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Experimental /

Headphone musics 1 to 6. As I As
In 1967 Z'EV took a tape music class at the UCLA night school. The leader of the course was Joseph Byrd who was the founder and theoretician of the first electronic rock band: the united states of america. So while it's almost 40 years now that he ha…
Turntables and computers
Turntables & Computers is an uncut live recording of Otomo Yoshihide and Nobukazu Takemura performing an improvised live set at the Super Deluxe club in Roppongi, for the 'Space Invaded' event on March 29, 2003. This live album documents the first pe…
Wordless
Wordless is a suite of 12 electronic sound portraits based on interviews from the BNA-BBOT archives in Brussels. Words from the interviews are edited out to leave only the hesitations, breathing emotional reactions and environmental sounds.The soundt…
The thing like us
This CD is a realisation of the music written for the 2002 Veenstudio production Spinoza : I am not where i think myself to be. It is in two parts: Affectio and Epistola, based respectively on the definitions of the emotions from the third part of Sp…
Antecedente X
Franco Donatoni intraprende una sua strenua, singolarissima indagine del comporre musicale, inoltrandosi nella parte intima, più segreta e muta dell'attività compositiva. Prima edizione, 1980.Non c'è niente da fare, il libro va letto e riletto. Nonos…
The animation of lists and the Archytan transpositions
There are any number of ways to hear Warren Burt's music for tuning forks; as many ways as there are listeners, probably. The most immediate one is simply to revel in its beauty and enjoy the music as sound. Or, to be more accurate, as clouds of soun…
WOODEN GUITAR
A simple title with a simple concept. Wooden Guitar is an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern deltadelica & a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore (remember that great Kottke, Lang, Fahey collection?) wher…
Variations: A London Compilation
Released in 1995, this debut compilation is a showcase of seven London-based experimental artists. Features John Wall (sonic sampling collage wizard), Andrew Jacques (Put Put member using a microphone and guitar amplifier for disruptive sound sources…
Variations 2: A London Compilation
Second edition of Paradigm Discs Variations compilation, originally released in 1998. Another collection of lesser-known and infrequently recorded artists living in London. Beautifully packaged and musically focused -- unlike so many "experimental" c…
UNTITLED SONGS
This new double CD compilation project departs by celebrating the seminal Gesang der Jünglinge by Karlheinz Stockhausen. 21 sound artists and composers share their views upon this piece and reflect its groundbreaking dimension, as for the first time …
The Sound Of Nature ~ The Nature Of Sound
Compilation CD with Francisco Lopez, Giancarlo Toniutti, Jeph Jerman, Seth Nehil & toy.bizarre, Kiyoshi Mizutani, MNortham, Eric La Casa. A confrontation of different ideas, views, about nature … and sound… From the electroacoustic deep soundscape of…
The All Angels Concerts
Highlights of the concert series curated by Rhodri Davies & Mark Wastell. Solos by Fabienne Audéoud (voice), Aleks Kolkowski (Stroh violin), Eddie Prévost (percussion), John Russell (guitar), Alan Tomlinson (trombone), Simon Vincent (electronics), an…
STAR SWITCH ON
Aer, Biosphere, Fennesz, Hazard, Philip Jeck and Mika Vainio working with recordings from Chris Watson.
SPIRE : LIVE IN GENEVA CATHEDRAL
St. Pierre Cathedral, Geneva, was the crucible of the Reformation in 1534… The second release in the Spire series [cf Spire, organ works past, present & future, Touch # Tone 20, 2004] is more than a document of ‘Spire Live’, which took place as part …
Seventh May 2001 - Freedom of the City
Matchless Recordings presents a double selection CD of recordings from "Freedom of the City - festival of radical improvised musics", London, England on 7th May 2001.  CD 1 features: Bark! with Rex Caswell - electric guitar, Phillip Marks - drums and…
RINGSTONES
99 tracks and lots of participants (John Hudak, Oren Ambarchi, Chris Watson, Brandon LaBelle, Evan Parker, Thomas Lehn, Ryoji Ikeda…) that makes music for your mobile phone.
PSF & ALCHEMY : 20TH ANNIVERSARY LIVE
[Sep. 8, 2004 at Hatsudai Doors] 1. Kan Mikami & Jo Jo Hiroshige 2. Exias-J 3. Kazuo Imai & Incapacitants 4. Marble Sheep [Sep. 29, 2004 at Nishiazabu Super Delux] 7. Keiji Haino & Munehiro Narita 8. L & Friends 9. Masayoshi Urabe & Junko 10. Go Hira…
PISA 1980 IMPROVISATORS SYMPOSIUM
Ten leading free improvisors assembled in Pisa in the summer of 1980. Maarten Altena, Derek Bailey, Barry Guy, George Lewis, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Giancarlo Schiaffini & Philipp Wachsmann. Two duos, one trio & two qu…
Montreal Sound Matter - Montréal Matière Sonore
Works by Francisco López / Louis Dufort / Steve Heimbecker / Hélène Prévost / Mathieu Lévesque / a_dontigny / Chantal Dumas / Tomas PhillipsMontreal Sound Matter / Montréal matières sonore brings together eight Canadian and international sound artist…
JUJIKAN - JAPAN
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…