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toys, pure tones, bells, music boxes, gears, water, etc...track 2: "dizzy from the cold meds" contains samples of 3 unpublished early electronic works by pauline oliveros dating from around 1966.

track 2: "dizzy from the cold meds" contains samples of 3 unpublished early electronic works by pauline oliveros dating from around 1966.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

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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)
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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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important (usa) #imprec 206 lp

eleh / pauline oliveros “split” long playing record

  • eleh - the beauty of the steel skeleton

  • pauline oliveros - drifting depths
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october 2008 release ; eleh once again offer an unchanging, side-length piece consisting of static modular synth hum (with an honest-to-goodness “event” about halfway through the side as a single note in the chord-cluster changes pitch) ... on the flip, pauline oliveros presents a real-time piece of low end accordion drones with subtle computer processing ; super dense & reedy, one of her better recent outings ...
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eleh / pauline oliveros - split - lp
imprec206 - lp

important records quite pleased to be presenting this split release consisting of two new drone works from pauline oliveros and eleh. oliveros, an early american minimalist who has pioneered the technique of deep listening, has created a new work exclusively for this release. drifting depths is a new improvised piece made on a harmonica being processed through pauline's expanded instrument system. eleh's side, also exclusive to this vinyl only release, is super slow melodic drone full of stillness, tension & relief.

a central figure in post-war electronic art music, oliveros is one of the original members of the san francisco tape music center (along with morton subotnick, ramon sender, terry riley, and anthony martin), which was the resource on the u.s. west coast for electronic music during the 1960s. the center later moved to mills college, where she was its first director, and is now called the center for contemporary music. oliveros often improvises with the expanded instrument system, an electronic signal processing system she designed, in her performances and recording.

eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers especially la monte young, terry riley, eliane radigue, pauline oliveros and charlemagne palestine. using an enormous vintage modular analog synthesizer, a battery of glowing hp tube test oscillators and occasionally guitar/piano, eleh creates highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog drone music with emphasis on the physical ultra-low end. incorporating tones as low as .05 hz (well below the range of human hearing) eleh is as much of a physical experience as it is an audio one. this engaging record was created as a tool for meditation and to be heard/felt correctly the listener must be sitting with ears at speaker height at least 7 feet away from the speakers. volume reveals detail.

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important (usa) #imprec 141 cd

pauline oliveros “the wanderer” compact disc

  • duo for accordion & bandoneon (14:25)
  • the wanderer (19:00)
  • horse sings from cloud (14:00)
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pauline oliveros - the wanderer - cd
imprec141 - cd

this is the first time the wanderer has been made available on cd after over 20 years out of print. included as a bonus track is a lengthy live recording of oliveros with david tudor that was discovered on the reels during the digital transfer! remastered from the original analog tapes by carl saff.

utterly essential document of early american minimalism from this pioneering composer. the wanderer is the sister record to accordion & voice also available on cd from important.

the wanderer is based on a single modal scale (b c# d d# e f# g#) and rhythmic modes based on a meter consisting of and 3/8. part i, song, is intended to explore the unique resonant qualities of accordion reeds through long sounds. subtle variations come about from differences in tuning and air pressure.

part ii, dance, demonstrates the sharp accenting power of the accordion bellows in a mixture of cross rhythms characteristic of jigs, reels, batucadas, bulgars, klezmer forms, cajun dances, and music of other diverse cultures.

the wanderer was composed in november, 1982 especially for the springfield accordion orchestra, directed by sam falcetti. this recording documents the wanderer's world premiere, as it was performed 27 january, 1983 at marymount manhattan theatre. the orchestra consists of twenty accordions, two bass accordions, and five percussion, with pauline oliveros as soloist, sam falcetti conducting.

horse sings from cloud, written in 1975, is one of oliveros' best known works. like most of her sonic meditations, it can be performed vocally and/or instrumentally, solo or in collaboration. a solo version of horse sings from cloud has been recorded on accordion & voice. an early version of the score reads, sustain a tone or sound until any desire to change it disappears. when there is no longer any desire to change the tone or sound, then change it.

this time, horse sings from cloud is performed in ensemble. joining pauline oliveros on bandoneion are heloise gold on harmonium, julia haines on accordion, and linda montano on concertina. this quartet version incorporates the microtonal differences in tuning of the selected instruments, creating shimmering reed sounds somewhat similar to the shimmering of a balinese gamelan.

