Indeterminacy
Complete Works for Multiple Piano
In Complete Works for Multiple Piano, Morton Feldman’s quietly radical writing for three or more hands is heard as a three‑hour continuum of hushed, hovering sonorities, where time dilates and the piano becomes a shared, breathing instrument.
Paradigm / Algorithms I Versions I & IV / Signals (LP)
Four fantastic experimental pieces composed in 1968 for instruments and tape/electronics, including Foss' outstanding theatrical piece for percussionist-conductor, electric guitar and three other instruments capable of sustaining a sound and Hiller's superb computer-generated composition, released on DGG's legendary "Avantgarde" series.
Ra (LP)
1983 LP on Centrediscs with excerpts from the 11-hours percussion-driven sacred drama by Canadian acoustic ecology pioneer.
Henry Cowell, Otto Luening, Eric Salzman, Max Lifchitz, Wallingford Riegger, Patrick Hardish, Carlos Surinach, William Schimmel
Accordion Revisited (LP)Avant-garde compositions for accordion performed by William Schimmel and released on Ilhan Mimaroglu's experimental Finnadar label in 1984.
Symphony In Celebration / Missa Carminum (LP)
Two orchestral/choral works composed in 1975 and released on Candide in 1977.
Third Chamber Concerto For Twelve Soloists / Cadence VI For Tuba And Tape / Duo 1973 For Cello And Piano / Adieu For Clarinet And Piano (LP)
Four avant-garde chamber works composed in 1973/74 ranging from solo instrument with tape to a small ensemble through duos with piano, released by Avant Records in 1974.
Two Pastels / Andante For Strings / Concerto For English Horn And Orchestra (LP)
Three orchestral works composed in the 1950's and 60's and performed by the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by one of the two composers, released on Desto in 1972.
Highlights Of Vortex (LP)
Essential 1959 electronic music / musique concrète album on Folkways documenting the soundtracks to a pioneering multimedia environment in San Francisco in 1957. With insert.
New American Music Volume 4 (LP)
Fourth and last, and possibly best volume of Folkways's "New American Music" series released in 1975, presenting six superb experimental electronic compositions from the 1970's, most of which available only here.
New Music From South America (LP)
Great selection of 1960's South American experimental music for ensemble performed by a composers/performes group led by Lanza, released on Mainstream avant-garde series curated by Earle Brown in 1973.
Concord Sonata (LP)
1962 LP on Time's superb "Series 2000" curated by Earle Brown with the recording of a landmark performance ny Aloys Kontarsky of the composer's best known avant-garde composition from 1919.
Holidays Symphony (LP)
1970's re-press with brown labels of the 1967 LP on Columbia with the 1913 orchestral by the modernist/avant-garde composer, performed by The New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano (2LP)
Cage's very rare first album of his landmark 1946-48 compositions performed by Maro Ajemian, released as a double LP set on Dial Records in 1951, it can't get more seminal than this. An essential piece of history in embossed heavy cardboard gatefold sleeve with stickers.
Sonates Et Interludes Pour Piano Préparé (LP)
1980 re-issue as a single LP on Harmonia Mundi's distinctively packaged "Musique d'abord" series of the seminal first album of music by Cage with his landmark 1946-48 compositions performed by Maro Ajemian, originally released in 1951 as a double LP set on Dial. French text.
Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano (LP)
Original 1976 LP on Denon with Cage's landmark 1946-48 compositions for prepared piano superbly performed by Yuji Takahashi in 1975. With insert.
Sonatas And Interludes (CD)
1997 CD re-issue on Fylkingen of Yuji Takahashi's landmark performance of Cage's prepared piano masterwork recorded in 1965 and originally released on the same label as two separate LP's in 1966.
John Cage / Kenneth Patchen (LP)
Very rare ultra-limited first release from 1988 on RRRip of very early electro-acoustic pieces from the 1940's including the collaboration with experimental writer Kenneth Patchen.
Kenneth Patchen Reads With Allyn Ferguson And The Chamber Jazz Sextet (LP)
1983 re-issue on Discovery Records of the influential 1958 jazz-avant-poetry album by experimental poet Patchen, who had previuosly collaborated with John Cage, reading his poetry backed by a chamber-jazz composition by Ferguson.
John Cage / Christian Wolff (LP)
1970 re-issue on Mainstream of the 1963 split LP on Time Records experimental music series curated by Earl Brown, with Cage's 1960 wild noise/industrial (20 years in advance) electronic piece performed with David Tudor, backed with three compostions by Wolff for duet and string quartet. Essential.
Variations IV (LP)
First volume of excerpts from the ground-breaking and mind-blowing August 1965 sound collage performance (predating Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask for about 15 years), released by Everest in 1966 (this is a 1970 re-press with different labels). Essential.