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Leo Brouwer – La tradición se rompe…

Published December 15, 2011 Cuban avantgarde 4 Comments

Leo Brouwer – La tradición se rompe LP front cover
Leo Brouwer – La tradición se rompe LP back cover
Leo Brouwer – La tradición se rompe LP cara A

Cuban composer Leo Brouwer, born 1939, was exposed at an early age to Western contemporary and serial music, first in the 1960s while he studied at New York’s Julliard school, and as a visitor during Warsaw’s Autumn Festival in 1961 in Poland, until he became lecturer at Berlin’s Academy of Science and Arts in 1972. Published in the legendary Coleccion Contemporaneos Cubanos series – which later changed its name to Contemporaneos in the 1980s–, this is probably Brouwer’s first orchestral music recording and a first attempt at a musical sincretism combining Western music with a Cuban idiom. The motto “La musica cubana alrededor del mundo”, or Cuban music around the world, on the record’s label is an indication of such a project. All pieces on this disc date from the 2nd half of the sixties.

♫ Composed in 1967-69 for large orchestra, the opener La Tradicion Se Rompe… Pero Cuesta Trabajo is a vast collage of Western classical and contemporary music (Bach, Beethoven, etc). In his desire to create a musical “magma”, Brouwer mixes a lot of things, and the piece is perhaps more a manifesto a la Luigi Nono, than a real musical exploration. Sonograma III, for 2 pianos, 1968, is a handsome, semi-aleatoric composition for two pianists where indeterminacy is used to create complex, intertwining lines. In Conmutaciones, 1966, the three percussionists move from one instrument to the next around the stage, in a series of lively and playful combinations. Composed 1965, the last work on this disc, Dos Conceptos del Tiempo, for ten players, is an example of Serial music for small ensemble. The sound palette includes electric organ, celesta and xylophone, in addition to winds, strings and piano, contributing to a very approachable music with a typical, warm Cuban sound.

  1. La Tradición Se Rompe… Pero Cuesta Trabajo (13:32)
    Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional De Cuba
    Manuel Duchesne Cuzán, conductor
  2. Sonograma III (7:15)
    Frank Fernández, piano
    Ninowska Fernández-Britto, piano
  3. Conmutaciones (5:42)
    Leo Brouwer, percussion
    Carlos Fariñas, piano, celesta
    V. Savtcheva, xylophone, vibraphone, percussion
  4. Dos Conceptos Del Tiempos (11:10)
    Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional De Cuba
    Leo Brouwer, conductor

Total time 37:39
LP released by Areito, ref. LDA 7009, La Habana, Cuba, early 1970s

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Leo Brouwer – Alsino y el Cóndor

Published June 30, 2011 Cuban avantgarde 8 Comments

Leo Brouwer - Alsino y el Cóndor LP front cover
Leo Brouwer - Alsino y el Cóndor LP back cover
Leo Brouwer - Alsino y el Cóndor LP lado 1

A co-production between Nicaragua, Mexico, Costa Rica and Cuba, the 1982 film Alsino y el Cóndor was directed by Chilean Miguel Littín, who was at the time exiled in Mexico after Pinochet’s takeover in Chile. Shot in Nicaragua, the film is a political allegory about a child’s dreams of freedom during the Contras vs Sandinista Junta turmoils in Nicaragua (a detailed description of the film is available here). Alsino was widely distributed worldwide and won several international prizes, including an Academy Award in the US. The soundtrack is by Cuban influential composer and director of ICAP Leo Brouwer and was released on LP by Intermusica F.M., possibly in Mexico, under license from EGREM.

♫  Divided into extremely short pieces, between 30s and 1mn, usually, the score is interpreted by the Nacional symphonic orchestra, even if the score often calls for small ensemble playing. The music includes romantic parts from the string section, as well as solo oboe, acoustic guitar and piano parts. A recurring theme is played on a strangely distorted celesta, the instrument made famous by Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker in 1892 (and Harry Potter‘s soundtrack!). The celesta and music perfectly conveys the magic realism of the movie and seem less heavy-handed than the film – cf. trailer below.

38 tracks
Total time 38:53

Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Cuba
[Manuel Duchesne Cuzán, cond.?]

LP released by Intermusica F.M., [Mexico?], 1982

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Leo Brouwer/Carlos Fariñas – Música Nueva

Published February 2, 2011 Cuban avantgarde 9 Comments

Leo Brouwer/Carlos Fariñas - Música Nueva LP front cover
Leo Brouwer/Carlos Fariñas - Música Nueva LP back cover
Leo Brouwer/Carlos Fariñas - Música Nueva LP side 2

Música Nueva was released on EGREM by the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP), a so-called NGO established in 1960 and used to raise international support after the US 1962 embargo. Electroacoustic music composer Juan Marcos Blanco became director of the ICAP in 1970. As with too many other Cuban releases, the LP is undated and years of composition are omitted. What is known is that Fariñas’ Tientos (presumably Tiento I & II) won first prize during the Biennial for Young Composers in Paris, 1970. Tiento II only is included in this LP. Brouwer’s piece Concierto para Violín y Orquesta was composed 1972. Música Nueva was then possibly released around 1972-75.

Leo BrouwerLeo Brouwer‘s Concerto is a dreamy, semi-hypnagogic affair where the violin delivers hallucinatory traits amid the orchestra’s oneiric sonorities. The music suggests desolate, surrealist landscapes ala Roberto Matta, with implausible lights, color explosions, and out-of-this-world figures typical from the Chilean painter.

