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previous artist: christian wolfarth		there are 9 titles featuring christian wolff in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: wolfmangler

$20.16

back in stock as of
november 9th, 2009

first in stock on
january 24th, 2008

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modern-composition
electro-acoustic-composition
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bvhaast (netherlands) #bvhaast 0904 cd

arnold marinissen “percussionist songs” double compact disc set

kurt schwitters - ursonate (41:02) 1922-1932
arnold marinissen - miniatuur 1 (1:44) 2004
kees van kooten - festival (4:58) 1970
arnold marinissen - miniatuur iii (1:16) 2004
stuart smith - songs i-ix for an actor/percussionist (9:00) 1980-1982
arnold marinissen - miniatuur ii (1:56) 2004
ron ford - follow thy flight (7:34) 2004
michael norris - inflexion for saw and tape (10:05) 2004
christian wolff - percussionist songs iv, iii, vi & vii (8:46) 1995
john cage - story from living room music (1:59) 1940

january 2008 release ; second recital set from dutch percussionist arnold marinissen ... the first disc is a 40+ minute subdued performance of “ursonate”, which gives way to another disc worth of pieces by michael norris (an especially nice one for “saw and tape”), christian wolff, john cage, stuart smith, and marinissen himself ...

bvhaast press release...

bvhaast 0904/1004 2xcd
arnold marinissen
percussionist songs

$38.51

new to stock as of
january 10th, 2012

threads:
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experimental-instruments
minimalism-drones
free-improvisation

edition rz (germany) #rz 01023-24 cd

christian wolff “kompositionen • 1950-1972” double compact disc set

duo for violinist and pianist (15:54) 1961
for prepared piano (6:01) 1951
for pianist (10:43) 1959
edges (13:05) 1968
duo for violins (6:25) 1950
for piano i (7:57) 1952
stones (5:45) 1968
lines (7:04) 1972
for pianist (5:24) 1959 version 2
suite (i) (7:00) 1954
for 1, 2, or 3 people (14:15) 1964
for pianist i (10:11) 1959
for 1, 2, or 3 people (9:43) 1964
for piano i (5:53) 1952
suite (i) (7:27) 1954
edges (9:20) 1968
drinks (7:46) 1969

september 2011 release ; ... superb overview of christian wolff’s early compositions ; features performances by keith rowe, david tudor, frederic rzewski, the “gentle fire” ensemble (hugh davies, graham hearn, michael robinson, richard benas, stuart jones) & many others ...

edition rz press release...

ed. rz 1023-24 2cdchristian wolff: kompositionen 1950 - 1972

fresh release in september 2011: 2cd-set of compositions by christian wolff. most of the pieces collected for this portrait of christian wolff document the composer’s early activity and were mainly recorded around the time of their composition. each recording exemplifies the sound gestures from their time.

cover design: ott + stein, berlin
scan: christine berkenhoff

finally i realized that the kind of sound made in an indeterminate situation includes what could result in no other way; for example, the sound of a player making up his mind, or having to change it. in fact, the indeterminate notation i've used is, as far as i know, the only possible one for the kind of sound i should like. and don't forget, we also like to be surprised.

... and the rhythm produced by that situation is like no other rhythm.

$38.51

back in stock as of
january 10th, 2012

first in stock on
november 17th, 2011

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01018-19 cd

david tudor “music for piano” double compact disc set

john cage - music for piano 27 (7:50)
john cage - music for piano 22, 21, 32, 36 (8:47)
john cage - music for piano 27, 21, 32, 36 (10:18)
john cage - variations i (2:21)
christian wolff - duo for pianists i (4:13)
christian wolff - duo for pianists i, version 1957 ii (4:35)
sylvano bussotti - piano piece for david tudor iii (7:25)
john cage - winter music (5:10)
morton feldman - piece for four pianos (7:31)
john cage - variations ii 1961 (26:53)
john cage - music for piano 27, 21, 32, 35, 36 1955 (hr 1959) (12:27)
john cage - music for piano 21, 22, 26, 29, 34, 36 1955 (wdr 1959) (13:19)
christian wolff - duo for pianists i 1957, version 2 (dr 1963) (10:26)
david tudor - o-ton (dr 1963) (1:50)

2007 release ; ... well-organized collection of tudor’s realizations of solo piano repertoire by cage, bussotti, feldman, and wolff (including his gratifyingly gnarly, feedback-oriented performance of cage’s “variations ii” from 1961 - listen to the sound-sample) ...

edition rz press release...

ed. rz 1018-19 2cd
david tudor: music for piano

2-cd set with recordings by the legendary 20th century avantgarde pianist. with compositions by sylvano bussotti, john cage, morton feldman, christian wolff.

