Pieces, portraits and field notes from the Soundohm desk.
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 →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.

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 →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.

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 →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.

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 →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 →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 Soundohm
Image: T9G9K9 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Editorial
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.

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 →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
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 →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 →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.

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 →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 →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 Soundohm
Image: T9G9K9 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Editorial
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.

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 →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 →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.

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 →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 →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 →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 →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
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 →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.

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 →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 Soundohm
Image: T9G9K9 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Editorial
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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