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Experiences Musicales ou La Musique Chauve
Nine pieces from the 20 recorded in 1961 by Jean Dubuffet. Acoustic instruments, voice and tape. Dubuffet worked in various media in a style now referred to as Art Brut. In the early 60s he and the Danish painter Asger Jorn began to make improvised music, using all kinds of instruments, at home, using a then new tape recorder. This CD collects some of that work, recorded in 1961, an aural equivalent in many ways of his 'naif' visual style: very abstract, formally chaotic, rather homogeneous. Pl…
Complete Piano Works
Tōru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Though largely self-taught, Takemitsu is recognised for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom largely derived from the music of Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen. In 1958, the international attention he drew with his Requiem for st…