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previous artist: maurizio		there are 2 titles featuring richard maxfield in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: maxwells dämon

$14.62

back in stock as of
december 22nd, 2010

first in stock on
august 24th, 2006

threads:
1960s-electornic
1970s-electronic
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
musique-concrète

best of 2006 !!!

new world (usa) #nw 80555 cd

richard maxfield / harold budd “the oak of the golden dreams” compact disc

richard maxfield - pastoral symphony (4:03) 1960
richard maxfield - bacchanale (8:14) 1963
richard maxfield - piano concert for david tudor (12:29) 1961
richard maxfield - amazing grace (3:26) 1960
harold budd - the oak of the golden dreams (18:44) 1970
harold budd - coeur d’orr (19:46) 1969

for the longest time i couldn’t figure why exactly these two sets of pieces by two very different composers were bashed into the same 1/0 stream ... until i recently heard the tale of lamonte “milk ‘em” young’s ownership of dick maxfield’s oeuvre ... and the insane price he has asked of new world for the (temporary!) licensing of maxfield’s music for this release, resulting in the producers-in-question adding the harold budd material to the proceedings in attempts to break even on the whole affair (both sets of music were initally released in the lp-era by the advance label, originals of the maxfield at least fetch a pretty penny). which kind of justifies it... but still...

the maxfield pieces herein are incredibly sharp (previously i’d only read about them in the great george maciunas remembrance-guide mr. fluxus wherein someone, probably joe jones, recounts a concert at lamonte young’s new york art-space in the early 60s of maxfield’s music) - ranging from tight, analogue-synth-based tape constructs (“pastoral sympony”), kind-of beatnik tape pieces (“bacchanale,” performed by an ensemble including terry jennings...), musique concrète piece sinvolving some serious inside-piano scraping (“piano concert for david tudor,” piano c/o its namesake...), and short, almost plunderphonic-feeling jump-cuts (”amazing grace”)...

i had only known budd as an eno-sympathizer/collaborator, so hearing the terry riley-esque buchla-workout that is “oak of the golden dreams” is kind of an earful... but then the... terry riley-esque “coeur d’orr” kind of hurts my head/feelings a little bit with its longing soprano sax lines & organ pedal tones...

even still, one of the better discs on new world (a catalogue already rife with gems...) - very much worth it for the maxfield material alone...

new world press release...

richard maxfield: pastoral symphony , bacchanale, piano concert for david tudor, amazing grace

harold budd: the oak of the golden dreams, coeur d’orr

david tudor, piano
terry jennings, saxophone
edward fields, narration
fahrad machkat, violin
robert block; prepared violin
nicholas roussakis, underwater clarinet
harold budd, buchla electronic music system
charles oreña, soprano sax

this timely cd reissue combines two lps from the advance label — richard maxfield’s electronic music and harold budd’s the oak of the golden dreams — both containing seminal works which are key to a better understanding of the musical landscape of the sixties as well as the origins of minimalism.

a mostly forgotten figure, richard maxfield (1927-69) exerted a powerful influence over a broad range of composers through his classes at the new school. the works here predate the minimalist movement while forecasting a wide range of developments in the future of electronic work. the prophetic pastoral symphony (1960) is composed of continuously generated electronic tones while bacchanale (1963) is a musique concrète collage juxtaposing jazz with korean folk music, spoken word, and various instrumental contributions including terry jennings on saxophone. piano concert for david tudor (1961) draws its multifarious noises from a single source — antedating in that respect stockhausen’s mikrophonie i for amplified tam-tam (1964). tudor plays live alongside a three-channel montage constructed from sounds made on the inside of the piano with chains, spinning a gyroscope on the strings, showering the strings with tiddlywink discs, and other unusual operations. amazing grace (1960) mixes tape loops from two sources which are played back at various speeds, causing the fragments to overlap in complex ways, predating both riley’s and reich’s tape-loop pieces. if the maxfield pieces represent the state of new music in the months before minimalism was born, harold budd’s (b. 1936) works from 1970 reflect minimalism’s initial impact. the oak of the golden dreams was made on the buchla box which budd uses here as an electric organ capable of the kind of fast modal improv, over an unchanging e-flat drone, that terry riley and la monte young had been doing on saxophone and piano. coeur d’orr features a soprano sax improv against an electronic background on organ comprised of two tracks, one of which is another 1970 budd work, the famous candy apple revision.

