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$13.44

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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)

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toys, pure tones, bells, music boxes, gears, water, etc...track 2: "dizzy from the cold meds" contains samples of 3 unpublished early electronic works by pauline oliveros dating from around 1966.

track 2: "dizzy from the cold meds" contains samples of 3 unpublished early electronic works by pauline oliveros dating from around 1966.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

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 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)

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.

$11.76

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iea (usa) #iea 1302 cd

carrier band “schematic diagram of voiceover” compact disc

video voice (17:54)
bode's witch kitchen (19:23)
harald's diagram (10:52)
schematic (4:45)

iea press release...

"schematic diagram of voiceover"

voiceover is the name of an instrument that harald bode designed but never completed, it was requested by suzanne ciani for her experimental work with voice. suzanne ciani and harald bode worked together on several commercial projects including the "voice" of the atari computer (which was never a computer voice at all, but a vocoded voice).

on "schematic diagram of voiceover" we hear harald bode's archival recordings mixed and transformed live in the studio and at the stone in nyc. additional instruments include processed electric guitar, vocoder, typewriter, shortwave radio signals recorded in the bermuda triangle, geese, synthesizer, max msp, mrs. bode, grm processing and occasional excerpts of pauline oliveros from previous carrier band concerts. all mixed live in the studio and/or in concert.

electronic music historian and hoerspiel artist caspar abocab and new media artist rebekkah palov joined andrew deutsch and peer bode for this carrier band release. members not appearing on this cd pauline oliveros and stephen vitiello.

$13.32

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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)

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

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.

$29.23

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new world (usa) #nw 80625 cd

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)

new world press release...

featuring the foghorns and other maritime sounds of the u.s. eastern seaboard and solo improvisations by john cage, joseph celli, clark coolidge, alvin curran, jon gibson, malcolm goldstein, steve lacy, george lewis, pauline oliveros, and leo smith.

in the middle 1970s i began to formulate ideas and projects leading to the making of music outside the concert halls—often in large open and naturally beautiful sites. ports, rivers, lakes, caves, quarries, fields, and woods, always ready sources of my musical inspiration, now became my new music theaters. —alvin curran

maritime rites is a series of ten environmental concerts for radio composed by alvin curran (b. 1938) in 1985. this series features the eastern seaboard of the united states as a musical source in collaboration with improvised musical performances by ten distinguished artists in the american new-music scene: john cage, joseph celli, clark coolidge, jon gibson, malcolm goldstein, steve lacy, george lewis, pauline oliveros, leo smith and alvin curran. the programs use specifically recorded natural sounds as musical counterpoint to the soloists whose improvisations are freely restructured and mixed by curran. featured here are the foghorns of virginia, maryland, delaware, new jersey, new york, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, new hampshire, maine and new brunswick, canada. also included are maritime bells, gongs, whistles and regional bird and animal life. comments from lighthouse keepers, coast guard personnel and other local people are woven impressionistically throughout.

rich in ambient detail, maritime rites presents the foghorn as indigenous american “found” music par excellence and the source of one of the most enduring minimal musics around us. the series is also a comprehensive aural documentary of our regional and national maritime heritage including such historical sounds as the nantucket ii lightship, now out of service and doing service as a museum docked in boston harbor. the lightship’s horn is the only one of its kind (and the loudest!) on the east coast and was recorded extensively during an exclusive session ten miles off shore with the special cooperation of the ship’s crew. as the foghorn gives way to other electronic navigational aids, this work may serve as a historical document of some of the most beautiful and mysterious sounds of the sea.

as an expression of sonic geography, maritime rites brings together different areas of the seaboard in a single musical moment. the series was expressly conceived for radio, the only medium that can safely accommodate over sixty foghorns at once and bring an entire coastline, seemingly live, into anyone’s home! an essential document for anyone interested in sound art.

