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Out Of The Box
2017 Release. The composer, bandleader and reedist Willem Breuker, who died in July 2010 at the age of 65, is often omitted from contemporary assessments of Dutch jazz, where the primacy of pianist Misha Mengelberg (1935–2017) and drummer Han Bennink feels indisputable. Those two musicians left a huge impact on the Amsterdam music scene through the work they created in the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra—work that carries on through Bennink and pianist Guus Janssen, who took over the piano chai…
COLOGNE - WDR Acousmatrix 6
Sixth volume in the Acousmatrix series. "Incredible sampling of lesser-known, but more than equally-important recordings of Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Karel Goeyvaerts, Paul Gredinger, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Henri Pousseur, Bengt Hambraeus, Franco Evangelisti, Gyorgy Ligeti, Gieselher Klebe, Herbert Brun." All recordings from 1952-58
Acousmatrix The History Of Electronic Music
**Last Copies** this beautiful boxed set consists of all 7 titles of the acousmatrix series with extra liner notes by konrad boehmer and a nice full color picture box. five single cd's and two double cd's. Mindblowing, historical works by some of the most important electronic music composers: Gottfried Michael Koenig, Luc Ferrari, Henri Pousseur, Konrad Boehmer, Berio/Maderna, Francis Dhomont. Plus a compilation of material from the Cologne/WDR studio. This were released separately in the past, …
Acousmatrix 7
Seventh volume in the Acousmatrix series. "In 1955, Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna founded a Studio di Fonologia at a Milan radio station; it was the first electronic music studio in Italy. Berio became very active there, organizing concerts and also publishing a new music journal, both under the name Incontri Musicali. Berio explored the frontiers of sound, particularly vocal sound, thanks to his association with Cathy Berberian. She was willing and able to produce a remarkable variety of exte…
Acousmatrix 3
Third volume in the Acousmatrix series. "A lovely work of electro-acoustic music by one of the French pioneers of musique concrete, Petite Symphonie Intuitive Pour un Paysage de Printemps ('Little Intuitive Symphony for a Spring Landscape') recreates the composer's experiences during a climb toward sunset on the Causse Mejean, a high plateau in the Massif Central, including his recollection of a shepherd's flute and its reverberations across the landscape. The flute sounds and multiple echoes co…
6 - Cologne - WDR: Early Electronic Music
Sixth volume in the Acousmatrix series. Features: Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Karel Goeyvaerts, Paul Gredinger, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Henri Pousseur, Bengt Hambraeus, Franco Evangelisti, György Ligeti, Giselher Wolfgang Klebe, Herbert Brün
Acousmatrix 1|2
Bvhaast's Acousmatrix series was originally released around 1990; a total of 7 releases (9 discs) that acted as some of he defining documents of early electronic and tape music. They were recently reissued as a complete 9CD boxset (BVHAAST 0206), or are now also available as separate volumes (in new 2006 designs that are quite striking and appropriate). "Composing and generating sound via computer technology as early as the mid-'60s, Gottfried Michael Koenig was a pivotal force in cementing the …