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Pieces, portraits and field notes from the Soundohm desk.

David Tudor - Anima Pepsi

Words by Bradford Bailey

In 1970 David Tudor composed a set of pieces for the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, the mist-shrouded dome designed by Experiments in Art and Technology, with a sound system of 37 speakers he developed with Gordon Mumma and Fred Waldhauer. Blume now issues two of them on red vinyl: "Pepsibird", made from tapes of human and animal brain waves and recorded in situ, and "Anima Pepsi", built from field recordings of insects and animals, with liner notes by Bradford Bailey and a 20-page LP-size booklet with an essay by You Nakai.

Read more →
Essay

Field Notes

The span of John Cage's ORGAN²/ASLSP in Halberstadt: it began in 2001 and will end in 2640. The seventeenth change of sound came on 5 August 2026, an A4 pipe.

Jean-Claude Eloy

Words by Bradford Bailey

Riding an incredible high, Sound3 Co.’s groundbreaking “The Beginning of Japanese Electroacoustic” series returns with its 15th and most ambitious release to date: “Gaku-No-Michi Material”, an astounding 5CD set, presenting the French composer Jean-Claude Eloy’s legendary, monumental electroacoustic work - recorded in Japan between 1977 and 1978 - “Gaku-No-Michi” in a revelatory new way. Comprising 22 tracks, each representing an individual reel of the materials used by Eloy when performing the piece in an infinite number of variations that it allowed for, each reel, as it's encountered across the duration of the set can be experienced as a complex, heavily composed free-standing piece in its own right, unveiling the rigorous processes and densities at the heart of this truly remarkable work.

Read more →
Essay

Field Notes

4'33" lasts 273 seconds, and absolute zero is −273 °C. The coincidence is often read as a hidden message. Cage never mentioned it: the durations came from chance operations.

Editorial

Alessandra Novaga

2024

Editorial

Concepción Huerta

2024

Field Notes

Watt's four clarinets recorded four pieces in 2021. Three of them, written for the group by Léo Dupleix, Karl Naegelen and Caroline Marçot, came out on three infinite cassettes sold only as a box, which vanished at once. The fourth, Coral, is the one that got a vinyl.

Watt: Coral on vinyl

Editorial

Stuart Dempster

2023

Field Notes

For about thirty years Éliane Radigue built her music with a single ARP 2500 synthesizer and tape, one slow layer at a time. In the 2000s she set it aside and began writing for acoustic players.

Editorial

Derek Bailey, Paul Motian - Duo in Concert

2023

Editorial

Piotr Kurek - Smartwoods

2023

Field Notes

In 1963 Delia Derbyshire turned Ron Grainer's score for the Doctor Who theme into sound at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, note by note, cutting and splicing tape. She was not credited on screen.

Editorial

McCoy Tyner - Extensions

2023

Editorial

Lise Barkas & Lisa Käuffert

2023

Field Notes

Daphne Oram co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1958 and left the following year. In a converted oast house in Kent she built Oramics, a machine that turned shapes drawn on strips of 35mm film into sound.

Lea Bertucci - The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity

Words by Bradford Bailey

Commissioned by ZKM in Karlsruhe, Lea Bertucci's "The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity" was written for the flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen of Sequentia and his collection of Renaissance, Medieval and Neolithic flutes. Recorded at ZKM in the summer of 2024 for a 42.4 speaker system and mixed to stereo for this LP, it sets ancient instruments inside electronic process until they sound like an ensemble playing across centuries. On Blume, with liner notes by Bradford Bailey.

Read more →
Essay

Editorial

Marco Fusinato The Horizon is a Razor

2026

Editorial

Jeunesse

2025

Editorial

Kassel Jaeger

2024

Editorial

Nurse With Wound

2024

Field Notes

In the early 1990s Markus Popp, as Oval, drew on the underside of CDs with felt-tip pens so they would skip, and built whole albums from the glitches.

