Contemporary & Electroacoustic

condition (4LP/CD/book/box): M / M / M / EX Edition of 500 numbered copies (this is 158/500). A box recorded during the festival held for Alvin Lucier's 85th birthday at the Zurich University of the Arts, 12 to 14 October 2016. Lucier himself performs I Am Sitting in a Room, where his voice is replayed into the room until only its resonances are left, and Music for Solo Performer, played by amplified brain waves on percussion. Later pieces include Double Rainbow for Joan La Barbara and oscillato…

condition (disc/cover): M/M (still sealed) Vittorio Gelmetti (1926-2005) worked outside the Italian academic avant-garde and made a music built from other music. Organum Quadruplum (1967), written for a concert at St. Paul's American Church in Rome, sets a choir and Frederic Rzewski on organ against tape, popular songs and radio noise. Ipotesi A (1974), a study for the opera Non otterrete risposta, has Gelmetti on piano, percussion and bird call. Side B, L'opera abbandonata tace e volge la cavi…

Rare 2017 re-issue on Blume in an edition of 300 copies on red vinyl of the 1981 LP with four fantastic electro-acoustic pieces from the 1970's by the Brazilian composer. With obi.

Rare 2019 re-press on clear vinyl in an edition of 100 copies of the 2017 Blume LP with two previously unreleased superb minimalist droning pieces for organ and for clarinets from the mid-1980's by the American composer. With obi.

condition (record/cover): NM / NM Purple vinyl. Obi and color plastic bag included. Julius Eastman wrote Crazy Nigger for an unspecified number of like instruments, here four pianos, and it unfolds over almost an hour in a single arc. Repeated notes and chords pile up, shift by small degrees and gradually thicken into a dense, ringing mass, a method Eastman called organic music, where each section contains the material of the one before it. The performance comes from a concert at Northwestern Un…

First vinyl edition limited to 300 copies on Blume from 2018 of two 1979 hypnotic minimalist pieces for four pianos by the American composer. Purple vinyl, with obi.

First vinyl edition limited to 300 copies on Blume from 2020 of the 1969 minimalist live-electronic pieces for pulse wave oscillators and sonar-dolphin devices by the pioneering experimental American composer. Blue vinyl, with obi.

One of the most authoritative, competent and entertaining chronicles of new music, collecting articles written for The Village Voice between 1972 and 1982 by the dedicated journalist and composer, a must for anybody interested in experimental music and sound art. A massive 540+-page anthology published by Het Apollohuis in 1989 by Het Apollohuis and never re-printed, thus rare. With presentation card.

Very rare and almost impossible to find amazing collection of (mainly graphic) scores/ideas/projects edited in 1978 by Bob Davis and Rich Gold for the Center For Contemporary Music with contributions by almost 100 artists including Robert Ashley, Don Buchla, Joel Chadabe, Rhys Chatham, Jon Gibson, Jacqueline Humbert, Tom Johnson, Ron Kuivila, Joan La Barbara, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Steve Reich, Frederick Rzewski, Larry Austin, Charles Amirkhanian, Jacques Beka…

16th volume of the Soundings collection of scores and texts edited by Peter Garland published in 1990 and including works by John Zorn, Sarah Hopkins, Lois V Vierk, Mary Jane Leach, Mamoru Fujieda, Charles Amirkhanian, Gordon Mumma, Gordon Monahan, John Bergamo and Garland himself.

Ethnomusicological publication edited by Peter Garland in his Soundings series with a translation of a 1931 study with musical transcriptions of the vocal melodies and rhythms of Northern California tribes.

Amazing book-bound storage binder collecting 16 10" albums issued in the historical La Musica Moderna collection, without covers/magazines, published by Fratelli Fabbri in the late 1960's as a panorama of avant-garde music in the 20th century.

Two wonderful orchestral compositions wonderfully conducted by Bruno Maderna and released on Guilde Internationale Du Disque in 1971. Still sealed.

The two radical expressionistic sonatas performed by Pinchas Zukerman and Marc Neikrug and released on CBS in 1982. With insert.

8th volume of piano music, performed by Erzsébet Tusa, in Hungaroton's monumental Bartók Béla Complete Edition released in 1969. With booklet.

The Hungarian composer's groudbreaking masterpice for two pianos and percussion coupled with two late compositions for piano duo by the French composer, performd by Gaby and Jean-Claude Casadesus and New Phonic Art's Jean-Pierre Drouet. 1976 Italian re-issue on CBS.

Two beautiful vocal pieces from the mid-1970's performed by Swingle II conducted by the composer himself, released on Decca's "Headline" contemporary music series in 1976. With booklet.

Still sealed copy of obscure compilation on pop/disco label Real Sound with contemporary music compositions for clarinet performed by Gaspare Tirincanti. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Two pieces for orchestra and one for oboe, viola and harp composed between 1979 and 1983 by German avant-garde composer released on Wergo in 1984.

Two contemporary compositions for percussion ensemble released on Cybelia's "Musique Française Du 20e Siècle" series in 1986.