★Edition Wandelweiser
Accordion Music
Fold in; fold out: the breathing of the accordion. On this CD the accordion unfolds in a very special way, unusually close to the instrument. Four works, four worlds that seem to know each other; refer to each other like a greeting from far away. Hearing John Cage's ,,Cheap Imitation" played on accordion gives you the impression of folk music from an unknown, probably non-existent country. This music comes from nowhere, goes nowhere, is forever on its way.....Like ,,Sam Lazaro Bros". The Swiss c…
Transparent city (volumes 1 and 2)
Field recordings, electronic sound. Field recordings made in greater Los Angeles from December, 2004 to August, 2006. Each recording is an unedited ten-minute take from a single location. Sine tones and mixing completed in Michael Pisaro's home studio in Santa Clarita, California. Each ten-minute piece is followed by two minutes of silence. Recordings were mastered with home stereo playback in mind. In general, it is best to set the volume control on your system to a normal level (that is,…
Harmony Series 11-16
In the 'Harmony Series 11-16', very small events are happening in every nook and cranny of the music, and these subtle changes give magical effects to the music. This is in fact not magic at all - all the events are due to the theoretical structure of the music, but the way Pisaro incorporates them into his compositions is so subtle and natural, that the whole impression on his music becomes poetic. When I listen to each piece while carefully paying attention to the details, I feel that the nuan…
Transparent city (volumes 3 and 4)
Field recordings, electronic sounds. Field recordings made in greater Los Angeles from October, 2006 to February, 2007. Each recording is an unedited ten-minute take from a single location. Sine tones and mixing completed in Michael Pisaro's home studio in Santa Clarita, California. Each ten-minute piece is followed by two minutes of silence. Recordings were mastered with home stereo playback in mind. In general, it is best to set the volume control on your system to a normal level (that …
Dazwischen / immer anders
Composer : Eva-Maria Houben (1955) Performer : Eva-Maria Houben, organ. 'dazwischen for organ' (2000) : a very low tone a very high airy sound once in a while a tone in between, a noise in between organ sounds, organ noises room noise, ambient noise... once in a while a sound in between: between music and non-music 'immer anders for organ' (2002) the organ: a wind instrument air flow - throughout the room sometimes almost imperceptibly soft more noise than sound, almost just the air flowing dif…
aus den fliegenden blttern eines fahrenden waldhornisten
'aus den fliegenden blttern eines fahrenden waldhornisten' (2013) ('from the flying leaves of a traveling horn player') for horn (F. Wilfried Krüger, horn).
EVA-MARIA HOUBEN (born 1955) studied Music Education at Folkwang-Musikhochschule Essen and the organ with Gisbert Schneider. Following her exams she taught both German and Music Education at Secondary School. She received her doctorate and postdoctoral lecturing qualification in musicology and was called for lectures at Gerhard-Mercator-Un…
Air - works for flutes and organ
'ein schlummer (a slumber)' (2013) for flute(s) and organ. 'aufhören (coming to an end)' (2013) for recorders: g-bass, c'-tenor, c-bass (1 performer). 'atmen V (breathing V)' (2014) for recorder(s) (1 performer) and organ. Ruth Walser, recorders. Barbara Müller-Hammerli, organ. Eva-Maria Houben, organ.
EVA-MARIA HOUBEN (born 1955) studied Music Education at Folkwang-Musikhochschule Essen and the organ with Gisbert Schneider. Following her exams she taught both German and Music Education at Se…
Von da nach da
Composer: Eva-Maria Houben. Performer: Rommel Ayoub, violin. Sebastian Jeuck, saxophone. Eva-Maria Houben, organ. 'Von da nach da' 55 images for three performers (2005). Not all of the 55 images have to be played during a performance. The performers make a selection and play them in any order. On this CD, 17 images appear and disappear. 'Image' might mean : a musical image. But also: a scenery, a situation, a place.
EVA-MARIA HOUBEN (born 1955) studied Music Education at Folkwang-Musikhochs…
Works for flute
Composer : Eva-Maria Houben. Performer : Anne Horstmann, flute. 'Calme, silence, solitude' for piccolo solo, 'quelques riens' for mauritius flute and 'moments musicaux' for bass flute constitute a trilogy, composed by Eva-Maria Houben for flutist Anne Horstmann. They may also be performed individually. The mauritius flute is a traverse flute made of speckled bamboo. Its seven holes are burned into the wood. The scores of this trilogy contain the note: 'Hector Berlioz abgehort' ('upon liste…
Orgelbuch
14 five-minute pieces from Eva-Maria Houben's 'Organ Book'. Eva-Maria Houben (organ).
