Electronics
All records with electronics · Solo electronics only
A Landform Embodies a Mythical Creature
Sixteen audio scenes answering the long-exposure photographs of Brice Bischoff: cassette recordings of canyons, caves and ravines, reshaped in the studio with film-style spatial effects. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Written in the Universe
Flutist Nicole Mitchell and percussionist Joe Westerlund, a former mentee of Milford Graves, improvise in a rural studio near Chapel Hill: looped flutes, mbiras, metallophones and live electronics, with no overdubs.
Evergreen
First duo album by trombonist Kalia Vandever and DARKSIDE guitarist Dave Harrington, recorded in three rainy days in Los Angeles: brass and guitar between drum machines, samples and quieter, intimate pieces.
Electronic Music 1955-1984
Anthology of the German-born dancer and choreographer's electronic music for dance, made in his three North London studios: tape loops, kettle-lid percussion, radio interference and generator pulses, in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
Rosebud
Five works by Matthias Krüger (born 1987), from the organ piece conTemp[s]lations to rosebud for dancer, motion sensors and live electronics made at IRCAM, played by Tobias Hagedorn, Claudia Chan, Xavier Larsson Paez and others, with dancer Victor Vi…
Hybrid Gaits
Four works by Swiss composer Stefan Keller, Schaukel, Breathe, Stück für Klavier and hybrid gaits (2017), played by Ensemble Ascolta conducted by Yalda Zamani, with the composer on live electronics. Mostly SWR productions, 2023.
Deep Siesta
Amen Feizabadi's chamber opera Deep Siesta, on a libretto by Dilek Mayatürk about two artificial beings, with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Zafraan Ensemble conducted by Yalda Zamani, plus AI voices and electronics. A Deutschlandfunk Kultur coprod…
Crunch
Portrait CD of Eloain Lovis Hübner: crunch modes 1.0 and 3.0, [untitled] and Trauma und Zwischenraum 1-3, played by Schallfeld Ensemble, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, AuditivVokal Dresden, airborne extended, the Arditti Quartet and Lange//Berweck//Lorenz.
Continuous Deformation
Portrait CD of Yongbom Lee: five works for ensembles, sampler and electronics, played by Ensemble Modern, IEMA Ensemble and ensemble recherche, Broken Frames Syndicate and the cellist Kyubin Hwang, recorded in Frankfurt (2023) and Cologne (2024).
Straight Run
Portrait CD of Sergej Maingardt: Rush for orchestra, ensemble and electronics, Flower's silence in empty guns for piano, electronics and Wii sensors, and Declare Independence, with the Bundesjugendorchester under Lothar Zagrosek, Paulo Álvares and En…
Spheres of Resonance
Eight electronic works by Ludger Brümmer on two CDs, made with granular synthesis and the physical-modelling software GENESIS and produced for up to 42 channels; a ZKM Karlsruhe production in Edition ZKM, 2022.
Remix EP
Three Panasonic remixes made in 1996 by Zoviet France and by Muslimgauze, found on DAT decades later and issued by Sähkö in 2020: one side of Zoviet France, two Muslimgauze pieces. Repress.
Sky Yen
Pete Shelley's 1974 electronic recording, made two years before Buzzcocks on a home-built oscillator and a two-track tape recorder: drones, feedback and echo, on CD for the first time.
Rabbit Trap (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Lucrecia Dalt's score for Bryn Chainey's folk horror Rabbit Trap, a film about the power of sound: humming drones, unnerving loops and garbled fairy chatter, with Aaron Dilloway on one track.
Highsmith Plus
Ikue Mori and Craig Taborn, the duo Highsmith, return after ten years and open up into three trios with Bill Frisell, Tomeka Reid and John Zorn, plus a few quintet pieces.
Roman Ruins
Alvin Curran conducts the Iato Orchestra, thirty musicians with voice, reeds, brass, strings, harp, accordion, guitars, vibraphone, basses, two drummers and four electronics players.
Self Embalmed
Wolf Eyes' first full-length as the core duo of Nate Young and John Olson since 2023: twelve tracks of warped kicks, skittering drum synth, narcotized vocals and Olson's homemade reeds.
Variance / Duo
Two unreleased late works by Pierre Henry for his centenary: Variance (2005), a fugal homage to Luc Ferrari, and Duo (2003), a gestural rhapsody for feedback and piano dedicated to Maurice Béjart. Licensed from Studio Son/Ré.
Close Up
Peter Brötzmann's Die Like a Dog Quartet with Toshinori Kondo, William Parker and Hamid Drake, live at the Total Music Meeting in Berlin in November 1994: two long pieces, Close Up (Man) and Close Up (Woman).
Enchanted And Delighted
Nearly ten years of Ikue Mori's music and visual work: eight electronic pieces with Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Koichi Makigami and Zeena Parkins, plus a DVD of her films with handmade dolls, puppets, animation and miniature sets. Tzadik.