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From the Rif mountains of Morocco, comes the second volume of Moroccan trance music from the Coeur du Monde/Ritual Music and Field Recordings project by Sub Rosa, featuring Sufi music. Recorded on location in Morocco in 1995, the purpose of this series was to record rare and secret ritual music as it happens. The logical continuation is with the more reflective music of the Sufis. Along with the droning sound of the double reed and tebel drum, the recording begins with the very raw Gnaoua of Mar…

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…

Tetuzi Akiyama plays amplified acoustic guitar on all tracks except #2 (turntable and air duster), and #7 (electric bass). Toshimaru Nakamura plays no-input mixing board on all tracks except #7 (tabletop guitar). Gallery Off Site in Yoyogi, Tokyo -- one of the world's most well known venues for performance of the new improvised music. Off Site's core event is the monthly improvisation series 'Meeting at Off Site', established and still hosted by Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura. Following t…

Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board), Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar, turntable, contact microphones). With Ami Yoshida (voice), Brett Larner (amplified ukelin), Thomas Ankersmit (sax), Taku Sugimoto (guitar), Tetsuro Yasunaga (electronics), Toshihiro Koike (trombone), Utah Kawasaki (synthesizer), Jason Roeke (bass), Yoshihide Otomo (guitar), Gregor Hotz (sax), Michel Henritzi (MD players, electronics), Sachiko M (sampler with sinewave), and Bruno Meillier (synthesizer, electronics), Seymour Wrigh…

Gallery Off Site in Yoyogi, Tokyo, is one of the world's most well known venues for new improvised music. Meeting at Off Site, the monthly improvisational performance series hosted by Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura, has in recent years been Off Site's main event. The six tracks on this CD are edited recordings of the Meetings of May through October, 2002. This is the final collection of original-format Meetings, in which hosts Akiyama and Nakamura improvised with one or two guest musician…

this second volume aural document is devoted to the Brussels Surrealist Group, 1926, following in the surrealist footsteps that Dada, Pansaers et Correspondance Volume 1 (1917-1926) established. On this compilation you can hear rare documents, including the voice of magritte explaining why it's impossible to answer the questions of journalists. As a nucleus started forming in 1924 around magritte, Nougé, Lecomte, etc., dissension arose, spawning Correspondance (1924-26). This release documents t…

an awesome sound art compilation featuring Guillaume Apollinaire, Antonin Artaud, Julian Beck, Camille Bryen, Augusto de Campos, E.E. Cummings, Marcel Duchamp, François Dufrêne, Pierre Guyotat, Brion Gysin, Richard Huelsenbeck, James Joyce, Ghérasim Luca, Vladimir Maïakovski, Kurt Schwitters, Gertrude Stein, Tristan Tzara.

4 new tracks from the 3 audio artists (Hazard, Fennesz, Biosphere) who make up the forthcoming Touch Tour [UK, May 2001]. All are exclusive tracks recorded specifically for this CD, released for the tour. Taking the everyday world as source material and inspiration, the three international collaborations between electronic sound artists and visual artists present a vivid introduction to the work of Touch, the ground-breaking audio-visual label, in its twentieth year. Hazard's compositions evoke …

ons 1972. Dieter Kaufmann (Autriche) 'Automne Pathétique', Peter Kolman (Slovaquie) 'Lentement mais pas trop', Jorge Arriagada (Chili) 'Indio', Beatriz Ferreyra (Argentine) 'Siesta Blanca', Luis Maria Serra (Argentine) 'Qura-Kura'.CD 2 : Les Saisons 1972 (suite). Françoise Barrière (France) 'Java rosa', Lorenzo Ferrero (Italie) 'Primavera che non vi rincresca', Alain Savouret (France) 'Sol triste', Elzbieta Sikora (France) 'L'incertitude d'été'.CD 3 : Les Saisons 1972 (fin). Christian C…

An exhibition companion compilation to SFMOMA's 2001 listening room program JUJIKAN: 10 Hours of Sound From Japan, co-curated by Atau Tanaka, Ryoji Ikeda, and Shunichiro Okeda. JUJIKAN's Double Compact Disc companion features compositions from Tamami Toro, Pain Jerk, Yasunao Tone, Nerve Net Noise, Otomo Yoshihide, Atau Tanaka, i.d., Masonna, Kozo Inada, Ichiro Nodaira, Hanatarash, Yuji Takahashi, Ryoji Ikeda, Merzbow, Kazuo Uehara, Astro, and Testuo Furudate. Comes with a 20 page booklet and ori…

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…

Beautiful edition, 2 CDs with Catalogue, 72 pages German/English. Installations - Acousmatique Concerts. Organized by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD and Technische Universität Berlin, Artistic leadership and organization: Ingrid Beirer, Folkmar Hein, Carsten Seiffarth. With the assistance of Silke Borgstedt, Sebastien Brehmer. CD I: François Donato, Adrian Moore, David Prior, Mario Verandi, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila. CDII: Tom Johnson/Martin Riches, José Antonio, Orts, Ed Osborn, Ron Kuivila…

