Original UK edition on Turnabout's explorative and ground-breaking "Electronic Music" series of the 1966 album presenting three classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions.
Very rare introduction to Scrath Music edited by Cardew including "scores" by the composer himself, Lou Gare, David Jackman, Christopher Hobbs, Howard Skempton, Tom Phillips and many other British musicians and artists, published by Latimer in 1972.
2001 CD-only album on XI with experimental pieces for piano spanning 40 years performed by the American avant-garde musician and Fluxus artist himself.
On Eleven Poems, Chris Philpot, Justin Rhody and Abigail Smith bring fractured language into contact with bowed taishōgoto and vibrating percussion. Recorded in Santa Fe, these eleven miniature encounters trade conventional accompaniment for a shared attention to timbre, spacing and resonance, letting poetry and sound unsettle one another.
*Edition of 100* K/S/R (Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith & Justin Rhody) have been performing and recording together since 2022. Recorded by the band themselves during a full week of day-long sessions - violin, percussion, lap steel, accordion, flute, guitar, harmonica, and rhodes piano were each stretched, damaged & made to sing through various extended techniques. The trio's non-concentric approach to collective improvisation mirrors the dark harmonic density and symbiotic formal structures of the …
Unofficial 1995 7" release in a limited edition of 200 copies on Dolor Del Estamago / Stomach Ache of a 1994 live recordings by M.E.V. featuring Alvin Curran, Richard Tietelbaum, Frederic Rzewski and George Lewis.
condition (4LP/CD/book/box): M / M / M / EX
Edition of 500 numbered copies (this is 158/500).
A box recorded during the festival held for Alvin Lucier's 85th birthday at the Zurich University of the Arts, 12 to 14 October 2016. Lucier himself performs I Am Sitting in a Room, where his voice is replayed into the room until only its resonances are left, and Music for Solo Performer, played by amplified brain waves on percussion.
Later pieces include Double Rainbow for Joan La Barbara and oscillato…
Still sealed copy of the 2020 double LP set on Black Truffle with compositions from the mid-2010's for electric guitars and ensemble, performed by Stephen O'Malley and Oren Ambarchi among others.
Three fantastic composition from the mid-1980's including the electronic sounding string quartet plus two beautiful electro-acoustic pieces for solo instrument, performed by the Arditti Quartet, Eberhard Blum and Frances-Marie Uitti and released by the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD in 1988 on LP only, never re-issued on either CD or LP.
Rare 1987 re-issue on Edition RZ of the 1985 LP on Electrocord with the Rumanian composer's powerful hyper-spectral music for orchestra in two superb compositions from the early 1980's.
Rare 1987 album on Edition RZ with the Rumanian composer's powerful hyper-spectral music, a composition for double-bass performed by Fernando Grillo from 1979 and one for two double basses, prepared piano, Javanese gong, crystals & metal objects performed by Grillo and the composer himself among others. With insert.
2017 grey-area 2LP set on Cyclope in an edition of 200 hand-numbered copies with an 1976 live recording by the avant-garde free improvisation project formed by Takehisa Kosugi's students featuring Chie Mukai, Kazuo Imai and Masami Tada among others.
Fantastic experimental compositions for synthesizers including the Moog and the mythical Syn-ket from the 1960's plus a micro-tonal concert piece for woodwinds, released on Decca in 1969 and never re-issued on either CD or LP.
Great dynamic electro-acoustic music for voices, instruments and tape composed in the 1960's and early 70's by the founder of the Peabody Electronic Music Studio and released by Folkways in 1973, never re-issued on either CD or LP. With insert.
On Echo - Variations, Arp opens the atmospheric world of Drifts to an international circle of sonic explorers. Glitch, electro-acoustic detail and club pressure reshape its suspended textures, while new tracks and alternate mixes reveal further possibilities within the originals. Less a remix appendix than a study in productive transformation.
Still sealed copy of the sole edition of the 1978 album on Music Gallery Editions with original experimental music for glass instruments performed by John Kuipers, Marvin Green, Miguel Frasconi, Paul Hodge and V. Eric Cadesky. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.
Very rare sole edition of the superb 1973 split-LP on Alpha with fantastic electro-abcoustic compositions realized at Ghent's Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music by two Dutch experimental music composers. Never re-issued on either vinyl or CD.
Rare original edition on Shandar of the breathtakingly beautiful and evocative 1977 electro-acoustic / musique concrète piece by the Swedish composer recorded at Luc Ferrari's studio.