john cage “empty words (parte iii)” double compact disc set

• empty words (parte iii) disc one
  
• empty words (parte iii) disc two

john cage “cheap imitation” compact disc

• i (7.14)
  
• ii (8.27)
  
• iii (20.30)

john cage / joshua pierce “a tribute” double compact disc set

• four walls  (52:25) 1944
  
• primitive  (4:17) 1942
  
• in the name of the holocaust  (6:01) 1942
  
• quest  (1:01) 1935
  
• our spring will come  (4:10) 1948
  
• prelude (piano sextet) for six instruments (4:56) 1946
  
• ophelia  (5:16) 1946
  
  
• sonatas and interludes for prepared piano (50:13) 1946-1948
  
• three early songs  (3:02) 1933
  
• two pieces for piano  (9:13) 1946
  
• music for marcel duchamp  (5:04) 1947
  
• spontaneous earth  (1:36) 1944
  
• three easy pieces for piano  (2:57) 1933
  
• the unavailable memory of  (2:35) 1944
  
• two pieces for piano  (2:43) 1935 / rev. 1974

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

john cage “cheap imitation” compact disc

• i (7:14)
  
• ii (8:27)
  
• iii (20:30)

toshi ichiyanagi “obscure tape music of japan vol.5 • music for tinguely” long playing record

• toshi ichiyanagi - music for tinguely / 1963_10’01”
  
• toshi ichiyanagi - appearance / 1967_20’36”
  
• toshi ichiyanagi - music for living space / 1969_8’52”

john cage / terry fox “high fidelity • artists' records in the marzona collection” double long playing record set

• john cage - mureau part 1 (14:07)
  
• john cage - mureau part 2 (16:54)
  
  
• john cage - mureau part 3 (19:10)
  
• john cage - mureau part 4 (17:24)
  
  
• terry fox - culvert part 1 (20:04)
  
• terry fox - culvert part 2 (8:12)
  
  
• terry fox - culvert part 3 (27:08)

edition rz press release...

ed. rz 9006/9007 2lp highfidelityartists' records in the marzona collection: "john cage speaks mureau" terry fox, culvert performance (24 hours) lp 1: john cage speaks mureau by john cage edition s press, hattingen 1972 (s press tape no. 14) duration: 68:07 lp 2: terry fox, culvert performance (24 hours) with bootz hubbard and bill gilbert (1st two hours) clark fork river, missoula, montana, usa, 1977 duration: 55:39

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)

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'')

john cage / david tudor / toshi ichiyanagi “john cage shock • vol. 3” compact disc

• john cage - 0'00" (18:09)
  
• michael von biel - composition ii for 2 pianos (6:12)
  
• toshi ichiyanagi - music for piano #7 (14:59)

em press release...

catalogue# : em1106cd (op-0010) artist : john cage, david tudor, toshi ichiyanagi title : john cage shock vol. 3 media : cd + all tracks are previously unissued + joint production of omega point + em records + tribute to the john cage centenary and the 50th anniversary for his first japan tour + many scarce photos + japanese - english liner notes including a commentary by toshi ichiyanagi +2 x 12" lp, quality pressing + a large size liner + lp only bonus track in october 1962 john cage and his great interpreter/co-visionary david tudor visited japan, performing seven concerts and exposing listeners to new musical worlds. this legendary "john cage shock", as it was dubbed by the critic hidekazu yoshida, is the source of this series of releases, three cds and a "best hits" double lp compilation. recorded primarily at the sogetsu art center in tokyo on october 24, 1962 (with two performances from october 17 at mido-kaikan in osaka), all recordings in this series are previously unreleased. a major historical trove, unearthed. the performances on this tour featured cage and tudor with some noteworthy japanese musicians playing pieces by cage and a number of other composers. volume 1 begins with toru takemitsu's corona for pianists (1962), played by tudor and yuji takahashi, an indeterminate piece scored using transparencies, a sign of cage's influence on younger japanese composers of the era. following this is duo for violinist and pianist (1961) by christian wolff, written specifically for david tudor and violinist kenji kobayashi. the final piece, a near-twenty-minute realization of variations ii (1961), is a rare example of the rougher side of cage, work that presaged much of the live electronic music and noise of the following decades, an aspect of his oeuvre which is woefully under-represented on cd. cage and tudor, using well-amplified contact microphones on a piano, deliver an electrifying performance, alternating distorted stretches of harsh 60s reality with bountiful silences. volume 2 lifts off with a fiery example of tudor's piano virtuosity, his mastery of dynamics well evident in a performance of klavierstück x (1961) by karlheinz stockhausen. the titular shock of this series is delivered even more forcefully with the next piece, cage's 26'55.988" for 2 pianists and a string player (1961), which was first performed the year before in darmstadt by tudor and kobayashi, a combination of two of cage's solo pieces. the performance here, from osaka, has a slightly altered title and the composition becomes a seismic quartet with the addition of toshi ichiyanagi and yoko ono, with the four performers providing acutely-angled blasts of sound. the final cd of the series features cage's 0'00" (1962), also referred to as 4'33" no.2, performed by the composer, with daily activities such as writing and drinking coffee amplified by contact microphones into sonic abstraction, following the score's directions: "with maximum amplification (no feedback), perform a disciplined action". next is composition ii for 2 pianos (1960/61) by michael von biel, lovely and sparse, performed by tudor and ichiyanagi. the disc closes with ichiyanagi's piano music #7 (1961), performed also by tudor and ichiyanagi, beds of silence disrupted by pianistic stabs, music box madness, traffic recordings, percussive thumps, tape manipulations and more. the "john cage shock" series features truly historical recordings, all previously unreleased, of compositions by an amazing roster of international composers. the intensity of these performances by cage, tudor, ichiyanagi, kobayashi, ono and takahashi has remained hidden and unheard for half a century, but remains undiminished. these three cd’s, as well as the special double lp (including a vinyl only bonus track), feature rare photos plus japanese and english liner notes.

