“an anthology of noise & electronic music • first a-chronology 1921-2001” triple long playing record set

• luigi and antonio russolo - corale (1:57) 1921
  
• walter ruttman - wochende (11:17) 1930
  
• pierre schaeffer - cinq etudes de bruits: etude violette (3:18) 1948
  
• henri pousseur - scambi (6:27) 1957
  
  
• gordon mumma - the dresden interleaf 13 february 1945 (12:43) 1965
  
• angus maclise tony conrad and john cale - trance #2 (5:07) 1965
  
• philip jeck otomo yoshihide and martin tetreault - untitled #1 (6:06) 2000
  
  
• konrad boehmer - aspekt (15:13) 1966
  
• einsturzende neubauten - ragout: küchen rezpt von einsturzende neubauten (4:08) 1998
  
  
• nam june paik - hommage a john cage (4:13) 1958-59
  
• john cage - rozart mix (7:18) 1965
  
• sonic youth - audience (6:00) 1983
  
• survival research laboratories - october 24 1992 graz austria (6:11) 1992
  
  
• edgard varèse - poeme electronique (4:40) 1957-58
  
• iannis xenakis - concret ph (2:44) 1958
  
• ryoji ikeda - one minute (1:00) 1997
  
• paul d. miller aka dj spooky that subliminal kid - ftp > bundle / conduit 23 (8:07) 2001
  
  
• pauline oliveros - a little noise in the system (moog system) (30:16) 1966

sub rosa press release...

an anthology of noise & electronic music #1 first a-chronology 1921-2001 srv190 3xlp the first volume of seven published from 2001 to 2011, curated, noted and edited by guy marc hinant. an unpublished history this is the great beginning of a vast anthology of "noise and electronic music" that we plan for the following years in 7 double volumes. this volume begins in the 1920s, with the russolo brothers, and looks at each decade in turn - varèse, cage, schaeffer, xenakis, the great pioneers - the first traces of a music that was necessarily revolutionary: electronic music, created from nothing (and hence to be entirely invented). some pieces on these cds are certainly classics, but there are others, which, though old, were distributed informally or never even released. our more contemporary pieces are, wherever possible, previously unreleased. in fact, more than the half of what we listen here is unreleased and unpublished. ... the gathering of eclectic noise makers whereas composers like stockhausen, berio or pousseur had come from serialism and began making electronic music as a continuation of their work with traditional instruments, others such as boehmer or oliveros composed right away on electronic bases; there were those who invented new methods, like schaeffer and concrete music, others were outsiders, revolutionaries or visionaries like xenakis or cage, without forgetting the branch of sound derived from dada, the complex forms of free jazz, john coltrane, the acoustic and electronic improvisation scene, rock of the alternative, psychedelic and industrial varieties, the german wave of the 1970s, the last generation of electronic musicians from the beginning or middle of the 1990s, dj, reinventors of drones, painters or sculptors using sound, and process or software creators. the noise goes on ...