Extended Voices (LP)
1970 re-press of the 1967 fantastic, mind-blowing and essential compilation of pieces for chorus and for voices altered electronically by sound synthesizers and vocoder, conducted by Alvin Lucier and released on Odyseey's "Music Of Our Time" avant-garde music series curated by David Behrman.
Variations III For Voices And Percussion With Solos / Nexus 16 / Culmination / L'Après-Midi Du Dracoula (LP)
Cage's 1963 piece for voices and percussion with solos plus three more experimental compositions from the 1960's by the other composers, performed by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble and released on Wergo's "Große Interpreten Neuer Musik" series in 1971. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Electronics & Percussion (LP)
1970's re-press of the 1968 LP with five superb realizations for percussion and electronics of as many classic avant-garde compositions, including Cage's Fontana Mix-Feed, spanning from 1958 to 1965, released on Columbia's "Music Of Our Time" avant-garde music series curated by David Behrman.
Electronique Et Percussion (LP)
French edition of the 1968 LP with five superb realizations for percussion and electronics of as many classic avant-garde compositions, including Cage's Fontana Mix-Feed, spanning from 1958 to 1965, released on CBS' "Music Of Our Time" avant-garde music series curated by David Behrman.
Times Five / Octet I / December 1952 / Novara (LP)
Great collection of experimental works spannong from 1952 to 1963, including an electronic piece, two open form compositions for ensemble (one with tape) conducted by the composer himself and one for piano performed by Davis Tudor, released on CRI's "Contemporary Music" series in 1974.
Complete Studies For Player Piano Volume One (LP)
First of four volumes released by 1750 Arch Records between 1977 and 1984 of the experimental and groundbreaking compositions for piano beyond the ability of a human pianist spanning almost 50 years. With insert
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (LP)
1970's re-press with red labels of the 1967 CRI LP of the maverick composer's mid-1960's studies for his unique microtonal instruments performed by his own Gate 5 Ensemble, producing some of the strangest otherworldly avant-garde music ever.
Enclosure 1 (VHS)
1995 VHS presenting four historic films from the late 1950's / early 60's, the first installment of Innova's documentation of the seminal maverick avant-garde composer's work.
Enclosure 4: Harry Partch (VHS)
1997 VHS with the 1971 film version of Partch's major dramatic work Delusion of the Fury, the fourth installment of Innova's documentation of the seminal maverick avant-garde composer's work.
Paradigm / Algorithms I Versions I & IV / Signals (LP)
Four fantastic experimental pieces composed in 1968 for instruments and tape/electronics, including Foss' outstanding theatrical piece for percussionist-conductor, electric guitar and three other instruments capable of sustaining a sound and Hiller's superb computer-generated composition, released on DGG's legendary "Avantgarde" series.
Symphony Of Overtures / The Seventh Trumpet / Concerto For Solo Percussionist (LP)
Three great 1960's experimental works, two for orchestra with very unusual sounds and one for solo percussionist, released on Turnabout's "The Contemporary Composer in the USA" in 1973.
Synchronisms No. 6 / Electronic Study No. 3 / Synchronisms No. 5 / Trobar Clus / Solitaire For Piano And Vibes (LP)
Excellent avant-garde compositions for instruments and electronics/tape spanning from 1965 to 1971, released on Turnabout's "The Contemporary Composer in the USA" in 1973.
A Second Wind For Organ (LP)
Great 1967 album on Odyssey's "Music Of Our Time" avant-garde music series produced by David Behrman with three experimental works for organ performed by David Tudor, including Mumma's amazing ear-splitting Mesa.
New American Music Volume 4 (LP)
Fourth and last, and possibly best volume of Folkways's "New American Music" series released in 1975, presenting six superb experimental electronic compositions from the 1970's, most of which available only here.
Phew
Why did so many of the world’s most forward-thinking musicians gravitate toward Conny Plank’s studio at that time? Released in 1981, Phew was recorded at the legendary Conny’s Studio—home to seminal works by Kraftwerk, Neu!, D.A.F., and Brian Eno—featuring Phew, formerly of Aunt Sally.
The album brings together Can members Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit, whose contributions, combined with Plank’s masterful engineering and Czukay’s innovative editing techniques, result in a strikingly original …
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera
On Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Ground Zero - under the ferociously precise direction of Otomo Yoshihide - detonates a cut‑and‑splice orchestra where free improv, noise, opera and plunderphonics collide with undimmed urgency.
On Bats
"Historically, ensembles combining taishōgoto and bagpipes (at least inside the milieu of “jazz”) have been on the tame side. The Winkler Twins, Dagnabbit, CUZ and other such units pandered to the bowtie set so exclusively that many people have all but dismissed the instruments as hopelessly moldy or even (in the words of critic Milo Fine) “tools of fascism and complacency.” That said, it is my pleasure to announce that the duo of William “Bill” Nace and Dave “David” Watson has made a mighty eff…
Open Space
The (improvised) music is inspired (and structured) by the iconic book of Georges Perec from 1974 titled Espèces d’espaces. We designed a musical story following the chronology and the emotional evolution of the book. Music, too, generally needs a ‘void’ to move. It demands openness and, as such, is an invitation.
We Are. Profoundly. Predisposed. To Drowning.
The music of this trio is an ongoing conversation between three women about life as it unfolds between artistic practice and daily routines. Compassioned conversations about being someone’s mother, someone’s daughter, someone’s partner, someone’s friend seamlessly float into the musical sphere, where words and emotions are transformed into pitches, harmonies, rhythms and artistic gestures.
Three strong artists from the creative music scene of northern Europe has formed a trio that feeds from the…
Murmur
I am fascinated by the coordination and elegance of a flock of birds flying, forming beautiful murmurations, constantly changing, seemingly without effort. This communal act provides protection through the sheer number of birds and their changing position; it is an exchange of information amongst them and it has a clear collective ending when the flock decides to fly back to the ground. In Murmur, I want to explore how a large ensemble can make use of these instincts of communal movement, coordi…