Carlos FariñasCarlos Fariñas (1934-2002) was a contemporary music composer who turned to electroacoustic and electronic music during the 1980s. He  published the Aguas Territoriales – Música Electroacustica LP on EGREM (LD 4230) in 1984. Fariñas founded the Estudio de Música Electroacústica y por Computadoras (EMEC) in 1989, a facility opened to young Cuban composers wanting to compose electronic music. His piece Tiento II on this LP is for piano and percussion. The score makes extensive use of inside the piano and extended piano techniques, while the percussion parallels the unsual keyboard playing with semi-aleatoric sounds from a variety of instruments. The piece deliciously sounds like early AMM, ca. 1966.

Leo Brouwer Concierto para Violín y Orquesta (1972)
01 Toccata I (3:31)
02 Nocturno (6:56)
03 Toccata II (4:50)

Alfredo Muñoz, violin
Orquestra Sinfônica Nacional
Manuel Duchesne Cuzán, cond.

Carlos Fariñas
04 Tiento II (1970) (16:35)

Pura Ortiz, piano
Rafael Somavilla, percussion

Total time 32:12
LP released by EGREM, APLD 202, Cuba, ~1972-75

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2012 re-ups

Published February 1, 2012 206 Comments

In an attempt to help readers track down deleted, no longer active files posted on this blog in the previous months/years, this participative, reader-funded page will list re-ups offered by readers and my occasional contributions, starting February 1st, 2012. It starts with 3 new links sent by reader Will (thanks!) on January 31, 2012, plus one offered by this writer. To contribute a new re-up, just leave a comment below and your link(s) will be added to the top of the list.

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Requested by readers (any help welcomed):

  • Paul Hindemith – Wir bauen eine Stadt
  • Various – Soundviews: Sources
  • Wejdas – Į tamsą
  • Wejdas – Saulei tekant
  • Andre Stordeur – 18 Days
  • Guglielmo Papararo & Vittorio Montis [April Orchestra présente RCA Sound vol.16]
  • Various – Sonic City: Mutations
  • Simon H Fell – Compilation I
  • Various – Rencontre du 1er Type
  • Wejdas – Saulei tekant
  • Wejdas – Į tamsą
  • John Van Rymenant – Memory Stop
  • Roger Meyers/Ruth Anderson – split LP
  • Sebastien Gandera – Un Soir
  • Various – Inventionen I (B. Schaeffer/R. Mandolini/S. Kang)
  • Various – Inventionen II (B. Schaeffer/T. Shimazu/R. Enstrom)
  • Various – Collective Foist
  • The Memorial Elvis Project
  • Joel Chadabe  – Rhythms
  • Das Auto Blubberbumm
  • Watervalwater – Ecrits Bruts Oratorium
  • Les Mysteres Des Voix Vulgaires
  • Various – Warum ist die Banane krumm?

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Guglielmo Papararo & Vittorio Montis – [April Orchestra présente RCA Sound vol.16]

Published March 11, 2011 library 8 Comments

Guglielmo Papararo & Vittorio Montis LP front cover
Guglielmo Papararo & Vittorio Montis LP back cover
Guglielmo Papararo & Vittorio Montis LP side A

The April Orchestra library music series was published in Paris, France, during the 1970s by the local branch of RCA and actually comprised several parallel series by, mostly, French, Czech and Italian composers. Contrary to other library music companies, April Orchestra did not publish illustrative tracks gathered under a loose theme, but specialized in contemporary music anthologies, like the 25+ volumes of “Florilège de la musique tchécoslovaque” series on Czech contemporary composers (example here), or the “April Orchestra présente RCA Sound”, devoted to contemporary Italian composers (Bruno Nicolai, Ennio Morricone, etc). Their abstract cover art perhaps emphasized the fact music alone is supposed to provide the visual stimulus.

♫ This LP belongs to the Italian series and pairs classical guitar player Guglielmo Papararo with pianist and composer Vittorio Montis. Their compositions for small ensemble use instruments from the classical orchestra (piano, contrabass, oboe, clarinet, flute, trumpet, timpani, small percussion) plus Spanish guitar, sometimes with reverb sound effect, and the occasional lush, wordless female vocals. The music is close to Ennio Morricone’s serious contemporary music, but the prominent role of classical guitar and the serene atmosphere recalls Leo Brouwer’ and Toru Takemitsu’s film music as well. Notwithstanding the futuristic track titles, this LP is not so much about otherworldly sound explorations – unless your idea of a space travel’s soundtrack includes Spanish guitar and oboe – as chamber music miniatures.

Maestro Guglielmo Papararo has a repertoire ranging from classical composers to Flamenco guitar. He’s also an educator and the author of the La Tecnica Degli Arpeggi guitar method, published by Berben Edizioni Musicali, 1999. Composer Vittorio Montis worked as an educator teaching composition at the Palestrina Conservatorio in Cagliari, and is also a writer. He is the co-author of a reference book on folk music and dances of Sardinia (Ballos by Bandinu Bachisio, Deplano Andrea & Vittorio Montis, published by Florias Ed, 2000), a very ancient tradition famous for its use of launeddas, or triplepipe. The unmistakable sound of this instrument can be heard in the video below, a Montis composition for organ and launeddas (the composer himself is standing near the organist).

01 Iperspazio (5:35)
02 Andromeda (3:04)
03 Supernova (3:41)
04 Asteroide (5:58)
05 Continuum (4:01)
06 Alpha Centauri (3:01)
07 Sol 3 (5:55)
08 Jonosfera (5:37)
09 Gravita’ Zero (3:57)

Total time 41:00
LP released by April Orchestra/RCA, ref. ZL 39116, France, 1977

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Above: Vittorio Montis: Cannas in Cuntzertu. Recorded in the San Pietro cathedral’s presbytery in Ales, central Sardinia. Fabrizio Marchionni: organ, Luigi Lai: launeddas.

