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Komuna// Warszawa plays Luc Ferrari Tautologos III
In 2011, the prose score of 'Tauologos III', served as framework for a chamber opera prepared in Komuna// Warszawa. Its core element consisted of three separate performances of a short fragment of Alfred Schnittke's String Trio. Violinist (Julia Kubica), violist (Wojciech Walczak) and cellist (Filip Rzytka) played their own parts of the given movement one after the other. Their performances were recorded live and finally overlapped and played back with no synchronization. The procedure was sprin…
play Alvin Lucier Chambers
Rinus van Alebeek and Michal Libera set out for a dozen of excursions into Calabrian towns armed with Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities' as a guide book, to recite, talk, read, listen, drink coffee, perform, play, record, play back... or: blow, bow, rub, explode, scrape, walk, ignore, talk, screw, dance, whistle, which are all suggestions of Alvin Lucier to make large and small resonant environments sound. The material recorded during these attempts to make invisible cities of Calabria sound was…
Harvestehude
After more than 10 years of enthusiastic experiences and encounters with so-called „Difficult Music“ throughout the 1980ies Martin Peinemann and Asmus Tietchens deemed their somewhat differing approaches to making music compatible and agreed upon a loose collaboration in the year 1992. For various reasons (organizational and others) the work was not to take place at Audiplex studios but at Peinemann’s home studio. This modest lab featured all the necessary technical equipment needed to realize n…
Porta 07
NASTRO is an eclectic duo based in Rome, well-known for an amazing and intense live set and for their arty and wacky approach to the music: no rules for them! "Nastro" means "Tape" in Italian: This cassette is entirelly recorded and mixed on the Tascam Porta07, 4 track analog recorder. Recorded and mixed directly on tape without any digital hardware or software. This EP follows the great last 2 LPs from nastro. "300mq" and "Terzo Mondo", both release on Upside Down Recordings.
They began record…
Broadcast #01
100 copies Soundtrack composed for Live Arts Week 2012 that took place in Bologna from 25.04.12 to 29.04.12, compiled by Claudio Rocchetti and Matteo Castro. Tapes are meant to be reproduced simultaneously, in loop..
Hypnomaghia
Hypnomaghia è la testimonianza di una lunga notte di quasi ∞ ore trascorsa a RAUM a Bologna l'11 gennaio 2014; sesto appuntamento di Hypnomachia – Nocturnal Emission —musica che si dipana lungo una notte intera, dove il pubblico è invitato a portarsi coperte e sacchi a pelo per accamparsi nello spazio— in questo caso commissionato a Palm Wine.Hypnomaghia è costruita su flussi decrescenti, pensata come una corsa archeologica che si snoda tra musica da ballo Sud Americana, repertori di field recor…
Punti Sulla Curva I
First two chapter in a series of releases based on field recordings. A stunning collection of nature interventions and humans observations. Edition of 100 each. Massimo Carozzi since 1994 concerned with the relations between sound and image, sound and script, sound and literature, sound and space. Carozzi has created sound design for theatre, documentaries, short films, installations. He played and collaborated with Sinistri, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, Starfuckers, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Margar…
Punti Sulla Curva II
First two chapter in a series of releases based on field recordings. A stunning collection of nature interventions and humans observations. Edition of 100 each. Massimo Carozzi since 1994 concerned with the relations between sound and image, sound and script, sound and literature, sound and space. Carozzi has created sound design for theatre, documentaries, short films, installations. He played and collaborated with Sinistri, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, Starfuckers, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Margar…
Dust and Chimes
Ben Chasny was on a holy roll when he laid down the eleven tracks on Dust and Chimes. It was 1998 and y'all were floating on that Bill Clinton peace-and-prosperity bubble. Meanwhile, Chasny had dropped his self-titled debut LP earlier that year, and the cognoscenti and illuminati were pricking up their ears. Dust and Chimes announced the arrival of a brow-furrowed troubadour whose complex, morosely beautiful guitar playing didn't Basho you over the head with Fahey-isms. The three solo guitar tra…
Carnets
Just as 2014's widely lauded Hidden Tapes marked a turn from saxophone improvisation to an embrace of what the Potlatch label referred to as "music for speakers" or, more elegantly, "sound diffusion,"Carnets is not only another leap forward, but could easily be considered Marc Baron's masterpiece.Carnets is a dynamic interplay of degraded magnetic tape and unsettlingly normal everyday recordings dating back to Baron's childhood, showcasing Baron's deftness in crafting compositions that leave the…
No. 4