david tudor, pianist - a profession, a vocation, a life. from 1950 until around 1965, david tudor was the epitome of the pianist who could simply play anything. in fact, david tudor was no longer a name, but an indication for instrumentation as dozens of pieces were written "for david tudor".

as early as 1960, after having conquered all of the challenges posed by serial piano music, tudor began to differentiate between composers who filled him with life and those who left him cold - the focus of his repertory became crystallized. the main criterion for his choices were shaped by the part he would play as interpreter in the composition. he distinguished carefully between having a free choice among prefabricated parts - generally called aleatoric, as for example, stockhausen's klavierstück xi (dedicated, as his klavierstücke v-viii, to tudor) - and indeterminate actions. in the first case, they have a tendency to "put me to sleep", whereby pieces that are less limiting led him to say, "i feel that i'm alive in every part of my consciousness".

the program of these cds portrays these distinctions.

[ frank hilberg ]

john cage: music for piano 27... 1955 (dr 1958) [ john cage / david tudor · pianos, 7'49'' ]

john cage: music for piano 22, 21, 26, 36 1955 (ndr 1956) [ david tudor · piano, 8'46'' ]

john cage: music for piano 27, 21, 32, 36 1955 (rb 1959) [ david tudor · piano, 10'17'' ]

john cage: variations i 1958 (dr 1958) [ john cage / david tudor · pianos, 2'20'' ]

christian wolff: duo for pianists i 1957, version 1 (rb 1960) [ john cage, david tudor · klaviere, 4'12'' ]

christian wolff: duo for pianists i 1957, version 2 (rb 1960) [ john cage, david tudor · klaviere, 4'35'' ]

sylvano bussotti: piano piece for david tudor iii 1959 (rb 1959) [ david tudor · klavier, 7'25'' ]

john cage: winter music 1957 (wdr 1957) [ john cage / david tudor · klaviere, 5'10'']

morton feldman: piece for four pianos 1957 (columbia 1959) [ david tudor, russell sherman, edwin hymovitz, morton feldman · klaviere, 7'36'' ]

john cage: varitations ii 1961 (sony music 1967) [ david tudor · klavier, 26'52'' ]

john cage: music for piano 27, 21, 32, 35, 36 1955 (hr 1959) [ david tudor · klavier, 12'26'' ]

john cage: music for piano 21, 22, 26, 29, 34, 36 1955 (wdr 1959) [ david tudor · klavier, 13'18'' ]

christian wolff: duo for pianists i 1957, version 2 (dr 1963) [ john cage, david tudor · klaviere, 10'26'' ]

david tudor o-ton (dr 1963, 1'50'')

$28.39

back in stock as of
november 25th, 2008

first in stock on
may 10th, 2007

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1980s-electronic

mode (usa) #mode 179 dvd

earle brown “tracer” digital versatile disc audio

tracer for ensemble and 4-channel tape (1985) (13:24)
october (1952) (0:51)
november (1952) (2:08)
december (1952) (3:36)
march mm = 87 (0:48)
march mm = 135 (0:27)
march (1953) (1:53)
special events (1999) (18:34)
octet 1 (1953) (3:29)
music for violin
cello & piano (1952) (3:04)
four systems (1954) (4:00)
string quartet (1965) (11:38)
new piece (1971) (6:24)
for neil (1975) (1:59)

mode press release...

earle brown (1926-2002)
tracer
mode 179

earle brown first encountered the work of alexander calder in 1948, whose mobile sculptures brown saw as a visual embodiment of the variable (impermanent) aesthetic that he was striving to create. this "calder aesthetic" stayed with brown throughout his several stylistic shifts. whether he was writing twelve-tone serial music (music for violin, cello, and piano), conceptual graphic scores (folio and four systems), composed material/open form scores (string quartet, new piece and tracer), or "spontaneously composed" music (special events), all of his music shares calder's sense of integral but "floating" variations, which brown described as, "the construction of units and their placement in a flexible situation that subjects the original relationships to constant and virtually unpredictable, but inherent, change (the movement of the units as well as the movement of the viewer)."

brown belonged to a group of composers that today is referred to as the "the new york school" (the group active in new york in the 1950s that included brown, john cage, morton feldman, and christian wolff.)

the works recorded on this disc represent several of brown's compositional styles. at least one piece was selected from every decade of his career, from the 1950s to the 1990s. the ensemble size varies from one player to fourteen.

performers include christian wolff and vocalist joan la barbara, both of whom knew and worked with brown for many years.

several works call for spatialized ensembles spread throughout the hall, perfect for the surround-sound medium.

the classic tape piece octet is presented in new high-resolution transfers from analogue tapes provided by the earle brown foundation in its 4-channel mix by the composer.

