Composition / Process Music

First recordings of two Alvin Lucier works centred on the pipe organ: Swing Bridge (2015) for organ, ensemble and pipe wavers, played by the Australian Art Orchestra with Austin Buckett, and Sizzles (1997) for organ and drums.

Expanded 3-CD reissue of Walter Zimmermann's Lokale Musik, first issued in 1982 as a 3-LP set: two CDs remastered from the analog tapes, a third with new supplemental recordings and revised works, and a 60-page book.

Aldo Clementi's works for flutes, issued for his 75th birthday: Fantasia su roBErto FABbriCiAni, Ouverture for 12 flutes, Passacaglia, luCiAno BErio and Parafrasi 2, played by Roberto Fabbriciani with tapes restored by Alvise Vidolin.

Aldo Clementi's works with guitar, the first complete CD devoted to them, played by Geoffrey Morris and the ELISION Ensemble: Serenata, Dodici Variazioni, Albumblatt, The Plaint and others, most of them first recordings.

Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Kurzwellen” for six players (1968). Spiral for a soloist with a shortwave receiver together with Pole (Poles), for two performers with shortwave radio receivers and a sound projectionist, is one of a series of works dating from the 1960s which Stockhausen designated as "process" compositions. These works in effect separate the "form" from the "content" by presenting the performers with a series of transformation signs which are to be applied to material that may vary con…

Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Cosmic Pulses”  is the last electronic composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, and it is number 93 in his catalog of works. It is the 13th "hour" of Stockhausen's originally-planned 24-part cycle Klang ("Sound") which is based on the 24 hours of the day.  This electronic work is composed of 24 layers of synthesizer-generated melodic material, with each layer having a different speed and pitch register.  The layers enter one by one, starting from the lowest/slowest layer, a…

Steve Reich's Sextet (1984) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Double Sextet (2007) together on one release for the first time, played by the Danish ensemble Ekkozone under percussionist and conductor Mathias Reumert.

*2022 Stock.* Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Oktophonie ” Realized at the Studio für Elektronische Musik, WDR, August 23 - November 30, 1990 & Aug. 5-30, 1991. " (...) Stockhausen also points out that the production and spatialization are described in the separate OCTOPHONY score. This score is indeed a very meticulous and detailed one, indispensable for aficionados who will want to enter the inner workings of the OCTOPHONY structure. It is an extreme score in this aspect, in the minute details of its…

Four works by Alvin Lucier, Carbon Copies, Risonanza, Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums and Broken Line, performed by the Berlin-based Trio Nexus.

*2022 Stock.* Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Musik im Bauch (Music in the Belly) ” is a piece of scenic music for six percussionists and music boxes composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1975. "The origin of “Musik im Bauch” and “Tierkreis”, as far as can be traced, goes back to 1967, when Stockhausen’s daughter Julika was around two years old. Stockhausen explains that all kinds of minute sounds were coming from the little girl’s insides, and Stockhausen joked with her and said: “Julika, you really ha…

*2022 Stock.* Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Musik für Posaune und Euphonium (Music for Trombone and Euphonium)” In Freundschaft (Für Posaune) for trombone – Signale Zur Invasion (1992) for trombone, electronic music and sound projectionist – Kinntanz (1983 / 89) for euphonium, percussionist, synthesizer player and sound projectionist "Stockhausen’s birthday gift composition for Suzanne Stephens -  In Freundschaft - has been played by a number of soloists over the years, i.e., on different kinds of so…

*2022 Stock.* Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Mantra” was composed in 1970 and premiered in autumn of the same year at the Donaueschingen Festival. The work is scored for two ring-modulated pianos; each player is also equipped with a chromatic set of crotales (antique cymbals) and a wood block, and one player is equipped with a short-wave radio producing morse code or a magnetic tape recording of morse code. "The real basis for “Mantra” is a thirteen-note motif; formula, allotting each note specific ch…

*2022 Stock.* Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Kurzwellen” for six players (1968). Participants: Aloys Kontarsky (piano & short-wave radio), Harald Bojé (electronium & short-wave radio), Alfred Alings & Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam & short-wave radio), Johannes G. Fritsch (electric viola & short-wave radio), Karlheinz Stockhausen (filters & potentiometers). Kurzwellen is one of a series of works dating from the 1960s which Stockhausen designated as "process" compositions. These works in effect separate the "f…

Packaged in two Multiboxes, with a 124 page booklet (in English language), in a 2" thick slip box. Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Aus den sieben Tagen” for six players (1968)  (From the Seven Days) is a collection of 15 text compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in May 1968, in reaction to a personal crisis, and characterized as "Intuitive music"—music produced primarily from the intuition rather than the intellect of the performer(s).." This type of composition or instruction or whatever on…

Four works by Alvin Lucier played by the Italian ensemble Alter Ego: Two Circles, Fideliotrio and Three Translations of the Works of Maurizio Mochetti, plus a new recording of I Am Sitting in a Room with the composer.

First recordings of James Tenney's Poem, Monody, Seegersong #1 and #2 and the Ergodos series for computer music, with string, instrumental and percussion responses, played by the Barton Workshop and soloists.

Five works by Alvin Lucier for solos and trios on beating tones and microtones: Piper for bagpipe, Fan for four kotos, 947 for flute, Silver Streetcar for triangle and Ever Present for flute, piano and alto saxophone.

Rough Magic features premiere recordings of four works created for and (significantly) with the group, is an explosive departure from their previous recordings, leading listeners through the beauty and struggle of language while showcasing, once again, the band’s unwavering commitment to pushing the boundaries of vocal music. From high-gloss, 80s-style synth-charged passages to early Steve Reich tape-piece-type sounds, Rough Magic articulates a grand experience of language, its limits, and its r…

First recordings of Christian Wolff's Tilbury pieces (1969-70), Snowdrop (1970) and Tilbury 5 (1996), minimalist open-form works played by trombonist Roland Dahinden, pianist Hildegard Kleeb and violinist Dimitrios Polisoidis.

Trio Omphalos (Stefan Hülsermann, clarinet; Olaf Pyras, percussion; Ji-Youn Song, piano) plays its own arrangements of John Cage's Chess Pieces and Four Dances and of thirteen of Tom Johnson's Rational Melodies, plus Johnson's Counting Duets No. II.

Two microtonal works by Alvin Lucier written for the performers: Navigations for Strings, played by the Arditti Quartet, and Small Waves for string quartet, trombone, piano and two water pourers, with Hildegard Kleeb and Roland Dahinden.