Philippe Mion, L’Image conduite Born 1956, Seine et Marne, France. Opts for composition in 1978 after taking the electroacoustic composition class (P. Schaeffer, G. Reibel) at the Conservatoire National Suprieur de Musique, Paris. Has taken no active part in musical research at the GRM since 1977. His various musical activities include: electroacoustic concerts, teaching electroacoustics, [...]
Morton Feldman: ?For Philip Guston? Performed by Jan Williams, Eberhard Blum, and Nils Vigeland * * * * * In lieu of the best Montreal contemporary music concerts of the year list that I wrote last year I want to more carefully focus on a few remarkable composers, pieces, or performances that I heard live [...]
Luigi Nono: This last week the Conservetoire de Montreal has held a festival on the music of Luigi Nono titled: Le Matre du Son et du Silence. Although I?ve been far too busy completing to attend many events I have seen a concert of his chamber music and another concert of his music for large [...]
Pierre Henry Le Microphone Bien Tempere Avant Garde Project 42 AGP42 is the first of two installments of early out-of-print works by Pierre Henry. Le Microphone Bien Tempere (1950-52) was Pierre Henry?s first solo work (Symphonie Pour un Homme Seul having been written in collaboration with his mentor Pierre Schaeffer), and one of the earliest [...]
Rik Rue : Voice Capades (October 25, 2004) Vocal fragments in loops and rhythms. A study in wordless vocal dislocations. Composed/Constructed & Recorded by Rik Rue, 1993. Released on cassette by Pedestrian Tapes, 1993. Rereleased on CDR and MP3 by Alias Frequencies, 2004. Audio remastered by Shannon O’Neill at Section 8. Cover art by u:sun [...]
Mauricio Kagel 1957-67 Avant Garde Project 40 The AGP begins the new year with two installments of out-of-print works by Mauricio Kagel. The first two tracks in AGP40 are absurdist works for voices and instruments. The third track approaches the sound of Acustica (AGP2), by means of innovative performance techniques applied to Renaissance instruments. This [...]
VA – Klangmaschine Soundmachine Label: Ritornell Catalog#: RIT 026 CD Format: CD Country: Germany Released: 2002 1 Twerk — Metamaschine (5:53) 2 Terre Thaemlitz — Liebesmaschine (5:08) 3 Tim Hecker — Bildmaschine (5:02) 4 Cordell Klier — Schreibmaschine (4:32) 5 John Harding — Sinnmaschine (5:59) 6 Taylor Deupree — Reproduktionsmaschine (6:41) 7 Alva Noto Menschmaschine [...]
VA – Maschinelle Stratageme Label: Ritornell Catalog#: RIT 010 CD Format: CD Country: Germany Released: 2000 1 Thomas Meinecke’s Framus Waikiki — Jukebox (3:58) 2 Autopoieses & Peter Fey — 5m? Circles (4:35) 3 Kim Cascone — Three Parasites For Deleuze (2:58) 4 Taylor Deupree — Place (6:01) 5 Oivino Idso — Shmmr (5:34) 6 [...]
Noel Akchot: Rien (Winter & Winter, released 2000) Nol Akchot [guitar, concept]; Erik Minkkinen [computer]; Andrew Sharpley [sampler, turntable] (of Stock, Hausen, & Walkman) “Rien” means “nothing”. It is also a movie. Music can be perceived as a soundtrack to a movie, but in fact it was meant that music itself is a movie. The [...]
Cornelius Cardew – treatise (1963-67) written in the years immediately preceding his involvement with AMM, this is a beautiful work, in terms of the immediate appeal of its interpreted form to the senses, and its spontaneous yet calculated process of generation out of, not nothing, but an otherwise imperceptible sound world. it is a field [...]