the release of this dvd marks ne(x)tworks' recorded debut. ne(x)tworks is a collaborative ensemble of musicians creating and interpreting work that features a dynamic relationship between composition and improvisation. in performance and recordings, the group locates pathways into various types of notation systems and interfaces, striving for a meaningful dialogue with the past, present, and future of creative music.

additional features on the dvd:

this is the first dvd of earle brown's music.
all performances captured with full video.
36-minute video interview with susan sollins (brown's wife and an expert on his music), cornelius dufallo (founder of the ne(x)tworks ensemble and brown's godson), and micah silver (former director of the earle brown foundation) on earle brown's life and work. the interview, filmed in hd (high-definition) is presented in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.
hi-resolution 24-bit 5.1 surround recording in dts and dolby digital.

$14.62

new to stock as of
december 21st, 2010

threads:
modern-composition

new world (usa) #nw 80699 cd

christian wolff “long piano (peace march 11) ” compact disc

long piano: beginning (9:40)
long piano: #21 (7:32)
long piano: #44 (9:04)
long piano: #61 (7:53)
long piano: #63 (6:32)
long piano: #66 (9:30)
long piano: #75 (8:52)

november 2009 release ; ... as implied via the title ; an hour-long work for solo piano from christian wolff, rife with his trademark rhythmic & temporal invention(s) ...

new world press release...

composer(s): christian wolff
album title: long piano (peace march 11)
cat. no.: 80699
genre: classical / contemporary
release date: 11/2009

thomas schultz, piano

the melodic and, in the case of the solo piano music, timbral materials from which christian wolff's (b. 1934) music is made are rarely unusual; these are ordinary, everyday things. however, wolff's rhythmic invention is of great range and variety: complex polyrhythms, speech-like-rhythms, the music flowing at a freely fluctuating rate or proceeding in a plain, straightforward manner, silences. this mix of unusual and ordinary results in a music unlike any other. and, in a piece of such length as long piano, the ongoing appearance and accumulation of a great number and variety of short passages results in the constant renewing and refreshing of the listener's perception. this is the world-premiere recording of the composer's largest solo keyboard work to date.

[long piano] seems to me like a kind of geological agglomeration. my hope is that it forms a possible landscape on one extended canvas. at first i just started writing and kept going. my tendency is to work in smaller patches. after the piece was finished i saw jennifer bartlett's wonderfully engaging and cheerful work rhapsody, first shown in 1976. it's a 154-foot sequence of an arrangement of 988 one-foot-square silk-screened and painted enamel plates running around at least three walls of a gallery space. an extreme instance of what i've got in mind.

i had decided not to use the commonest procedure for long keyboard pieces, variations (e.g., frescobaldi, bach, beethoven, rzewski), but sometimes there are series of patches that use tunes (for instance, the very old standby "l'homme armé" and the round "dona nobis pacem") for material. the piece has 94 numbered patches, a few of which are blank (silence) (in bartlett's piece there are the occasional blank squares). the 57th to 67th patches refer to eleven larger sections of a square-root rhythmic structure, each of which has eleven subdivisions whose time proportions are the same as those of the larger sections. the piece also incorporates partial versions (more or less "parodies" in the old music sense) of schumann (the toccata and one of the kinderszenen) and ives's three-page sonata.

- christian wolff

$14.62

back in stock as of
december 22nd, 2010

first in stock on
november 22nd, 2006

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new world (usa) #nw 80658 cd

christian wolff “ten exercises” compact disc

exercise 18
exercise 11
exercise 18
exercise 10
exercise 7
exercise 16
exercise 8
exercise 14b
exercise 3
exercise 1
exercise 15
exercise 10

new world press release...

10 exercises exercises 18 (two versions), 7, 16, 8, 14b, 3, 1, 15, 10 (two versions), 11

natacha diels, garrett list, larry polansky, michael riessler, frederic rzewski, robyn schulkowsky, chiyoko szlavnics, christian wolff.

this marvelous recording of these elusive works features composer-supervised performances by a hand-picked group of renowned new-music exponents. “your first encounter with the music of christian wolff leaves you with the impression you’ve just heard (or played, or read) something totally strange, unlike anything else you know. and yet, upon reflection, you realize it is at the same time something completely ordinary and normal, as familiar in its way as any number of repetitive actions characteristic of everyday life, getting up in the morning, going to school, work, church, washing the dishes, performing the daily tasks of home and family.

weird little tunes, sounding as if they had been beamed at some remote point in the universe and then bounced back again as a kind of intergalactic mutant music; recognizable melodic and rhythmic patterns, somehow sewn together in monstrous pairings, sometimes reminiscent of the demons of hieronymus bosch, composites of animals, fish, flowers, and common household objects: there is order, but also constant interruption, intrusions of disorderly reality upon regularity and lawfulness, combining to create an effect of both familiarity and strangeness: shklovsky’s ostranenie.

you could say this music is surrealist—not reproducing familiar forms, but revealing, behind these, life’s unpredictability. you could say it is political; improvisatory; concerned with collaborative, non-hierarchical forms of social organization; but you can’t really say what it is like (although john cage came close when he said, after a performance of the exercises in new york, that it was like the classical music of an unknown civilization).”

