Electronic / Electroacoustic

Electronic Symphony IV (1988-96) unfolds over four sections across two discs, joined by Frottage and Minimax, both from 1996. Sound generated in real time by an autonomous electronic system: since the process cannot be retraced, the recording itself …

Electronic Symphony V (1977-97) in two sections, one per disc, each paired with one of the Emissioni Trasformati of 1996. Twenty years of revision folded into music that a complex autonomous electronic system concreted in real time, beyond any tracea…

Electronic Symphony VI (1982-97) on the first disc, Symphony VII (1984-98) and Frottage II (1996) on the second. Two of the longest gestations in the cycle, worked over fifteen years and left to a self-regulating electronic system to concrete in real…

The close of the cycle: Electronic Symphony VIII (1978-98) and the single-year Symphony IX (1999) on the first disc, Symphony X (1982-99) in two sections on the second. Thirty years of Kayn's generative studio work arriving at its last and largest st…

The first volume of Kayn's cybernetic works: Ready-Made I and II (1982) on one disc, Collage and Decollage (1984) on the other. Four long pieces that arise, in the composer's words, from the interplay of merged control loops setting a process into mo…

The second volume of Kayn's cybernetic works, a single CD holding two long pieces: Assemblage (1984) and Refractions (1995). Music not composed and practised but set going, arising from merged control loops and feedback in a system that can be entire…

The third volume, six pieces from 1986 to 1996 across two discs: Cybernetic Serendipity, Transfluxion and Syntropie on the first, An Artificial Acoustic Environment, Syzygy Dynamical Units and Equivalence Sonor I on the second. A decade of self-regul…

Two long pieces from the turn of the millennium, Gärten Der Lüste (1999-2000) and L'Innominata (2000), each in two sections, with the early Cybernetics II (1969) set between them on the first disc. Thirty years of Kayn's electronic practice in a sing…

Invisible Music (2003) spread over three parts across two discs, followed by Hommage a K. R. H. Sonderborg from the same year. Late Kayn, sound with no visible source, left to a self-regulating electronic system to unfold at its own pace.

Two long pieces from 2004: Etoile du Nord in two parts on the first disc, Ghyress für Ilse-Emily Kayn on the second, named for the daughter who would later reawaken her father's label. Among the last titles Kayn issued on Reiger Records Reeks himself…

Issued under Kayn's Multiplex Sound-Art heading: Requiem pour Patrice Lumumba (2002) and Interations (2003) on the first disc, the four-section Composizione AD (2002) and Prismes Reflectes (2002) on the second. Among the most recent pieces the compos…

Also under Kayn's Multiplex Sound-Art heading: Ultra (2001) and Redundancy TR (2003) on the first disc, the three-section Megaphonie (2001) on the second. Three of the last pieces Roland Kayn completed and released on his own label.

Recorded in 1982-83 and heard in public barely once, Scanning is the largest of Kayn's cybernetic works: ten CDs, ten hours, twenty-four moments moving between shimmering harmonic ambience and raw droning distance. Remastered by Jim O'Rourke from the…

The concrète riddle of Thalia is the Nurse With Wound-listed and cultishly desired Roger Doyle album withdrawn by CBS Classics shortly after its release in 1978. Less than 200 copies reached shops some three years after his distinctive debut Oizzo No…

***100 copies*** In the electroacoustic composition The Probability of an Encounter d'incise attempts to give physicality to electronic sounds, to capture their materiality as piece of cardboard moving - moving back and forth on itself, and moving re…

* 2LP, originally released on cassette by Industrial Records 1978. Comes with a download code * A selection of material recorded by Cabaret Voltaire during the earlier and formative years of their existence. All of the recordings were done in an atti…

**500 copies with insert** Futuristic synthesizer specialist and sound designer Matsuo Ohno was responsible for the sound design of a broad range of film, television and radio soundtracks, most famously the animation series Astro Boy, which he began …

Anexo3 (2017-18) was composed by Jaime Oliver La Rosa and Ensemble KLEM over residencies in Bilbao, Lima, and Santiago de Chile, through elaborated processes of sound design, experimentation, improvisation, recording, and reflection. Often processed …

Five field-recording based works by Annie Mahtani from 2008 to 2019: the Black Country Living Museum, Amazon nights from the Mamori Sound Project, thousands of ice sculptures by Néle Azevedo, wind in the Cheviot Hills, and a piece for her sister.

Eight works by Nikos Stavropoulos from 2003 to 2017 on intimate, close-up acoustic space, several conceived in 5.1 or ambisonics, among them Topophilia, Karst Grotto and Granicus, written for percussionist Alexander Pepelasis, who plays it here.