Editorial

Marina Rosenfeld - Greatest Hits

2024

Field Notes

In 1969 Alvin Lucier recorded himself reading a short text, played it back into the room and recorded it again, over and over, until the resonances of the room washed the words away. The text talks about his stutter.

Editorial

Musica Automata

2023

Editorial

Andrea Penso

2023

Field Notes

In 1948 Pierre Schaeffer recorded steam engines at the Batignolles depot in Paris and edited them into the Étude aux chemins de fer. That year he gave the method a name: musique concrète.

Editorial

Walter Maioli - Shortwave Encounters

2023

Editorial

Tokatlian, Villegas, Bordarampé - Inspiración

2023

Field Notes

For years Moondog, Louis Hardin, stood on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan in a Viking helmet, selling his poems and music. He was blind, and composed in braille.

Field Notes

Erik Satie's Vexations carries a note suggesting it be played 840 times. In 1963 John Cage organised the first complete performance in New York: a relay of pianists, about eighteen hours.

Karin Krog - Fyra

Words by Bradford Bailey

Building on the remarkable ground already traversed across their three previous entries dedicated, respectively, to the work of Nisse Sandström Group, Lars-Göran Ulander, and Roland Keijser Kvartett, the longstanding imprint Caprice returns to the Öppet series, their incredible curatorial collaboration with Mats Gustafsson and Roger Bergner, dedicated to important under-celebrated Scandinavian creative, experimental music, with “Fyra”, Öppet number four, dedicated to the incredible Norwegian vocalist Karin Krog. Comprising two never before released sessions made in 1970 in Germany, raging radical experiments, hard blown free jazz fire, and thrilling reconstructions of vocal based jazz, it's yet another revelation from Öppet that dances in the ear and challenges the mind.

Read more →
Essay

Marja Ahti - Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth

Words by Juho Toivonen

In the shapeshifting field of experimental music, few artists approach sound with the quiet precision and philosophical depth of Finnish composer Marja Ahti. Her 2025 LP "Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth" (Fönstret) refuses the conventional boundaries of composition, unfolding instead as a meditation on both fleetingness and transformation. Listening to Ahti’s sound world means practicing the deepest of attentions, where sounds fade, return, and reflect the fragile flux of life.

Read more →
Essay

Editorial

Butterfly - The Music of Butterfly

2025

Editorial

Brannten Schnüre - Aprilnacht

2024

Field Notes

The inner sleeve of Nurse With Wound's first album (1979) listed about 290 artists the group admired, from Krautrock to musique concrète. It became a map for generations of collectors.

The NWW List on SoundohmImage: T9G9K9 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Editorial

Emerald Web

2024

Editorial

Angelo Petronella

2024

Editorial

Susana Barón Supervielle

2023

Editorial

Alessandra Novaga, Kid Millions

2023

Field Notes

In 1988 Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis recorded in an empty cistern with about 45 seconds of reverb. Oliveros called the album Deep Listening, a pun on how far underground they were.

Editorial

Aldo Clementi

2023

Editorial

Outspan No 1 / Outspan No 2

2023

Field Notes

Brian Eno spent a long morning at Cologne Bonn airport in 1977, irritated by what was playing, and started to imagine music made for that kind of place. Music for Airports came out the following year.

Editorial

Phillip Sollmann & Konrad Sprenger

2023

Field Notes

Harry Bertoia recorded his metal sound sculptures in a barn in rural Pennsylvania, and released the results himself as Sonambient, eleven LPs in the 1970s.

Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause Prisoner's Cinema

Words by Bradford Bailey

Returning to their duo collaboration that first emerged into the broad consciousness across the length of last year's critically heralded "The Quiet Sun", Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause deliver "Prisoner's Cinema", comprising two astounding works primarily composed for percussion and bass, augmented by field-recordings and featuring a guest appearance by Madison Greenstone on clarinet. Simultaneously constrained and expansive, tapping an uncanny emotiveness that envelops the ear in mind-altering phenomena, produced by meticulously crafted structures and sonic relationships, it's easily one of the most compelling full-lengths to cross our path this year.

