Posted in field recording, sound art, spoken word on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
01 Turkish Square (09:11)
02 Abbey Sounds (12:26)
03 Rain (07:05)
04 Solstice Sample (10:28)
05 Three Sunbeams (05:47)
Total time: 45:00
LP released on Igloo Records, 1987
As far as I can tell, this is Moniek Darge’s unique solo recording, and a major release in the field of location recording and sound poetry. She is well known today as a violinist, [...]
Posted in field recording on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
01 Ocean into Inland Waters (12:18)
02 City Edge - The Coves of Manhattan Island (11:16)
03 The Surrounding Shores - Rideout to Sea (10:33)
Total time: 34:06
LP released 1963, Folkways Records
Arguably the first comercialy released field recording disc, ‘Here at the Water’s Edge’ is the score to Leo Hurwitz and Charles Pratt’s 1963 wordless film of the [...]
Posted in electronic, field recording, sound art, spoken word on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Traumpfad - A Travelogue In Three Acts
Act I: An Indian’s Death’s Sounds
01 Dead Slow (3:05)
02 The Sexless God (1:27)
03 Our Sleeping Mother Yamuna (2:52)
04 Aqua: Vita Mortis (2:39)
05 Ignis: Mors Vitae (3:40)
06 Leichenwasser (3:32)
07 Namaste (2:37)
08 Bang Lassi (6:34)
Act II: Everything That Exists is Transitory and Perishable
09 Everything That Exists is Transitory and Perishable (1:06)
10 [...]
Posted in field recording, sound art on May 15, 2008 | 9 Comments »
La Stazione - An experimental opera in two acts
Act One (26:31)
Prelude
Trecentocinquantatre…
Torino-Ritardo
Capocaponeralearti…
Act Two (19:34)
… Transeuropexpress
Diretto - Binario sette
Total time: 45:55
CD released on Hat Hut Records, 1990
Herbert Distel, born 1942 in Bern (CH), is a Swiss drawer, painter, sculptor, photographer, composer and film maker. He studied lithography in Paris’ National Art School, 1963-64. He started creating sculptures [...]
Posted in field recording, sound art on May 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
01 A Quiet Gathering (20:40)
02 Eight Openings onto a Vermilion Sky (21:08)
I/ Opening of Visions
II/ Opening of Origins
III/ Diptych
IV/ Opening of the Sculptor
V/ Opening of Ancient Wisdom
VI/ A Ladder for the Child
VII/ Mechanical Opening
VIII/ Opening of Liberation
03 Somnambule (03:49)
[from 'A Quiet Gathering', RēR 30, 1988]
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04 The Treshold of Liberty (09:33)
[from RēR Quarterly Vol. 1 [...]
Posted in field recording, sound art, spoken word on March 13, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Le Coran Cheikh ‘Sourat Yassine’, performed by Abdel Samad (01:15)
Paul Bowles, narrator ‘Allal’ (26.38)
Cheikh Hamed bel Hadj Hamadi ben Allal and ensemble ‘Reh Dial Beni Bouhiya’ (03:00)
Paul Bowles ‘Music for a Farce I’, 1936, performed by Chicago Pro Musica (01:10)
Paul Bowles, narrator ‘Points in Time IV’ (05:40)
Cheikh Ayyad ou Haddou and ensemble ‘Oukha Dial Kheir’ [...]
Posted in electronic, field recording, sound art on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
10″ ep on Drone Records’ sub-series Substantia Innominata.
01 Dionysos’ Last Day (Remix) (16:00)
02 Dyonisos In Zona Incerta (14:10)
Released June 2006.
Noise Maker’s Fifes is a belgian experimental/drone collective founded by Marc Wroblewski & Geert Feytons in 1990 with a variable membership. They build their own instruments to produce the surreal textures of their music, so that [...]
Posted in field recording, sound art, spoken word on January 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A WALK THROUGH THE CITY
by Norbert Ruesbaat
a walk through the city,
sunlight edge
and the cymbal crash
follow the burning signs,
the trail of bullets,
the embers dying
discarded shoe
like an open mouth,
a burn on the pavement
a house
containing three children
flashes once
and is gone
a single robbery
somewhere a man
is carving himself
to death
for food
day like an open wound
in the instant of the newsflash,
in [...]