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important (usa) #imprec 140 cd

pauline oliveros “accordion & voice” compact disc

  • horse sings from cloud (22:11)
  • rattlesnake mountain (21:58)
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pauline oliveros - accordion & voice - cd
imprec140 - cd

utterly essential document of early american minimalism from this pioneering composer. remastered from the original analog tapes by carl saff.

pauline oliveros (b. 1930) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in kingston, new york. her instrument is tuned in just intonation and she often includes it in her meditative improvisational music. her music is not meditative in the sense that it is intended for listening to while meditating, rather each piece is a form of meditation, such as her aptly titled sonic meditations.

a central figure in post-war electronic art music, oliveros is one of the original members of the san francisco tape music center (along with morton subotnick, ramon sender, terry riley, and anthony martin), which was the resource on the u.s. west coast for electronic music during the 1960s. the center later moved to mills college, where she was its first director, and is now called the center for contemporary music. oliveros often improvises with the expanded instrument system, an electronic signal processing system she designed, in her performances and recordings.

“accordion and voice was the first of my recordings as a soloist. i was living in an a-frame house in a meadow just below mount tremper at zen mountain center. i had a wonderful view of the graceful saddle mountain top. when away on a performance trip i would imagine the mountain as i played rattlesnake mountain. i followed the feelings and sensations of my many experiences of the mountain - the changing colors of the season, the breezes and winds blowing through the grasses and trees.

horse sings from cloud taught me to listen to the depth of a tone and to have patience. rather than initiating musical impulses of motion, melody and harmony i wanted to hear the subtlety of a tone taking space and time to develop. the tones linger and resonate in the body, mind, instrument and performance space.

my thanks to important records for bringing these pieces to be heard again.” - pauline oliveros 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 ..."
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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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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
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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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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)
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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.
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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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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)
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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 - + -"
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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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table of the elements (usa) #toe 053 cd

pauline oliveros “primordial lift” compact disc

  • primordial (14:05)
  • lift (30:31)
table of the elements press release...
since the 1960s, composer, performer and humanitarian pauline oliveros has influenced american music profound ly through her work with improvisation, electronic music, myth and ritual. her work emphasizes attention strategies, and many credit her as the founder of present-day meditative music.

in primordial lift, ms. oliveros engages a more aggressive, electric sound with assistance from fellow minimalist tony conrad and gastr del sol 's david grubbs. within a strategic modulation processed through a low frequency oscillator, conrad's violin, grubbs' harmonium, and oliveros' signature accordion drone and enthrall.

as the composer writes: "the guiding metaphor of primordial lift structures the musicians' performances, mirroring the resonate frequency of the earth and its acceleration from 7.8 to 13hz and beyond. in 1994 the frequency was already at 8.6 and 13hz will be achieved by 2010, at which point the magnetic fields of the earth will pass through a zero point and a polar shift will occur. the accelerat ion fro m 7.8 to 13hz is 'primordial'; 13hz and beyond is 'lift'."

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taiga (usa) #taiga 5 lp

deep listening band “then & now now & then • celebrating 20 years” double long playing record set

  • cannery row

  • enginuity / deep hockets / spatial specialization

  • then & now now & then

  • deep soundexchange
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "cannery row"
november 2008 release ; super-deluxe double-lp edition commemorating the emerald anniversary of pauline oliveros, stuart dempster, and david gamper’s deep listening band ...

four extended pieces (only one of which, the one excerpted via the sound-sample, has been released prior to this set) each pressed onto its own side of a 180-gram lp, housed inside a double-wide jacket, housed inside a slip-case lp sleeve ... other than the site-specific opener (recorded in a quarry) , the rest all feature the trio in concert-performance; heavy on the live-electronic tip (c/o oliveros’ eis system) & the playing is fantastic throughout ... highly recommended !!!
taiga press release...

the deep listening band is an improvisational group founded in 1988 by pauline oliveros with members david gamper and stuart dempster. now, 20 years later, the trio celebrate an anniversary of improvisation, innovation and commitment with their first-ever vinyl release.