Read more →
Essay

Field Notes

In 1965 Steve Reich set two tape machines playing the same loop, a street preacher saying "it's gonna rain". They slowly slipped out of sync, and phasing was born by accident.

Editorial

Anthony Moore

2024

Field Notes

La Monte Young wrote: "Draw a straight line and follow it." At a Fluxus festival in Wiesbaden in 1962, Nam June Paik did it with his head dipped in ink.

Editorial

M.B. - Regel

2024

Editorial

Vox Populi! - Half Dead Ganja Music

2024

Editorial

Rafael Toral

2024

Editorial

Meitei - Kofū III

2023

Field Notes

In 18th-century France a small barrel organ, the serinette, was cranked beside the cage until the bird learned the tune. Chardin painted one in 1751.

Read: Musica Automata

Editorial

Idea Fire Company

2023

Editorial

Henning Christiansen - Mediterranean Music-Water

2023

Field Notes

In Mexico City, from the late 1940s, Conlon Nancarrow punched holes in player-piano rolls one by one, writing studies no pianist could play: tempos layered against each other, runs faster than any hand.

Editorial

Pete Fine

2023

Editorial

John Fahey

2023

David Tudor - Anima Pepsi

Words by Bradford Bailey

In 1970 David Tudor composed a set of pieces for the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, the mist-shrouded dome designed by Experiments in Art and Technology, with a sound system of 37 speakers he developed with Gordon Mumma and Fred Waldhauer. Blume now issues two of them on red vinyl: "Pepsibird", made from tapes of human and animal brain waves and recorded in situ, and "Anima Pepsi", built from field recordings of insects and animals, with liner notes by Bradford Bailey and a 20-page LP-size booklet with an essay by You Nakai.

Read more →
Essay

Karin Krog - Fyra

Words by Bradford Bailey

Building on the remarkable ground already traversed across their three previous entries dedicated, respectively, to the work of Nisse Sandström Group, Lars-Göran Ulander, and Roland Keijser Kvartett, the longstanding imprint Caprice returns to the Öppet series, their incredible curatorial collaboration with Mats Gustafsson and Roger Bergner, dedicated to important under-celebrated Scandinavian creative, experimental music, with “Fyra”, Öppet number four, dedicated to the incredible Norwegian vocalist Karin Krog. Comprising two never before released sessions made in 1970 in Germany, raging radical experiments, hard blown free jazz fire, and thrilling reconstructions of vocal based jazz, it's yet another revelation from Öppet that dances in the ear and challenges the mind.

Read more →
Essay

Field Notes

The span of John Cage's ORGAN²/ASLSP in Halberstadt: it began in 2001 and will end in 2640. The seventeenth change of sound came on 5 August 2026, an A4 pipe.

Marja Ahti - Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth

Words by Juho Toivonen

In the shapeshifting field of experimental music, few artists approach sound with the quiet precision and philosophical depth of Finnish composer Marja Ahti. Her 2025 LP "Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth" (Fönstret) refuses the conventional boundaries of composition, unfolding instead as a meditation on both fleetingness and transformation. Listening to Ahti’s sound world means practicing the deepest of attentions, where sounds fade, return, and reflect the fragile flux of life.

Read more →
Essay

Jean-Claude Eloy

Words by Bradford Bailey

Riding an incredible high, Sound3 Co.’s groundbreaking “The Beginning of Japanese Electroacoustic” series returns with its 15th and most ambitious release to date: “Gaku-No-Michi Material”, an astounding 5CD set, presenting the French composer Jean-Claude Eloy’s legendary, monumental electroacoustic work - recorded in Japan between 1977 and 1978 - “Gaku-No-Michi” in a revelatory new way. Comprising 22 tracks, each representing an individual reel of the materials used by Eloy when performing the piece in an infinite number of variations that it allowed for, each reel, as it's encountered across the duration of the set can be experienced as a complex, heavily composed free-standing piece in its own right, unveiling the rigorous processes and densities at the heart of this truly remarkable work.