john cage / david tudor / toshi ichiyanagi / kenji kobayashi / yoko ono “john cage shock • vol. 2” compact disc

• karlheinz stockhausen - klavierstück x (19:39)
  
• john cage - 26'55.988" for 2 pianists & a string player (22:41)

em press release...

catalogue# : em1105cd (op-0009) artist : david tudor, toshi ichiyanagi, kenji kobayashi, yoko ono title : john cage shock vol. 2 media : cd + all tracks are previously unissued + joint production of omega point + em records + tribute to the john cage centenary and the 50th anniversary for his first japan tour + many scarce photos + japanese - english liner notes including a commentary by toshi ichiyanagi +2 x 12" lp, quality pressing + a large size liner + lp only bonus track in october 1962 john cage and his great interpreter/co-visionary david tudor visited japan, performing seven concerts and exposing listeners to new musical worlds. this legendary "john cage shock", as it was dubbed by the critic hidekazu yoshida, is the source of this series of releases, three cds and a "best hits" double lp compilation. recorded primarily at the sogetsu art center in tokyo on october 24, 1962 (with two performances from october 17 at mido-kaikan in osaka), all recordings in this series are previously unreleased. a major historical trove, unearthed. the performances on this tour featured cage and tudor with some noteworthy japanese musicians playing pieces by cage and a number of other composers. volume 1 begins with toru takemitsu's corona for pianists (1962), played by tudor and yuji takahashi, an indeterminate piece scored using transparencies, a sign of cage's influence on younger japanese composers of the era. following this is duo for violinist and pianist (1961) by christian wolff, written specifically for david tudor and violinist kenji kobayashi. the final piece, a near-twenty-minute realization of variations ii (1961), is a rare example of the rougher side of cage, work that presaged much of the live electronic music and noise of the following decades, an aspect of his oeuvre which is woefully under-represented on cd. cage and tudor, using well-amplified contact microphones on a piano, deliver an electrifying performance, alternating distorted stretches of harsh 60s reality with bountiful silences. volume 2 lifts off with a fiery example of tudor's piano virtuosity, his mastery of dynamics well evident in a performance of klavierstück x (1961) by karlheinz stockhausen. the titular shock of this series is delivered even more forcefully with the next piece, cage's 26'55.988" for 2 pianists and a string player (1961), which was first performed the year before in darmstadt by tudor and kobayashi, a combination of two of cage's solo pieces. the performance here, from osaka, has a slightly altered title and the composition becomes a seismic quartet with the addition of toshi ichiyanagi and yoko ono, with the four performers providing acutely-angled blasts of sound. the final cd of the series features cage's 0'00" (1962), also referred to as 4'33" no.2, performed by the composer, with daily activities such as writing and drinking coffee amplified by contact microphones into sonic abstraction, following the score's directions: "with maximum amplification (no feedback), perform a disciplined action". next is composition ii for 2 pianos (1960/61) by michael von biel, lovely and sparse, performed by tudor and ichiyanagi. the disc closes with ichiyanagi's piano music #7 (1961), performed also by tudor and ichiyanagi, beds of silence disrupted by pianistic stabs, music box madness, traffic recordings, percussive thumps, tape manipulations and more. the "john cage shock" series features truly historical recordings, all previously unreleased, of compositions by an amazing roster of international composers. the intensity of these performances by cage, tudor, ichiyanagi, kobayashi, ono and takahashi has remained hidden and unheard for half a century, but remains undiminished. these three cd’s, as well as the special double lp (including a vinyl only bonus track), feature rare photos plus japanese and english liner notes.

john cage / david tudor / yuji takahashi / kenji kobayashi “john cage shock • vol. 1” compact disc

• toru takemitsu - corona for pianists (9:34)
  
• christian wolff - duo for pianist & violinist (12:09)
  
• john cage - variations ii (19:16)

em press release...