this vinyl-only document contains four side-long tracks, one reissued and three previously-unreleased. "cannery row" was originally available on the troglodyte's delight (1990) album and captures the band in tarpaper cave, which dempster recalls as "an old limestone quarry near rosendale, new york that had lovely dripping water sounds and valhalla-like mists." the previously-unreleased tracks were gathered from three separate live performances at the sounds like now festival, sound exchange american composers forum, and engine27, a 16-channel installation of special speakers.

the audio was mastered for vinyl by james plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl in a limited edition of 500. the records come packaged in a custom-designed slipcover and a jacket with doublewide spines. the slipcover features two exquisite photographs and is dual-finished with a gloss front and matte back. the jacket is printed on a cardboard brown stock with the pocket flooded green and features three rich essays including: an introduction by david felton, a short history by dempster and information about the expanded instrument system (eis) from oliveros.

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apollo records (netherlands) #acd 090217/18 cd
het apollohuis (netherlands) #acd 090217/18 cd

“het apollohuis 1980-1997 • apollo and marsyas • an anthology of new music concerts” double compact disc set

  • derek bailey & ernst reijseger - untitled (2:43)
  • tom johnson - counting languages / seven bells (2:25)
  • david gibson - johns brook (3:56)
  • group 180 - the spider's death and epitaph (3:35)
  • rolf julius - untitled (3:48)
  • ned rothenberg - untitled (6:33)
  • elliott sharp - untitled (3:45)
  • vivenza - untitled (2:45)
  • pauline oliveros - untitled (4:29)
  • arnold dreyblatt & orchestra of excited strings - bowing (4:12)
  • carl stone - untitled (3:55)
  • carlos santos - untitled (4:28)
  • joe jones - small orchestra (3:02)
  • takehisa kosugi - untitled (4:20)
  • terry fox - untitled (2:55)
  • walter fähndrich - viola ii (4:18)
  • fast forward - stix part 1 (4:08)
  • alvin lucier - sferics (3:45)

  • alvin curran - songs on one, two, three or more notes (3:18)
  • richard lerman - human interference fast force (2:34)
  • jerry hunt - untitled (6:28)
  • shelley hirsch & david weinstein - parade (4:11)
  • eliane radigue - jetsun mila (3:50)
  • the hub - untitled (3:14)
  • teodoro anzelotti - untitled (4:01)
  • pierre berthet & brigida romano - untitled (3:11)
  • warren burt - a post-modern object-oriented chaotic cellular microtonal ... (3:05)
  • s.e.m. ensemble - waterloo 2 (3:33)
  • jim o'rourke - untitled (3:29)
  • borbetomagus - untitled (2:51)
  • john butcher, phil minton, erhard hirt - untitled (2:58)
  • iva bittova - untitled (5:32)
  • stevan kovacs tickmayer - stubborn riffs (5:06)
  • rafael toral - wave field two (2:50)
  • david first - zen guilt / zen blame (3:10)
  • reinier van houdt - ka (3:38)
  • kaffe matthews - magic violin music (3:30)
  • matt rogalsky - tudor loops (2:37)
late 90s compilation of recordings made at paul panhuysen & co’s eindhoven het apollohuis artspace between the early 80s & its closure in 1997 ... the tracklisting reads like a veritable who’s who of sound-art and postwar experimental composition, with contributions from such mms perennials as pauline oliveros, arnold dreyblatt, takehisa kosugi, alvin lucier, richard lerman, jerry hunt, eliane radigue, jim o'rourke, rafael toral, et.al ...

something of an overlooked collection, i’d think ...
apollo records press release...
“ this double cd-set is the companion to the final book reporting on the activities of het apollohuis. the recordings on these cds give an idea of the music and the sound art presented in concerts at het appolohuis in the periods from 1980 through 1997. out of a total of 500 performances i chose 38, from which excerpts of varying length have been included in this anthology. these have been arranged in chronological order. the diversity of the selected pieces is characteristic of the programme of het apollohuis. only a limited number of the composers and musicians who performed at het apollohuis can be heard in brief fragments on these discs. " - paul panhuysen

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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

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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)
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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
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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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“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 electronicism... 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...

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