Read more →
Essay

Editorial

Butterfly - The Music of Butterfly

2025

Field Notes

4'33" lasts 273 seconds, and absolute zero is −273 °C. The coincidence is often read as a hidden message. Cage never mentioned it: the durations came from chance operations.

Editorial

Brannten Schnüre - Aprilnacht

2024

Editorial

Alessandra Novaga

2024

Field Notes

The inner sleeve of Nurse With Wound's first album (1979) listed about 290 artists the group admired, from Krautrock to musique concrète. It became a map for generations of collectors.

The NWW List on SoundohmImage: T9G9K9 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Editorial

Concepción Huerta

2024

Editorial

Emerald Web

2024

Field Notes

Watt's four clarinets recorded four pieces in 2021. Three of them, written for the group by Léo Dupleix, Karl Naegelen and Caroline Marçot, came out on three infinite cassettes sold only as a box, which vanished at once. The fourth, Coral, is the one that got a vinyl.

Watt: Coral on vinyl

Editorial

Angelo Petronella

2024

Editorial

Stuart Dempster

2023

Editorial

Susana Barón Supervielle

2023

Field Notes

For about thirty years Éliane Radigue built her music with a single ARP 2500 synthesizer and tape, one slow layer at a time. In the 2000s she set it aside and began writing for acoustic players.

Editorial

Alessandra Novaga, Kid Millions

2023

Editorial

Derek Bailey, Paul Motian - Duo in Concert

2023

Field Notes

In 1988 Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis recorded in an empty cistern with about 45 seconds of reverb. Oliveros called the album Deep Listening, a pun on how far underground they were.

Editorial

Piotr Kurek - Smartwoods

2023

Editorial

Aldo Clementi

2023

Field Notes

In 1963 Delia Derbyshire turned Ron Grainer's score for the Doctor Who theme into sound at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, note by note, cutting and splicing tape. She was not credited on screen.

Editorial

Outspan No 1 / Outspan No 2

2023

Editorial

McCoy Tyner - Extensions

2023

Field Notes

Brian Eno spent a long morning at Cologne Bonn airport in 1977, irritated by what was playing, and started to imagine music made for that kind of place. Music for Airports came out the following year.

Editorial

Lise Barkas & Lisa Käuffert

2023

Editorial

Phillip Sollmann & Konrad Sprenger

2023

Field Notes

Daphne Oram co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1958 and left the following year. In a converted oast house in Kent she built Oramics, a machine that turned shapes drawn on strips of 35mm film into sound.

Field Notes

Harry Bertoia recorded his metal sound sculptures in a barn in rural Pennsylvania, and released the results himself as Sonambient, eleven LPs in the 1970s.

Lea Bertucci - The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity

Words by Bradford Bailey

Commissioned by ZKM in Karlsruhe, Lea Bertucci's "The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity" was written for the flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen of Sequentia and his collection of Renaissance, Medieval and Neolithic flutes. Recorded at ZKM in the summer of 2024 for a 42.4 speaker system and mixed to stereo for this LP, it sets ancient instruments inside electronic process until they sound like an ensemble playing across centuries. On Blume, with liner notes by Bradford Bailey.

Read more →
Essay

Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause Prisoner's Cinema

Words by Bradford Bailey

Returning to their duo collaboration that first emerged into the broad consciousness across the length of last year's critically heralded "The Quiet Sun", Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause deliver "Prisoner's Cinema", comprising two astounding works primarily composed for percussion and bass, augmented by field-recordings and featuring a guest appearance by Madison Greenstone on clarinet. Simultaneously constrained and expansive, tapping an uncanny emotiveness that envelops the ear in mind-altering phenomena, produced by meticulously crafted structures and sonic relationships, it's easily one of the most compelling full-lengths to cross our path this year.

