Tullius Rooms
"Tullius Rooms" for piano, electronics and ambient recordings, 19999/2000
The creative act
deluxe digipack cd with booklet (english and french) : lecture in Houston, Texas - April 1957 some texts from à l'infinitif (1912-1920) ; lecture in New York, shortly before his death musical erratum (la mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même) ; long before John Cage, the first aleotory composition ; an interview by George Heard Hamilton recorded in New York (1959) ; an interview by Richard Hamilton recorded in London (1959) ; musical erratum (a score for 3 voices) only score written by du…
Entity Mülheim
Double DVD (region free, ntsc) release documenting a sound installation dealing with the suburb Muelheim in the City of Cologne. Based on field recordings, interviews with the population and photographs the sound-video-installation presented a very personal but nevertheless insightful portrait of this diverse urban area. The sound installation was commissioned by kulturbunker muelheim e.v. as part of the festival muelheim klingt in 2005. It was presented in the form of a dual screen/monitor and …
Animistic (for Donatella)
Animistic [for Donatella], CD album in DVD case with 7 full colour photo cards. This CD contains two pieces, 'Animistic (for Donatella)' concentrating on mixing location recordings with 'played' objects to obtain a complex soundscape in three parts that is inspired by the idea of an animist understanding of nature. 'Decaying Study 3' on the other hand offers a dense and dynamic drone-like composition built from the generative transformations of two sound files. The cover features 7 full colour c…
Live With The Birds
The ensemble (4 of them) performs on an aluminium strip suspended from a rubber band (for subtle pitch shifting). As with Stockausen's Mikrophonie 1 this single source is bowed, scraped, beaten, tapped, stroked and so on. The Kanary Grand band comprises some 40 birds of various breeds who, sing along. N sum, varieties of interesting gong like drones with realtime fully interactive birds. A must. 3-way gatefold digipack, 12pp booklet with thoughtful essay. Limited art edition of 1000 copies.
Number Made Audible
*Original 1993 edition* Named in tribute to Fluxus-founder, the Maciunas Ensemble (Paul Panhuysen and three others) cross disciplines (art, music and science) with eas11 pieces that investigate invented instruments and recording techniques. Scored variously for groups of duochords (2 string monochords played with motorised rubber bands, hurdy-gurdy style), aluminium monochords, played with felt hammers, guitars with tails (all explained in the excellent booklet with pictures and background on al…
Muusiccia (metal/stone)
the duo of Paul and Limpe Fuchs emerged onto the experimental/free improv scene in Munich in the late 1960s as Anima. Both worked with a number of both conventional and homemade instruments. “Muusiccia” was produced by Limpe and Christoph and released in 1993. Very rare, long deleted now
Lingual Music
Double CD, comes with 12 page booklet. Britain's best-known sound poet is Bob Cobbing, but it's hard to come up with a list of other sound poets working in Britain in the '60s and '70s. It's equally difficult to think of any female sound poets working anywhere. Lily Greenham was Danish, but spent her childhood in Vienna. After several relocations across Europe, she settled in London in 1972 with her British husband (musician and poet Peter Greenham), where she lived until her death in 2001. Near…
Los Angeles: a film by Sarah Morris
It reflects a sprawling metropolis within which indulgence and superficiality were magnified in advance of the event
Clouds
Produced in 1977. Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Swedish composer and graphic artist, was one of those who during the first half of the 60's tried to integrate elements of different fields of art in his works: instrumental music, tapes, texts, actions, projections etc. In Clouds (1972-76) he developed an advanced form of musical drama involving electronic music in 8 channels, singers, dancers and slide and film projections on five screens. The music on this record is a shortened version of Clouds, especiall…
Ursonate
A partial re-release of Kurt Schwitters' URSONATE, as performed by Jaap Blonk. Jaap Blonk, born 1953,Êis one of the world's most famous voice performers. This CD will give you 2 complete performances of The Ursonate: the 1986 studio version, and the 2003 live version. For a long time, the Schwitters estate did not grant permission to issue recordings of his work. In 2002 the ban was lifted and the performing and publishing rights were turned over to a foundation based in the Sprengel Museum in H…
Reads Jazz In Canada
On a single October evening in 1959, fabled people's poet Kenneth Patchen and Vancouver's Alan Neil Quartet made a little bit of history. Together, they cut one of the first jazz-and poetry recordings to disc -- fiery, spontaneous and free of pretensions, where hard bop playing wailed neck-and-neck with Patchen's scathing, slurred, rabid vocalizations. Today, many see Jazz In Canada as among the very first truly beat documents on record -- preceding efforts by Kerouac, Ferlinghetti & Ginsberg. T…
CD dd
All pieces made by live sampling and processing things in and around the performance. Track two is the only one using violin.
CD Cécile
Live convertor Kaffe Matthews on the case in Oslo, Chicago and London. "Matthews is turning in real craft, every jolting explosion and manic loop qualifies as a fully embroidered, triple fired, hand painted work of art. " Ed Pinsent. The Sound Projector. 1999. Awarded Honorary Mention Ars Electronica, Prix 2000
Torch songs
Torch Songs is a collaboration between Jonathan Coleclough and Andrew Liles. They met in October 2004 when they both performed at Intergration 3 in Preston, UK. Liles subsequently reworked the recording of Coleclough's solo performance from that evening. He went on to add, subtract, multiply and divide further live recordings supplied by Coleclough, and the eventual result was this double LP. Torch Songs is packaged in a gatefold sleeve featuring 'I Dreamt I Was a River,' a poem composed and pai…
Early recordings 1978-1985
This is the limited friends edition of 33 numbered copies in a red Box Set with silver or golden imprints instead of the black Box Set with black imprints, especially for the artist and a few other people in relation to VOD - a gorgeous box covering john duncan’s early sound/film work - of the vod releases in the last year, this is the nicest on a presentation-scale (the included medias are of course lovely as well.)
Works: 1975 to 2005
An unstoppable attraction for extreme sounds, in line with the passions that emerged from the international underground at the end of the Seventies, carried John Duncan through complex paths and artistic practices (from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, then Tokyo, then Italy, in Scrutto San Leonardo, Tuscany). More and more contaminated territories, close to a certain kind of performing art which, in the Viennese actionism and body art, the transgre…
From Zero
Four films on JOHN CAGE by Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver. Mode celebrates its 20th Anniversary in 2004 with the release of a major film on John Cage by renowned Dutch director Frank Scheffer in collaboration with Cage's long-time associate Andrew Culver. The group of films, entitled From Zero, are:* 19 QUESTIONS: Cage answers 19 questions on a variety of subjects, using chance operations to determine the duration of his colorful and often witty answers. A unique opportunity to view the Cagean…
Expériences musicales
32pp book in French, lavishly illustrated. Born in 1901 Jean Dubuffet studied painting, gave it up to become a wine merchant. Then in 1943 he became a full time artist, working in various media, including what we would now call installations, in a style often referred to as Art Brut ( now associated with the art of children, the mentally ill, or naifs) - a term coined by Dubuffet himself, though not to describe his own work but that of outsiders who had no stake in the artworld, and who eschewed…