catalogue# : em1104cd (op-0008) artist : david tudor, john cage, yuji takahashi, kenji kobayashi title : john cage shock vol. 1 media : cd + all tracks are previously unissued + joint production of omega point + em records + tribute to the john cage centenary and the 50th anniversary for his first japan tour + many scarce photos + japanese - english liner notes including a commentary by toshi ichiyanagi +2 x 12" lp, quality pressing + a large size liner + lp only bonus track in october 1962 john cage and his great interpreter/co-visionary david tudor visited japan, performing seven concerts and exposing listeners to new musical worlds. this legendary "john cage shock", as it was dubbed by the critic hidekazu yoshida, is the source of this series of releases, three cds and a "best hits" double lp compilation. recorded primarily at the sogetsu art center in tokyo on october 24, 1962 (with two performances from october 17 at mido-kaikan in osaka), all recordings in this series are previously unreleased. a major historical trove, unearthed. the performances on this tour featured cage and tudor with some noteworthy japanese musicians playing pieces by cage and a number of other composers. volume 1 begins with toru takemitsu's corona for pianists (1962), played by tudor and yuji takahashi, an indeterminate piece scored using transparencies, a sign of cage's influence on younger japanese composers of the era. following this is duo for violinist and pianist (1961) by christian wolff, written specifically for david tudor and violinist kenji kobayashi. the final piece, a near-twenty-minute realization of variations ii (1961), is a rare example of the rougher side of cage, work that presaged much of the live electronic music and noise of the following decades, an aspect of his oeuvre which is woefully under-represented on cd. cage and tudor, using well-amplified contact microphones on a piano, deliver an electrifying performance, alternating distorted stretches of harsh 60s reality with bountiful silences. volume 2 lifts off with a fiery example of tudor's piano virtuosity, his mastery of dynamics well evident in a performance of klavierstück x (1961) by karlheinz stockhausen. the titular shock of this series is delivered even more forcefully with the next piece, cage's 26'55.988" for 2 pianists and a string player (1961), which was first performed the year before in darmstadt by tudor and kobayashi, a combination of two of cage's solo pieces. the performance here, from osaka, has a slightly altered title and the composition becomes a seismic quartet with the addition of toshi ichiyanagi and yoko ono, with the four performers providing acutely-angled blasts of sound. the final cd of the series features cage's 0'00" (1962), also referred to as 4'33" no.2, performed by the composer, with daily activities such as writing and drinking coffee amplified by contact microphones into sonic abstraction, following the score's directions: "with maximum amplification (no feedback), perform a disciplined action". next is composition ii for 2 pianos (1960/61) by michael von biel, lovely and sparse, performed by tudor and ichiyanagi. the disc closes with ichiyanagi's piano music #7 (1961), performed also by tudor and ichiyanagi, beds of silence disrupted by pianistic stabs, music box madness, traffic recordings, percussive thumps, tape manipulations and more. the "john cage shock" series features truly historical recordings, all previously unreleased, of compositions by an amazing roster of international composers. the intensity of these performances by cage, tudor, ichiyanagi, kobayashi, ono and takahashi has remained hidden and unheard for half a century, but remains undiminished. these three cd’s, as well as the special double lp (including a vinyl only bonus track), feature rare photos plus japanese and english liner notes.

david tudor “the art of david tudor • 1963-1992” septuple compact disc boxed set

• john cage - variations ii (21:18) 1963
  
• christian wolff - for 1, 2, or 3 people (24:47) 1964
  
• david tudor - bandoneon ! (a combine) (14:15) 1966
  
  
• david tudor - anima pepsi (23:37) 1970
  
• david tudor - pepsibird (18:25) 1970
  
• david tudor - pepscillator (11:37) 1970
  
  
• john cage / david tudor - mesostics re merce cunningham/untitled (55:17) 1972
  
  
• david tudor - weatherings (36:25) 1978
  
• david tudor - phonemes (33:35) 1981
  
  
• david tudor - rainforest iv (46:41) 1973
  
• david tudor - webwork (25:29) 1987
  
  
• david tudor - rainforest iv (38:21) 1973
  
• david tudor - virtual focus (28:43) 1990
  
  
• david tudor - neural network plus (60:30) 1992

new world press release...

composer(s): john cage, christian wolff, david tudor album title: the art of david tudor 1963–1992 cat. no.: 80737 (7 cds) genre: classical / electronic release date: 05/2013 david tudor's (1926-1996) identity morphed seamlessly from interpreter of mainly acoustic music to composer-performer of predominately electronic music over a period of about ten years, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. this set of seven cds, the first truly comprehensive survey of tudor's work as a composer, goes beyond any previous attempt to document that process of transformation. it captures his touch and sensitivity and offers an expansive, previously unavailable view onto more than three decades of tudor's astonishingly original work as an electronic musician. it neatly describes the arc of his career, from his first composition, bandoneon ! (a combine), through the fully-realized works of his long collaboration with the merce cunningham dance company. six works that were issued in excerpted form in music for merce (1952-2009) are issued here complete. other highlights include the live soundscapes for the pepsi pavilion at the 1970 osaka world expo, the marvelous simultaneous performance with john cage of mesostics re merce cunningham / untitled, and two extended binaural recordings of rainforest iv with composers inside electronics, the best recorded documents of this signature work. while cage has finally more or less received his due, tudor's own accomplishments have been somewhat overshadowed and are ripe for a proper re-evaluation. it is our hope that the release of this set will prompt a thorough reconsideration of his seminal achievements.

