Ten composers make music on, with, and for sound sculptures. A new musical world. No counterpoint. No modulation. No motivic/thematic processes. Only colorful timbres, unusual tone production, sounds, a rich opportunity for fantasy and imagination. Ten composers, some building their own sculptures, others “only” composing and availing themselves of the work of Visual artists, the [...]
© Elevator Bath 01. Matt Shoemaker – Waning Ataraxia 02. Adam Pacione – Soilbind Morning Glory 03. Jim Haynes – Like a Thief in the Night 04. Keith Berry – Toward the Blue Peninsula 05. Rick Reed – The Fiery Sound of Light 06. Dale Lloyd – Our Morphosis 07. Colin Andrew Sheffield – For [...]
The title of the pieces of this record “Hiruko” and “Ebisu” are the two names of one mythical being in Japanese mythology. “Hiruko” is a firstborn child of the god, who was deserted in the sea, because he could not stand up by three years old. He drifted ashore to the land of human beings, [...]
The name Arsenije Jovanovic I heard before and perhaps even his music – vaguely I remember a CD for La Legende Des Voix – but somehow, somewhere it didn’t really stick in my mind. He creates music, film and writes books. I have no idea which is his most well-known side, but the four pieces [...]
(Alpes 2173m) Tape-music composer Lionel Marchetti seems to be most comfortable when creating short works. To his credit are two 3″ mini-CDs (on the Metamkine label), one split CD with RLW (on Selektion), only one full-length album (on Intransitive), and now, a brief 28-minute work. It is far different from the complex tape-splicing Marchetti has [...]
Hildegard Westerkamp, leading composer of soundscapes, said, “I compose with any sound that the environment offers to the microphone, just as a writer works with all the words that a language provides . . . I like to use the microphone the way photographers often use the camera … ” But she does far more [...]
CD five pieces for sine waves and snare drum. Packaged in white paper folio, letterpress printed, each one unique. Recorded in Tokyo 2001.
(Tilt Recordings) CD This poetically titled disc is the first full-length release by Greek musician Thanasis Kaproulias, aka Novi_Sad, and it is an exceptionally strong debut. Suffused with tension and a sense of dark foreboding, each of the three long pieces is composed using a few simple, but finely wrought elements — field recordings, organ [...]
SerSergei Tarkovsky was one of the greatest film directors in world cinema. Such masterpieces of deep spirituality and creeping violence like Andrei Rublev, Solaris, and The Sacrifice attest to his genuine love for humanity while at the same time holding no illusions as to how hard it is to love. This collection of four ambient [...]
This trio, wielding an array of laptops and electronics and going heavy on the samples, produces an invigorating and fun set of improvised music. There’s a general air of playfulness as various dance rhythms, snatches of pop ephemera, and instructional tapes emerge from the bleeps and glitches though the music gradually becomes denser and more [...]