Read more →
Essay

Editorial

Marco Fusinato The Horizon is a Razor

2026

Field Notes

In 1965 Steve Reich set two tape machines playing the same loop, a street preacher saying "it's gonna rain". They slowly slipped out of sync, and phasing was born by accident.

Editorial

Jeunesse

2025

Editorial

Anthony Moore

2024

Editorial

Kassel Jaeger

2024

Field Notes

La Monte Young wrote: "Draw a straight line and follow it." At a Fluxus festival in Wiesbaden in 1962, Nam June Paik did it with his head dipped in ink.

Editorial

Nurse With Wound

2024

Editorial

M.B. - Regel

2024

Field Notes

In the early 1990s Markus Popp, as Oval, drew on the underside of CDs with felt-tip pens so they would skip, and built whole albums from the glitches.

Editorial

Vox Populi! - Half Dead Ganja Music

2024

Editorial

Marina Rosenfeld - Greatest Hits

2024

Editorial

Rafael Toral

2024

Field Notes

In 1969 Alvin Lucier recorded himself reading a short text, played it back into the room and recorded it again, over and over, until the resonances of the room washed the words away. The text talks about his stutter.

Editorial

Meitei - Kofū III

2023

Editorial

Musica Automata

2023

Field Notes

In 18th-century France a small barrel organ, the serinette, was cranked beside the cage until the bird learned the tune. Chardin painted one in 1751.

Read: Musica Automata

Editorial

Andrea Penso

2023

Editorial

Idea Fire Company

2023

Field Notes

In 1948 Pierre Schaeffer recorded steam engines at the Batignolles depot in Paris and edited them into the Étude aux chemins de fer. That year he gave the method a name: musique concrète.

Editorial

Henning Christiansen - Mediterranean Music-Water

2023

Editorial

Walter Maioli - Shortwave Encounters

2023

Field Notes

In Mexico City, from the late 1940s, Conlon Nancarrow punched holes in player-piano rolls one by one, writing studies no pianist could play: tempos layered against each other, runs faster than any hand.

Editorial

Tokatlian, Villegas, Bordarampé - Inspiración

2023

Editorial

Pete Fine

2023

Field Notes

For years Moondog, Louis Hardin, stood on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan in a Viking helmet, selling his poems and music. He was blind, and composed in braille.

Editorial

John Fahey

2023

Field Notes

Erik Satie's Vexations carries a note suggesting it be played 840 times. In 1963 John Cage organised the first complete performance in New York: a relay of pianists, about eighteen hours.

David Tudor - Anima Pepsi

Words by Bradford Bailey

In 1970 David Tudor composed a set of pieces for the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, the mist-shrouded dome designed by Experiments in Art and Technology, with a sound system of 37 speakers he developed with Gordon Mumma and Fred Waldhauer. Blume now issues two of them on red vinyl: "Pepsibird", made from tapes of human and animal brain waves and recorded in situ, and "Anima Pepsi", built from field recordings of insects and animals, with liner notes by Bradford Bailey and a 20-page LP-size booklet with an essay by You Nakai.

Read more →
Essay

Lea Bertucci - The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity

Words by Bradford Bailey

Commissioned by ZKM in Karlsruhe, Lea Bertucci's "The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity" was written for the flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen of Sequentia and his collection of Renaissance, Medieval and Neolithic flutes. Recorded at ZKM in the summer of 2024 for a 42.4 speaker system and mixed to stereo for this LP, it sets ancient instruments inside electronic process until they sound like an ensemble playing across centuries. On Blume, with liner notes by Bradford Bailey.

