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Experimental Audio Research The Köner Experiment Space Age Recordings, CD, 1996 Eddie Prévost, Kevin Shields, Thomas Köner Andy Mellwig, Porter Ricks, Kevin Martin Sonic Boom zip
Author Archive
Tatsuya Nakatani . Green Report 12
Over the past few years Tatsuya has become thee local percussionist to check out, since moving here from Boston via Japan. In the last two years he has recorded a few marvelous cds – a duo with Peter Kowald (on Quakebasket) and another fine duo with Assif Tsahar (Hopscotch). He has played here at DMG [...]
Nos Phillipe
UPFRONT EXCLUSIVE. Second release from Nos Phillipe, appearing on the Back Atlas imprint some months after their debut for Confront. This excellent self-titled work deploys a broader palette of textures and developed scope spread over three long tracks. With ‘Deacons (Control Of The Candidate)’ and the 24 mintue ‘Live At Cafe Oto’ they incorporate a [...]
Alvin Lucier . Still Lives
Three new works for pure waves and instruments. Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers’ physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. His recent [...]
Lawrence English & Tom Hall . Euphonia
Recorded throughout the first half of 2008, Euphonia sees Lawrence English and Tom Hall team up to explore a range of extended processing and compositional techniques. Inspired in equal parts by the openness of Cluster’s Kraut explorations, echoes of Eno’s ambient works, contemporary field recording and minimal electronics, Euphonia creates a uniform sense of warmth [...]
the sealed knot . and we disappear
The Sealed Knot are the trio of Burkhard Beins, Rhodri Davies and Mark Wastell. Without getting up from my seat to check I think I am right in saying they had released four albums before this one over what must now be a decade of playing together, albeit it infrequently. In fact, this new recording, [...]
Michel Doneda/Beñat Achiary/Kazue Sawaï : Temps Couché
Instrument traditionnel japonais, le koto, sorte de cithare à treize cordes semble se marier à merveille aux chemins buissonniers de la musique improvisée. Prises au hasard, trois productions plus ou moins récentes nous invitent à la découverte du son obsédant du koto. Doneda / Achiary / Sawaï ou l’appel. L’appel des monts et plaines, crêtes [...]
Greg Davis : Primes
these pieces grew out of my research and interest in just intonation and prime numbers. during my explorations, i came across some interesting prime number sets and wondered what they would sound like. i constructed these pieces using sine wave generators in max/msp. // i chose a base frequency (fundamental) for each piece and multiplied [...]
Thomas Köner : Nunatak Gongamur
Another in the series of Koner’s self-consciously chilled and mysterious albums created with the use of treated cymbals, Nunatak Gongamur truly pushes the bounds of not merely ambient music, but music in general. Consisting almost entirely of dark drones and bursts, separated into 11 separate untitled tracks but essentially one extended piece, Nunatak Gongamur takes [...]
Cas de Marez : Cathédrale de Chant
This vocal-only album was partially recorded live in Utrecht, but was then overdubbed 15 times with more and different material, making for a fascinating yet bizarre recording. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide Discogs