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Juan Blanco – s/t debut LP

Published February 4, 2011 Cuban avantgarde 18 Comments

Juan Blanco s/t debut LP front cover
Juan Blanco s/t debut LP back cover
Juan Blanco s/t debut LP cara A

Cuban electroacoustic music composer Juan Marcos Blanco (1919-2008) started composing electroacoustic music in the 1960s and championned the genre on the island as an activist, teacher, concert organizer and promoter.

Juan Marcos Blanco (1919-2008)A successful lawyer as well as a clandestine avantgarde music promoter under the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship (1952-1959), Blanco became an official composer under the Castro Brothers’ rule (1959-present), who, for some reason, did not ban avantgarde music. Blanco played his electroacoustic compositions during unofficial performances as early as 1964 (see Neil Leonard). From 1970, Blanco worked as music director for the propaganda’s music section at Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP), with Leo Brouwer as director. Blanco was later appointed director of the ICAP’s Estudio Electroacústico in 1979. See the UNESCO website for a comprehensive list of Blanco’s music compositions.

♫ This untitled LP was Blanco’s first release, published in 1979 (I infer this from the fact track #3 was composed 1979 and from the reference of another EGREM LP,  published in 1980, LD 3896 – this one is LD 3809). Anyway, the disc pairs a symphonic composition with 3 electroacoustic pieces, best described as tape music. Track #3, Desde Su Voz Amada, is apparently an excerpt from the legendary 30-min piece Blanco wrote in 1970 for the celebration of Lenin’s centennial anniversary in Cuba. The piece is based on the heavily processed voice of Lenin addressing the Red Army. The music starts with unrecognizable, reverb-drenched layers of Lenin’s voice and is anything if not terrifying. When the disembodied voice of Lenin finally appears au naturel, the effect is transfixing. I was reminded of some passages from Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Requiem for a Young Poet, 1969, with a similar use of archive sounds. Track #1, Música Para Un Joven Mártir, for symphonic orchestra and singer, bears some influence from the Stravinski of Renard and Histoire du Soldat, but it also incorporates Cuban elements like Spanish guitar and vocal improvisation (I assume in the Nueva Trova style). Track # 2 and 4 are musique concrète pieces based on piano and inside the piano sounds, reconfigured into abstract sound sculptures thanks to montage, collage and sound treatment. These tracks are described in the liner notes as Música electrónica but are actually closer to musique concrète, with no electronic sounds involved.

  1. Música Para Un Joven Mártir (11:30)
    Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional
    Manuel Duchesne Cuzán, cond.
    Jesús del Valle, voice
  2. Galaxia M-50 (8:12)
    Música electrónica
    Fárida Hernández, voice
  3. Desde Su Voz Amada, homenaje a Lenin (7:42)
    Música electrónica
  4. Estructuras (11:39)
    Música electrónica

Total time 39:01
LP released by EGREM, LD 3809, La Habana, Cuba, 1979

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Juan Blanco’s EGREM discography:
LD 3809 = self titled debut LP, 1979
LD 4211 = Música Electroacústica LP, 1984?
LD xxxx = Caballos – Música Electroacustica LP, 1984
LD 4442 = Suite Erotica/Suite De Los Niños LP, 1987
LD xxxx = Música por Computadores, [year?]
LD xxxx = w/ Edesio Alejandro Tecnotrònicas, [year?]

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Cuban avantgarde – a short introduction

Published January 31, 2011 Cuban avantgarde 6 Comments

Música concreta concert, 1964Grupo de experimentación sonora del ICAICMúsica Electroacústica (Time) - Jóvenes Compositores Cubanos, LP, 1987Juan Marcos Blanco

Conductor Manuel Duchesne Cuzán and composers Juan Marcos Blanco, Leo Brouver and Carlos Fariñas were the main members of the Vanguardia Musical of the Sixties that introduced contemporary music in Cuba. Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier was also instrumental, bringing a copy of a Pierre Schaeffer book from a trip to France in 1959.

Most avantgarde Cuban composers also worked for the ICAIC (Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos), the state-owned film society who controled film releases and festivals. The ICAIC was one of the first official institutions created after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, with Fidel Castro as Prime Minister. Leo Brouwer (born 1939) founded the ICAIC’s music department in 1960 and the Grupo de experimentación sonora del ICAIC in 1968, a workshop/studio where Brouwer himself and other composers recorded film and documentary soundtracks. The renaissance of Cuban folk song with progressive elements, the so-called Nueva Trova, also emerged from the Grupo de experimentación in the late 1960s. Electroacoustic music pioneer Juan Marcos Blanco (1919-2008) was aslo a key figure of the Cuban electronic scene and played his electroacoustic compositions during unofficial performances as early as 1964 (see Neil Leonard). A Música concreta concert performance occured in 1964 in La Habana, as pictured above.

The first Cuban electroacoustic LPs were released in La Habana around 1980 by state-run company EGREM (Empresa De Grabaciones Y Ediciones Musicales). EGREM merged several Cuban record companies, including Areito. In addition to Blanco’s solo releases, EGREM released several compilation LPs by composers working at the Estudio Electroacústico, such as Música Electroacústica in 1984, with works by Juan Piñera y Edesio Alejandro, Julio Roloff, Juan Marcos Blanco (posted here and highly recommended). Various Cuban avantgarde pressings are scheduled on this blog in the following days/weeks.

