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anomalous (usa) #nom 24 cd

andrew deutsch “lung cleaner” compact disc

nice day, some rain (13:33)
dizzy from the cold meds (8:04)
coughing the lung cleaner (20:36)
sleep fields (go to sleep) (14:46)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "dizzy from the cold meds"

anomalous press release...

andrew deutsch
lung cleaner

i created lung cleaner for eric lanzillotta when he was sick with a serious lung infection which lasted for months. i hoped to help him recover by imagining a "sonic cure", an "art pill". the work continued after his illness and the notion of using metaphor as a compositional starting point has, at this time, formed the basis for all my sonic research and composition.

some other points of departure:
digital structuralism, modular systemic processing, solitary parameter based interactive performance, image drones, contextual music, glaze/kiln music, analog/digital hybrids, granular synthesis, headphones, time grafting, modular synthesis, micro tonal clusters, moment clusters, destructive improvisational editing, rate of change patterns, logarithmic processing, filters, time sweeps, restricted randomization patterns, iannis xenakis, merzbow, john cage, and gyorgy ligeti.

source materials included: wine glasses, baby toys, pure tones, bells, music boxes, gears, water, etc...track 2: "dizzy from the cold meds" contains samples of 3 unpublished early electronic works by pauline oliveros dating from around 1966.

track 2: "dizzy from the cold meds" contains samples of 3 unpublished early electronic works by pauline oliveros dating from around 1966.

sounds, images & design: deutsch
special thanks to eric lanzillotta, rachael jackson, jennifer dworak, and sawako kato.

edition of 1000 copies
please note: the cover and label wrongly show catalog number as nom26

$12.61

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october 20th, 2009

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february 11th, 2009

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plunder-phonic

deep listening (usa) #dl 39 cd

carrier band “voice coil” compact disc

voice coil (40:21)
frozen speaker (23:31)
video voice (8:04)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "video voice"

deep listening press release...

pauline oliveros (accordion with expanded instrument system)
peer bode (live text with bode vocoder)
andrew deutsch (live mixing, archival recordings, samples, loops and electronics)

voice coil was performed by the carrier band in the fall of 2003 at the deep listening space in kingston, new york. pauline oliveros performed on accordion and computer-based expanded instrument system, peer bode performed live text with his bode vocoder, and andrew deutsch performed live mixing, archival recordings from the bode archive, samples, loops and electronics.

voice coil is an example of an improvisation emphasizing the integration of analog systems and new digital tools between performers both living and deceased. in 2007, andrew deutsch added about 35 minutes of short overdubs to the recordings and has brought the recording closer to what the audience heard at the deep listening space. furthermore, the overdubs provide added depth to the work for repeated listening. 'frozen speaker' is an electronic composition by andrew deutsch and features sections from oliveros' music for expo 70. 'video voice' uses sounds from pauline oliveros' electronic works 'v of iv' and 'mewsak,' as well as elements of stephen vitiello's 'light meter' recordings. the carrier band was formed in 1998 when pauline oliveros, peer bode, and andrew deutsch performed 3 improvisations at alfred university that were later released as the carrier cd on the deep listening label.

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deep listening (usa) #dl 36 cd

pauline oliveros / miya masaoka “accordion koto” compact disc

accordion koto

deep listening press release...

miya masaoka & pauline oliveros
accordion koto

though an unlikely combination -- accordion and koto -- it is not so much about the instruments as about the energies of the music that comes from the intensity of listening -- listening as close to 'now' as possible. we know that our consciousness is delayed by a fraction of a second that the brain interprets as now -- however the body is instantaneous in its perception. thus the phenomena of playing and becoming conscious of what has played -- been played -- is a continually surprising experience in such improvisation.

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deep listening (usa) #dl 28 cd

pauline oliveros “lion’s eye • lion’s tale” compact disc

lion’s eye for gamelan (45:55) 1985
lion’s tale for sampler (16:02) 1989

deep listening press release...

‘lion's eye for gamelan’ was commissioned in 1985 by barbara benary for gamelan son of lion. ‘lion's eye for sampler' was commissioned concurrently by neil rolnick for iear presents at rensselaer polytechnic institute. both versions were performed in 1985. the intention to combine both pieces in order to expand the tempo range of the gamelan was first realized in may of 1989 in performances by the berkeley gamelan in oakland and san francisco, california under the direction of daniel schmidt. this version of 'lion's eye' is recorded on this disc. the duration of 'lion's eye' is forty-five minutes. 'lion's tale' (1989) is composed of layered polymetrical, polyrhythmical patterns. the patterns are played at speeds ranging up to 1800 per minute. the composer designed patterns are generated by the computer program. 'lion's tale' may be created in a new version every time the program is run. 'lion's tale' also exists in a midi version for a keyboard performer.