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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)

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

... 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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pogus (usa) #p 21012 cd

pauline oliveros “alien bog • beautiful soop” compact disc

alien bog (33:15) 1967
beautiful soop (27:49) 1966

two fantastic pieces from pauline oliveros’s early days running the san francisco tape music center ; both centered around the buchla music box 100 & her own tape-delay setup ...

on a pure bleep-per-measure scale, “alien bog” is my favorite of her early electronic pieces; it’s an immense tapestry of high-end synth-squiggle that lingers for just the right amount ... “beautiful soop” incorporates spoken texts, but in an unobtrusive way (the electronic materials shine through) ... an essential disc.

pogus press release...

pauline oliveros - alien bog / beautiful soop

during her year as first director of the tape music center at mills college (now center for contemporary music - ccm) in oakland, california, pauline oliveros completed beautiful soop (1966) and alien bog (1967) utilizing the original buchla box 100 series created for the tape music center by don buchla and her tape delay system. the take up reel was on tape machine i and the playback reel on tape machine ii. through patching the playback signals from tracks 1-4 were re-routed back to the recording head of machine i in a variety of configurations controlled by the composer. an excerpt of alien bog was released on an album music from mills - produced by david rosenboom in 1986. beautiful soop is released for the first time.

“i was deeply impressed by the sounds from the frog pond outside the studio window at mills. i loved the accompaniment as i worked on my pieces. though i never recorded the frogs i was of course influenced by their music. since that time many other composers have also been influenced the sounds from the pond. sadly, the pond will soon give way to a new building to expand the quarters of the ccm. it will no doubt be haunted by ghost frogs!” - pauline oliveros

pauline oliveros, now living in kingston ny, has devoted her life to music and to helping others. she has established a worldwide reputation as a composer, accordionist, author, teacher and humanist. her ground breaking work in electronic techniques, teaching methods, classical improvisation, myth and ritual, meditative and physical consciousness-raising is a large influence in american music. since leaving the university of california at san diego in 1981, at the rank of full professor, she has established the pauline oliveros foundation, inc. and directs the music program to support itir creative projects, ideas and collaborations with other artists and emerging artists.

in 1961, she was co-founder of the improvisational group sonics, with ramon sender and morton subotnick, that became the nucleus of the san francisco tape music center, now the center for contemporary music (ccm) at mills college. oliveros was the first director of ccm (1966-67). since then oliveros has taught composition at mills college in 86 and served as darius milhaud professor in 1996 and 1997. she was one of e first composers to use live electronic music as a composition medium. her eletronic piece bye bye butterfly (1965) was included in the new york times critic john rockwell's list of the ten most significant musical works of the 60's. the roots of the moment (1987) was included as the best of 1988 again by rockwell in his year end review.

her revolutionary work in the use of tape delay and heterodyne techniques, coupled with the experimental use of combination tones and supersonic frequencies, presaged techniques now being explored digitally. her more than thirty years of work with delay techniques is embodied in the expanded instrument system (eis) documented in leonardo music journal, the deep listening web site and on the compact discs crone music (lovely music ltd.), sanctuary (mode records), tosca salad (deep listening). her dear. john: a canon on the name of cage (commissioned by west german radio in 1986 in celebration of cage's seventy fifth birthday) was completed using ccm's high-level hmsl (hierarchical music specification language) controlled by an oliveros-designed program realized by larry polansky.

all of her work emphasizes attentional strategies, musicianship and improvisational skills. oliveros' compositions have been performed worldwide, and in 1985 she was honored by a retrospective of her work at the j.f.k. center for the performing arts in washington, d.c. her written work was anthologized in 1984 in software for people (smith publications), the roots of the moment in 1997 (drogue press) and her recorded work and scores are available from deep listening publications.

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sound-art
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field-recordings
harsh-noise

best of 2008 !!!

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 185 cd

pauline oliveros “four electronic pieces • 1959-1966” compact disc

mnemonics iii (17:29) 1965
v of iv (16:28) 1966
time perspectives (19:37) 1959
once again / buchla piece (19:21) 1966

december 2008 release ; this collection of otherwise unavailable early electronic & synthesizer pieces by pauline oliveros was slated for release around 2005 or so ; glad it’s finally hitting the streets !!!

starting with “mnemonics iii,” we’re led into a maze of heterodyning upper-register buchla difference-tone fizz & tape-echo, constantly swirling & rarely centering in on a single tonality ... the gate-pulse of “v of iv” starts with machine-shop choppiness before a chattering wall of synthesized punctuations build in intensity, getting denser & denser until the piece’s climax ...