Information from:
Neil Leonard Juan Blanco, Pioneer of New Music, 1994 >
The National Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music (LNME) website >
UNESCO Knowledge Portal >

EGREM selected discography:

  • LD 3809 = Juan Blanco st LP [1979 or 1980]
  • LD 3818 = Leo Brouwer “Concerti for Violin and Flute”, LP, [1980 or 1981]
  • LD 3876 = Leo Brouwer “De Bach a Los Beatles” LP (1981)
  • LD 4146 = Leo Brouwer “Sonata para cello solo et al.” LP, [year?]
  • LD 4189 = Leo Brouwer, gtr: Brouwer/Farinas/Ardevol/Ponce/Villa-Lobos, LP, [year?]
  • LD 4211 = Juan Blanco “Música Electroacústica” LP, 1984?
  • LD 4222 = Various “Música Electroacústica” LP, 1984
  • LD 4230 = Carlos Fariñas “Aguas Territoriales/Música Electroacustica” LP, 1984
  • LD 4231 = Leo Brouwer “Piano Sonata/Ardevol” LP, 1984
  • LD XXXX = Juan Marcos Blanco “Caballos Música Electroacustica” LP, 1984
  • LD 4411 = Various “Música Electroacústica (Time) – Jóvenes Compositores Cubanos” LP, 1987
  • LD 4442 = Juan Blanco “Suite Erotica/Suite De Los Niños” LP, 1987
  • LD 4666 = Miguel Villafruela “Música Electroacustica para saxofón y tape” CD, 1993
  • LD XXXX = Juan Blanco “Música por Computadores”, [year?]
  • LD XXXX = Juan Blanco y Edesio Alejandro “Tecnotrònicas”, [year?]

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Juan Blanco, the LNME and the eletroacustic music in Cuba

Index

Published January 4, 2008 Leave a Comment

ADN Tapes:

  • #05 Pascal Comelade >
  • #06 D.D.A.A. >
  • #09 Hartmann/Bourbonese Qualk >
  • #14 Ricardo Sinigaglia >
  • #15 Doxa Sinistra >
  • #23 Cranioclast >
  • #CC5 Out Of Standard!! France 2 >
  • #CC4 Out Of Standard!! Italia 2 >

ALL CHEMIX RADIO & WILLEM DE RIDDER:

  • ‘Bob in Europe/The Sacred Hole’ >
  • ‘Encoded Message / Radio Rabotnik’ >
  • ‘Another Day Another Depression / Kali’ >
  • ‘Just Relax Girl’/’Paganini’s Grave’ >
  • ‘Aida’/’Two More Days’>
  • ‘Volcano Dance’/’Walk To Waha’ >
  • ‘Opera’ >
  • ‘King’s-X Communications’ >
  • Willem De Ridder ‘De Grote Oto Derby’ >
  • Willem De Ridder/Enno Velthuys mix >
  • Willem De Ridder ‘Snuff’ >
  • Archival Documents >
  • See also: Spiral Cassettes below

AUDIO ARTS MAGAZINE:

  • Vol 4 Number 2 >
  • Vol 9 Number 3 >
  • Audio Arts cassettes Round up >
  • Accent For A Start LP  >
  • Bill Johnson ‘Everybody’s Doing It’ >
  • Jean Tinguely – Sculptures at the Tate Gallery >
  • John Cage – Art is Either a Complaint or Do Something Else >

BAD ALCHEMY magazine:

  • Bad Alchemy #4 >
  • Bad Alchemy #6 >
  • Bad Alchemy #7 >
  • Bad Alchemy #8 >
  • Bad Alchemy #21 >

BOOK REVIEW:

  • Greg Goodale – Sonic Persuasion >
  • Juliet Koss – Modernism after Wagner >
  • Jeremy Mynott – Birdscapes >
  • Notes on music and Chinese calligraphy >
  • Max Neuhaus – Times Square, Time Piece Beacon >
  • Organised Sound vol.14 No 1 >
  • Source: Music of the Avant-garde, 1966-1973 >
  • Allen S. Weiss – Varieties of Audio Mimesis >
  • EG Jensen and Brandon LaBelle  – Radio Territories >

COMPOSERS, FRENCH:

  • Achwghâ Ney Wodei >
  • Acquaviva, Frédéric >
  • Almuró ,André >
  • Almuró, André & Mouloudji  >
  • Altagor (Baobab issue #9) >
  • Armonicord >
  • Aubry, Michel  >
  • Ayato, Hake & Jake Hole >
  • Banholzer, François & Kikie Spotlight > &  >
  • Barbaud, Pierre /Akira Tamba >
  • Baschet, Bernard & François >
  • Lasry-Baschet, Structures Sonores  ‘Mister Blues’ >
  • Bekummernis >
  • Bertolina, Lucien >
  • Bezançon, Guy >
  • Besombes, Philippe >
  • Blanchard, Didier & Georges Bloch >
  • Boni, Raymond >
  • Boni, Raymond & Claude Bernard >
  • Bouhey, Alain >
  • Brodé Tango >
  • Brun, Emmanuel >
  • Cauvin, Philippe >
  • Cendrars, Blaise >
  • Chalon, Guy & Yuri Korolkoff >
  • Chanteurs des Isles du Vent, Les >
  • Charial, Pierre  >
  • Chopin, Henri >
  • Comelade, Pascal >
  • Croset, Pierre-Jean >
  • Deblais, Jean-Claude >
  • Deneuve, Michel >
  • Diennet, Jacques >
  • Doyen/Lasry >
  • Drouet, Jean-Pierre  & Sylvio Gualda  >
  • Dudon, Jacques >
  • Éloy, Jean-Claude >
  • Fenech, David >
  • Ferrari, Luc >
  • Fiancette, Thomas >
  • Foussat, Jean-Marc >
  • Françaix, Jean >
  • Gaël, Jean-François >
  • Gagneux, Renaud >
  • Gandera, Sebastian > & >
  • Garcia, Xavier >
  • Germain Hubert Ales >
  • Gillis, Anne >
  • Grancher, Philippe >
  • Gruel, Henri & Jean-Jacques Perrey >
  • Guillou, Jean >
  • Hazard >
  • Heidsieck, Bernard >
  • Henry, Pierre > &  > & Chez Pierre Henry >
  • Huet, Andrée & Eric Thibor  >
  • Jardin, Brigitte & Claude Marbehant  >, > &  >
  • Jolas, Betsy >
  • Kassap, Sylvain >
  • Knud, Viktor > &  >
  • Serge De Laubier/Rémi Dury >
  • Lauras, Marc >
  • L’Éponge Synthétique >
  • Lericolais, Rainier >
  • Lombe, Patrick >
  • Mainstream Ensemble >
  • Marchetti, Lionel >
  • Marianni, Luc >
  • Mariétan, Pierre >
  • Matta, Ramuntcho > & >
  • Menny, Bruno >
  • Messiaen, Olivier > & >
  • Moravioff, Galeshka > & >
  • Nozati, Annick >
  • Ophélie Song >
  • Parmegiani, Bernard & Josep Maria Mestres-Quadreny >
  • Perotin, Gérard & Guy-Joël Cipriani >
  • Perret, Pierre >
  • Peu Importe >
  • Phonogénistes, Les >
  • Programme >
  • QuintetAvant >
  • Riga Raga >
  • Robots-Music >
  • Rock Feller >
  • Sage, Hélène >
  • Sage, Hélène & Bernard Vitet  >
  • Sarazanas, Réjane & Philippe >
  • Satie, Erik >
  • Sciortino, Patrice  > &  >
  • Shub-Niggurath >
  • Tamia & Pierre Favre > & >
  • Tchen Gi-Vane >
  • Théatre Commercial >
  • Tinguely, Jean >, >, > & >
  • Tòcabiòl >
  • Ujjaya > & >
  • Urban Sax > & >
  • Vasseur, Pierre >
  • Vidéo-Aventures >
  • Vrayance, Hubert >
  • Weris, Hugo >

