★Electronic Music Foundation
Orillas Distantes / Distant Shores
Mario Verandi’s music goes beyond music. It’s electronic. It’s also theater, dance, sound art, film, radio. In fact, Verandi has such a strong sense of dramatic personality, and his music is so evocative, that you’ll find yourself in a musical theater. You’ll hear percussion instruments from Brazil. You’ll hear the sounds of Barcelona, with its street bustle, guitars, and rhythms, in your living room. He evokes a kind of flamenco that you’ll rarely hear, with suggestions of guitars, the dancing …
Mutatis Mutandis
Subtitled: Compositions for Solo Instruments and Ensembles. Features: "Gestures for Eleven" (1964, chamber ensemble), "Trio For Trumpet, Trombone and Percussion," (1966), "The Laughing Third (1995, for piano), "String Quartet No. 3" (1963), "Sonatina for Bassoon Alone" (1953), "at loose ends" (1974), "Mutatis Mutandis 7" (1987, for flute), "Nonet" (1969, chamber ensemble),
Language, Message, Drummage
"And here's a historic moment, the complete works of Herbert Brun in four CDs. Language, Message, Drummage features Brün's compositions for tape and for instruments performed by LaSalle Quartet, Kathleen Keasey (piano), James Culley (snare drum), University of Illinois New Music Ensemble. Herbert Brün was born 1918 in Berlin, Germany and studied with Eli Friedmann, Frank Pelleg, Wolf Rosenberg and Stefan Wolpe. Brün first turned to electronic sound production for the composition of music d…
Obsolete systems
finally restocked: 2001 release. An overview of Laurie Spiegel's electronics works, ranging from 1970 to 1983. Utilizing analog synthesizers (Buchla 100, Electrcomp 100), tape, digital synthesis, Echoplex, Bell Labs' GROOVE Hybrid system, etc. Comparable to classic 70s-era Schnitzler streaming, this is a very memorable document of this obscure composer's best works. "Laurie Spiegel, electronic music pioneer, has been working with cutting-edge electronic instruments since the 1970s. She has…
microtonal music, first performances
The release of this CD of John Eaton's early music for synthesizers is a major historical event. For one thing, Eaton's music is so personal and powerful that it's an exceptional demonstration of early synthesizers, including the Syn-Ket, built in 1964 in Rome, Italy, by Paolo Ketoff, and an early Moog synthesizer. But there's more to it. What is probably the first live performance with an electronic music synthesizer took place in April 1965 when John Eaton performed his 'Songs for R.P.B.' at t…
Red bird - Anticredos
Extremely great reissue of the previously-semi-available-but-not-so-for-quite-a-l ong-time October Music CD (which itself was a reissue of the 1977 LP on Wishart's own Yes imprint, along with the piece 'Anticredos' for 6 voices, from an LP on Hyperion, 1982). Recent developments in Wishart's street cred (contributing to Or Some Computer Music Issue One, being name-dropped by Richie Devine on several occasions, Aphex Twin's use of CDP) seem to suddenly make Trevor... relevant to a younger set of …
Voiceprints
Master composer Trevor Wishart shapes recordings of the human voice into a majestic, sonic extravaganza. With satire, sympathy, and his extraordinary talent with sound, Wishart gives us an audio panorama of the world today through the voices of many different people, famous and unknown. You'll hear the voice of Margaret Thatcher as a political cartoon, a touching portrait of Princess Diana, the powerful resonance of Martin Luther King's well-known words, the crackly voice of Neil Armstrong, the …
Tautologos and other early electronic works
Luc Ferrari is among the best known of the early electronic music pioneers. He was director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales from 1959 to 1960, working closely with Pierre Schaeffer, and his music played a decisive role in defining the range of musique concrète. But he went further to become one of the most radical composers of his time, and this CD, with its incisive character and exceptional sounds, marks the starting point for his artistic evolution. The compositions include 'Etudes aux …
Electronic music
Iannis Xenakis is without a doubt one of the major figures in the development of music in the 20th century. In 1957, he joined Pierre Schaeffer and others at the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in Paris, and it was there that Xenakis composed his early works for electronic tape. Xenakis' distinct sound is already apparent in 'Diamorphoses' (1957) which incorporates sounds of distant earthquakes, car crashes, jet engines, and other 'noise-like' sounds, and 'Concret PH' (1958), based on the s…
Compositions demonstrations 1946-1974
One of the key figures in electronic music development, though better known as an inventor, Le Caine did make pieces and some of the best are collected here. Some humorous and plunderphonic (happy birthday made from the scream in Berg's Lulu), some informative - demonstrations by Le Caine of his instruments and some just very entertaining or ear-turning. Echoes of Raymond Scott.
Live electronic music
This CD of early works by David Tudor, available also as the CD insert to Volume 14 of Leonardo Music Journal, presents three previously unreleased works. 'Anima Pepsi' (1970), which combines sounds of animals, insects, and other like sounds with electronic processing, was composed for the EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology) pavilion at the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan, in 1970. 'Toneburst' (1975), a classic, commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, is based on pure electronic fee…
In between -the viola in my life IV
"Two first recordings of Morton Feldman's music in themselves make this CD a notable event. And then, David Felder's music puts it over the line. The music bridges two generations and two distinct personalities. Feldman, with John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, and Christian Wolff, was a seminal member of the New York School in the 1950s, and his work is known for the beauty and delicacy of its orchestral colors, its 'painterly' surface, its static and quiet structure, its contemplative charact…