—frederic rzewski

$12.61

back in stock as of
january 6th, 2011

first in stock on
february 11th, 2009

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation

pogus (usa) #p 21031 cd

tom erbe / chris mann / larry polansky / douglas repetto / christian wolff “trios” compact disc

track one (10:54)
track two (2:56)
track three (15:09)
track four (14:26)
track five (4:27)
track six (6:26)

pogus press release...

21031-2

tom erbe, chris mann, larry polansky, douglas repetto, christian wolff
trios

tom erbe - recording, editing, processing
chris mann - voice, texts
larry polansky - fretted and fretless electric guitars
douglas repetto - computer, electronics, recording
christian wolff - piano, bass, percussion, melodica

"it's organized sound! (re)assembled improvisation!!"

trios is a collaboration between five musicians, over time, and over space. it combines instrumental and electronic improvisation with non-real-time computer processing and editing. chris mann, douglas repetto, and larry polansky recorded several hours of live improvised material in one session. months later repetto, polansky, and christian wolff recorded some more. the recordings were then sent off to tom erbe, who culled interesting sections from both sessions and then processed, edited, and mixed them to form the six tracks on the cd.

or: organized sound. (re)assembled improvisation.

$16.38

back in stock as of
april 29th, 2008

first in stock on
april 26th, 2007

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fluxus
guitar-themed
sound-art

syr (usa) #syr 4 lp
sonic youth (usa) #syr 4 lp

sonic youth “goodbye 20th century” double long playing record set

christian wolff - edges (16:02)
pauline oliveros - six for new time - for sonic youth (8:08)
james tenney - having never written a note for percussion (9:04)
john cage - six (3rd take) (3:01)
takehisa kosugi - + - (7:02)
yoko ono - voice piece for soprano (0:12)
nicolas slonimsky - pièce enfantine (2:21)
cornelius cardew - treatise (page 183) (3:29)
john cage - four6 (30:20)
john cage - six (4th take) (3:02)
christian wolff - burdocks (13:16)
george maciunas - piano piece #13 (carpenter's piece) - for nam june paik (3:49)
steve reich - pendulum music (5:56)

syr press release...

the band gets back to their roots in avant-garde classical music. 100+ minutes of modern compositions on double lp or double cd.

music composed by john cage, yoko ono, cornelius cardew, steve reich, takehisa kosugi, nicolas slonimsky, george maciunas, james tenney, pauline oliveros and christian wolff.

sonic youth the syr series

having completed construction on their manhattan studios in 1996, sonic youth suddenly found themselves in a position to create unadulterated by the tyranny of time and space. as a result of their natural writing process, whereby collective improvisation congeals over time into song structures, they began to amass a small mountain of tape, most of it containing raw, wild, spontaneous music they reckoned wouldn't be "commercial" enough for geffen to release.

yet the material seemed just as essential and true to their mission, and showed an important side of the band and their process that was usually inacessible to their fans. so instead of a problem, sy saw an opportunity — they decided to release these secret sonic glimpses themselves. sonic youth recordings was born.

$16.38

back in stock as of
april 29th, 2008

first in stock on
april 26th, 2007

threads:
modern-composition
fluxus
minimalism-drones
guitar-themed
sound-art

syr (usa) #syr 4 cd
sonic youth (usa) #syr 4 cd

sonic youth “goodbye 20th century” double compact disc set

christian wolff - edges (16:02)
john cage - six (3rd take) (3:01)
pauline oliveros - six for new time - for sonic youth (8:08)
takehisa kosugi - + - (7:02)
yoko ono - voice piece for soprano (0:12)
steve reich - pendulum music (5:56)
james tenney - having never written a note for percussion (9:04)
john cage - six (4th take) (3:02)
christian wolff - burdocks (13:16)
john cage - four6 (30:20)
george maciunas - piano piece #13 (carpenter's piece) - for nam june paik (3:49)
nicolas slonimsky - pièce enfantine (2:21)
cornelius cardew - treatise (page 183) (3:29)
video - george maciunas - piano piece #13 (carpenter's piece)

syr press release...

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