john cage / morton feldman “music for keyboard 1935-1948 / the early years” double compact disc set

• john cage - two pieces - slowly (2:18) 1935
  
• john cage - two pieces - quite fast (1:21) 1935
  
• john cage - metamorphosis (16:18) 1938
  
• john cage - bacchanale (9:24) 1940
  
• john cage - the perilous night (13:25) 1944
  
• john cage - tossed as it is untroubled (2:36) 1943
  
• john cage - a valentine out of season (4:01) 1944
  
• john cage - root of an unfocus (4:22) 1944
  
• john cage - two pieces for piano - i. (4:43) 1946
  
• john cage - two pieces for piano - ii. (7:44) 1946
  
• john cage - prelude for meditation (2:27) 1944
  
• john cage - music for marcel duchamp (6:01) 1947
  
  
• john cage - suite for toy piano (7:46) 1948
  
• john cage - dream (9:18) 1948
  
• morton feldman - piece for four pianos (7:13) 1957
  
• morton feldman - intersection 3 for piano (2:42) 1953
  
• morton feldman - extensions 4 for three pianos (6:06) 1953
  
• morton feldman - two pieces for two pianos i (1:13) 1954
  
• morton feldman - two pieces for two pianos ii (1:17) 1954
  
• morton feldman - projection 4 for violin and piano (5:09) 1951
  
• morton feldman - structures for string quartet (5:17) 1951
  
• morton feldman - extensions 1 for violin and piano (5:48) 1951
  
• morton feldman - three pieces for string quartet i (4:30) 1956
  
• morton feldman - three pieces for string quartet ii (6:12) 1956
  
• morton feldman - three pieces for string quartet iii (3:48) 1956

alvin curran “maritime rites” double compact disc set

• rattlesnake mountain
  
• coastline
  
• mine
  
• improvisation (joseph celli)
  
• soft shoulder
  
• program introductions (disc 1)
  
• from center of rainbow
  
• sounding
  
• improvisation (george lewis)
  
• ice
  
• dew
  
• food
  
• crew
  
• ape
  
• maritime rites
  
• program introductions (disc 2)

david tudor / john cage “rainforest ii & mureau” double compact disc set

• rainforest ii / mureau (43:02)
  
• rainforest ii / mureau (continued) (51:17)

john cage “in norway” compact disc and book set

• first construction (in metal) (9:57)
  
• second construction (8:27)
  
• music for marcel duchamp (6:44)
  
• third construction (13:02)
  
• branches (35:19)

prisma press release...

john cage: in norway [cd + book] cd in 64-page hardcover book with photos, interviews with the musicans and a transcription of cage's q&a at the oslo art academy. having received an invitation from ole henrik moe, the director of the henie onstad art centre, john cage arrived at fornebu airport one november day in 1983 and was quickly lodged into a guest apartment in the basement of the museum. cage had brought with him to norway a heavy suitcase containing amongst other things a water distiller, a selection of fungi and grains needed for his macrobiotic diet, a pocket chess set and a strong wish to get to meet the norwegian fungi experts finn-egil eckblad and gro gulden. the programme for the first half of “cage week” focused on cage’s lectures and other text-pieces. he performed composition in retrospect at the norwegian academy of music, held a previously unpublished lecture called duchamp, johns, rauschenberg, tobey, graves at the oslo national academy of the arts, and performed the text pieces james joyce, marcel duchamp, erik satie and alphabet and muoyce at the henie onstad art centre. the second half of the week focused on a programme of concerts held at the art centre, with a percussion orchestra conducted by christian eggen. the ensemble was to perform, in various constellations, the pieces first, second & third construction, branches and music for marcel duchamp. on cage’s own request the swedish pianist mats persson and the french violinist ami flammer were invited to perform freeman etudes and sonatas and interludes. cage was very active during his days in norway, even outside of the official programme. he finished an eight-part haiku-poem, which he presented as a gift to ole henrik moe. at the museum he also made a series of drawings, tracing the outline of stones that he had brought with him, onto sheets of paper laid out onto the floor. he also got to play several games of chess with some of the musicians, and he went on a failed mushroom hunt at frognerseteren on a cold november morning. cage’s visit was well documented in photo, video and audio recordings, he was interviewed by all the major newspapers, as well as by eivind solås for nrk television. a special pamphlet was printed for the event, containing articles by amongst others kåre kolberg and kjell samkopf. shortly after his stay the norwegian journal of new music, ballade, published a special cage edition. recordings of the event were published in 1984 as an unusual 10-tape suitcase “john cage in norway”. today in 2010, on the occasion of this exhibition, henie onstad art centre has published a book and cd also titled “john cage in norway”. this publication incorporates the sounds, photographs and articles that document the important cage visit, which echoed in norway’s musical and cultural life for years to follow.

