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4 new tracks from the 3 audio artists (Hazard, Fennesz, Biosphere) who make up the forthcoming Touch Tour [UK, May 2001]. All are exclusive tracks recorded specifically for this CD, released for the tour. Taking the everyday world as source material …

ons 1972. Dieter Kaufmann (Autriche) 'Automne Pathétique', Peter Kolman (Slovaquie) 'Lentement mais pas trop', Jorge Arriagada (Chili) 'Indio', Beatriz Ferreyra (Argentine) 'Siesta Blanca', Luis Maria Serra (Argentine) 'Qura-Kura'.CD 2 : Les Sais…

An exhibition companion compilation to SFMOMA's 2001 listening room program JUJIKAN: 10 Hours of Sound From Japan, co-curated by Atau Tanaka, Ryoji Ikeda, and Shunichiro Okeda. JUJIKAN's Double Compact Disc companion features compositions from Tamami…

A documentary of pieces performed at the Inventionen Festival in Berlin, 1998. Features: Unsuk Chin, Patrick Kosk, Werner Cee, Francois Donato, Robin Minard, Wolfgang Mitterer, Francis Dhomont, Erik Mikael Karlsson, Trevor Wishart. "Not as much as a …

Beautiful edition, 2 CDs with Catalogue, 72 pages German/English. Installations - Acousmatique Concerts. Organized by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD and Technische Universität Berlin, Artistic leadership and organization: Ingrid Beirer, Folkmar H…

55 Historical Recordings is not exactly “come on and sing along” vocal music. A trace of the collective exuberance heard in much traditional West African vocal and percussive music is here, but isolated in an the individual’s voice. The Inuit occupy …

For most of us, our every waking moment (and even those where we are unconscious) is surrounded by sound. From the obnoxiously pitched alarm tone that raises us from slumber to the muted sounds of night-time traffic that merge with natural nocturnal …

In addition to interviews of 12 musicians/1 group residing in Berlin (Gregor Hotz, Nicholas Bussmann, Merle Bennett, Thomas Ankersmit, Ignaz Schick, Hans Strobl, Pure, Annette Krebs, Andrea Neumann, Caramel Empties, Alessandro Bosetti, Boris Baltschu…

This is a special issue supplementing the well-received IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN 2002-2003 (IMJ-301), the launch issue of an annual magazine (published last December). While the annual magazine provides an overview of the year's trends, each EXTRA…

The 2005 edition of the annual Japanese-English magazine Improvised Music from Japan is devoted entirely to recent albums. Over 350 releases (with a cover photo for each) are presented. The albums, mainly from 2004-2005, span a wide range of styles--…

Magazine (English and JAPANese) with interviewes FROM Kazue Sawai, Yukiko Tanaka, Samm Bennett, Tetuzi Akiyama, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Masahiko Okura, Sachiko M, Taku Sugimoto, Kazuo Imai, Aki Onda, texts by Tetsu Saitoh, Michel Doneda, Otomo Yoshhide… …

colossal 6-disc set of obscure early concrète music: a lovely anthology celebrating the 30 years anniversary of Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), formerly Groupe de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (GMEB). Rea…

When the Los Angeles Free Music Society 10 CD set came out I eagerly flipped through the contents to see what treasures had finally been made available again. Much to my surprise the early compilation I.D. Art #2 was not included in this otherwise ma…

Double CD of unaccompanied reed solos by Nathaniel Catchpole, Seymour Wright, Lou Gare, Kai Fagaschinski, John Butcher and Evan Parker, recorded at 291 Gallery, Hackney, London, on 9 January 2005.

Archive aural document collection edited by James Nice and originally released via Sub Rosa in 1989. This unique CD compiles over an hour of original sound recordings made between 1912 and 1959 by luminaries from both 20th Century art movements, incl…

From A to Z offers ten enticing selections of compelling, engaging electroacoustic music. It's a specially priced compilation that's an excellent introduction to the Starkland label. The diverse music ranges from Tod Dockstader's powerful musique con…

Duos, quartets and quintets of FREE improvisations by Tony Coe (clarinet), John Edwards (bass), Alan Hacker (clarinet), Sylvia Hallett (violin, voice, sarangi), Marcio Mattos (cello), Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Philipp Wachsmann (violin, electron…

Since we started the label Nonvisualobjects two years ago, many collaborations with artists worldwide have arisen, a large, growing network has evolved and an extensive body of work has been formed that we would like to explore and try to sum up. The…

