Tape
All records with tape · Solo tape only
Grains
Four stereo works by Åke Parmerud from 1990 to 1995, led by Grains of Voices, a 31-minute piece built from voices he recorded while travelling around the world and premiered at the United Nations in 1997.
A Turn of Breath
Deluxe reissue with a bonus LP of unpublished material housed inside a gatefold sleeve, and an instant download dropped to your account. Recital here presents the premiere LP by vocalist Ian William Craig
(b. 1980, Edmonton). Ian, a trained opera si…
Music from the Ether
Original works for theremin from the 1920s "golden age" to the 1990s, all first recordings, by Schillinger, Grainger, Martinu, Achron, Antunes, Komarov and Lydia Kavina, played by Kavina with piano, string quartet and soprano.
Music in 2 Dimensions – Works for Flute
The first complete CD of Bruno Maderna's music for flute, played by Roberto Fabbriciani for the 40th anniversary of the composer's death: works for flute and tape, piano and orchestra, and three first recorded arrangements.
Grand Bruit/Stop ! l'horizon
Christian Zanési on Grand Bruit (1991): "The great mobile sound bodies have an ordinary yet amazing ability to place the listener-traveler within, as if he or she was inside a giant double bass, in this case a train stroked by a double bow: the ra…
Fluides
Five electroacoustic works by Horacio Vaggione, from newest to oldest: GRM, ZKM and Bourges commissions built on transformed piano and violin sounds, back to Fractal C, made in 1983-84 at Ircam on a VAX 780 from a fractal Cantor set model.
Petites Étincelles
Five acousmatic works by Manuella Blackburn from 2012 to 2017, built from tiny sounds: cracking ice, camera shutters, clock ticks from a London museum, and sitar and sarod recorded with Indian musicians of Milapfest in Liverpool.
Yawar Fiesta
Annette Vande Gorne’s spatialized electroacoustic opera on a libretto by the poet Werner Lambersy, realized 2006-12: a condor against a bull in an Andean village, told through studio-recorded and transformed voices in 7.1 channels. Blu-ray audio.
Histoires d’Histoire
Paul Dolden’s maximalist take on ancient myths and tuning systems, 2012 to 2016: the five-movement Music of Another Present Era plus two pieces for soloist and tape with guitarist Maurizio Grandinetti and trumpeter Łukasz Gothszalk.
Jaap Vink
"The Institute of Sonology in Utrecht has earned its international reputation mostly for pioneering work in the field of computer-assisted algorithmic composition and digital sound synthesis by composers such as Gottfried Michael Koenig, Werner Ka…
Heterozygote / Petite Symphonie...
In the field of biology Heterozygous (Hétérozygote) means: a plant whose heredity is mixed. It implies that Hétérozygote, composed between December 1963 and March 1964, is an attempt to engineer a language located both on the musical and on the dra…
Ephémère
Three works for viola and tape or electronics played by Vincent Royer: Luc Ferrari's Ephémère in a 2012 version by Brunhild Ferrari, her Le Piano Englouti, and Royer's live improvisation on Ferrari's Ce qu'a vu le Cers.
Nécropolis
Four multichannel works by Åke Parmerud from 2005 to 2011, commissioned by the GRM, IMEB and ZKM: a blind person’s dreams, the crystal glasses of his parents’ parties, four voices from around the world, and a catacomb of decaying masterpieces.
Erda / Suite N
Milestone reissue! Jean Schwarz has always been the wild man of the Grm, and also of Celia, his own label. His musical domiciliary rights are not only in the realms of electroacoustics, but also in jazz and extra-European traditions (through his enga…
Growl
Five works by Åke Parmerud from 2004 to 2015 that push acousmatic music towards techno, noise and metal: machine sounds, a vinyl crackle piece for the ZKM Klangdom, New Zealand birds, and a choir of four metal growlers.
Grm works
Restocked. Argentine electroacoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra describes each of the pieces included on GRM Works: Demeures aquatiques (1967): "This electroacoustic piece, articulated into two clearly distinct parts, draws its sound source from the …
Traces Three
Recollection GRM, a label within the Editions Mego family of labels, offers a third selection from the vast archives of Groupe De Recherches Musicales (GRM). The main idea behind the Traces series is to excavate short, forgotten or ignored pieces of …
Le Triedre fertile
2014 repress. Recollection GRM is one more label within the Editions Mego family of labels. Its aim is to make available on vinyl the vast archives of Groupe De Recherches Musicales (GRM). Being released in batches of two every three months, it wil…
L' Oeil Ecoute / Dedans - Dehors
2014 Repress. Third release on the newly minted eMego offshoot Recollection GRM, two pieces realized by Bernard Parmegiani in 1970. The former is full of negative space and low, coiling drones. For listeners whose only exposure to GRM came in the…