john cage “song books” double compact disc set

• solo for voice no.17 (4:00)
  
• solo for voice no.20 (1:46)
  
• song books mix 1 (12:24)
  
• solo for voice no.65 (4:36)
  
• solo for voice no.4 (1:42)
  
• song books mix 6 (19:14)
  
• solo for voice no.3 (2:37)
  
• solo for voice no.11 (4:49)
  
• song books mix 7 (9:34)
  
• solo for voice no.79 (3:30)
  
• song books mix 3 (14:28)
  
  
• solo for voice no.47 (3:13)
  
• solo for voice no.91 (7:52)
  
• song books mix 5 (6:47)
  
• solo for voice no.5 (9:04)
  
• solo for voice mix 4 (11:25)
  
• song books no.67 (2:30)
  
• solo for voice no.21 (0:45)
  
• solo for voice no.70 (5:11)
  
• song books no.90 (3:25)
  
• song books mix 2 (22:54)

sub rosa press release...

john cage song books 2cd digipack + 24 page booklet (including photos, scores and exclusive texts) performed by loré lixenberg and gregory rose - vocalists robert worby - electronics the human voice is a magical instrument and john cage's gargantuan opus, song books (solos for voice 3-92), is a magnificent homage. these performances by lore lixenberg, gregory rose, and robert worby are a stunning achievement, and this first complete recording makes a welcome (and long overdue) addition to the ever-expanding catalog of cage's recorded works. laura kuhn - the john cage trust this year, 2012, john cage would have been 100 years old. he defined experimental music in the 1930s and, since that time, his ideas, his music and his work have been copied by hundreds of other composers and musicians time and time and time again. anybody who claims to make experimental music today has to acknowledge their debt to him. song books is a collection of 90 'solos for voice' that cage composed in 1970. as a theme, he took a line from his diaries: 'we connect satie with thoreau'. satie being the eccentric french composer erik satie, whom cage greatly admired. and thoreau, the american writer who lived alone in the woods writing about nature and his own type of anarchy. any number of the solos may be performed by any number of people, in any order, selected by chance operations. songs and theatre and electronics mash up fluxus-like food events, amplified board games, electroacoustic voices, 'animal heads' and intense feedback. cage says that 'a virtuoso performance will include a wide variety of styles of singing and vocal production.' this is the first ever recording of all of the solos for voice contained in song books.

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.

ray gallon “nam june paik • a work for radio” cassette

• nam june paik • a work for radio (1)
  
  
• nam june paik • a work for radio (2)

the tapeworm press release...

ttw#53 – ray gallon – nam june paik – a work for radio cassette only – limited edition of 250 copies this hour-long compositional documentary was produced for the cbc radio series “signature,” and was originally broadcast on april 28, 1979. it was nominated for an actra award for best radio documentary of the year. it is the result of a remarkable creative collaboration by artists such as john cage, charlotte moorman, philip corner, and nam june paik himself with the author. interspersed throughout the portrait are audio realisations by ray gallon of conceptual works by nam june paik. thanks also to lorne tulk for remarkable engineering and creative contributions, and to digby peers for the courage to broadcast it. author and producer: ray gallon. mix engineer: lorne tulk. additional technical assistance: john hollinger. narration: ray gallon, russ germain. series producer: digby peers. biography: ray gallon has been a communicator for over 40 years, half of that time as a radio producer and audio artist. although he had a classical music education, ray gravitated early towards the avant-garde, and was fascinated by musique concrète, electronic music, so-called progressive jazz, and the multitrack experiments of the rock revolution in the sixties. his first exposure, on television, to the work of john cage came very close to the moment when he wandered into a cinema by chance, and saw fellini’s 8 1/2. the one-two punch of these experiences left him delirious for the rest of his life. ray studied theatre design at the university of alberta, and helped found theatre 3, edmonton’s second professional theatre company. he worked for many years in toronto as a lighting and sound designer for theatre and performance art. as a radio producer he has worked in almost every department at cbc radio except hard news. he was nurtured by glenn gould’s experiments with “compositional documentaries,” and developed his own style, inspired by gould’s work. in 1980 ray moved from toronto to new york and joined with julia lee prospero and brian flahive to form the airworks group. together, they produced innovative documentary and radio art programmes for npr in the u.s. and for independent public radio distribution, most notably the airworks series of original commissioned works for radio in different disciplines. ray joined the staff of public radio station wnyc in new york as a producer, and eventually became the station’s programme manager, guiding a programme schedule built around the creativity of 20th century music, art, and drama. in the late 80s ray’s focus turned towards new media, communications art, and computers. after moving to france in 1992, he continued to produce audio art and radio while teaching courses in new media and working as a technical communicator. ray is currently a researcher with the transformation society, and shares his life between barcelona, spain, and the languedoc region of france.

