ARP Synthesizer

Cello feedback through a bass amplifier set against a grand piano, whose strings answer in dense overtones: three long pieces recorded in a former convent in Belgium, between drone and spectral music.

The 1984 soundtrack for dance-theater performance Destiada marked Pep Llopis’ debut score for avant-garde Valencian company Ananda Dansa, and initiated a creative partnership that would continue throughout the ensuing decades.The dance is structured as a lyrical fable about the struggle between life and death as seen through the crimson-tinted lens of the Spanish bullfighting tradition. Llopis and Vicent Alonso, a fellow Spanish composer, instrumentalist, and longtime collaborator, were inspired…

Donald Byrd's 1973 jazz-funk album, recorded at The Sound Factory in Hollywood on 13-15 June 1973, produced and arranged by Larry Mizell, with Fonce Mizell, Freddie Perren, Jerry Peters, Chuck Rainey and Harvey Mason.

The only album by Austrian trio Cultural Noise is a an electronic marvel. Band members were Gerhard Lisy, Walter Heinisch and Karl Kronfeld, and instruments used included an ARP Sequencer, an ARP 2600, a VCS 3, an EMS Digital Sequencer, a Mellotron M400, a Micro Moog, a Roland Studiosystem 700, a  Roland Analogue Sequenzer and an electric guitar. With these weapons and a strong influence from the Berlin school Cultural Noise created a rich electronic tapestry which expanded through the two piece…

Éliane Radigue's L'île re-sonante, one hour-long movement for ARP 2500 inspired by her face reflected in a lake: slow oscillations, ghostly voices and shifting drones. First Shiiin release, Golden Nica at Ars Electronica 2006.