Christina Kubisch & Fabrizio Plessi-Two and Two,LP,1976,Italy Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Trained as a composer, she has artistically developed such techniques as magnetic induction to realize her installations. Since 1986 she has added light as an artistic element to her work with sound. Christina Kubisch’s work displays an artistic [...]
Eric La Casa . Les Pierres du Seuil 4-7 In a world becoming less and less real, I am (mainly) working on a level of utopian investigation : reality. Beyond a virtual mapping of the world, I go back to the landscapes of the real, within the geography of being. And I find out that, [...]
Ellen Fullman-The Long String Instrument LP,1985,USA Ellen Fullman was born in 1957 in Memphis, TN. She feels her devotion to a career in music was initiated at the age of one, when Elvis Presley kissed her hand and said, “Hi-ya, baby!” Since 1981, she has been experimenting with wire, resonator boxes, and tuning systems to [...]
burkhard stangl (polwechsel et al) and oswald egger : different moons venusmond : oper als topos parts 1 & 2 this is the first two parts of an opera by guitarist burkhard stangl (polwechsel et al) and oswald egger. please download the insert for a full briefing on the deal, suffice it to say that [...]
Christina Kubisch & Fabrizio Plessi-Tempo Liquido LP,1979,Italy Tempo Liquido (1974-1980)Christina Kubisch “Tempo Liquido” is one of a series of video performances created by the visual artist Fabrizio Plessi and myself between 1974 and 1980. In these works video images were transferred live while I (and sometimes Plessi) performed on musical instruments and/or other objects. Tempo [...]
Michael Waisvisz- Crackle LP,1977,Netherlands Michel Waiswisz pushes technology to its expressive limit, by creating electronic musical instruments which depend on the physical intelligence of the performer. A composer, performer and inventor of groundbreaking instruments which make electronic sound tangible (such as the Hands, the Sweatstick and the WEB – the latter in advance of the [...]
Bob Moses-Bittersuite in The Ozone LP,1975,USA “Everything I do, I want to swing. I think music needs to swing no matter how abstract it gets. In fact, the more abstract, the more intellectual it gets, the more it needs to swing because that’s the balancing factor.” -Bob Moses Bob Moses began playing drums at the [...]
Toshinori Kondo/Paul Lovens-The last supper LP,1980,Germany Paul Lovens was born in Aachen, Germany, 6 June 1949; Drums, percussion, musical saw, etc. Paul Lovens played the drums as a child. Self-taught, from the age of 14 he played in groups of various jazz styles and popular musics and from 1969 has worked almost exclusively as an [...]
Francis Dhomont-Sous le regard d’un soleil noir LP/CD,1982/1995,France Francis Dhomont (born Paris, France, 2 November 1926) is a French composer of Electroacoustic / Acousmatic music. He studied composition under Ginette Waldmeier, Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger. In the late 1940s he intuitively discovered with magnetic wire what Pierre Schaeffer at about the same time came [...]
PUNGO-WALTZ CD, 1995 (RECORDED: 1981-82), JAPAN Featuring work originally issued on their Pinakotheca label LP “1980-81″ (along with a wealth of previously unavailable material), Waltz finds strafed forlorn accordion, respirating pump organs, squalling free jazz sax, detuned guitars and alternately plaintive or incantory vocals loosely yoked into a sublimely wheezy lumbering lurch (albeit one with [...]