nikolaus einhorn “arbeiten” long playing record and seven inch single record set

• arbeiten - ein stück für alle (15:56) 1973
  
• cudrefin (minuit) - found music no.1 (18:27) 1973
  
  
• don’t you may be, the essential interview (5:02) 1975

“rumori alla rotonda” compact disc

• john cage “duo” (1958) 07’25”
  
• walter marchetti “gamapîrt” (1959) 04’22”
  
• morton feldman “piano piece 1” (1954) 02’41”
  
• juan hidalgo “ciu music quartet” (1959) 11’04”
  
• leopoldo la rosa “musica per pianoforte e 3 timpani” (1959) 04’58”
  
• john cage “music for piano” (1956) 06’14”
  
• juan hidalgo “offenes trio” (1959) 04’49”
  
• morton feldman “piano piece ii” (1954) 02’18”
  
• walter marchetti “doppio” (1959) 05’10”
  
• leopoldo la rosa “rímak” (1959) 12’16”

“20 jahre inventionen ii” compact disc

• hildegard westerkamp - whisper study for two-channel tape (10:44) 1975-79
  
• salvatore sciarrino - codex purpureus for string trio (5:53) 1968-83
  
• john cage - music for piano 55-63 (6:32) 1956
  
• sainkho namtchylak - roots and vibrations (8:06) 1994
  
• joe jones - solar orchestra (7:33) 1982/90
  
• john cage - music for piano 78-84 (5:37) 1956
  
• giacinto scelsi - from 20 canti del capricorno (no. 1, no. 4) for voice (and additional instruments) (5:00) 1962-72
  
• masanori fujita - from jü-jü-shin for 15 buddhist monks (23:05) 1986
  
• john driscoll - a hall is all (5:29) 1985

edition rz press release...

ed. rz 4004 20 years inventionen vol.2 volume 2 of the cd documentation of the berlin festival "inventionen" (volume 1 containing horatiu radulescu's string quartet no. 4) a various artists retrospective sampler including recordings of works by the following composers: hildegard westerkamp, salvatore sciarrino, john cage, sainkho namtchylak, joe jones, giacinto scelsi, masanori fujita, john driscoll. hildegard westerkamp: whisper study (1975-79, tape work, inventionen 1986) salvatore sciarrino: codex purpureus, trio per archi (1968-1983, members of the arditti string quartet, inventionen 1994, a wdr production) john cage: music for piano #78-84 (1952-56, herbert henck (klavier), inventionen 1992, a kunstkopf concert recording) sainkho namtchylak: roots and vibrations (1994, sainkho namtchylak (voice), heinz lieb und john preininger (percussion), inventionen 1994, a kunstkopf concert recording) joe jones: solar orchestra (inventionen 1990, a kunstkopf concert recording) john cage: music for piano #55-63 (1952-56, herbert henck (klavier), inventionen 1992, a kunstkopf concert recording) giacinto scelsi: 2 parts of 20 canti del capricorni (1962-72, michiko hirayama (voice), inventionen 1992, a kunstkopf concert recording) masanori fujita: ju-ju-shin (1986, karyobinga sho-myo-group (tokyo, shingon sekte, buzan school, buddhist monks choir), leiter: maki ishii, inventionen 1986, a kunstkopf concert recording) john driscoll: a hall is all (1985, installation, inventionen 1986, a kunstkopf concert recording)

“music for merce (1952-2009)” decuple compact disc set

• christian wolff - for magnetic tape (1952) [pt. 1 of 4] (5:24)
  
• christian wolff - for piano i (1952) (5:19)
  
• john cage - music for piano 1–20 (1954) (16:13)
  
• earle brown - indices (1955) [excerpt] (20:51)
  
• bo nilsson - quantitäten (1958) (12:31)
  
  
• morton feldman - ixion (1958) (20:21)
  
• john cage - variations v (1965) [excerpt] (13:41)
  
• gordon mumma - mesa (1966) (19:38)
  
• toshi ichiyanagi - activities for orchestra (1962) (24:09)
  
  
• david behrman - … for nearly an hour… (1968) [excerpt] (3:23)
  
• pauline oliveros - in memoriam: nikola tesla, cosmic engineer (1969) [excerpt] (9:44)
  
• christian wolff - for 1, 2, or 3 people (1964) [excerpt] (12:07)
  
• christian wolff - burdocks (1971) [excerpt] (16:59)
  
• john cage, gordon mumma, david tudor - /3 (1972) [excerpt] (16:39)
  
• gordon mumma - telepos (1972) (18:27)
  
  
• david tudor - toneburst (1975) (17:45)
  
• takehisa kosugi - s.e. wave/e.w. song (1976) [excerpt] (13:03)
  