“time perspectives” is closer to a traditional musique concrète outing, sparsely populated with voice, piano, and bell sounds bathed in a rich tape-hiss ... then last but certainly not least, the entirely harsh synth-blast of “once again,” despite being laid to tape back in 1966, rivals if not supercedes many of today’s synth-noise in its sheer relentless fury ...

along with “electronic works” disc, this is the pauline oliveros cd to pick up. highly recommended !!!

sub rosa press release...

four electronic pieces 1959-1966
pauline oliveros
sr185

noise before breathing

pauline oliveros is more than ever an important american composer. born in houston, texas on may 30, 1932, the music she produces today is close to the breath of life, with, notably, her pieces for accordion played by herself, the creation of the deep listening center, her approach to improvisation, and her numerous and varied collaborations with, among others, john cage, morton subotnick, terry riley, sonic youth, erold, and andrew deutsch ...

what we wish to show here, is her early and definitive contribution to the tape and electronic music of the late fifties and sixties - her systematic exploration of electronic sounds, which was fundamental to this period. if mnemonics prefigures her meditative and breathing pieces, v of iv structures sound as noise, time perspectives are her first variations on silence, while once again develops a wild energy, that out-strips itself, a frenzy the likes of which is hard to find - whether in its day or ours.

early electronic works

my work with electronic music began in 1959. my first tape piece was an ambitious four channel work called time perspectives. the piece was made by recording small sounds from objects resonated on a wooden wall and changing the tape speed. i used cardboard tubes as filters by inserting the mic into the tube and recording sources through the tubes. i used my bath tub as a reverberation chamber. sections of the piece were improvised and then subjected to speed changes (the recorder had two fixed speeds 7 and 1/2 ips, 3 and 3/4 ips and hand wound variable speed). when the san francisco tape music center was established together with ramon sender and morton subotnik there was a pool of equipment to use and i began to work with electronic sound. rather than cut and splice small pieces of tape together to make a composition i chose to work in real time. i used two tape machines with the tape running across both machines to make a delay system. i used two or more oscillators at high frequencies to produce difference tones. these tones would also interact with the bias frequencies of the tape recorders. i would play the oscillators into the tape recorders improvising my way through the piece. my system of composing in this manner was my own invention.

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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)

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)

syr press release...

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taiga (usa) #taiga 22 lp

pauline oliveros “primordial / lift” double long playing record set

part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4

september 2012 release ; ... vinyl issue of this 90’s pauline oliveros ensemble piece (which actually turns out to be a completely different recording than the one issued by table of the elements 10 years or so back ; same lineup of grubbs, frasconi, deutsch, huang, et.al ... just the second of two performances given the same night) ...

... comes in an ultra-luxurious double-sleeve (an outer jacket holds a sturdy inner jacket, which slides out horizontally) ...

taiga press release...

catalog number: taiga 22
artist: pauline oliveros
title: primordial / lift
format: 2xlp

total running time: 67:06
release date: 25 september 2012

30 may 2012 marked the 80th birthday of american visionary musician pauline oliveros. "primordial / lift" is a continuation of the celebration. this double vinyl record contains the previously unreleased 2nd performance of "primordial / lift" from 25 september 2010. the 1st performance of this work, which took place in 1998, was released on cd in both edited and full-length versions. interpreting a score penned by oliveros in 1998, anne bourne, andrew deutsch, miguel frasconi, david grubbs, jason huang and suzanne thorpe joined oliveros at issue project room in brooklyn to divulge this bizarre and surreal sound work. centered around a low frequency oscillator, the group swirls cello, voice, sampler, glass drones, eguitar, violin and v accordion into a molten mass dropped from outer space.

along with the simultaneously released deep listening band “needle drop jungle” 2xlp, this title completes a tetralogy of oliveros releases on taiga that started with the deep listening band “then & now” and timeless pulse “trio” 2xlp’s. “primordial / lift” was mastered by james plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200g virgin vinyl in an edition of 500. it comes packaged in a double-wide jacket with the original scores printed in metallic ink and a flooded pocket. the jacket is encased in a custom slipcase, with gorgeous photographs by michael s. carlson from deep within the expansive taiga forest's southern edge.