COMPOSERS, REST OF THE WORLD:

  • Accordions Go Crazy >
  • Agencement >
  • AG Neue Musik >
  • Alvarez, Javier >
  • De Alvear, Maria >
  • Amemiya, Yasukazu >
  • Anderson, Ron >
  • Anderson, Ruth & Roger Meyers >
  • Apple, Jacki  >
  • Architect’s Office >
  • Artyomov, Vyacheslav >
  • Ashforth, Alden >
  • Axolotl >
  • Azuma, Yoshitaka >
  • Badings, Henk & JW de Bruyn >
  • Barabino, Federico y Don Campau >
  • Beckett, Samuel > &  >
  • Bennett, John M. >
  • Beresford, Steve >
  • Big City Orkestre >
  • Blanco, Juan  > &  >
  • Bloch, Augustyn >
  • Blowhole >
  • BogArt >
  • Bow Gamelan Ensemble >
  • Bradnam & Burrows >
  • Branca, Glenn/John Giorno >
  • Brandão, Soares  >
  • Brettingham Smith, Jolyon >
  • Brouwer, Leo > & >, also w/Carlos Fariñas  >
  • Bruhin, Anton >
  • Brume/Sudden Infant >
  • Brün, Herbert >
  • Burk, Craig >
  • Byrd Hoffman School Of Byrds (Bob Wilson) >
  • Cacophony 33 >
  • Caesar, Rodolfo >
  • Cale, John/Lou Reed >
  • Canadian Electronic Ensemble > & >
  • Caroliner Rainbow >
  • Cornelius Cardew exhibition >
  • Čert, Jim >
  • Chadabe, Joel >
  • Coalmine 5 >
  • Cochius >
  • C-Schulz >
  • Cooper, Lindsay  >
  • Cortex >
  • Crafts, Daniel Steven >
  • Dali , Salvador > &  >
  • Das Fröhliche Wohnzimmer>
  • Dashow, James >
  • Dead Goldfish Ensemble >
  • Denny Motion Group, The >
  • Dessau, Paul >
  • Detoni, Dubravko > , > & >
  • Dickerson, Walt & Richard Davis >
  • Distel, Herbert > & >
  • Doll Parts >
  • Dorgon >
  • Doxa Sinistra >
  • Draminsky Højmark, Jakob >
  • Dreamtiger >
  • Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel >
  • E  >
  • Eimert, Herbert  >
  • Electric Phoenix >
  • Electronic Art Ensemble >
  • El Experimento De Cuca >
  • Fábián, Márta > & >
  • Fähndrich, Walter >
  • Fell, Simon H.  >
  • Flat, Gil >
  • Flying Lesbians >
  • Fontana, Bill > &  >
  • Fontcuberta, Joan & Das Synthetische Mischgewebe  >
  • Funcion De Repulsa, La >
  • Fura dels Baus, La > & >
  • Gaslini, Giorgio >
  • Gassmann, Remi  & Oskar Sala >
  • Gede Manik >
  • Geesin, Ron >
  • General Strike >
  • Ghosh, J.P. & V.G. Jog >
  • Ginsberg, Allen & Hobo Blues Band  >
  • Glass Orchestra, The > &  >
  • Goebbels, Heiner >
  • Golden, Barbara >
  • Gosov, Marran >  &  >
  • Grencsó/Tickmayer Duo >
  • Grossi, Pietro >
  • Gulland, Brian & Richard Harvey  >
  • Hagar The Womb >
  • Håkansson, Henrik >
  • Hambreus, Bengt > & >
  • Handke, Peter >
  • Harth, Alfred 23  >
  • Hauer, Josef Matthias >
  • Havel, Vaclav >
  • Hawksworth, Johnny & James Saunders >
  • Head Cheese >
  • Helton, Thomas >
  • Henrion, Luc >
  • Hespos, Hans-Joachim >
  • Hindemith, Paul >
  • Hollis, Robert & Christopher Swartz  >
  • Homler, Anna & Steve Moshier >
  • Horton, Robert >
  • Hovhaness, Alan >  &  >
  • Humus >
  • Hurwitz, Leo & Charles Pratt >
  • (Infected Wound) Ein Experiment >
  • Jandl, Ernst  > &  >
  • Jeney, Zoltán  >
  • Jobson, Richard  >
  • Johnson, Tom >
  • Jovanović, Arsenije >
  • Kaegi, Werner >
  • Kazandjiev, Vassil >
  • Keane, David >
  • King Elf >
  • Kinothek Percussion Ensemble >
  • Klangkrieg >
  • Kocáb, Michael & Michal Pavlíček  >
  • Krček, Jaroslav > & >
  • Knížák, Milan > & >
  • Kraftwerk covers >
  • Kuivila, Ron >
  • Kurstin, Pamelia >
  • Ladik, Katalin & Gábor Fülöp >
  • Lawalrée, Dominique > & >  & >
  • Lazarov, Simo  >
  • Leach, John  > & >
  • Leal, Oscar Vargas & David Espejo Aviles >
  • Leskowsky, Albert >