A Quarterly Journal of Post-Rock Cultural Pluralism, edited by Byron Coley. Issue no. 4. In this issue:Alex Behr: Junior High Reviews; Tosh Berman: Tom Phillips IRMA the Opera; Alan Bishop: Pink FloydAnimals: Trevor Block: Rowdy Roddy Piper; Karla Borecky: Antonin Artaud: Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu; Bree: KÅÂÂbÅ Abe Woman of the Dunes; Benoit Chaput: Plume Latraverse; Sharon Cheslow: Stand-up Comedy; Byron Coley: Column;Karen Constance: Igor Wakhevitch Hathor; Nigel Cross: Jeff…
Violin Reactions
Armando Sciascia – by day, notable composer for Italian erotic and exotic cinema – by night, experimentalist and nocturnal avant-gardener. Lovingly crafted in his hand-built Vedette studio, Armando Sciascia’s “lust for experimental research” has never been mre evident than on these precious, never before commercially released 1974 Library recordings. “Violin Reactions” is a violently unique work, studiously constructed out of multi-tracked strings, ominous VCS3 drones and the drum breaks o…
Recordings 1971-1983
Limited edition of 500. Don Slepian is a true pioneer of electronic music. He started composing in 1969 and released his first compilation cassette in September of 1978. He left Hawaii and came to Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he was "Artist in Residence" in computer music for the next two years. In 1980 he released three more cassette tapes on the Hawaiian record label Plumeria Productions: The Sea of Bliss, New Dawn, and Open Spaces. In 1981 he self-released his first LP, Co…
Tape-Recordings 1977-1983
Limited edition of 500. Marc Barreca is an American synthesist and multi-instrumentalist and one of the pioneers of American cassette culture. Inspired by Brian Eno and the ambient school, he began recording his own music in the mid-'70s. By 1980 he already recorded three tapes: In a Foreign Land (1977), Raw Fish and Green Tea (1979/'80), and Currents (1979/'80) -- all three only released and distributed via Eurock in an extremely low quantity. In 1980 he released his first LP, Twilight, on K. …
Recordings 1980-1982
Limited edition of 500. Galen Herod is one of the pioneering synthesis artists of American cassette culture. From 1979 to 1982 he produced several outstanding and creative electronic tape releases which he distributed either via Eurock or by himself in the Phoenix, Arizona area. His very early tape works are dominated by abstract, austere, experimental electronics in the vein of Conrad Schnitzler, using tape loops and completely homemade synth-equipment includes oscillators, filters, and …
Misiunea Spatiala Delta
Strut Records continues to document the work of obscure Romanian outfit Rodion G.A, here releasing their second offering entitled Delta Space Mission. Originally commissioned for 1984 Romanian sci-fi animation Misiunea Spatiala Delta but never used, Rodion G.A’s 15-minute prototype score exhibits the balanced psychedelic and early electronic sound this intriguing outfit are synonymous with. Remastered from the original reel-to-reel tapes, this recording captures all the grainy, galactic, unbridl…
Tape-Recordings 1974-1979
Limited edition of 500. Anode has been the professional alias of Robert Carlberg since 1972. The Seattle-based musician has dabbled in musique concrète, minimalist tape music, drones, manipulations, and other non-keyboard-based electronics. Through founding a newsletter for electronic musicians in 1979 called SYNEX (together with Charles Larrieu), establishing one of the first DIY tape labels (Anode Productions, which released works by Anode and Kerry Leimer), and writing a monthly column fo…
Syntheseas: Recordings 1980-1982
Limited edition of 500. Multi-talented autodidact musician and devoted painter Leon Lowman became interested in synthesizers when he heard ELP's "Lucky Man" in 1970. At that time Lowman was working for various recording studios and sound companies in California and with his first paycheck he made a down-payment on an ARP 2600-Synthesizer (as well as a Mediamix Joystick for pitch bending), which he still uses at the time of this release. From that point on he used whatever money he could sp…
Music for Fragments from the Inside
A "classic" from the Sub Rosa catalog, never released on vinyl before. An astonishing piano-player drifts on beats and soundscapes. Recorded during a magical night in the courtyard of a Siena Renaissance Italian Palazzio where the lightness of Harold Budd meets Eraldo Bernocchi's deep electronics. Beats and bass, drones and soundscapes tie together harmonically to meet one of the most emotionally-involving piano players/composers.
Red Bird: A Political Prisoner's Dream
A milestone!! Sub Rosa presents another installment in its Early Electronic series, a silver vinyl reissue of Trevor Wishart's Red Bird: A Political Prisoner's Dream, composed between 1973 and 1977 using the studio of the University of York, and originally released in 1978 by York Electronic Studios. Wishart's compositional interests deal mainly with the interpolation by technological means between the human voice and natural sounds. He has been very active since the early 1970s in the area…