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taiga (usa) #taiga 21 lp

deep listening band “needle drop jungle” double long playing record set

landgrove
friday mighty
jungle howl
tomorrow’s power

september 2012 release ; ... january 2011 recordings of pauline oliveros, stuart dempster, and david gamper (r.i.p.) ‘s deep listening band, issuing what was likely one of their last concerts together in seattle, wa ...

taiga press release...

catalog number: taiga 21
artist: deep listening band
title: needle drop jungle
format: 2xlp

total running time: 69:21
release date: 25 september 2012

30 may 2012 marked the 80th birthday of american visionary musician pauline oliveros. “needle drop jungle” is a continuation of the celebration. together with bandmates stuart dempster and david gamper, oliveros and company churned up a vigorous storm at their january 2011 residency in seattle, captured on this double vinyl release. with the help of staff at dxarts, the deep listening band recorded impromptu downpours unhindered by technical issues, a peak in their collective creative output. suddenly & unexpectedly, david gamper died on 27 september 2011. “needle drop jungle” thus includes the brightest moments from what have sadly become the last recordings of this exceptional trio.

along with the simultaneously released pauline oliveros “primordial / lift” 2xlp, this title completes a tetralogy of oliveros releases on taiga that started with the deep listening band “then & now” and timeless pulse “trio” 2xlp’s. “needle drop jungle” was mastered by james plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200g virgin vinyl in an edition of 500. it comes packaged in a double-wide raw brown cardstock jacket with essays by the band and a flooded pocket. the jacket is encased in a custom slipcase, with gorgeous photographs by michael s. carlson from deep within the expansive taiga forest's southern edge.

$16.21

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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

$13.44

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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)

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.

$144.48

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best of 2010 !!!

new world (usa) #nw 80712 cd

“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)

december 2010 release ; just incredible ...

inside this mammoth, 10-disc behemoth lies a veritable king’s ransom of largely otherwise un-issued pieces, all composed for merce cunningham’s dance company, performed by a who’s who of 20th century experimental & electronic music ...

... before you balk at the price, let me point out just some of the contents ::

an absolute treasure-trove of archival david tudor material(s), ranging from his premiere of christian wolff’s “for piano i” in 1952 & his performance of piano pieces by earle brown, bo nilsson, & morton feldman ... through his “jerry-rigged” electronic work with john cage, gordon mumma, malcolm goldstein, max neuhaus, toshi ichiyanagi, pauline oliveros ... and finally his 80’s & 90’s solo live electronic pieces ...

an otherwise never-released recording of takehisa kosugi playing a “catch-wave” lineage piece in 1976, plus three other unreleased live-electronic pieces from the 80’s & 90’s, all of which are insane (listen to the sound-sample for one of the 80’s one ; an “automated” bleep-out par excellence) ...

unheard 70’s & 80’s compositions by maryanne amacher, jon gibson, yasunao tone, john king, michael pugliese, and annea lockwood ... along with several ensemble pieces from the 90’s with jim o’rourke & folks like stuart dempster, kosugi, paul de marinis, and company ... and a disc of “events” featuring folks like christian marclay, ikue mori, george lewis, steve lacy ... and oddly, led zeppelin’s john paul jones & radiohead drummer phil selway ...

... comes as a nice, matte cd-box (similar form-factor as the “music from the once festival” set) with a pull-ribbon, all ten discs (housed in five single-wide double-cases) & a 120-page book offering a succinct history of the cunningham company’s involvement with all of this essential stuff, plus tons of key photos of the happenings & dance-events documented herein ...

easily my single favorite release of 2010 ; highest conceivable recommendation !!!

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.