• maryanne amacher - remainder (1976) [excerpt] (14:55)
  
• jon gibson - equal distribution (1977) [excerpt] (12:14)
  
• john cage - inlets (1977) [excerpt] (10:17)
  
  
• david tudor - weatherings (1978) [excerpt] (14:54)
  
• yasunao tone - geography and music (1979) [excerpt] (21:18)
  
• david tudor - phonemes (1981) [excerpt] (14:00)
  
• david tudor - sextet for seven (1982) (18:15)
  
  
• takehisa kosugi - spacings (1984) (23:52)
  
• john king - gliss in sighs (1985) (16:19)
  
• john cage - voiceless essay (1986) [excerpt] (10:58)
  
• david tudor - webwork (1987) [excerpt] (10:46)
  
• michael pugliese - peace talks (1989) [excerpt] (11:44)
  
  
• takehisa kosugi - spectra (1989) (20:29)
  
• john cage - sculptures musicales (1989) [excerpt] (12:14)
  
• david tudor - virtual focus (1990) [excerpt] (15:15)
  
• john cage - four3 (1991) [excerpt] (15:24)
  
• david tudor - neural network plus (1992) [excerpt] (13:28)
  
  
• john king - blues ’99 (1993) [excerpt] (19:10)
  
• stuart dempster - underground overlays (1995) [excerpt] (15:22)
  
• john cage - four6 (1992) [excerpt] (11:17)
  
• takehisa kosugi - wave code a–z (1997) [excerpt] (14:42)
  
• christian wolff - or 4 people (1994) [excerpt] (6:16)
  
  
• john cage - and one8 (1991) [excerpt] (14:18)
  
• john king - longtermparking (2002) [excerpt] (15:31)
  
• david behrman - long throw (2007) [excerpt] (18:25)
  
• annea lockwood - jitterbug (2007) [excerpt] (20:19)
  
  
• event - february 16, 1993, red wing, minnesota (5:58)
  
• event - september 14, 1996, annemasse, france (5:53)
  
• event - june 5, 1997, frankfurt (7:30)
  
• event - september 12, 1998, minneapolis (5:22)
  
• event - september 29, 2002, oslo (4:12)
  
• event - october 30, 2002, munich (6:51)
  
• event - december 14, 2004, new york city (3:54)
  
• event - december 15, 2004, new york city (6:56)
  
• event - december 18, 2004, new york city (6:35)
  
• event - june 14, 2005, london (5:21)
  
• event - june 17, 2005, london (8:44)

new world press release...

composer(s): christian wolff, john cage, earle brown, bo nilsson, morton feldman, gordon mumma, toshi ichiyanagi, david behrman, pauline oliveros, david tudor, takehisa kosugi, maryanne amacher, jon gibson, yasunao tone, john king, michael pugliese, stuart dempster, annea lockwood album title: music for merce (1952-2009)  cat. no.: 80712 (10 cds) genre: classical / contemporary release date: 12/2010  the late merce cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations with the most significant experimental musicians of the late 20th century. particularly notable is his association with john cage, who served as the founding musical director of the merce cunningham dance company until cage’s death in 1992. spanning six decades from the early 1950s onward, these recordings capture the breadth of the cunningham repertory and the rich diversity of cunningham’s musical collaborations. composers whose work features prominently in this collection include seminal figures of late-20th-century experimental music such as john cage, david tudor, gordon mumma, christian wolff, and takehisa kosugi, among others. for the most part, these compositions have not been recorded elsewhere and are making their first appearance on cd. this is a document of enormous historical import that will be a revelation to both listeners and scholars interested in the evolution of american experimental music over the past five decades. also included is a 124-page booklet featuring a 15,000-word essay by amy beal, one of the foremost scholars of contemporary american music.

“i want the beatles to play at my art center! • music from the henie onstad kunstsenter archives 1968-2011” double long playing record set

• arne nordheim – a forum of the arts (1969)
  
• sigurd berge – excerpts from blikk (1970)
  
• bjørn fongaard - the space concerto for piano and tape (1971)
  
  
• soft machine – teeth (1971)
  
• spontaneous music ensemble – norway (1971)
  
• paal-helge haugen & kåre kolberg – excerpts from requiem for janisjoplin (1972)
  
• svein finnerud trio – olga (1974)
  
• hal clark – the monkey and organ grinder (1975)
  
  
• the aller værste! - dans til musikken (1980)
  
• john cage – excerpts from muoyce (1983)
  
• magne hegdal – music for marcel duchamp (1983)
  
• lasse marhaug – ear era 7 (2008)
  
• jim o’rourke - aunt esther (2010)
  
  
• deathprod - studio (2010)
  
• håkon kornstad – improvisations for karin (2011)
  
• jenny hval – you sign your name (2012)

prisma press release...

