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)

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...

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.