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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)

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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new world (usa) #nw 80567 cd

“music from the once festival 1961-1966” quintuple compact disc set

five discs of live-electronics and early electronic realizations !!!!!

disc 1: 1961 [72:56]

robert ashley – sonata (7:44) 2/25/61
donald scavarda – groups for piano (1:03) 2/25/61
george cacioppo – string trio (10:23) 3/4/61
roger reynolds – epigram and evolution (8:50) 3/4/61
gordon mumma – sinfonia for 12 instruments and magnetic tape (12:03) 3/4/61
donald scavarda – in the autumn mountains (7:01) 3/4/61
bruce wise – two pieces for piano and chamber group (6:23) 3/4/61
robert ashley – the fourth of july (18:37) 2/25/61

disc 2: 1962 [72:23]

donald scavarda – matrix for clarinetist (9:07) 6/2/62
roger reynolds – wedge (7:56) 2/10/62
gordon mumma – meanwhile; a twopiece (7:16) 2/10/62
donald scavarda – sounds for eleven (10:55) 2/16/62
gordon mumma – from gestures ii (13:14) 2/16/62
george cacioppo – bestiary i: eingang (7:16) 2/16/62
robert ashley – details (2b) (7:09) 12/16/62
robert sheff (aka blue gene tyranny) – ballad (8:31) 12/16/62

disc 3: 1962–63 [74:21]

gordon mumma – large size mograph (8:09) 12/16/62
robert ashley – fives (12:36) 2/9/63
gordon mumma – a quarter of fourpiece (4:56) 2/9/63
george cacioppo – two worlds (6:02) 2/10/63
roger reynolds – mosaic (9:38) 2/10/63
george cacioppo – pianopieces 1-3 (8:19) 2/16/63
roger reynolds – a portrait of vanzetti (20:27) 2/16/63
gordon mumma – greys (3:19) 12/3/63 (stereo electronic music for the film/score greys by donald scavarda)

disc 4: 1963–1964 [76:32]

philip krumm – music for clocks (10:24) 2/17/63
robert sheff – diotima (18:58) 2/28/64
george crevoshay – 7ptpc (5:57) 2/29/64
donald scavarda – landscape journey (9:31) 2/25/64
george cacioppo – advance of the fungi (15:54) 2/25/64
robert ashley – in memoriam … crazy horse (symphony) (15:12) 2/25/64

disc 5: 1964–1966 [76:52]

bruce wise – music for three (29:30) 2/26/64
george cacioppo – time on time in miracles (9:44) 2/12/65
david behrman – track (10:11) 2/13/65
pauline oliveros – applebox double (17:07) 3/28/66
robert ashley – quartet (9:51) 3/28/66

utterly essential set collecting live-concert recordings from the early 60s once festival in ann arbor, michigan. here we have the roots of live-electronic music and/or circuit bending by the sonic arts union, amongst others.

new world press release...

ann arbor, michigan, seems an unlikely site for the establishment of a major avant-garde festival that would shake the new-music community. tucked away in america’s heartland, the city is equally removed from the eastern metropolises whose artists pride themselves on sensing the pulse of the times, and from the nonconformist west coast. yet during the 1960s ann arbor played host to one of the most extraordinary adventures in american music history: the annual once festival and its nexus of related activities.

the primary aim of once’s founders—robert ashley, gordon mumma, george cacioppo, roger reynolds, and donald scavarda—was to create a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge music. to this end they were phenomenally successful. performers and composers—whether little-known or renowned—embraced the endeavor, demanding almost nothing in return. perhaps most important, however, once acted as a creative stimulus for its organizers. scavarda describes the adventure as an explosion of pent-up energy: “suddenly we could write anything we wanted and have it heard.” and they did. the once composers—and many guest artists—wrote a host of new works, some experimental, others more traditional.

what united the once composers was their exploration of sound, whether through the medium of extended techniques on traditional instruments, electronic (or electronically modified) timbres, or the intersection of musical sounds with those of the environment.

a major slice of once’s rich musical legacy—35 works constituting six hours of music—is presented here, almost all for the first time. these pieces are as diverse in style as they are compelling in expression. this landmark set, the most comprehensive document ever released of this legendary event, is an opportunity for anyone interested in contemporary music to hear history in the making. included in the set is a 140-page booklet with a lengthy scholarly essay by musicologist and biographer leta miller and numerous rare photos of once personages and performances.

