8442 Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange-Within Dreams,radio broadcast 1964,UK “This programme of sounds and voices is an attempt to re-create in five movements some sensations of dreaming – running away, falling, landscape, underwater and colour. All the voices were recorded from life (by Barry Bermange) and arranged in a setting of pure electronic sounds.” (RT) [...]
8425 GAL – Relisten The work of Austrian sound artist Bernhard Gal is concerned with the discovery (as opposed to the imposition) of musical structures within the nuances of everyday life. The stammering in the spaces of spoken language, the ubiquitous noise of urban environments, the steady stream of buzzes and whirrs that are a [...]
8424 NED ROTHENBERG/ELLIOTT SHARP/SAMM BENNETT-SEMANTICS LP, 1985, USA Hands down my favorite album that I’ve encountered from Elliott Sharp’s vast discography, this music took the top of my head off when I first heard it as a teen on the radio in L.A. and twenty some years on, it still seems like a high water [...]
8421 Gordon Mumma with the ONCE Group Electronic Music for Theatre and Public Activity Megaton for Wm.Burroughs Conspiracy 8 Cybersonic Cantilevers Cirqualz Gordon Mumma (b. 1935) has played a pioneering role in the development and evolution of “live-electronic” music. “Live-electronics” as a concept and practice appears to have originated in the United States in the [...]
8411 Fred Anderson Trio Live at the Velvet Lounge Okkadisk OD12023 (CD) 1. Straight, But Not Straight (collective) [33:17] 2. To Those Who Know (collective) [11:41] 3. Multidimensional Reality (collective) [28:54] Fred Anderson (ts) Peter Kowald (b) Hamid Drake (perc) 1998 – June 1 live at the Velvet Lounge Chicago, IL (USA) tenor saxman fred [...]
8410 Kaija Saariaho – Chamber Music From the very first listen, it has also become my favorite of all the beautiful albums by this Finnish composer. the earlier work was more uncompromising and abrasive, and later condensed into somewhat of a “signature style” known for elongated, icy tones forming other-worldly arcs above subtle, alien soundscapes, [...]
8403 David Tudor : Music for Piano (Edition RZ, ed. RZ 1018/19) (Germany) (2-CD set) This excellent compilation of Tudor’s most historic performances of avant-garde and minimalist piano compositions features works by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, and Sylvano Bussotti. Mostly presenting material from the mid-50s and early 60′s, this is an essential document [...]
8395 Burning Star Core — Everyday World of Bodies (2006, Ultra Eczema LP, U.S.A.) “Everyday World of Bodies” is an atypical work for C. Spencer Yeh for he lets some of his pop influences through, especially w/ the tracks ‘Swimsuit 2006′ & ‘In Love w/ a Promise.’ On the surface of ‘Swimsuit 2006′ we are [...]
8394 John Cage – Variations IV Volume II [Everest] [3230] Assisted by David Tudor John Cage, with assistance by David Tudor gave a 6 hour performance at Feigen-Palmer Gallery in Los Angeles. This performance is Variations IV, an early experiment in audio collage and excerpts from this performance were released on the recording Variations IV. [...]
8383 Die Form / Asmus Tietchens – Face To Face Vol. 1 Die Form is a French industrial and electronic band formed in 1977. The name ‘Die Form’ means ‘(the) form’ in German, like the Bauhaus diary and is a play on the English homonym ‘deform’ and on the French homonym ‘difforme’ (without form). the [...]
