Live at the Jolt Festival Basel
- 2014 release - JOLT-Festival Basel is an interdisciplinary art and music festival that took place November 7.-13. 2011 at Galerie Stampa und Gare Du Nord in Basel, Switzerland. The festival was curated by Daniel Buess and James Hullick in the spirit of JOLT Sonic Arts Inc. The non profit organisation JOLT Sonic Arts was founded by James Hullik with the aim to develop and implement soundart-projects in the form of concerts, performances, installations, etc. After its establishment in its home …
Le Mal Des Ardents
** Recorded in 1987 on cassette tape (private release). Limited numbered Edition Clear Vinyl 108 copies (with an insert) ** Le Bal Des Ardents is a mini-LP reissue of a strange cassette based on the terrifying historical event about the French King Charles VI the day of January 28th 1393, where he escaped from a fire caused by a torch during a masked ball, a tragedy who will let him sink into madness soon after. The main theme of this record try obviously to recall Charles VI hallucinations, tor…
The Seismic Bleats Of Quantum Sheep
“The secret album from The Pink Dots created in the Spring of 2015, and the sister release to “Five Days“. It’s due out on vinyl through the Spanish Abstrakce label in February 2016. Extremely Kaleidoscopic and as far out as the Dots may have gone in their history” Edward Ka-Spel
“The strongest Legendary Pink Dots album of 2015 snuck in just under the wire as a digital release, with a delayed vinyl version expected in a few months from new Spanish label Abstrakce. Intended as a “secret” sist…
On Foot: Brooklyn
From February 21 to May 21, 2012, Craig Shepard walked everywhere he went. Each of the 13 weeks, he composed a new piece, and wrote it down. Each Sunday, he led a silent, cell-phone free walk to a different location in Brooklyn and performed that week’s piece outdoors in a public space. This recording contains five pieces written during the project as well as field recordings from four of the performance locations.1. Sheepshead Bay, May 20, 2013 (10:10)Katie Porter, clarinetDevin Maxwell, snare …
SIMEON
A sinus tone disappears gradually as silences are inserted into it, which grow - over a duration of 20 minutes - in both number and length. In each case, a silence of 10 minutes is added to the end of this process.
dialogues with environments
All works on this CD were performed and recorded in live concert situations.The recordings have been left unchanged for this CD project, as i wanted to focus on the way these pieces interacted with the particular environments they were played in. Whether it was the instrument's turn to speak, during the rests when the environment spoke or when both spoke: there always was a beautiful, spontaneous and unforeseeable interaction between music and space, which wouldn’t have been there in a studio s…
Vokal / Instrumental
Six songs (1976) for voice, violin, clarinet, piano, cello, harp, and guitar; based on poems by Jean Gebser (1905-1976). The philosopher conveys his core ideas in lyrical language, where form, linguistic rhythm, inflections of speech and mea- ning become an essential part of the musical design. Floating relationships of pitches continue to change from one mode to the next, firmly anchored in their sound universe. The passing of time is crafted only through the pulsating sounds, con- nected throu…
11 Microexercises
Microexercises were started when the Miniaturist Ensemble asked for a piece with no more than 100 notes in it. Having enjoyed making one such piece, I went on to make 21 more (and then a second collection, Grete, with an additional 14). Instrumentation and number of players are mostly open, as are selection of pieces, playing order, clef and transposition readings, and dynamics.I like the notion of quite long pieces, and, more recently, also quite short ones (these have a history too: Beethove…
drei, 1-21
Three separate recordings where each musician follows hiw own very minimal score. Sound and silence. With Johnny Chang (violin), Sam Sfirri (melodica), Jürg Frey (clarinet).
das wetter in offenbach
2014 release ** Thomas Stiegler and Hannes Seidl's 'das wetter in offenbach' (2010) is a radiophonic work mixing field recordings in the city of Offenbach with sine waves.
Urs Peter Schneider . Klavier
"I have played my friend Peter Streiff’s music for decades, and it has always moved and inspired me with its mindfulness, its spiritual force and daring novelty, where unusual demands and joyfulness are in balance." (Urs Peter Schneider, December 2013)
Von Magischem/Of magic nrs 5 & 6 Écriture automatique. Absence of intentionality and dissolution of referential thin- king. Written down after long preparation in pace with the actual duration of the piece.
Three piano studiesMovements and duratio…
Kompositionen 1973-1986
Schneider studied under tutors as diverse as Walter Lang, Frederic Rzewski, Henri Pousseur and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and his compositions range from drone pieces for solo church organ to chamber music, early electronic assemblages and operatic works.
120112
(…) the three pieces presented by Borg (piano) and Norstebo (trombone) are spellbinding explorations of the low tone. Three pieces but they segue into one another effortlessly and, with the possible exception of slight variation in pitch (and I’m not even sure of that) are pretty much indistinguishable from each other unless I missing some subtle pattern shift. The sounds are all low and sustained–bottom of the keyboard piano and extremely low trombone (the disc says, simply, “trombone”, though …
songs and piano pieces
song 2 (2008) (bass flute)four piano pieces (2005-2008) I II III IV song 6 (2010) (flute)a phrase a silencea phrase a silence…..more and more anastassis philippakopoulos' monodies reveal their deeply dialogical character:each phrase a call, an address, a reaching outeach silence an intense listening, an opening up to be addressed in turneach phrase: call and response in oneeach silence: response and call in onein this music the deepest and most…
Caminantes... Ayacucho
2007 release - Luigi Nono No hay caminos, hay que caminar … Andrej Tarkowskij (1987) “Wayfarer, there is no path. Yet you must walk”, in Spanish: “Caminante, no hay caminos. Hay que caminar.” These words are the contents of an inscription, which Luigi Nono read on the wall of a monastery in Toledo in the middle of the 1980s. They must have affected him most deeply, since in the last three years of his life he made them the basis of the titles of a trio of works. In “Hay que caminar” he surely re…
For Samuel Beckett
1999 release - For fifty-five minutes the great American composer Morton Feldman weaves his tapestry of sounds, a pattern always the same and yet never the same, an iridescent, thick fabric, full of details, although these never distract the listener's attention. Feldman met Beckett only once in his life (though Beckett later sent him a postcard on which the composer discovered the text for his opera Neither). He created music of a beguiling tonality and beauty, inspired more by painting and lit…
La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura
2000 release - Nostalgic, utopian, future distance\", the title of this piece investigates the possibilities of violin playing, the intimate, physical quality of the sound and the historical dimensions inherent to this instrument.
Der Regen, das Glas, das Lachen
1998 release - While standing at the waterfall, we become aware of our thoughts, but not the waterfall itself; if we succeed in letting our thoughts stand still, we hear a melody within the turmoil. Everyone his own. (Peter Ablinger)
Enban Live at the Strange Fruit
Avant-primitive improv from the duo of Takehisa Kosugi (Violin, Recorder, Voice) and Takashi Kazamaki (Percussion, Harmonica). Recorded in 1983, Kosugi shows yet another side of himself, trading his drone for a more free-hillbilly style, which meshes perfectly with Kazamaki's masterful tumbling and clattering. A ritualistic, shamanic vibe: the music has natural flow, nothing seems forced, percussions are all over, underlining the shamanic explorations for the soulful violin (or bamboo flutes) pl…
24 petits preludes pour la guitare
Composer : Antoine Beuger. Performer: Cristian Alvear Montecino (guitar). It takes waiting. Then another string, another finger. A pass in the middle of an arpeggio: an alvearium must be built, a conduit, an in-between- arpeggios --- (very) slow, very free, molto legato