Corn Alone
This is my ode to corn in 3 parts, all featuring corn as corn himself. There are 6 pieces composed for 7 handmade instruments, made entirely out of different parts of corn, with some thread and wood glue as well. There is a cornfield recording, taken…
Lights shimmered like whispers in the depths of the trees
Textures of belonging, relentlessly woven into the epigenetics, layer upon layer, building palimpsests of human existence that are both fragile and resilient, with nothing but a wobbly strand of DNA. The way our grandparents' experiences spill across…
Live at Somewhere
"I call it ‘the Shadow Pattern Vignette’. A fragmentary and pleasingly non-discriminatory exercise in audio capture which, when sequenced, compiled or arranged alongside other such vignettes, leads to the finished work of Nate Ivanco’s Shadow Pattern…
The Dream Island of Birds
Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with »The Dream Island of Birds«. Neither documentary nor abstraction, »The Dream Island of Birds« sits between field recording, memory, and invention — an island heard through time and circuitry.
In the early 1990s,…
Fragments of Soaring Vessels
The tracks that make up Fragments of Soaring Vessels are conceived as “sensitive vehicles.” Although they seem quite different at first listen, closer listening reveals multiple points of intersection—often overlapping, sometimes paradoxical. The Ine…
Electro/Acoustic (LP)
Excellent electro-acoustic album blending modular synthesis and sound processing, released by Spectrum in 1980.
When Heaven Comes To Town (LP)
Excellent experimental LP split bwtween short electronic/instrumental pieces and a long evocative musique concrète composition, released by ReR Megacorp in 1989.
Sermons Of Saint Francis / Hymn Of Creation / Labyrinth (LP)
Great and underrated obscure experimental 1970 LP on Orion pairing a lovely piece for cello and tape with two truly amazing ear-splitting electronic/tape pieces. Brown labels.
Sermons Of Saint Francis / Hymn Of Creation / Labyrinth (LP)
Great and underrated obscure experimental 1970 LP on Orion pairing a lovely piece for cello and tape with two truly amazing ear-splitting electronic/tape pieces. Black labels.
Electronic Music (LP)
1967 re-press (Allentown) of the second album on Turnabout's landmark "Electronic Music" series presenting three classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions originally released in 1966.
Electronic Music III (LP)
Original US pressing of the third album on Turnabout's landmark "Electronic Music" series presenting four classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions, released in 1967.
Hugh Le Caine, J.D. Robb, Myron Schaeffer, Robert Aitkin, Val Stephen, Victor Grauer, Jean Eichelberger Ivey, Arnold Walter, Harvey Olnick
Electronic Music (LP)Great album of early electronic / musique concrète pieces realized at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, released by Folkways in 1967 and never re-issued. Mono version with blue labels, with insert.
International Electronics (LP)
Excellent compilation of electro-acoustic pieces from the early 1970's by American and Swedish composers, released by Spectrum in 1976.
Música Electroacústica Mexicana (LP)
Very rare and excellent panorama of Mexican electronic music in the early 1980's presenting four fantastic electro-acoustic compositions by as many composers, released on CIMM's "Colección Hispano-Mexicana De Música Contemporánea" in special silk-scr…
Música Electroacústica Mexicana (LP)
Very rare and excellent panorama of Mexican electronic music in the early 1980's presenting four fantastic electro-acoustic compositions by as many composers, released on CIMM's "Colección Hispano-Mexicana De Música Contemporánea" in special silk-scr…
Ilhan Mimaroglu, Doris Hays, Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, Alison Knowles, Daniel Goode, Tom Johnson, Ann Silsbee
Sleepers (LP)Intriguing 1985 sleep-themed compilation on Ilhan Mimaroglu's Finnadar label, compiled by Doris Hays with avant-garde soundscapes and sleep-inducing compositions.
Uneven Geometry
*27 copies limited edition* A limited edition of 27 reel-to-reel tapes, assembled by hand. Housed in a rigid black 'pizza' box and sealed with a pink sticker, each copy carries traces of manual handling and slight variation. The reel sits exposed wit…
Guilty Paradise
*80 copies limited edition* Guilty Paradise is an almost 30-minute, fascinating glimpse into Michał Fundowicz’s journey to Japan. There, in the city of Kobe, he met Tim Olive, and over the course of three days they recorded the material that eventual…