Works for piano
Composer: Eva-Maria Houben. Performer: Eva-Maria Houben (piano). 'the sound of the piano decays. it cannot be sustained. I let it loose time and again. it appears by disappearing; starting to disappear just after the attack. in disappearing it begins to live, to change. the piano: an instrument, that allows me to hear how many ways sound can disappear. there seems to be no end to disappearance. I can hear, how listening becomes the awareness of fading sound.' 'Klavier' (2003). 'Drei chorle…
works for double bass
EVA-MARIA HOUBEN (born 1955) studied Music Education at Folkwang-Musikhochschule Essen and the organ with Gisbert Schneider. Following her exams she taught both German and Music Education at Secondary School. She received her doctorate and postdoctoral lecturing qualification in musicology and was called for lectures at Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg and Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf. Since 1993 she has been lecturing at Dortmund University`s “Institut für Musik und Musikwissensch…
Works for tromba marina
Composer: Eva-Maria Houben. Performer: Hans Eberhard Maldfeld (tromba marina). 'ein liederbuch' 13 songs Ð to be played in free order, all or in small groups, or just a single song. The tromba marina sings Ð and dances. It sings Ð and moves in varying tempi: andante sostenuto, allegro ma non troppo, adagio, allegretto moto, comodo, adagissimo, allegretto quasi andantino, molto moderato, largo... 'dreistzig' The tromba marina can be so many things. A kettledrum, a bass drum, percussion: ti…
Chamber Works
"Margriet Hoenderdos was born in 1952. She composed her first mature piece, blue time for two pianos, in 1981 while studying with Ton de Leeuw, and her last work, januari '10 for ensemble, in the year of her death. In between she wrote some fifty compositions, ranging from solo works to orchestral pieces. Within Dutch music life with its preference for grand rhetorical gestures her highly refined work remained a background presence, but a powerful one, attracting a small but dedicated following …
Five Compositions
Antoine Beuger (flute), Germaine Sijstermans (clarinet), Tobias Liebezeit (percussion), Burkhard Schlothauer (violin), Lydia Haurenherm (viola), Marcus Kaiser (violoncello). Cem Güney was born in Turkey in 1973. Influenced by jazz music, he learned to play the trumpet and later attended the College of San Mateo's Music Department in San Mateo, California. During the years of playing trumpet, his interaction with music has mostly been with experimental forms of expression. This interaction influe…
Beten. Prayer
This CD considers the topic of 'Prayer' and contains music by Antoine Beuger, James Weeks, Dante Boon, Sidney Corbett, Dante Boon, Nikolaus Brass, Eva-Maria Houben entirely performed by Irene Kurka studied voice at the Musikhochschule in Munich with Reri Grist, at the Meadows School of the Arts (SMU, Dallas) with Barbara Hill-Moore and at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) with Nancy Hermiston. A versatile soprano, she has received numerous awards and scholarships, and …
Anfangen (:Aufhoren)
One main focus of Peter Ablingers music is on the features of human perception. In his words, "human beings are creatures that think of simultaneous things as things happening one after another. This separation of simultaneity to consecutiveness is mental thought… Listening is the perceptive function most likely to be capable of simultaneity." But the composer is not interested in the linguistic character of music which emerges on the background of syntactic and structural principles. The alter…
Songs and piano pieces
music that allows sounds to sound: to die away, completely, into silence sounds thought from their end: not moving forward, but drawing back. this creates space, expanse, a delicate serenity: silence - and what it shelters - becomes audible. this is singing with the ears: barely more than silence. a singing which not only makes, but becomes space: a space for worlds. phrases are also sounds: unfolded, laid out as a path. sound paths that come into being first when followed, invariably trail…
24 Worter
JF: The 24 words are the titles of the individual pieces, and they are at the same time the entire text. They are also a list that shows how the piece gets from a beginning to an end. It is, in a sense, a cycle not simply a collection of pieces - a cycle which begins, makes a journey and ends at a different place. TA: If I had to categorize this list of words, it seems to me they are addressed to quite different areas. Herzeleid (Heartbreak) for example, sounds old-fashioned, Einsamkeitsmangel …
West coast soundings
new compilation of works by emerging west coast composers who somehow belong within a John Cage lineage. Music by James Tenney, Michael Pisaro and their students, Mark So, Michael Winter, Chris Kallmyer, Tashi Wada, Liam Mooney, Scott Cazan, Laura Steenberge, Cat Lamb, Quentin Tolimieri and Casey Anderson. Played by Frank Gratkowski (bass clarinet, b-flat clarinet, alto saxophone, radio, triangle), Seth Josel (electric guitar(s), mandolin, radio, triangle) Hans W. Koch (electronics, radio,…