Sound poetry and poetry of sound. Edited and assembled by Joachim Montessuis. Joël Hubaut, Erik Samakh, Atau Tanaka, AGF, José Iges, Lee Ranaldo, R.H.Y. Yau, Rainier Lericolais, Francisco López, Gary Hill, Charles Pennequin, Ira Cohen, Phill Niblock,…

This lengthy compilation offers up a mixed bag of the fascinating and the wearisome. Peak bits of said fascination here would have to be Gregory Whitehead, Gilles Richard and the duo of Patrick Muller and Jean-Francois Bory, who all offer up wonderfu…

Electroacoustic musics from Sweden. Bengt Hambraeus, Jan W. Morthenson, Sten Hanson, Ake Hodell, Sven-Erik Bck, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Rune Lindblad, Tamás Ungvary, Bengt Emil Johnson, Akos Rózmann, Pr Lindgren, Rolf Enström, Ake Parmerud, Anders Blomqvi…

"The pieces on this CD are all based on the ideas in Larry Polansky's four voice canons, a series of pieces he began in 1975. These canons are usually "mensuration canons," which means that the tempi of successive voices is proportional to their star…

Bourges 2005 , Concours international de Musiques et d'Art sonore Electroacoustique

30e Concours International de musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques, Bourges 2003. With Maurio Mary 'Signes émergents', Laurent Soulié 'Ecorde de lune' for tape and instruments (TM+), Ambrose Field 'One hell of a place to lose a cow', Gerald …

Sixth volume in the Acousmatrix series. "Incredible sampling of lesser-known, but more than equally-important recordings of Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Karel Goeyvaerts, Paul Gredinger, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Henri Pousseur, Bengt Hambraeus, Fra…

Two CDs of electroacoustic works composed on Xenakis's UPIC computer music system at Les Ateliers UPIC (now CCMIX) in Paris, by Xenakis, Estrada, Robindoré, Risset, Roads, Pape and others, mostly first recordings.

The first audiobook CD to explore the highly influential Bauhaus school of art and architecture, which operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933.The spoken word element centres on a revealing talk by Walter Gropius, the architect and theoretician who…

Three-way split release featuring an extended piece each by Tony Conrad, Ralf Wehowsky, and Jim O’Rourke. Tony’s piece works a lone processed violin to glorious effect; the solo variant of his “four violins.” Ralf’s is a musique concrète piece built …

With M.A. Numminen, Tommi Parko, Pekka Kujanpää, Sähkökvartetti, Erkki Salmenhaara, Blues Section, Erkki Kurenniemi, Jukka Ruohomäki, Jouni Kesti & Seppo I. Laine, The Sperm, J.O.Mallander, Pekka Airaksinen, S.Albert Kivinen.

For the 30th birthday of INA, the GRM has decided to present in this CD box some of his archives. INA - GRM (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel - Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in Paris, France, is the pioneering organisation of electroacoustics, ac…

A lucky restock of one of the most important archival releases in experimental music: "Apollo and Marsyas: Het Apollohuis 1980-1997, an Anthology of New Music Concepts" - a stunning double CD documenting nearly two decades of radical sound art and ex…

The story continues with volume 2, featuring slow explorations of the past and the present. Given the present system of production, there are reasons, some of them identifiable, why only a few names emerge in each period. There may also be a prefe…

Subtitled: First A-Chronology 1921-2001. At last, the Sub Rosa label re-issues the highly-acclaimed Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music collection. Containing early and contemporary classics as well as pieces that had never been heard before. Vol…

**Last Copies** this beautiful boxed set consists of all 7 titles of the acousmatrix series with extra liner notes by konrad boehmer and a nice full color picture box. five single cd's and two double cd's. Mindblowing, historical works by some of the…

A landmark document of Swedish electroacoustic composition from the late 1980s, 5 Composers inaugurated Fylkingen Records' ambitious series devoted to showcasing the fertile creative milieu surrounding Stockholm's legendary EMS (Elektronmusikstudion)…

Electroacoustical music from the Inventionen Festivals 2005 and 2006. Composers/tracklist: Edgar Barroso 'ODD'; Mario Verandi 'Comme un jeu des images'; Paul Wilson 'Through the Rain'; Ricardo Climent 'Wallwoodpeckers'; Vladimir Djambazov 'The Secret…

Sound installations and audiovisual material: This CD-Rom provides the programme notes accompanied by audiovisual material in the form of short QuickTime movies, photographs and mp3-files. It may be viewed with any current web browser on a variety of…

Volume 2 of the CD documentation of the Berlin festival "Inventionen" (volume 1 containing Horatiu Radulescu's string quartet no. 4)a various artists retrospective sampler including recordings of works by the following composers: Hildegard Westerkamp…