The thing like us
2008 release ** This CD is a realisation of the music written for the 2002 Veenstudio production Spinoza : I am not where i think myself to be. It is in two parts: Affectio and Epistola, based respectively on the definitions of the emotions from the third part of Spinoza's Ethics, and on a letter about free will Spinoza wrote to G. H. Schaller. Ayelet Harpaz - alto, Tatiana Koleva - percussion, Anne Falbourn - harpsichord, Carola Arons & Bert Luppes - voices, Paul Koek - director, Yannis Kyriaki…
Territorium
2005 release ** Hand-numbered edition of 300 copies. "Territorium will not play the game of a hermetic work and will immediately reveal the topography of its ambitions: to draw an incomplete and fragmentary map of field recording and ambient music. By bringing together five artists and six compositions. A doubly geographical project, since while the album as a whole reveals a committed geography of the genre, each piece is the anomalous and reconstructed geography of a place, a type of terrain, …
Compromize
1992 release ** Ten years ago the Wahrnehmungen label from Mainz, Germany, founded by the group PD was renamed Selektion (and PD changed to P16.D4). In 1984 artists joined Selektion to form a new kind of artistic project for music (S.B.O.T.H.I., SLP) as well as for visual arts. In this very recording, almost all members have, in various combinations, made their approach to an organization of sound. It is the state of things of Selektion's audio productions.Selektion are: M. Caspers, G. Lörcher, …
buda_rom
2002 release ** "This album features the Swiss three-quarters of the Swiss-French electro-acoustic improv group poire_z. It consists of live recordings from Budapest and Rome in late 2000. There are three "buda" tracks, each one lasting over ten minutes, and four "roma" tracks of three minutes and under -- the latter have also been remixed by Günter Müller and Norbert Möslang to serve as bridges between the main pieces. Müller has been performing with Voice Crack (Möslang and Andy Guhl) since 19…
Broken. Distant. Fragrant.
A few years ago, Tu m' and Steve Roden began a correspondence. This led to the idea of a collaborative project. This led to bedroom audio experiments in American and Italy. This led to CDRs being sent through the mail to cross over the ocean. Tu m' used Steve Roden's audio as the working material for several works. Steve Roden used Tu m's audio as the working material for several works. This project contains a bit of both. Limited to 500 copies. Broken Distant Fragrant is a collaboration that wa…
Tocsin - 6 Thru +2
Following their maxi CD »Tinnitus Vu« on Touch in 2004 »Tocsin« is the first full lenght album produced together by these two renowned sound artists. Whereas »Tinnitus VU« was mostly the result of Z'ev reworking material by Jackman, »Tocsin« is the result of the artists agreeing to meet and work together in the studio. They created and recorded sounds from a piano (which can be found at RMS Studios London) and a stainless steel instrument (built by Z'ev circa 1989), over the course of several ho…
Gyromancy
Mnemonists eventually evolved into the incredible Biota band. Before they did they released a series of LPs, including the art work that surrounds and informs their approach to improvisation. As Mnemonists their work is darker and more ominous than that of Biota, but the process was still the same: post-processing live improvisation to construct larger works that stood on their own two feet as compositional pieces. Think AMM, Organum, Faust; Mnemonists embraced their strategies but created somet…
M’Uoaz
1997 release ** "Japanese bassist Tetsu Saitoh stands out as a new hope from across the ocean. He's the new ray in the sea of bodies that play the same standard fare. These two recordings, released on his own Scissors label, outline the here and now in his present body of work. On "M'uoaz", Tetsu is surrounded by an all-star cast, which includes saxophonist Michel Doneda and percussionist Alain Joule. [Vocalist Antonella Talamonti joins the trio on one track.] The music is rather sparse. Joule i…
The seasons: Vermont
1998 release ** The Seasons: Vermont is a soundscape of Vermont as charted through the changes of its yearly soundings. It is a composition in four parts (Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring) for magnetic tape collage with an unspecified live instrumental/vocal ensemble. Though the actual composing of the music was completed between 1980 and 1982, it is the realization of a ten-year composition project. Goldstein listened closely and became attuned to what was the particular sound quality of each sea…
Adventura Anatomica
** longtime sold out at source, few copies restocked ** A fairy tale world comes to life in sublime fashion on Maja Ratkje’s latest collaboration Adventura Anatomica, a musical work for theatre she created with choreographer/danser Odd Johan Fritzøe and stage designer in November 2005. This is a world of bittersweet fairytales, of wolves and innocent maidens losing their way in a dark wood, a world of fear and despair and joyful ecstasy. In any case, emotions such as these coexist closely in Rat…
Hair Police
'Basement noise dirge death skuzz hell. Compiles the long out of print hospital cassette and mortuary servants ep while adding new exclusive mud-noise constructions from the drawn dead sessions.' Hospital Productions.
Poire-Z
1999 release ** "Released in 1999 as a wave of electronic-based free improvisation was slowly overtaking the world of avant-garde music, Poire_Z appeared as the first such record by a supergroup of sorts. The duo Voice Crack (Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang), Günter Müller, and ErikM's proposition was of a highly introspective, slowly building shroud of electronically derived sounds: the popping of M's vinyls, the clicks and crackles of Voice Crack's electrical devices, Müller's cheap electronics,…
Accidental
Fred Frith has been heard in all possible contexts, from solo improviser to composer of orchestral music, but he remains at his best when trapped in a studio, alone or with a few musicians, building layered pieces. This process previously yielded stunning albums such as the delicate Middle of the Moment or the avant rocking Speechless. Accidental features Frith performing all instruments and voices, mostly guitars, violin, junk percussion, and random radio tuning. This music was commissioned by …
La Voce Ed Il Sintetizzatore
After almost forty years of creative activity, the name Enore Zaffiri still sounds "new", as his extraordinary artistic output has remained to a great extent unreleased. Pioneer of multimedia, electronic and ambient music (he founded the Turin Studio of Electronic Music in 1964) Zaffiri used the electronic instrument to find a new musical perspective based on a structuralist principle derived from Euclidean geometrics. In this works, dated between 1973 and 1988 he approche the combination of the…
Staggered Stasis
2004 release ** "Over the last two decades, Ellen Fullman has been perfecting her Long String Instrument. This unique instrument of her own design is some 80 feet in length and played by literally walking through it. The resulting sounds are beautiful gliding tones with a rich harmonic content. The CD presents two works from her time in Austin, Texas in the late 1980's which beautifully display a sound you can get inside of. These long tracks envelope you in their cascading overtones. Even thoug…
Noe’s Lullaby
“Noe’s Lullaby is a mysterious recording in several senses of the word. Portuguese composer David Maranha has chosen to be obscure regarding instrumentation, listing the performers (a septet) but not what they’re using to produce the sounds. From the aural evidence and what one can discern from past projects of his, it appears that such devices as stroked metal strings, wine glasses, harmoniums, guitars, and percussion (all with perhaps some electronic modulation) are among them. The music itsel…
Fluxsweet
CD audio with the 6 pieces. DVD video with the 5 first pieces. 1. PLAY PAPER by Alison Knowles (2003). 'Consider fragments of onion skins as musical notations. Perform with handmade musical instruments and toys.' Performed by Alison Knowles, Larry Miller and Taketo Shimada. 2. MUSIC BOX (homage to FLUX MUSIC BOX by Joe Jones) by Taketo Shimada (2004). 'Modify two or more music boxes and play them simultaneously with the recording of Joe Jones FLUX MUSIC BOX, if possible use children to play the …