Read more →
Essay

Karin Krog - Fyra

Words by Bradford Bailey

Building on the remarkable ground already traversed across their three previous entries dedicated, respectively, to the work of Nisse Sandström Group, Lars-Göran Ulander, and Roland Keijser Kvartett, the longstanding imprint Caprice returns to the Öppet series, their incredible curatorial collaboration with Mats Gustafsson and Roger Bergner, dedicated to important under-celebrated Scandinavian creative, experimental music, with “Fyra”, Öppet number four, dedicated to the incredible Norwegian vocalist Karin Krog. Comprising two never before released sessions made in 1970 in Germany, raging radical experiments, hard blown free jazz fire, and thrilling reconstructions of vocal based jazz, it's yet another revelation from Öppet that dances in the ear and challenges the mind.

Read more →
Essay

Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause Prisoner's Cinema

Words by Bradford Bailey

Returning to their duo collaboration that first emerged into the broad consciousness across the length of last year's critically heralded "The Quiet Sun", Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause deliver "Prisoner's Cinema", comprising two astounding works primarily composed for percussion and bass, augmented by field-recordings and featuring a guest appearance by Madison Greenstone on clarinet. Simultaneously constrained and expansive, tapping an uncanny emotiveness that envelops the ear in mind-altering phenomena, produced by meticulously crafted structures and sonic relationships, it's easily one of the most compelling full-lengths to cross our path this year.

Read more →
Essay

Field Notes

The span of John Cage's ORGAN²/ASLSP in Halberstadt: it began in 2001 and will end in 2640. The seventeenth change of sound came on 5 August 2026, an A4 pipe.

Editorial

Marco Fusinato The Horizon is a Razor

2026

Marja Ahti - Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth

Words by Juho Toivonen

In the shapeshifting field of experimental music, few artists approach sound with the quiet precision and philosophical depth of Finnish composer Marja Ahti. Her 2025 LP "Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth" (Fönstret) refuses the conventional boundaries of composition, unfolding instead as a meditation on both fleetingness and transformation. Listening to Ahti’s sound world means practicing the deepest of attentions, where sounds fade, return, and reflect the fragile flux of life.

Read more →
Essay

Field Notes

In 1965 Steve Reich set two tape machines playing the same loop, a street preacher saying "it's gonna rain". They slowly slipped out of sync, and phasing was born by accident.

Jean-Claude Eloy

Words by Bradford Bailey

Riding an incredible high, Sound3 Co.’s groundbreaking “The Beginning of Japanese Electroacoustic” series returns with its 15th and most ambitious release to date: “Gaku-No-Michi Material”, an astounding 5CD set, presenting the French composer Jean-Claude Eloy’s legendary, monumental electroacoustic work - recorded in Japan between 1977 and 1978 - “Gaku-No-Michi” in a revelatory new way. Comprising 22 tracks, each representing an individual reel of the materials used by Eloy when performing the piece in an infinite number of variations that it allowed for, each reel, as it's encountered across the duration of the set can be experienced as a complex, heavily composed free-standing piece in its own right, unveiling the rigorous processes and densities at the heart of this truly remarkable work.

Read more →
Essay

Editorial

Jeunesse

2025

Editorial

Butterfly - The Music of Butterfly

2025

Editorial

Anthony Moore

2024

Field Notes

4'33" lasts 273 seconds, and absolute zero is −273 °C. The coincidence is often read as a hidden message. Cage never mentioned it: the durations came from chance operations.

Editorial

Kassel Jaeger

2024

Editorial

Brannten Schnüre - Aprilnacht

2024

Field Notes

La Monte Young wrote: "Draw a straight line and follow it." At a Fluxus festival in Wiesbaden in 1962, Nam June Paik did it with his head dipped in ink.

Editorial

Alessandra Novaga

2024

Editorial

Nurse With Wound

2024

Field Notes

The inner sleeve of Nurse With Wound's first album (1979) listed about 290 artists the group admired, from Krautrock to musique concrète. It became a map for generations of collectors.

