Various
Seventh May 2001 - Freedom of the City
Matchless Recordings presents a double selection CD of recordings from "Freedom of the City - festival of radical improvised musics", London, England on 7th May 2001.
CD 1 features:
Bark! with Rex Caswell - electric guitar, Phillip Marks - drums and Paul Obermayer -electronics.
Eddie Prévost - perussion solo.
Seymour Wright - alto saxophone, Yann Charaoui - snare drum, vocals, John Lely - piano, electronics.
CD 2 features:
Eddie Prévost Trio with Tom Chant - soprano saxophone and John Edwards -…
Oto No Hajimari Wo Motomete 4: Shigeru Sato Work
These pieces were recorded between 1963 and 1973 at the NHK electronic music studio, Tokyo. Includes 12-page booklet with liner notes in Japanese. This version was withdrawn from sale due to objections from Takeisha Kosugi. His track was then replaced by one by Michael Ranta, and the album was re-released under a different catalog number.
1. “Divertimento” Keitaro Miho This is a live performance of live percussion instruments and electronically produced percussion instruments. Until then, …
Oto No Hajimari Wo Motomete 3: Shigeru Sato Work
The 3rd issue of early Japanese electronic music made by NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai : National Broadcasting association) electronic music studio. Engineer Satou assisted many electronic works of avant-garde composers. Contents : Makoto Moroi 'Shosange' (1967), Minao Shibata 'Display '70' (1969), Toshiro Mayuzumi 'Mandara with source of Voice and Electric sound' (1969), Joji Yuasa 'Voices Coming' (1969), Makoto Shinohara 'Broadcasting' (1973)
1. “Small Confession” Makoto Moroi The works ar…
Oto No Hajimari Wo Motomete 2: Shigeru Sato Work
Early Japanese electronic music made by NHK electronic music studio. Engineer Satou assisted many electronic works of avant-garde composers. The following works (except Yuji Takahashi) had released in 1967 and 1969 on LP (Victor VX-52, VX-99), and they are very rare now.' Contents : Yuji Takahashi "Phonogene" (1961), "Yori-Aki MatsudairaTrangent '64" (1964), Minao Shibata "Improvisation for the electronic sound" (1966), Joji Yuasa "IKON on the source of White Noise" (1965), Toshiro Mayuzumi "Cam…
Montreal Sound Matter - Montréal Matière Sonore
Works by Francisco López / Louis Dufort / Steve Heimbecker / Hélène Prévost / Mathieu Lévesque / a_dontigny / Chantal Dumas / Tomas PhillipsMontreal Sound Matter / Montréal matières sonore brings together eight Canadian and international sound artists. The project began with a workshop on environmental sound collecting by Francisco López and led to the development of a collective sound project including an album, a sound installation, and a concert. This is the recording.The artists create an im…
Inventionen 98
A documentary of pieces performed at the Inventionen Festival in Berlin, 1998. Features: Unsuk Chin, Patrick Kosk, Werner Cee, Francois Donato, Robin Minard, Wolfgang Mitterer, Francis Dhomont, Erik Mikael Karlsson, Trevor Wishart. "Not as much as a bringer-up to speed (or yet another history lesson at that) as a fine cache of current keepers of the crop. New ('93-98), complete pieces from Trevor Wishart (northern-UK composer/programmer known and loved these days for his mid-70's works such as M…
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 concrète to the digitally sampled bovine vocalizing in Phillip Bimstein's udderly charming portrait of a Utah farmer. The CD opens with three excerpts from Starkland's two Dockstader "organized sound" CDs, widely praised in over 25 highly positive revie…
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 start times, so that the voices end together. They also use simple ideas of moving through a list of permutations, and applying the elements of those permutations to various musical parameters. A set of Polansky's canons was produced on Cold Blue Records…
Apollo And Marsyas: Het Apollohuis 1980-1997 An Anthology Of New
A lucky restock of one of the most important archival releases in experimental music: "Apollo and Marsyas: Het Apollohuis 1980-1997, an Anthology of New Music Concepts" - a stunning double CD documenting nearly two decades of radical sound art and experimental performance. Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven was one of Europe's most vital centers for avant-garde music, and this anthology captures the extraordinary scope of programming curated by Paul Panhuysen from 1980 through 1997. From over 500 perfo…
20 JAHRE INVENTIONEN VI
Electroacoustical music from the Inventionen Festivals 2005 and 2006. Composers/tracklist: Edgar Barroso 'ODD'; Mario Verandi 'Comme un jeu des images'; Paul Wilson 'Through the Rain'; Ricardo Climent 'Wallwoodpeckers'; Vladimir Djambazov 'The Secret Life of a Snare Drum'; Ludger Brümmer 'Glasharfe.'
Most composers work with field recordings or acoustc object phenomena and process these sounds with digital software means. The brilliant piece from E. Barroso uses only the "noise"-components of in…
20 JAHRE INVENTIONEN IV
Sound installations and audiovisual material: This CD-Rom provides the programme notes accompanied by audiovisual material in the form of short QuickTime movies, photographs and mp3-files. It may be viewed with any current web browser on a variety of platforms.David Behrman: Pen LightDavid Behrman: View FinderGordon Monahan: When It RainsGordon Monahan: Etheric Theremin HarmonicTerry Fox: Litanies of InterferenceTerry Fox: bad installationRobin Minard: SoundBits 01Hannah Leonie Prinzler: _['dΛzn…
20 JAHRE INVENTIONEN II
Volume 2 of the CD documentation of the Berlin festival "Inventionen" (volume 1 containing Horatiu Radulescu's string quartet no. 4)a various artists retrospective sampler including recordings of works by the following composers: Hildegard Westerkamp, Salvatore Sciarrino, John Cage, Sainkho Namtchylak, Joe Jones, Giacinto Scelsi, Masanori Fujita, John Driscoll.Hildegard Westerkamp: Whisper Study (1975-79, Tape work, Inventionen 1986)Salvatore Sciarrino: Codex purpureus, Trio per archi (1968-1983…
The Sleeping Moustache
This curious quintet makes sounds that recall the glory days of Nurse With Wound: long, shapeshifting collages of psychedelic murk interrupted by random outbursts of industrial clatter, nightmarish drones, deeply bizarre audio mutations and tangible masses of sticky audio goop of impossibly vague origin. The Sleeping Moustache consists of five ten-minute tracks interspersed with five brief interstitial tracks. Everything blends together well because nothing blends together well; forced juxtaposi…
Freedom Of The City 2001 - Small Groups
Highlights from small group recordings from the 2001 Freedom of the City festival featuring artists such as Steve Beresford (electronics), John Butcher (saxes), Lol Coxhill (sax), Paul Rutherford (trombone), Phil Minton, and more in various arrangements.