Solo electronics
All records with electronics · Solo electronics only
Remix EP
Three Panasonic remixes made in 1996 by Zoviet France and by Muslimgauze, found on DAT decades later and issued by Sähkö in 2020: one side of Zoviet France, two Muslimgauze pieces. Repress.
Project Pallo '85
First vinyl reissue of the 1985 Pariah Tapes triple cassette by Toshiji Mikawa's Incapacitants: seven long tracks of pure electronic distortion, remastered by Andrea Marutti. Second pressing, 99 hand-numbered copies in a wooden box.
Bad Girls Get Spanked
Split in two doses: Uncodified (Corrado Altieri) and Mademoiselle Bistouri (Claudio Frassine) spank each other across two mini CDrs of noise and power electronics. 48 handmade copies, each with a coloured paddle.
N.E.S.W.
Maurizio Bianchi's N.E.S.W. (Negativity-Enmity-Spurn-Worse), first issued by Lona Records in 2014, back on CDr: four long tracks that rotate the points of the compass, almost seventy minutes. 30 copies.
Erthion
Maurizio Bianchi's Erthion, first issued by Young Girls Records in 2010, back on CDr: eight tracks titled after verses of the biblical Lamentations, about an hour, mastered by Pharmakustik. 30 copies with mini poster.
Anechoic-Y
Two sixteen-minute pieces of anenoises and choictronics recorded by Maurizio Bianchi as M.B. in 2017 at the Emoptyc studio in Opera, with artwork built on photos of anechoic chambers. 30 copies on BeTon Raw.
Kathamenja
Maurizio Bianchi's Kathamenja, first issued by Lona Records in 2011, back on CDr from BeTon Raw: five tracks, close to seventy minutes, with the original preface printed in the package. 30 copies.
L.E. Cherz Pas
Sacher-Pelz, the 1979 solo project that preceded M.B., in a CDr reissue of L.E. Cherz Pas, first out on TIBProd. in 2010: four long pieces, about an hour of music. 30 copies in a black envelope.
Carcimetrio
Maurizio Bianchi's Carcimetrio, first issued by Simple Logic in 2006, back on CDr: four long pieces named after tumours and growths, over seventy minutes, mastered by Siegmar Fricke. 30 copies.
...Is In the Air
Jessica Pavone's sixth solo viola album builds on the open strings and their sympathetic resonances, with electronic effects as a playing partner and guest appearances by Fred Frith on guitar and Joe Lally on bass.
Actions – Remarks: John Cage’s Variations
Book edited by Cat Hope and Lindsay Vickery on John Cage's eight Variations (1958-76), with a CD of the complete Variations performed by the Australian ensemble Decibel using annotated digital scores, acoustic instruments and electronics.
Héliophonie
Two first recordings of electroacoustic works by Gerard Pape for 8-channel tape: Vers la lumière II, dedicated to Ana-Maria Avram, and Héliophonie, written for the solar eclipse of 29 March 2006. Binaural release, stereo compatible.
Electroacoustic Chamber Works
Five chamber works with tape and electronics composed by Gerard Pape between 1993 and 1997, performed by soprano Janet Pape, the Arditti Quartet, bassist Nicholas Isherwood, Vox Nova, saxophonist Daniel Kientzy and Ensemble 2e2m.
Music in Crisis
Roberta Settels' only record, self-released in 1985 after Caprice backed out over its politics: four pieces of pure analog tape music, sine waves and white noise, including an elegy for Ulrike Meinhof. Reissued in a silk screened plastic sleeve, 250 copies.
Music for Merce Cunningham
John Cage's Five Stone Wind (1988) and Cartridge Music (1960), both written for Merce Cunningham dances, played by David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi and Michael Pugliese. 2008 remaster of the 1991 release, Cage Edition volume 4.
APEX
Robert Hood's 1994 techno track Minus, the soundtrack to Arthur Jafa's 2013 film APEX, pressed for the Paradigm Shift exhibition at 180 Studios, London. Single-sided 12", 1000 numbered copies.
Sai-ji-ku
Six electroacoustic works by Wilfried Jentzsch and Hiromi Ishii with links to China, Indonesia and Japan, projected in a 47-speaker Klangdom with Zirkonium and recorded with dummy head technology. Released 2017.