Posted in contemporary european, spoken word on July 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Vagina, ceremony for voice and ensemble (46:29)
Maria de Alvear: voice
Ensemble Modern, Diego Masson cond.
Recorded 1996, CD released 2000 on World Edition, Germany.
Maria de Alvear’s music is a highly original mix of Alhambra, Darmstadt and Fluxus influences. Her art is rooted in 12-tone music composing style ; minimalism ; Spanish tradition and Flamenco ; Fluxus-like performance [...]
Posted in contemporary european, french on July 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
01 Oiseaux Exotiques (15:24)
02 La Bouscarle [from Catalogue d'Oiseaux] (11:46)
03 Réveil des Oiseaux (20:53)
Yvonne Loriod: piano
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Neumann cond.
Total time: 48:00
LP released 1959 on Candide Records, USA
(recorded between 1956 and 1959).
This LP gathers 3 compositions entirely based on bird songs, as collected and notated by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992). Birdcalls were collected in the [...]
Posted in contemporary european, french on May 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
01 Musiques Plastiques N°11 (10:40)
02 Musiques Plastiques N°17 (05:10)
03 Musiques Plastiques N°10 (03:30)
04 Musiques Plastiques N°09 (08:30)
05 Musiques Plastiques N°12 (05:50)
Total time: 35:09
LP released 1985 on Cryonic Records, France.
Galeshka Moravioff is a Paris-based composer, film director/producer and painter born in Lugano, Switzerland. He graduated in Ethnology at the Paris University in 1980. His music (including [...]
Posted in contemporary european on March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Cinq Rechants, for 12 singers (3 sopranos, 3 altos, 3 tenors, 3 basses), composed 1948.
Recorded 1967 by ‘Le Madrigal’ Ensemble, conducted by Jean-Paul Kreder
01 Hayo kapritama la li la li la li la ssaréno (04:20)
02 Ma première fois terre terre l’éventail déployé (02:53)
03 Ma robe d’amour mon amour ma prison d’amour (04:09)
04 Niokhamâ palalane [...]
Posted in contemporary european, radio art on January 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
01 Invasions (1978) 13:45
02 Resava Cave (1977) 12:35
03 The Island of the Dying Donkeys (1988) 20:10
04 Ma Maison (1993) 19:40
CD released on La Légende Des Voix, 1994
Serbian composer born 1932 in Belgrade, Serbia, now living in Croatia, Arsenije Jovanović has been active as a theatre director and stage director for Belgrade and ex-Yougoslavia theaters since [...]
Posted in contemporary european, sound art on December 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Godfried-Willem Raes was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1952. This is where, in 1991, he designed and build the Tetrahedron building, to hosts the Logos Foundation concert activities. He created various contemporary music ensembles, like the Logos Group (1968), the Logos Duo with partner Moniek Darge, the Man and Machine ensemble of musical robots (M&M, [...]
Posted in contemporary european, sound art, tagged sound art on October 13, 2007 | No Comments »
SACD Col Legno, 2005
Ensemble Modern
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
Franck Ollu, conductor
01. #1 - for harmonics and helmholtz resonators
02. #2 - for glass, plastic and metal with air fire and water
03. #3 - for hard wood and high pitched echos
04. #4 - for marimbas, door, brass and clay
05. #5 - for three spaces
06. #6 - for doppler waves
07. [...]
