SEQUENCE OF EARLIER HEAVEN (1998) for eight digital soundtracks The title refers to the pattern of trigrams in the I Ching known as the Primal Arrangement, based on pairs of opposites, such as Heaven and Earth, Wind and Thunder, Water and Fire, Mountain and Lake. In the musical work, this progression takes place in 8 [...]
Oreledigneur is the duo of Giuseppe Ielasi and Renato Rinaldi. In this by now classic Lp their collaborate with Alessandro Bosetti. Conceived during the golden age of reductionism, this is electro acoustic music at it´s finest hour. Sounds of all sources coexist in a tiny micro cosmos: long sustained phrases coming out of weird engines, [...]
For Samuel Beckett and The Turfan Fragments are Feldman’s only chamber orchestra compositions. Both were commissions: The Turfan Fragments by the Swiss-Italian Radio Orchestra in 1980, For Samuel Beckett by the Schönberg Ensemble, Amsterdam, in 1987. Both titles are descriptive and suggest how Feldman arrived at a particular concept for each piece. The Turfan Fragments [...]
© Raster-Noton release date: october 2008 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the city of mannheim alva noto (carsten nicolai) and ryuichi sakamoto were invited to develop an audio-visual performance together with ensemble modern. the concept of the arising piece named utp_ is derived from the rasterized structure of mannheim (build as an [...]
Recorded: Jun. 20, 2008 Venue: Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC Vancouver clarinetist extraordinaire François Houle is joined in his adopted city by two greats of the improv jazz scene, French pianist Benoît Delbecq and legendary English saxophonist Evan Parker. They met in 2005 for an improv show in Montreal and immediately hit it off. They [...]
1. Shelley Hirsch #39 (8:18) 2. Gregory Whitehead How To Pronounce Prosthesis + M Is For The Million Things + This Is Not A Test (9:49) 3. David Moss Conjure (10:09) 4. Jacki Apple/Keith Antar Mason/Linda Albertano/Akilah Nayo Oliver Redefining Democracy in America (10:05) 5. David Wojnarowicz & Ben Neil The Collapse Of The Illusory [...]
The 19 foot megalith towering above John Butcher is being stubbornly ungiving, as his tenor trips out a row of staccato blasts in an attempt to provoke some response from its weathered face. But if he’s getting any echo back at all, it’s lost in the wind blowing in from across the loch. John is [...]
© Semishigure 01. You in the Background 02. Double Negative Fancy 26 minutes of impending doom? You can tell, back at the beginning when everything was silent, just from the tone of the drone, that an onslaught is on the cards. We’ve got searing fuzzy guitars, yet that’s not the worst, it’s this initial sound, [...]
Soundtrack to “The Graphic Language of Neville Brody”. Touch TOC:2, 1990. Recorded for The Graphic Language of Neville Brody exhibition at the Twentieth Century Gallery at the V&A, and around the world thereafter. Includes the text ‘Intention, attention and duplication’ by Andrew McKenzie. The Hafler Trio is a ‘collective enchanted loom’ centered around Andrew McKenzie [...]
Powerful and striking rhythmic, electro-acoustic composition by Argentina’s foremost modern composer, Oscar Edelstein. Latin America’s first Super audio CD which deserves being played on the best equipment. To use a literary metaphor, Oscar Edelstein is much more JRR Tolkein than JK Rowling, and The Sacred Theory of Acoustic Space is definitely The Lord of the [...]