  • Leven Signs >
  • L.G. Mair, Jr. >
  • Logoplasm >
  • London Studio Sound >
  • Lo Yo Yo, The  >
  • MacDonald, James >
  • Mandolini, Ricardo >
  • Marbe, Myriam >
  • Marchlevski/Np. WAT >
  • Margorani, Luciano >
  • Marko, Andrzej & Andre Mikola  >
  • Mason, Benedict >
  • Master Musicians of Jajouka II >
  • Matfield and The Pond >
  • Maze 1066 >
  • McPhee, Colin/Elliott Carter >
  • Meloche, Chris >
  • Meltable Snaps It s/t LP >
  • Merzdow Shek >
  • Midisport >
  • Miereanu, Costin  >
  • Migone, Christof >
  • Møhr >
  • Monahan, Gordon >
  • Montori, Sergio & Gian Paolo Chiti > &  >
  • Moore, Steve > & > &  >
  • Moss, David >
  • Mühlum-Pyrápheros, Winfried >
  • Mundigl, Josef Otto >
  • Murray Schafer, Raymond > &  > &  >
  • Musica Da Cucina >
  • N. AE. >
  • Naj (Darius Čiuta) >
  • Naumann, Siegfried >
  • Nazario, Lelo >
  • Nechvatal, Joseph > , > , > & >
  • Nelson, Bill >
  • New Bomb Turks, The >
  • Newton, James >
  • Nicols, Maggie & Peter Nu >
  • Nightingale, James >
  • Nitsch, Hermann >
  • Noid >
  • Noise Maker’s Fifes >, > and >
  • Nono, Luigi >
  • Nu, Pete >
  • Officer! (Mick Hobbs) > and  >
  • Other Music >
  • Palette Jacks, The >
  • Papararo, Guglielmo & Vittorio Montis >
  • Parmerud, Åke >
  • PBK (Philip B. Klinger) >
  • Penguins In Heat >
  • Penn,  William >
  • Perkins, Philip > and > &  >
  • Perouk, Eva >
  • Phizmiz, Ergo [review] >
  • Piché, Jean >
  • Pierce, John R. >
  • Pilar, Milan >
  • Plethora >
  • Ponomareva, Valentina >
  • Presencer, Alain >
  • Prime, Michael >
  • Rääts, Jaan >
  • Radovanović, Vladan >
  • Rainer, Arnulf & Roth, Dieter >
  • Rake >
  • Rebelo, Nuno >
  • Reichel, Hans >
  • Reinke, Bodo >
  • Rimarimba > , > , > , & >
  • Robert, Jocelyn  >
  • Roden, steve >
  • Romen Trio >
  • Rongwrong >
  • Rose, Jon > & w/ Simone De Haan >
  • Roth, Dieter >
  • Rua,  Vítor >
  • Saiz, Suso >
  • Salzman, Eric >
  • Same, The >
  • Sáry, László >
  • S·Core >
  • Seldes, Marian read Gertrude Stein >
  • Shannon, Mike > & >
  • Schoener, Eberhard >
  • Schwartz, Tony >
  • Martin (Fischer) Schwarzenlander >
  • Siegel, Wayne >
  • Sinigaglia, Riccardo > &  >
  • Skeleton Crew >
  • Small Cruel Party >
  • Snow, Michael >
  • Sonnier, Keith  >
  • Sontag, Susan >
  • Souster, Tim >
  • Southern Tropical Harmony Steel Band >
  • Spiegel, Laurie >
  • Srdenovic, Milovan > & >
  • SRP >
  • St-Onge, Alexandre >
  • Steele, Jan/ZIZ! Ensemble  >
  • Stein, Gertrude and Al Carmines >
  • Süverkrüp, Dieter & Wolfgang Dauner >
  • Suzuki, Akio >
  • Szigeti, István >
  • Tamul, Jack  >
  • Tasaday >
  • Telectu  >
  • Tomkiw, Lydia  >
  • Tomoo Gokita and The Waf >
  • Tonschusser >
  • Toop, David  & Paul Burwell  >
  • Treelinedhighway >
  • Truax, Barry >
  • Turner, Roger >
  • Tzarina Q Cut >
  • Ultra >
  • UUHUU  >
  • Van Bergeijk, Gilius >
  • Van Riper, Peter >, >, >, > &  >
  • Veldman, Hessel >
  • Venosta, Giovanni >
  • Veprintsev, Boris >
  • Vernacular, Phyllyp >
  • Violence And The Sacred > &  >
  • Voice Crack >
  • Volcano The Bear >
  • Vorhaus, Dave > , > &  >
  • Walklett, Davy > & >
  • Warren, Rusty >
  • Watermann, John >
  • Wejdas  > &  >
  • Weyes Bluhd >
  • Wickham-Smith & Youngs >
  • Winkler, Harald  & Gary Pacific >
  • Willis, Diz >
  • Wood, Robert  >
  • Youth & Ben Watkins >
  • Zabelka, Mia & Giselher Smekal >
  • Zeppi-Vingt Doigts >
  • Ziegler, Harald Sack > & >
  • Zobel & Thomasius >
  • Zuni Icosahedron >

