the soloist's voice is accompanied by electronic sounds combined with concrete and instrumental sounds processed on a computer — sounds from nature and transformed orc…
Erda - Symphonie - Surroundings
Few copies available, engrossing electro-acoustic work from the GRM archive circa 1971, 1974 and 1974. Highly dynamic, even playful, with a keen sense of rhythm and movement between myriad prisms by the legendary French composer and ethnomusiclogist …
Erda / Suite N
Milestone reissue! Jean Schwarz has always been the wild man of the Grm, and also of Celia, his own label. His musical domiciliary rights are not only in the realms of electroacoustics, but also in jazz and extra-European traditions (through his enga…
Gamma Plus
Composed in the studios of the INA-GRM and recorded live on stage. Composed 1979, and originally released on LP in 1983. This is a recording of a performance of the piece by the famous trio of electroacoustics. This trio was formed in 1977 with the s…