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deep listening (usa) #dl 21 cd

timeless pulse “live at cnmat 2002” compact disc

live at cnmat 2002 (1) (28:52)
live at cnmat 2002 (2) (10:24)
live at cnmat 2002 (3) (13:18)

deep listening press release...

formed in 1993 in a residency at the pauline oliveros foundation, the musicians of timeless pulse make music together through listening and responding in the moment. artists include thomas buckner (baritone). george marsh (percussion), pauline oliveros (accordion) david wessel (computer realized sound), and jennifer wilsey (percussion). this cd is an unedited recording of a concert at cnmat on sunday, march 10, 2002.

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deep listening (usa) #dl 16 cd
institute for electronic arts (usa) #iea 03 cd

carrier band “automatic inscription of speech melody” compact disc

automatic inscription of speech melody (17:10)
chaos and difference (13:31)
earth orbit (18:01)
flux ling (sound check) (17:42)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "chaos and difference"

deep listening press release...

the carrier band was formed in 1998 when pauline oliveros, peer bode and andrew deutsch performed 3 improvisations at alfred university and later released the carrier cd on dl.

the title piece 'automatic inscription of speech melody' is a trio improvisation by carrier band based on quotes written in the technical notebooks (1934-1949) of pioneering electronic instrument developer harald bode. the piece weaves words and phrases excerpted from the notebooks spoken and vocoded by peer bode through the bode vocoder. the vocoder transfers speech onto pitched sounds and the voice releases the carrier sounds. these texts, along with pauline's electronic sounds created on her difference box were mixed with loops and excerpts of harald bode's demo tapes and synthesized sounds constructed by deutsch. the lfo drone heard at the beginning was pauline's entrance into the piece.

'earth orbit' is a quartet improvisation which dick described as being 'the most fun he's ever had performing' loops and text from harald bode's notebooks were once again used along with data sets generated by deutsch.

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deep listening (usa) #dl 07 cd

pauline oliveros “ghostdance” compact disc

procession (peregrinacion) (10:35)
greetings (saludos) (2:03)
ghosting (relaciones) (2:25)
fragments (fragmentos) (4:14)
in the house of my families (en las casas de mis families) (0:59)
reverberations (reverberaciones) (3:43)
duet (dueto) (3:19)
body stories (historias del cuerpo) (3:00)
monkey (chango) (2:52)
wolf (loba) (5:06)
private journies (viajes privados) (3:31)
river of folk dance (rios folkloricos) (2:36)
the last time (ultima vez) (7:28)

deep listening press release...

pauline oliveros (accordion/eis)
david gamper (djembe/eis)
julie lyon rose (voice/eis)

the expanded instrument system (eis) used in this recording is an evolving electronic sound processing environment dedicated to providing improvising musicians control over various interesting parameters of electronic transformation of their acoustic instruments. performers each have their own setup which includes their delay and ambiance processors, microphones, signal routing and mixing, and a computer which translates and displays control information from foot pedals and switches.

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june 22nd, 2007

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lovely (usa) #l 1903 cd

pauline oliveros “crone music” compact disc

the fool's circle (6:02)
"a woman sees how the world goes with no eyes" (7:15)
"reason in madness mixed" (7:55)
"this great fool's stage" (5:12)
"let it be so" (8:30)
"let me not be mad" (9:30)
lear on the road (13:12)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "a woman sees ..."

lovely press release...

crone music
pauline oliveros

pauline oliveros, solo accordion; panaiotis, processing and mixing

commissioned by mabou mines, the experimental theater group from new york, for their interpretation of "king lear," oliveros' crone music is a subtle and haunting electronic music endeavor. interfacing an abundance of digital delay processors, reverb effects and foot pedals to bend pitches from piercing to twisted, sonorous tones, with her one-of-a-kind expanded accordion, oliveros produces rich, eerie textures.