CONTINUUMIXES:

  • Continuumix #1 >
  • Continuumix #2 >
  • Continuumix #3 >
  • Continuumix #4 >
  • Continuumix #5 >
  • Continuumix #6 >
  • Continuumix #7 >
  • Continuumix #8 >
  • Continuumix #9 >
  • Continuumix #10 >
  • Continuumix #11 >
  • Continuumix #12 >
  • Continuumix #13 >

IGLOO RECORDS:

  • IGL 002: Arthur Pétronio – Verbophonie >
  • IGL 003: André Stordeur – 18 Days >
  • IGL 005: La Maison du Jardinier >
  • IGL 007: Leo Küpper ‘Kouros et Korê/Innominé’>
  • IGL 008: Jacques Bekaert s/t>
  • IGL 009: John Van Rymenant ‘Memory Stop’ >
  • IGL 011: Logos Duo ‘Composition & Improvisation‘ >
  • IGL 017; Métarythmes De l’Air ‘Phagocyte’ >
  • IGL 025: John Van Rymenant/Michael Galasso ‘Scan Lines’>
  • IGL 032: Léo Küpper ‘Amkea / Aérosons’>
  • IGL 050: Logos ‘Pneumafoon Project’>
  • IGL 056: Moniek Darge ‘Sounds of Sacred Places’>

ILLUSION PRODUCTION:

  • (IP 011) Kevin Harrison & Steven Parker >
  • (IP 017) Un Département >
  • (IP 021) Bernard C >
  • (IP 026) The Twins and Rig Veeda >
  • (IP 027) Craig Burk >
  • (IP 028] D.D.A.A. >
  • (IP 029) Sensationnel #5 >
  • (IP 032) Deux Pingouins >
  • (IP 033) Bruno Due >

LE KIOSQUE D’ORPHEE:

  • Anonymous >
  • Francisco Semprun & Michel Christodoulidès – Mondes Incantatoires et Espaces Carnivores >
  • Herns Duplan – Expression Primitive >
  • Madhya – Méditations Sur Le Seuil >
  • Meunier, Alain >
  • Saverot, Alain >
  • Situations Sonores ’76 >

LIVE RECORDINGS:

  • Balloons a go-go! >
  • Bastien, Pierre >
  • Comelade, Pascal >
  • D.D.A.A. >
  • Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel >
  • Ensemble Vecteur Ondes ‘Hommage à Messiaen’ >
  • GOL+Charlemagne Palestine >
  • Klimperei >
  • Liles, Andrew >
  • Matmos >
  • Niblock, Phil >
  • Palestine, Charlemagne >
  • Pateras, Anthony >
  • Radikal Satan >
  • Ratkje, Maja >
  • La S.T.P.O. >
  • Tazartès, Ghédalia >
  • Toral, Rafael >
  • Young Marble Giants >

MUSICWORKS:

  • Musicworks #26 >
  • Musicworks #28 >
  • Musicworks #29 >
  • Musicworks #30 >
  • Musicworks #37 >
  • Musicworks #38 >
  • Musicworks #50 >
  • Musicworks Wikipedia article >

OBSCURE LP Series:

  • Obscure #2: Hobbs/Adams/Bryars ‘Ensemble Pieces’ >
  • Obscure #4: David Toop/Max Eastley >
  • Obscure #6: Michael Nyman ‘Decay Music’ >
  • Obscure #8: John White/Gavin Bryars ‘Machine Music’ >
  • Obscure #9: Tom Phillips/Gavin Bryars ‘IRMA’ >

POETRY OUT LOUD:

  • Number Six >
  • Number Seven >
  • Number Nine >
  • Number Ten >

RADICAL GLASS MUSIC:

  • #1 >
  • #2 >
  • #3 >
  • #4 >
  • #5 >
  • #6 >

ROUND UP:

  • Audio Arts cassettes >
  • Cordelia Records >
  • Dimossioypalliliko Retire >
  • Godfried-Willem Raes >
  • Leif Brush >
  • Pueblo Nuevo >
  • Radio Papesse >
  • Nicolas Schöffer >
  • Tony Schwartz >

RUMMAGING THE WEB:

  • #1 >
  • #2 >
  • #3 >
  • #4 >
  • #5 >
  • #6 >
  • #7 >

SPIRAL CASSETTES:

  • #1 – May 1989 >
  • #2 – June 1989 >
  • #3 – July 1989 >
  • #4 – August 1989 >
  • #5 – September 1989 >
  • #6 – October 1989 >
  • #7 – November 1989 >
  • #8 – December 1989 >
  • #9 – January 1990 >
  • #10 – February 1990 >
  • #11 – March 1990 >
  • #12 – April 1990 >

TAGO MAGO:

  • Jac Berrocal ‘Lili Traces b/w Plaisir Loques’ >
  • Lol Coxhill/Eyeless In Gaza >
  • Pascal Comelade ‘Logique Du Sens’ >
  • Etienne Brunet Trio ‘Boubou Smoking’ >
  • Marten Ingle ‘Specific Pacific Archipelagos’ >
  • This Heat/Albert Marcoeur >
  • Various ‘Paris-Tokyo’ >
  • VO – Musiques Pour Un Film Imaginaire >

TELLUS AUDIO CASSETTE magazine:

