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PISA 1980 IMPROVISATORS SYMPOSIUM
Ten leading free improvisors assembled in Pisa in the summer of 1980. Maarten Altena, Derek Bailey, Barry Guy, George Lewis, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Giancarlo Schiaffini & Philipp Wachsmann. Two duos, one trio & two quintets. Reissue of Incus LP 37 plus 94 minutes of extra material. 142 minutes.
OVERHEARD AND RENDERED
Field recordings... With Maggi Payne, Pali Meursault, Christophe Havard, Perri Lynch, Emmanuel Mieville.
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 This version was withdrawn from sale due to objections from Takeisha Kosugi.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…
Oto No Hajimari Wo Motomete 1: Hiroshi Siotani work
Hiroshi Shiotani was an engineer of NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai: National Broadcasting association) electronic music studio, and then he cooperated with some avant-garde composers of Japan. This CD get Shiotani's works together, and released several years ago as a memorial of him when he died. It was repressed 500 copies by a private studio. All tracks are legendary early electronic works of Toshiro Matuzumi and Makoto Moroi. These works had originally released in '50s-'60s, but we have not been …
On Isolation
The concepts of isolation – in social, geographic and virtual settings have spawned various creative investigations over the centuries. Guided by the philosophical premise of social theorists such as Zygmunt Bauman, Room40 and the University Of Tasmania collaborated in the curation of a series of sound artworks, found sound pieces and musical interjections spurred on by the notion of ‘isolation’. The results of the contributions vary widely but all meditate on the states of being alone or in sit…
MUSICS IN THE MARGIN
A name totally unknown at its introduction. Where did they fetch it from ? Instantly the floor falls silent when the four mentally retarded musicians, Johan, Linh, Kim and Rudy together with their artistic mentor and drummer boy Damien, all ill at ease, clear their way among drums, trumpets, violins, melodica, samplers and an electric guitar. Concentration, suspense, beads of sweat, a sigh, a cough, and then...'the scream'. For over forty minutes they are pouring a sauce of punk, rock, noise and…
MUSICA FUTURISTA. THE ART OF NOISES
Musica Futurista: The Art of Noises" is a 73 minute collection of music and spoken word from the Italian Futurist movement 1909-1935,including original recordings by Marinetti, Russolo and Balilla Pratella. As well as period recordings,including "free verse" readings by Futurist figurehead F.T. Marinetti and the celebrated "intonarumori" created by Luigi Russolo which influenced Stravinsky, Stockhausen and John Cage, the CD includes contemporary performances of other key Futurist works.This is a…
Mottomo Otomo – Unlimited XIII
The legendary Unlimited Festival in Wels, Austria in 1999 was curated by Otomo Yoshihide (Ground Zero). We are happy to release this sampler that captures the great musicians, bands and projects: Otomo Yoshihide solo, Radian, Incapacitants, Kaffe Matthews / Neumann / Krebs, Tetreault / Labrosse, Nagata Kazunao, Novo Tono, Keith Rowe / Taku / Otomo, Poire_Z, O.Y. New Jazz Quintet (their first performance ever!!), Hoahio, O.Y. solo (finale).
MOROCCAN TRANCE VOL. II : SUFI MUSIC
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…
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…
MEETING AT OFF SITE VOL. 2
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…
MEETING AT OFF SITE VOL. 1
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…
MEETING AT OFF SITE 3
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…
Magritte, Le Groupe Surréaliste De Bruxelles, Rupture Volume 2
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…
LUNAPARK 0,10
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.
LIGHT
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 …
LES SAISONS - CHRYSOPÉE ÉLECTRONIQUE 23
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…
JUJIKAN - JAPAN
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…