K, Weeds
Issued “privately” (via his own “Discant Records” - the label’s sole release) in 1971, this was the recorded debut of composer & author (his “Techniques of the Contemporary Composer” was a big help in my post-collegiate years) David Cope, consisting of two side-length pieces for live instruments, demonic loud-whisper vocals, and analog electronic processing (according to the liner notes, Cope played back “early tapes of his own works,altered through a Moog synthesizer at the Electronic St…
Saturday’s Notes
The debut LP by Chicago-based artist Guido Gamboa, Saturday’s Notes is a multi-faceted collection of sonic studies born from a day of studious and diaristic note-taking. The music flows in idiosyncratic segments taking on a form akin to an artist’s sketchbook, constantly crossing and challenging the line between the aesthetically curious and the personally candid. Various influences are apparent as the listener is weaved in and out of hollowed concrète construction zones, beds of frayed a…
Radioscapes
Radioscapes is a disc that invites to discover the electromagnetic landscapes that surround us. The two sides of the Nicolas Montgermont album propose to listen and to observe two very different radio contexts: the Paris ring road (face A) and a farm isolated in the French countryside (face B). In each location, the whole radio spectrum was methodically recorded during two weeks and then transcribed into a single audio track. On each side, an image representing the levels of the received frequen…