Varese & Le Corbusier – Poeme Electronique Architecture mixed with electronics mixed with animation ? we think nothing of mixing these elements now. In 1958, as Pome Electronique was unleashed on the Brussels World?s Fair, it was still experimental. The animation/installation/composition was the collaborative creation of legendary modernist architect Le Corbusier, his assistant Iannis Xenakis, [...]
Music Improvisation Company : same (1968-1971), LP, UK,1971 Saxophonist Evan Parker and guitarist Derek Bailey met while both played with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the late ’60s. In 1968 they combined with percussionist Jamie Muir and keyboardist Hugh Davies to form the Music Improvisation Company, one of England’s seminal free improvisation units. Although the [...]
Michel Portal – Our meanings and our feelings, LP, 1969,France Michel Portal(ts,pic-cl,bass-cl,taragot,zoukra,steel,ds) Joahim Kuhn(p,as,shanai,etc) J,F Jenny Clark(b) Jacques Thollot(ds,tambourin) Aldo Romano(ds) Born in 1935 in Bayonne, France, reedman Michel Portal has the unique position of being one of the architects of modern European jazz and having a hand in some of the most significant shifts [...]
Malfatti-Wittwer – ‘Thrumblin’ Radu Malfatti-trombone; Stephan Wittwer-guitar Recorded by Jost Gebers in May 1976 in Berlin. Produced by Jost Gebers. SIDE A: 1 1043 (10:43) 2 Berlin (10:52): a Vor der Trennrille (3:40) b Nach der Trennrille (7:12) SIDE B: 1 T (4:20), 2 Abendlndische Kulturangst (18:15): a Al dente (1:33) b Poco a poco [...]
La Monte Young : The Black Record, LP, 1969, USA La Monte Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, commonly seen as the first minimalist composer and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school, along with Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley, despite having little in common formally [...]
New Phonic Art AGP8 The free improvisations of an ensemble called New Phonic Art–four gifted avant-garde musicians playing trombone, clarinets, saxophone, flute, alphorn, zurle, piano, organ, and percussion. The textures produced are in places reminiscent of Kagel’s Acustica, though more spare. Over two days of January 1971, they recorded seven unedited takes without rehearsal or [...]
Tolerance : Divin Vanity Records 1981 Junko Tange Masami Yoshikawa A1 Pulse Static (Tranqillia) A2 1 F Yuragi A3 Misa (Gig’s Tapes In “C”) B1 Sound Round B2 Bokw Wa Zurui Robot (Stolen From Kad) B3 Sacrifice B4 Motor Fan B5 Tiez Rekcuz Tolerance, the duo of Junko Tange and Masami Yoshikawa, was the only [...]
Pierre Henry – Le livre des morts Egyptien 1988 1 Navigation (15:23) 2 Dislocation (9:55) 3 Transformation (4:42) 4 Ngation (4:29) 5 Jugement (11:49) 6 Attente (10:06) 7 Affirmation (10:10) Commissioned by Institut de recherche acoutique-musique (IRCAM). Composed in 1986-88 with the assistance of Bernadette Mangin and the technical assistance of Denis Lorrain. Mixed & [...]
Sirius has been described as “a modern mystery play, clothed as a science fiction story” (Kurtz 1992, 207). While not described by the composer as an opera, it is nevertheless a musical drama, in which four emissaries from a planet orbiting the star Sirius bring a message to earth. “This was to be the big [...]
Fluxhall/Fluxshop, New York, 1964. George Maciunas. Sonic Youth playing George Maciunas Piano #13 for Nam June Paik http://modisti.org/sys/archivo/download.png” border=”0″> Download (members): http://modisti.com/ccount/click.php?id=370