$18.01

back in stock as of
june 13th, 2011

first in stock on
january 25th, 2008

threads:
1950s-electronic
1960s-electronic
1970s-electronic
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète
digital-musics
sound-art
sound-poetry

best of 2008 !!!

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 270 cd

“anthology of noise & electronic music / fifth a-chronology 1920-2007” double compact disc set

rogelio sosa - vinylika (7:02) 2003
christian galaretta - maranon (part vi) (10:27) 2004
li chin sung aka dickson dee - shame (4:57) 1994-2007
francois-bernard mache - prelude (5:28) 1959
richard maxfield - pastoral symphony (4:01) 1960
wolf vostell - elektronicher de-colagge. happening raum. (3:00) 1968
charlemagne palestine - seven organism study (7:53) 1968
andre boucourechilev - texte 2 (4:36) 1959
helmut lachenmann - scenario (12:30) 1965
alireza mashayekhi - shur, op.15 (6:28) 1966
claude ballif - points, mouvements (10:14) 1962
mauricio kagel - antithese (9:21) 1962
vladimir mayakovsky - and would you? (0:32) 1920
raoul hausmann - fmsbw (recorded by henri chopin) (0:45) 1918
gil joseph wolman - megapneumies, mars 1963 (4:54) 1963
leo kupper - electro-poeme (5:54) 1963-1970
josef anton riedl - leonce und lena (2:17) 1963
sten hanson + henri chopin - tete a tete (5:08) 1973
dajuin yao - satisfaction of oscillation (9:27) 1997
pere ubu - sentimental journey (7:01) 1978
ground zero - live 1992 (1:01) 1992
masonna / yamazaki "maso" takushi - spectrum ripper (part i-ii-iii) (3:32) 1996-1997
sutcliffe jugend - blind ignorance (5:39) 2007
club moral - l'enfer est intime (6:32) 1985
dub taylor - lumiere (part i) (17:11) 1972

january 2008 release ; the fifth volume of this ongoing series of double-disc compilations collecting newly unearthed/discovered/licensed gems from the assorted back alleyways of early electronic music with contemporary offerings from a current crop of like-minded electronic music practitioners ...

for this volume the (many) highlights include françois-bernard mâche’s “prélude,” wolf vostell’s “elektronicher dé-collage,” helmut lachenmann’s “scenario,” and from the more recent end of the spectrum a particularly nice blast from maso yamazaki & a bit of gristle from legendary early uk noise act sutcliffe jügend ...

given the purview of mms; these compilations are becoming something of a yearly festival - much in here to be excited about, thanks to the hard work of sub rosa’s guy-marc hinant. highly recommended, of course; and not just this most recent volume (the prior four all contain a veritable king’s ransom in early electronic music gold...)

sub rosa press release...

an anthology of noise & electronic music vol. 5 - fifth a-chronology 1920-2007

charlemagne palestine, père ubu, sutcliffe jügend, li chin sung aka dickson dee, alireza mashayekhi, rogelio sosa, christian galaretta, françois-bernard mâche, richard maxfield, wolf vostell, andré boucourechliev, helmut lachenmann, claude ballif, mauricio kagel, vladimir mayakovsky, raoul hausmann, gil joseph wolman, léo kupper, josef anton riedl, sten hanson + henri chopin, dajuin yao, ground zero, masonna, club moral, dub taylor

digipack 2 cd + 50 pages booklet
sr270

here i am, for the fifth time, facing this impossible task no one has asked me to do. how can one bring together the history of electronic and concrete music to the history of noise music? for this volume, i want to highlight pieces illustrating a technique (claude ballif's points,mouvements), a country (shur, op. 15 by alireza mashayekhi), a studio (helmut lachenmann at the ipem), there are also historic (françois bernard mâche's prélude), and radical (spectrum ripper by masonna) works that have ripped apart ancient definitions. all this organized with internationalism in mind and, for once, a focus on the voice - not as sung words, their traditional facet in music (from pop songs to lieder and operas), but as the word itself, recited, distorted, rendered abstract or disaggregated and screamed (the incantation so often a part of rock and noise music).

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