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best of 2011 !!!

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 190 lp

“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

june 2009 release ; vinyl version, in a deluxe triple-gatefold, which reprints the epic liner notes of the cd edition in full ... needless to say, but it’s pretty great to have such canonic pieces as the russolo’s “chorale”, ruttman’s “wochende”, pousseur’s “scambi”, mumma’s “dresden interleaf”, boehmer’s “aspekt” (listen to the sound-sample for the opening blast ; just bonkers) on “god’s format” ...

normally i’m not one for conceptualized compilations bridging the old with the new (especially ones involving dj spooky), although i have to make something of an exception here as this was curated with a degree of loving care that discounts my own petty concepts of right & wrong...

no excerpts, just a few hours of seminal early electronic transmissions coupled with a few contemporary-era odes to those magmatic magnetic aktions. a really nice overview: futurism to ‘cinema pour l’oreille’ to musique concrète to live electronics ... all over the first 5 tracks alone.

some of this material is available elsewhere but ... so what. it flows nicely, providing a listening experience akin to a finely executed dj mix. one of the better avenues to get your kid brother hooked on experimental electronic music’s many flowering pastures ...

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.

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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 ...

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 190 cd

“an anthology of noise & electronic music • first a-chronology 1921-2001” double compact disc set

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

... normally i’m not one for conceptualized compilations bridging the old with the new (especially ones involving dj spooky). have to make something of an exception here as this was curated with a degree of loving care that discounts my petty concepts of right & wrong. no excerpts, just a few hours of seminal early electronic transmissions coupled with a few contemporary-era odes to those magmatic magnetic aktions. a really nice overview: futurism to ‘cinema pour l’oreille’ to musique concrète to live electronics ... all over the first 5 tracks alone.

some of this material is available elsewhere but ... so what. it flows nicely, providing a listening experience akin to a finely executed dj mix. one of the better avenues to get your kid brother hooked on experimental electronic music’s many flowering pastures ...

sub rosa press release...

an anthology of noise & electronic music #1first a-chronology 1921-2001srv190 3xlp / out of stocksr190 2xcd digipack + 52 pages booklet / availablesr190 / 14,00€the first volume of seven published from 2001 to 2011, curated, noted and edited by guy marc hinant.an unpublished historythis 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. 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 makerswhereas 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...luigi russolo & antonio russolofeaturesluigi & antonio russolojohn cagesonic youtheinsturzende neubautenwalter ruttmannpierre schaefferiannis xenakispaul d miller/dj spookygordon mummaangus maclise/tony conrad/john calephilip jeck/otomo yoshihide/martin tetraultsurvival research laboratories/mark paulinekonrad boehmernam june paikhenri pousseuredgard varesepauline oliverosryoji ikedatrack listing 2cd - 3lp / 18 tracks01 luigi russolo & antonio russolo corale 1:57 / 192102 walter ruttmann wochende 11:17 / 193003 pierre schaeffer cinq études de bruits: étude violette 3:18 / 194804 henri pousseur scambi 6:27 / 195705 gordon mumma the dresden interleaf 13 february 1945 12:43 / 196506 angus maclise, tony conrad & john cale trance #2 5:07 / 196507 philip jeck, otomo yoshihide & martin tétreault untitled #1 6:06 / 200008 survival research laboratories october 24, 1992 graz, austria 6:11 / 199209 einstürzende neubauten ragout: küchen rezept von einstürzende neubauten 4:08 / 199810 konrad boehmer aspekt 15:13 / 196611 nam june paik hommage à john cage 4:13 / 195812 john cage rozart mix 7:18 / 196513 sonic youth audience 6:00 / 198314 edgard varèse poème électronique 8:00 / 195815 iannis xenakis concret ph 4:40 / 195816 dj spooky that subliminal kid ftp > bundle / conduit 23 8:07 / 200117 pauline oliveros a little noise in the system (moog system) 30:16 / 196618 ryoji ikeda one minute 1:00 / 1997

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