“in use herein is a fairly complex series of pitch-modulated foot-controlled digital delay units which render oliveros' solo accordion playing into a full accordion ensemble. this all results in seriously dense overtone/ghost chord action, complete with microtones and countermelodies emulating something like a grand-pipe-organ jam session. heavy. by far the most ear-triggering of all oliveros's explorations with said instrument.” -- hrvatski, from forced exposure

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mutable (usa) #mutable 17527 cd

timeless pulse “quintet” compact disc

21
healing piece
just play
light
shapes

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "light"

2008 release ; studio date from the quintet of pauline oliveros, george marsh, thomas buckner, david wessel, and jennifer wilsey ...

mutable press release...

timeless pulse - quintet

(mutable 17527-2)

timeless pulse:
thomas buckner, voice
george marsh, percussion
pauline oliveros, accordion
david wessel, live-electronics
jennifer wilsey, percussion

formed in 1993 in a residency at the deep listening institute, the musicians of timeless pulse - whose members come from jazz, classical and electronic - make music together through listening and responding in the moment. the five compositions on this recording from 2005 are warm, compassionate tapestries of soft, rolling sounds performed by accordion, cymbals, drums, gongs, bells, chimes, sampled sounds, and voice.

thomas buckner has been singing, presenting, recording and producing composed and improvised music since 1972. he is currently co-producer with the world music institute of the interpretations series of contemporary music in new york city and founder and artistic director of the mutablemusic label.

george marsh has been teaching and performing on drumset and percussion since 1954. he is currently touring with the david grisman quintet, and teaching at uc santa cruz and sonoma state university.

pauline oliveros is a composer, improviser, founder and president of the deep listening institute, ltd. and a distinguished professor of music at rensselaer polytechnic institute and mills college.

david wessel co-directs the center for new music and audio technologies (cnmat) at the university of california berkeley where he practices and teaches live-performance computer-based music.

composer/performer jennifer wilsey teaches percussion and percussion pedagogy at sonoma state university and maintains a private studio in piano and percussion in santa rosa, ca.

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best of 2006 !!!

paradigm (uk) #pd 04 cd

pauline oliveros “electronic music 1965/66” compact disc

i of iv [1966] (25.29)
big mother is watching you [1966] (33.45)
bye bye butterfly [1965] (08.02)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "i of iv"

another fantastic reissue on the paradigm discs label, this one of pauline oliveros' seminal early electronic pieces, the first of which was her contribution to the classic odyssey lp that also introduced "come out" by steve reich and "night music" by richard maxfield onto a cold and generally uncaring world back in 1968. regardless of whether you understand the process or not, this is one of the classics of early (north) american electronic music ...

paradigm press release...

pauline oliveros - electronic music 1965/66 (pd 04)

total time 67'18"

cover by clive graham.
released 1997

jewel case cd with 4 page booklet
i of iv was made in july 1966 at the university of toronto electronic music studio and was first released by cbs alongside works by 2 other young composers - 'come out' by steve reich and 'night music' by richard maxfield. it is really only in recent years (born out of the more radical elements of dance music, electronica and ambient music) that music like this is being rediscovered by a growing number of people interested in all manner of experimental electronics. track 2 was also made in the summer of 1966 at the university of toronto electronic music studio, and track 3 was made at the san francisco tape music center in 1965. the 3 pieces on this cd are all live experiments, which at the simplest level use either an array of oscillators or filters, a mixer and one spool of tape feeding a series of (variously set up) stereo tape machines. long delay lines, pile ups of noise and rich sonorities are the stuff of this music. the third piece also samples a chunk of pucini's (sic) 'madame butterfly', which only makes this music seem even more contemporary. ...

i of iv was made in july 1966 at the university of toronto electronic music studio. it is a real time studio performance composition (no editing or tape splicing), utilising the techniques of amplifying combination tones and tape repetition. the combination tone techniques was one which i developed in 1965 at the san francisco tape music center.

the equipment consisted of

12 sine tone square wave generators connected to an organ keyboard.
2 line amplifiers
mixer
hammond spring type reverb
and 2 stereo tape recorders.

11 generators were set to operate above 20,000 hz, and one generator at below 1 hz.
the keyboard output was routed to the line amplifiers, reverb, and then to channel a of recorder 1.
the tape was threaded from recorder 1 to recorder 2.
recorder 2 was on playback only.
recorder 2 provided playback repeition approximately 8 seconds later.
recorder 1 channel a was routed to recorder 1 channel b, and record 1 channel b to recorder 1 channel a in a double feedback loop.
recorder 2 channel a was routed to recorder 1 channel a, and recorder 2 channel b was routed to recorder 1 channel b.

the tape repetition contributed timbre and dynamic changes to steady state sounds. the combination tones produced by the 11 generators and the bias freqiencies of the tape recorders were pulse modulated by the sub-audio generator."

big mother is watching you was also produced at toronto electronic music stufdio in the summer os 1966. it is another experiment using the techniques i developed whilst in san francisco. the core of this technique is tape delay and super heterodyning. this piece utilises a variety of sound sources including pink noise bands and some occasional voice input."

bye bye butterfly is a 2 channel tape composition (with an enclosure) made at the san francisco tape music center in 1965. it utilises 2 hewlett-packard oscillators, 2 line amplifiers in cascade, a turntable with record and 2 tape recorders in a delay setup. the composer arranged the equipment, tuned the oscillators, and played through the composition in real time.

