Earlier this year, the Bigo & Twigetti label asked its artists to contribute a personal reflection of summer. This compilation is the result. Summer is a potpourri of presentations that opens up the question, “What does summer sound like?” For this listener, summer sounds like the opening track, Pavel Karmanaov‘s “Michael Music”: ebullient, with sparks and ocean droplets […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M28oHUwfzA
Terrible news to report, with a hat tip to my friend Terje, who dropped the bombshell. One of Finland’s finest composers, Einojuhani Rautavaara, has died. NPR has more on his passing.
UCLA professor Sharon Gerstel’s work in studying how Byzantine church architecture helped to enhance the sound of liturgical chants was featured at UCLA’s Newsroom blog.
“Pierre Henry was born in Paris, France, and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music. He studied withNadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Félix Passerone at the Paris Conservatoire from 1938 to 1948 (Dhomont 2001).Between 1949 and 1958, Henry […]
Jonáš Gruska is a composer out of Slovakia who works in the medium of electroacoustic music, only using updated techniques. Lots of glitch, loops, and drones make for some very engaging compositions.
The elder statesman of electroacoustic music, Pierre Henry, with a composition that could almost pass for dubsetp these days.
https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F41015068996%2Fvideos%2F10153764937033997%2F&show_text=0&width=560Italy’s finest pianist produces a new work influenced by Erik Satie, but Alessandra Celletti’s video reminds me of something one would have seen on Soviet children’s television.
New Wilderness Audiographics, a US-based label founded by 75-year-old composer/poet Charlie Morrow, hasn’t released music for over three decades, but the label has just unloaded digital versions of 40 rare, mostly unknown cassettes. Originally recorded and released in the 1970s and early ’80s, the astonishing collection features music by such luminaries as Pauline Oliveros, Phil Corner, […]
via The Rare Recordings of Pauline Oliveros, Jerome Rothenberg and More — Bandcamp Daily
Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Merzbow / Keiji Haino / Balazs Pandi – An Untroublesome Defencelessness (2016) […]
via AMN Picks of the Week: Merzbow, Haino, Pandi / Tim Brady / Grew, Watts / Gaudi — Avant Music News
You Are Welcome Here is a compilation featuring a mishmash of experimental musicians, some famous (Nocturnal Emissions, Rapoon, Dan Melchior) and some up-and-coming talent. From Fabrica Records’ Bandcamp site:
“You Are Welcome Here” is an experimental music compilation benefitting refugees of war. All of the 28 artists involved donated an unreleased composition, which is not available anywhere else.
All funds raised from purchases of this album will be donated to the International Rescue Committee to help support their work providing immediate assistance to refugees in Europe, including Greece, and to displaced people in Iraq, Yemen, and in other crisis zones around the world.
We want anyone and everyone to be able to download this compilation but please consider making a suggested donation of $5.00 or more.
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