The NWW List on SoundohmImage: T9G9K9 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Editorial

M.B. - Regel

2024

Editorial

Concepción Huerta

2024

Field Notes

In the early 1990s Markus Popp, as Oval, drew on the underside of CDs with felt-tip pens so they would skip, and built whole albums from the glitches.

Editorial

Emerald Web

2024

Editorial

Vox Populi! - Half Dead Ganja Music

2024

Field Notes

Watt's four clarinets recorded four pieces in 2021. Three of them, written for the group by Léo Dupleix, Karl Naegelen and Caroline Marçot, came out on three infinite cassettes sold only as a box, which vanished at once. The fourth, Coral, is the one that got a vinyl.

Watt: Coral on vinyl

Editorial

Marina Rosenfeld - Greatest Hits

2024

Editorial

Angelo Petronella

2024

Editorial

Rafael Toral

2024

Editorial

Stuart Dempster

2023

Field Notes

In 1969 Alvin Lucier recorded himself reading a short text, played it back into the room and recorded it again, over and over, until the resonances of the room washed the words away. The text talks about his stutter.

Editorial

Susana Barón Supervielle

2023

Editorial

Meitei - Kofū III

2023

Field Notes

For about thirty years Éliane Radigue built her music with a single ARP 2500 synthesizer and tape, one slow layer at a time. In the 2000s she set it aside and began writing for acoustic players.

Editorial

Musica Automata

2023

Editorial

Alessandra Novaga, Kid Millions

2023

Field Notes

In 18th-century France a small barrel organ, the serinette, was cranked beside the cage until the bird learned the tune. Chardin painted one in 1751.

Read: Musica Automata

Editorial

Derek Bailey, Paul Motian - Duo in Concert

2023

Editorial

Andrea Penso

2023

Field Notes

In 1988 Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis recorded in an empty cistern with about 45 seconds of reverb. Oliveros called the album Deep Listening, a pun on how far underground they were.

Editorial

Idea Fire Company

2023

Editorial

Piotr Kurek - Smartwoods

2023

Field Notes

In 1948 Pierre Schaeffer recorded steam engines at the Batignolles depot in Paris and edited them into the Étude aux chemins de fer. That year he gave the method a name: musique concrète.

Editorial

Aldo Clementi

2023

Editorial

Henning Christiansen - Mediterranean Music-Water

2023

Field Notes

In 1963 Delia Derbyshire turned Ron Grainer's score for the Doctor Who theme into sound at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, note by note, cutting and splicing tape. She was not credited on screen.

Editorial

Walter Maioli - Shortwave Encounters

2023

Editorial

Outspan No 1 / Outspan No 2

2023

Field Notes

In Mexico City, from the late 1940s, Conlon Nancarrow punched holes in player-piano rolls one by one, writing studies no pianist could play: tempos layered against each other, runs faster than any hand.

Editorial

McCoy Tyner - Extensions

2023

Editorial

Tokatlian, Villegas, Bordarampé - Inspiración

2023

Field Notes

Brian Eno spent a long morning at Cologne Bonn airport in 1977, irritated by what was playing, and started to imagine music made for that kind of place. Music for Airports came out the following year.

Editorial

Pete Fine

2023

Editorial

Lise Barkas & Lisa Käuffert

2023

Field Notes

For years Moondog, Louis Hardin, stood on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan in a Viking helmet, selling his poems and music. He was blind, and composed in braille.

Editorial

Phillip Sollmann & Konrad Sprenger

2023

Editorial

John Fahey

2023

Field Notes

Daphne Oram co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1958 and left the following year. In a converted oast house in Kent she built Oramics, a machine that turned shapes drawn on strips of 35mm film into sound.

Field Notes

Erik Satie's Vexations carries a note suggesting it be played 840 times. In 1963 John Cage organised the first complete performance in New York: a relay of pianists, about eighteen hours.

Field Notes

Harry Bertoia recorded his metal sound sculptures in a barn in rural Pennsylvania, and released the results himself as Sonambient, eleven LPs in the 1970s.

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