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pogus (usa) #p 21023 cd

pauline oliveros “no mo” compact disc

no mo (17:51) 1966
something else (13:51) 1966
bog road (33:11) 1967

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "no mo"

... second disc on pogus covering pauline oliveros’ early electronic music ...

right off the bat, the noise-addled thunderclaps of “no mo” strike me as possibly the most patently aggressive piece of music in pauline’s canon (listen to the sound-sample), especially when compared to the minimal, ghostly tone-float of “something else” (especially odd seeing as both of these were completed in the same studio-stretch back in 1966) ... the extended “bog road” is, in my mind, one of her finest moments, working the newly-completed buchla music box 100 through a series of constantly mutating figures, culminating in a zap-heavy climax ...

equally essential as the “alien bog • beautiful soup” set ...

pogus press release...

pauline oliveros - no mo

"in the summer of 1966 i worked in the classical electronic music studio at the university of toronto for six weeks. the system i used to create no mo and something else consisted of layfette tone generators, noise source and tape delay.

in the fall of 1966 i was the newly appointed director of the mills tape music center formerly the san francisco tape music center and now the center for contemporary music at mills college.

bog road was created at the mills tape music center in the summer of 1967 with the buchla series 100 box. the studio overlooked a pond where frogs were singing a chorus that inspired a series of bog pieces."

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modern-psych
modern-composition
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lo-fi

roaratorio (usa) #roar 06 lp

pauline oliveros / reynols “minexcio connection • live! at the rosendale café” long playing record

the invisible flag points to the sun (12:18)
six for new time (infinite hummingbird version) (7:36)
cathedral juice (7:44)
cosmother fell asleep inside a galaxy-cake (17:13)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the invisible flag points to the sun"

hard-to-find lp from a coupla years back, covering a concert of music jointly pulled from the roots & branches of upstate, ny hardwood by legendary composer / improvisor pauline oliveros & argentinian prolifics reynols ... finely misted hues of a-linear space-drone that fall in neither party’s quadrant(s) ... very nice stuff.

roaratorio press release...

pauline oliveros & reynols
the minecxio connection: live! at the rosendale cafe
roar 06 lp

one of the most unexpected yet fruitful partnerships of recent years: in the mid-1990s, pauline oliveros, electronic music pioneer and sage of the environmental-drone, began working with reynols, the prolific and resolutely undefinable argentinian group. their first joint effort sent oliveros' music through the rigours of reynols' heavily processed studio treatments; the minexcio connection: live! at the rosendale cafe finds them collaborating on-stage in real time. recorded in august 2000 during reynols' first trek through north america, they offered up a version of "six for new time" (originally composed by oliveros for sonic youth's goodbye 20th century lp), along with idiosyncratic throat-singing and hypnotic dream/dronescapes. the venue may have been a small cafe in rustic upstate new york, but the sonic results sound like emanations from the deepest of deep listening caves under the earth.

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april 29th, 2008

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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)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "takehisa kosugi - + -"

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.

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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)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "takehisa kosugi - + -"

syr press release...

$16.21

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modern-composition

centaur (usa) #crc 2047 cd
cdcm computer music series (united states) #cdcm 07 cd

“cdcm vol.7: iear studios at rensselaer polytechnic institute” compact disc

neil b. rolnick - vocal chords (8:39) 1988
neil b. rolnick - a robert johnson sampler (12:48) 1987
pauline oliveros - lion’s tale (15:06) 1989
julie kabat - child and the moon-tree (16:57) 1989
barton mclean - visions of a summer night (6:03) (6:43) 1989
joel chadabe - modalities (7:24) 1989

centaur press release...

crc 2047: cdcm computer music series, vol. 7 :
iear studios at rensselaer polytechnic institute

works by j. chadabe, b. mclean; j. kabat, p. oliveros, and n. rolnick

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november 23rd, 2009

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digital-musics
free-improvisation

best of 2009 !!!