  • #09 ‘Music With Memory’ >
  • #11 ‘The Sound of Radio’ >
  • #12 ‘Dance’ >
  • #14 ‘Just Intonation’ >
  • #16 ‘Tango’ >
  • #20 ‘Media Myth’ >
  • #22 ‘False Phonemes’ >
  • #23 ‘The Voices of Paul Bowles’ >
  • #24 ‘FluxTellus’ >
  • #25 ‘Site-Less Sounds’ >
  • #26 ‘Jewel Box’ >
  • TellusTools 2xLP set >
  • Artwork galery >
  • Cassettography >
  • TellusTools remixed >
  • Tellus updates (including updated cassettography) >

VARIOUS:

  • 17 Musiques Pour Le Bar Bleu >
  • 101 lock grooves >
  • 3 Vi Tre, edizioni di polipoesia – issue #1 >
  • 3 Vi Tre, edizioni di polipoesia – issue #2 >
  • 3 Vi Tre, edizioni di polipoesia – issue #3 >
  • Africa (Music De Wolfe) >
  • An Der Schönen Blauen Donau >
  • Annual Jissom ’88 >
  • Annual Jissom ’90 >
  • Ansamblul Hyperion conducerea muzicală: Iancu Dumitrescu >
  • Antologia de Música Electrónica Portuguesa >
  • Audio Arm #3 ‘Omniana’ >
  • Audio Drudge magazine #3 >
  • Bananafish issue #12 >
  • Baobab issue #1 >
  • Burns like fire… organs! >
  • Celluloid – The Electro Years >
  • Chaleur LP >
  • Collective Foist >
  • Continuo’s updates >
  • Cooking vinyl >
  • Créer le Monde ou le Détruire >
  • Cuban avantgarde – a short introduction >
  • Dakar 1966 – 1er Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres >
  • Eh bien, la Norvège… >
  • ECHO: Images Of Sound II >
  • Electronic Music >
  • Espace Fiction – Cinemasonor series #16 >
  • Feardrop #13 >
  • Feedback #001 >
  • Festival Mimi 88 ‘Scène Ouverte’ >
  • Foro de Comunicaciones Electroacústicas vol. II >
  • Golden Apples >
  • Gothenburg 86/87 >
  • Halana #1 >
  • Halana #3 >
  • Hello Recording Club >
  • Hommage à Jacques Perdereau >
  • Inaugural Perth Festival of Improvised Music >
  • In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Experimental Music Studios >
  • Indiscreet Music – Dubious Collaberations >
  • Intermedia – Soundworks 1990-2000 >
  • Inventionen I >
  • Inventionen II >
  • IRCAM – Un Portrait >
  • Ron Kuivila & Nicolas Collins >
  • LA Mantra II >
  • Local International 15-26 >
  • Lovely Little Records >
  • Make money, start a blog >
  • Les Mysteres Des Voix Vulgaires >
  • Marlaena Kessick – Le Due Voci >
  • Mec ’70 – Musica do Brasil >
  • Mechanische Musikinstrumente >
  • Mémoire Musicale des Iles Seychelles >
  • Memorial Elvis Project >
  • Music For Percussion >
  • Music of Oceania – The Abelam of Papua Niugini >
  • Musique électronique Norvégienne >
  • La musique est dans la rue >
  • Musiques de l’O.N.F. >
  • Musiques Nouvelles ‘Sons En Mutation’ >
  • Mutations-Sonic City (2000) >
  • Notes on music and Chinese calligraphy >
  • Obscure Independent Classics vol. 1 >
  • Obscure Independent Classics vol. 5 >
  • Organised Sound vol.14 No 1 [review] >
  • Osterreichische Musik der Gegenwart: Elektronische Musik vol. 1 >
  • The Other – Issue #1 >
  • Peripheral Vision >
  • Radiophonic Tape Compositions >
  • Radio Territories [book review] >
  • Radio Territories CD >
  • Regional Zeal >
  • Rencontres du 1er Type >
  • Revue & Corrigée #69 CD, 2006 >
  • Rosenfest Berlin 1984 ‘Fragment XXX’ >
  • Salon des Composants 1970 flexidisc >
  • Savoy Sound Wave Goodbye >
  • Sound Art CD >
  • Sound Image – A Magazine of Aural and Visual Arts >
  • ‘Sound in Context’ documentary >
  • Sound Postcards (Uovo magazine #16) >
  • Soundscape CD (2007) >
  • Sound Sculptures >
  • Sounds of the Indian Snake Charmer >
  • Soundviews: Sources (1990) >
  • 水窟琴 Suikinkutsu [1/2] >
  • 水窟琴 Suikinkutsu [2/2] >
  • 水琴窟 Suikinkutsu – Healing >
  • TapRoot magazine #19/20 ‘Cleveland Language’ >
  • Tecnologie Del Movimento II >
  • Thoughts on sorting out CDs >
  • Thoughts on sorting out LPs >
  • Thoughts on sorting out LPs (Bolingo’s) >
  • Tonspur Tapes, The Best Of s >
  • Trois Lapins (1988) >
  • Trombone Extraordinaire >
  • Trying To Make It To The End Of The Century >
  • Walrus compilation >
  • Warum ist die Banane krumm ? >
  • ‘Watervalwater – Ecrits Bruts Oratorium’ >
  • Westerns – Diesel Hydraulics on the Western Region in 1974 >
  • Winter was hard… >
  • World Steelband Festival vol.1 >
  • Yesterday Our Way >
  • Y Stand Druff >
  • Zeitklänge Electronics >
  • Zulu Songs from South Africa >

WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES:

  • André Almuró >
  • Audio Arts Cassettes >
  • John De Cesare (1890-1972) >
  • Herbert Distel >
  • Dreamtiger >
  • Werner Kaegi >
  • Jaroslav Krček >
  • Music without sound >
  • Musicworks >
  • Peter Van Riper >
  • Source: Music of the Avant Garde >
  • André Stordeur >
  • Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine >

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