55 Historical Recordings is not exactly “come on and sing along” vocal music. A trace of the collective exuberance heard in much traditional West African vocal and percussive music is here, but isolated in an the individual’s voice. The Inuit occupy one of the harshest, coldest, most desolate regions in the world, the area in and around the Arctic Circle in Siberia, Canada, Greenland and Alaska – the Land of the Midnight Sun.These songs, mostly traditional drum-songs consisting of one vocalist s…

For most of us, our every waking moment (and even those where we are unconscious) is surrounded by sound. From the obnoxiously pitched alarm tone that raises us from slumber to the muted sounds of night-time traffic that merge with natural nocturnal transmissions; there is always sound. As a society we have increasingly sought to augment and indeed control the environments around us. All manner of tools have been utilised in this ongoing war against the unfamiliar, the unexpected and the "undesi…

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 Baltschun, and Kai Fagaschinski), this "extra" issue of IMJ features 2 CDs with 18 tracks by a total of over 30 musicians, almost all of whom are Berlin residents: Adeline Rosenstein/Andrea Neumann, Annette Krebs/Steffi Weismann, Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone,…

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 will include an expansive special feature on a particular theme. The special feature of IMJ EXTRA 2003 is "Improv's New Waves," a close look at JAPAN's young improvisers (with an emphasis on electronics MUSICians). It contains a comprehensive essay …

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--improv, onkyo, noise, electronics, contemporary classical, free jazz, avant-rock, and more. While contributions from music critics are numerous, this is not just a collection of reviews. Musicians write about their own and other artists' works, label…

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… [•] Double CD with ae, Masahiko Okura, Shuichi Chino, Samm Bennett, Tetuzi Akiyama & Martin NG, Yumiko Tanaka, Han Bennink & Kazuo Imai, Une chance pour l’ombre, Optrum, Naoaki Miyamoto, Sachiko M, Mi Yeon, Park Je Chun, Kang Tae Hwan.

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). Realized between 1970-83 and 1984-1999

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 major overview of the LAFMS. I.D. Art #2 was the second LP release on their label, coming after Le Forte Four’s ‘Bikini tennis shoes’ LP, and before the 2LP ‘Live at the Brand’, a split album between Le 44 and The Doo-Dooettes. It dates from 1976. It i…

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, including: Marinetti, Antonio Russolo, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Wyndham Lewis, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck. Includes musical and interview material, tone poems, and sleevenotes. Artwork…

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…

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, electronics), Kenny Wheeler (flugelhorn).

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 book developed from the idea of presenting an extract of artists involved in the current experimental electro-acoustic music scene, often following a rather reduced approach in their work. We would like to present artists that work in different area…

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, Joachim Montessuis, Le Dépeupleur, Julien Ottavi, Robin Minard, Guillermo Goméz Peña, Guillermo Galindo, Brandon LaBelle, Pierre André Arcand, Christina Kubisch, Fréderic Dumond, Christophe Charles, Henning Christiansen, EHB, laboiteblanche, Tommi G…

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 wonderfully sick vocal based surrealist audio malformations. Elsewhere, Zbigniew Kakowski dishes up nerve janging sinewaves and distorted field recordings while Dinsinformation and Charlemagne Palestine both maddeningly revel in stasis, with unwavering low-e…

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 Blomqvist, Tommy Zwedberg.

"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…

Bourges 2005 , Concours international de Musiques et d'Art sonore Electroacoustique

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 Eckert 'Offen - fin des terres' for tape and instruments (Aventure). Free with this audio CD, a CDrom around the festival Synthèse 2003.

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, Franco Evangelisti, Gyorgy Ligeti, Gieselher Klebe, Herbert Brun." All recordings from 1952-58

Two CDs of electroacoustic works composed on Xenakis's UPIC computer music system at Les Ateliers UPIC (now CCMIX) in Paris, by Xenakis, Estrada, Robindoré, Risset, Roads, Pape and others, mostly first recordings.

The first audiobook CD to explore the highly influential Bauhaus school of art and architecture, which operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933.The spoken word element centres on a revealing talk by Walter Gropius, the architect and theoretician who founded the Bauhaus in 1919. The CD also includes contributions from the school's third and final director, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and teacher Josef Albers. All interviews are in the English language. The music content of the CD feature…

Three-way split release featuring an extended piece each by Tony Conrad, Ralf Wehowsky, and Jim O’Rourke. Tony’s piece works a lone processed violin to glorious effect; the solo variant of his “four violins.” Ralf’s is a musique concrète piece built out of assorted instrumentation and children’s vocals (coming across like a lost international harvester/älgarnas trädgard out-take in spots...) jim’s is an awesome side-length-plus rumination of drone-sound (harkening back to his “disengage” era) in…

With M.A. Numminen, Tommi Parko, Pekka Kujanpää, Sähkökvartetti, Erkki Salmenhaara, Blues Section, Erkki Kurenniemi, Jukka Ruohomäki, Jouni Kesti & Seppo I. Laine, The Sperm, J.O.Mallander, Pekka Airaksinen, S.Albert Kivinen.

For the 30th birthday of INA, the GRM has decided to present in this CD box some of his archives. INA - GRM (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel - Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in Paris, France, is the pioneering organisation of electroacoustics, acousmatics and musique concrète, with a history going back many decades, as active today as ever, recording and releasing a long string of historically important, but also new and innovative, electracoustic works, while also engaging in research into …

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…