important (usa) #imprec 272 cd

“the harmonic series • a compilation of musical works in just intonation” compact disc

ellen fullman & theresa wong - blue tunnel fields (9:35)
greg davis - star primes (for james tenney) (10:57)
michael harrison - tone cloud ii (from revelation) (8:49)
r. keenan lawler - bow shock (excerpt) (6:32)
pauline oliveros - the beauty of sorrow (excerpt) (9:46)
duane pitre - comprovisation for justly tuned ukelin no. 1 (7:40)
zachary james watkins - country western (excerpt) (10:08)
charles curtis - stanzas set before a blank surface (10:27)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "star primes"

november 2009 release ; excellent collection of new music composed in just intonation, compiled by duane pitre ...

standout pieces include charles curtis’ wolftone-infused “stanzas set before a blank surface” (echoes of his recent reading of eliane radigue’s “naldjorlak”), ellen fullman & theresa wong’s “blue tunnel fields” (rife with ellen’s bubbling long-string resonances), greg davis’ “star primes” (a massive groundswell of digitally synthesized sine-tone combinations ala “the dream house”), and duane’s own piece for just-tuned ukelin ...

... as both a crash-course in (the) alternate tuning(s) and a primer of the contemporary composers doing work in just, it can’t be beat ; highly recommended !!!

important press release...

va - the harmonic series - musical works in just intonation - cd

imprec272 - cd

the harmonic series is a compilation of musical works in just intonation created by three generations of contemporary composers who utilize this fascinating tuning system. a dense info booklet is included with notes from each artist. this compilation was curated over the span of two years by duane pitre. the goal of this compilation and its accompanying liner notes is to educate listeners about the origins and use of just intonation, as well as to portray the unique beauty of this tonal “color palette,” which is heard by relatively few in the western world and explored by even fewer.

although all the artists on the compilation work within the avant-garde/experimental genre, each artist lends something unique to the collection, and each employs a different approach toward how to utilize just intonation. within the harmonic series you’ll find an array of instrumentation such as piano, cello, accordion, electronics, guitar, ukelin, saxophone, violin, koto, and more.

the featured artists on the harmonic series are: pauline oliveros, ellen fullman, charles curtis, michael harrison, greg davis, r keenan lawler, duane pitre, theresa wong, and zachary james watkins.

$15.21

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december 19th, 2008

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new world (usa) #nw 80653 cd

“new music for electronic and recorded media: women in electronic music—1977” compact disc

music of the spheres (1938) (johanna m. beyer)
world rhythms (1975) (annea lockwood)
bye bye butterfly (1965) (pauline oliveros)
appalachian grove i (1974) (laurie spiegel)
i could sit here all day (1976) (megan roberts)
points (1973–74) (ruth anderson)
new york social life (1977) (laurie anderson)
time to go (1977) (laurie anderson)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "annea lockwood - world rhythms (1975)"

classic compilation (originally released on the 1750 arch label in 1977) containing a thorough selection of pieces by women composers from the 60s & 70s.

new world press release...

new music for electronic and recorded media: women in electronic music—1977

this is a long-awaited reissue of the cri cd of the classic 1750 arch lp.

"the music on this album exhibits an exciting, wide-open, freewheeling approach to the medium of electronic music which has come to be typical of this genre in the late 1970s. no longer are composers obsessively concerned with the agonizing, expressionistic, and purely “electronic” (synthesized) sound formulas which marked much of this music composed between the mid fifties and the late sixties. instead, today we have composers willing to mix media and sonic materials in thoroughly inventive ways to achieve ends which are new-sounding, and often more engaging, than that of the “academic” avant-garde.

this is the outgrowth of a fundamental change in concerns which has been evolving not only among the composers on this album but also in a growing segment of the musical avant-garde, of which these members are some of the most fecund and inspired. these new sources of inspiration certainly were not as widely shared fifteen years ago. several composers represented here are deeply concerned with eastern influences: meditation, healing, trance, states of serenity. others are inspired by traditional (or “ethnic”) musics and their subsequent metamorphoses into such popular forms as rock and roll. still others bring to bear a sense of wit and satire, rarely a prominent feature of avant-garde music in the early 1960s.

this first anthology of women’s electronic music demonstrates great refinement and skill at work in a variety of different styles, several of which are unfamiliar or new even to those who follow contemporary music. the fact that these pieces are more listenable than that of the sixties avant-garde does not point to a musical regression as some critics have overeagerly assumed when discussing modern works using, say, consonant harmonic structures. rather, and i think this is common denominator for these pieces and something which women composers and artists have been instrumental in legitimizing again for this period in time, these works signify a new consciousness of the relationship of art to human life and the important and positive interaction which can be the role of a more personalized art in our day-to-day experience.”

—charles amirkhanian, august 1977

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