★Edition Wandelweiser
Listen
"Recently, I have become interested in the idea of music blending with the environment the listener is in, rather than the music creating its own environment. In listen, I have recorded a balance of sounds that occur naturally throughout the day and …
Chaz Underriner Reinterprets Anastassis Philippakopoulos
2015 release **
"The pieces by Anastassis Philippakopoulos that guitarist Chaz Underriner "reinterprets" here were written for instruments other than his own: flute (Song 6, which Wandelweiser Editions published earlier under the composer's name on …
Sometimes
“Sometimes (harmony series 1)”, realization for female voice and three electronics players by Colectivo maDam. This piece was, as the title indicates, the first of the 34 pieces that would eventually become the harmony series. in this and all the ot…
More Chamber Events
Antoine Beuger (flute), Christoph Nicolaus (stone harp), Burkhard Schlothauer (trumpet, bass drum). Before starting the event series in 1995, I had been occupying myself with nonrepresentational minimalist painting, in which, rather than representi…
Organ Sonatinas And Drones
'Sonatina no. 1' (2016). 'Sonatina no. 2' (2016). 'Sonatina no. 3' (2016). 'drones' (2014). Carson Cooman, organ. Eva-Maria Houben has been performing works for the organ for more than 30 years. As she is related to the “wandelweiser-group” of compos…
A Hint Of An Emotion
Beat Keller (Electric Guitar) Philipp Bowee (Electric Guitar) Recorded in Mellingen and Winterthur, Switzerland Recording: Philipp Bowee All tracks are composed (2014-2016), mixed and mastered by Cem Güney Special thanks to: Antoine Beuger, Sylvia …
Besando El Tiempo
Besando el Tiempo is a piece that was composed in 1995 in the space of four days. It was written in an automatic script that Maria de Alvear uses for many of her pieces. The work was originally composed for the flautist Caren Levine, who also gave …
Ephemeral Constructions
University of South Carolina experimental music workshop, Greg Stuart (director). Kallam Ashmore (objects), Brian Bethea (saxophone), Erik Carlson (violin), Eric Dennis (objects), James Easteppe (guitar), Jürg Frey (clarinet), Michael Halbrook (objec…
Spinet, 2016
Christoph Schiller, spinet.
Christoph Schiller was born in 1963 in Stuttgart. He studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart and HfBK Hamburg. He later studied piano with Daniel Cholette and music theory in Basel. He has been playing concerts of…
Solo ensemble
Composer : Johan Lindvall. Performers : Vilde Sandve Alnæs (violin), Kristine Tjøgersen (clarinet), Jan Martin Gismervik (percussion), Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone), Ina Sagstuen (voice), Fredrik Rasten (guitar), Johan Lindvall (piano).
Livres d'heures
Composer : Eva-Maria Houben. Performers : Andreas Feilen (tubular bells), Eva-Maria Houben (piano, violin), Erik Carlson (violin), Bileam Kümper (violin).
EVA-MARIA HOUBEN (born 1955) studied Music Education at Folkwang-Musikhochschule Essen and the…
Be Nothing
Awsome new CD by the legendary Sergio Merce, a work for microtonal saxophon and analog synth/ electronics. During the last three years, Sergio Merce transformed his alto saxophone in a tremendous and radical way. "I have been working on a "microtona…
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 wee…
SIMEON
2013 release **
"Korn presents two pieces, each 30 minutes long, which, though dissimilar in pitch (the second is higher), are otherwise tougher to prise apart than the Beugers above. Each is composed of a single sine tone, initially heard as a conti…
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. Wh…
Vokal / Instrumental
2013 release **
"Sometimes, music reaches my desk which I genuinely feel is beyond my ken to write about--I simply don't have the necessary tools. This wonderful disc, in large part, is one such so I'll pretty much stick to just giving my impression…
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). Instrumenta…
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 201…