new release: various "i want the beatles to play at my art center!" [2lp] music from the henie onstad kunstsenter archives 1968-2011 prismalp004 releasedate october 29, 2012 this 2lp presents seminal works of music from the nearly 50-year history of henie onstad kunstsenter (hok). when hok founder sonja henie exclaimed that she wanted the beatles to play at her art center, in essence she expressed its founding ambition to produce and stage a lively cross-artistic program that captured the contemporary spirit of the day in live form. this release is filled with previous unreleased material recorded at hok by artists such as jim o’rourke, deathprod, arne nordheim, soft machine, john cage and jenny hval. "and now we take the first step into the future." former director ole henrik moe added this bold statement when hok opened its doors to the public in 1968. the museum of the future at høvikodden would position dynamic time-based art alongside its collection of modernist masterworks of paintings and sculpture, demonstrating how the various forms of art elaborate and collaborate with each other. instead of expanding its art collection, the majority of hok’s budget would go to events and exhibitions, to the production of new time-based works, and not least, to document ephemeral art. i want the beatles to play at my art center! presents a small selection from hok’s vast sound archives. for the first time one can hear excerpts from kåre kolberg and paal-helge haugen’s commisioned work rekviem for janis joplin from 1972, håkon kornstad improvising in 2012, hal clark playing the legendary buchla-synthesizer in the norwegian studio for electronic music in 1975, and soft machine at its prime in 1971 with robert wyatt on drums. the lp also contains commisioned works by jenny hval, deathprod, lasse marhaug and jim o’rourke, all produced by hok over the last years. other artists represented on the 2lp are bjørn fongaard, the aller værste!, svein finnerud trio, sigurd berge and spontaneous music ensemble. this release accompanies the exhibition i want the beatles to play at my art center! – tidsbasert kunst ved hok 1968-2011 opening october 28th at hok with performances by deathprod and nils bech. in relation the exhibition the book mot det totale museum is published by forlaget press together with a dvd on prisma records. the exhibition and releases are curated by lars mørch finborud.

“i want the beatles to play at my art center! • video from the henie onstad kunstsenter archives 1968-2011” digital versatile disc

• ole henrik moe - epoke (1968)
  
• pål bang-hansen & arne nordheim - a forum of the arts (1970)
  
• terje rypdal - orfeus vender seg og ser på eurydike (1972)
  
• hal clark - a silent tour of the norwegian studio for electronic music (1975)
  
• kjartan slettemark - poodle performance at hok (1975)
  
• mauricio kagel - ex-position (1978)
  
• lasse thoresen - skapelser (1978)
  
• john cage - muoyce (1983)
  
• stian skagen & monica winther - the inward rising (2008)
  
• killl - live at hok (2009)
  
• moha! and idan & anu - fire & ignorance (2009)
  
• stephen o'malley - le petit geante (2009)
  
• masselys / christopher nielsen & matt willis-jones - jimmy polaris (2011)

prisma press release...

new release: various "i want the beatles to play at my art center!" [dvd] video from the henie onstad kunstsenter archives 1968-2011 prismadvd001 releasedate october 29, 2012 artists: john cage, kjartan slettemark, killl, arne nordheim, stephen o’malley, mauricio kagel, moha!, christopher nielsen/masselys, stian skagen & monica winther. this dvd presents seminal works of music, performance, dance, theater and installation art from the nearly 50-year history of henie onstad kunstsenter (hok). when hok founder sonja henie exclaimed that she wanted the beatles to play at her art center, in essence she expressed its founding ambition to produce and stage a lively cross-artistic program that captured the contemporary spirit of the day in live form. this release is filled with previous unreleased material from hok’s history, and shows for the first time kjartan slettemark dressed up as a poodle in 1975, mauricio kagel’s commisioned piece ex-position from 1978, and the brilliant recording of john cage reading muoyce in 1983. "and now we take the first step into the future." former director ole henrik moe added this bold statement when hok opened its doors to the public in 1968. the museum of the future at høvikodden would position dynamic time-based art alongside its collection of modernist masterworks of paintings and sculpture, demonstrating how the various forms of art elaborate and collaborate with each other. instead of expanding its art collection, the majority of hok’s budget would go to events and exhibitions, to the production of new time-based works, and not least, to document ephemeral art. i want the beatles to play at my art center! presents a small selction from henie onstad kunstsenter’s video archives. the dvd contains a newly restored version of pål bang-hansen’s promotional feature a forum of the arts from 1969 where amongst others arne nordheim performs his commisioned work for hok solitaire. for the first time one can see how the norwegian studio for electronic music looked like in 1975 and view an excerpt from terje rypdal’s opera orfeus vender seg og ser på eurydike. in addition the dvd contains more recent productions with artists like moha!, killl, stephen o’malley and christopher nielsen / masselys. this release accompanies the exhibition i want the beatles to play at my art center! – tidsbasert kunst ved hok 1968-2011 opening october 28th at hok with performances by deathprod and nils bech. in relation the exhibition the book mot det totale museum is published by forlaget press together with a 2lp on prisma records. the exhibition and releases are curated by lars mørch finborud.

“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 ...