Il Metodo per Suonare
Mega Tip! Edition of 200 copies, comes with a large illustrated insert. Giuseppe Chiari arrived at music from the wrong direction. He read mathematics and engineering at university and studied piano and composition privately, and it was John Cage who turned him toward experimental music. With Pietro Grossi he founded Vita Musicale Contemporanea, one of the first Italian associations for new music, and with Sylvano Bussotti he assembled the travelling exhibition Musica e segno. In 1962 Frederic …
Intervalli (1950-56)
VERY last copies * Edition of 200, comes with an insert * Giuseppe Chiari's Intervalli, composed between 1950 and 1956 and now recorded in complete form for the first time, is one of the most significant and least heard compositions of the European post-war avant-garde. A twelve-part work for solo piano, it sidesteps the dominant Serialism of its moment entirely - arriving instead at a form of radical restraint that prefigures Minimalism, systems-based music, and conceptualism by more than a dec…
Swing Bridge; Sizzles
First recordings of two Alvin Lucier works centred on the pipe organ: Swing Bridge (2015) for organ, ensemble and pipe wavers, played by the Australian Art Orchestra with Austin Buckett, and Sizzles (1997) for organ and drums.
33-127 for Electric Guitar and CD
First recording of Peter Ablinger's 33-127 (2002) for electric guitar and CD, played by Seth Josel: 95 pieces in which a descending scale meets recorded street noise, in just under an hour.
The Marvelous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Eearly Years
Early works by Gavin Bryars from 1969-71: first recordings of Pre-Mediaeval Metrics and Made in Hong Kong, plus 1, 2, 1-2-3-4 and The Squirrel and The Ricketty Racketty Bridge, played by Ulrich Kreiger, Seth Josel and others.
The Negotiation of Context
David Brynjar Franzson's three-part the Negotiation of Context (2009-2011) for pianos, pump organ and modified bass drums, played by Yarn/Wire (Laura Barger, Ning Yu, Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg), recorded at EMPAC in Troy, NY, in January 2013; with a performance video.
Musik für übers Sofa
Portrait CD of Hannes Seidl: five works for trombone quartet, mixed ensemble with tape, contrabass clarinet with environmental sound, piano with tape and cello with mixing desk, played by Composers Slide Quartet, ensemble Intégrales, Theo Nabicht, Sebastian Berweck and Andreas Lindenbaum. 2009.
Neolithic Brass
CD and DVD portrait of the Stuttgart-born composer Steffen Krebber, twelve works from 2008-2015 including the Konfusionen series, played by Ensemble Garage, Sonar Quartett, Ensemble Praesenz, LUX:NM and soloists.