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![]() D.L., Jean / Rutger Zuydervelt: Scramblings (Inexhaustible Editions -- Slovenia ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using electric & acoustic guitars and autoharp over spacious electronics and field recordings, Belgium musician & video artist Jean De Lacoste and Rotterdamn sound artist Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, create broad pallets of ringing sounds over which acoustic instruments intone, with cellist Fransesco Guerri joining on one of 8 gently unfolding "Scramblings". |
![]() Hydra Ensemble (Almeida / Hitz / Gregov / Zuydervelt): Voltas (Inexhaustible Editions -- Slovenia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Featuring cellists Nina Hitz and Lucija Gregov, double bassist Goncalo Almeida and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) on electronics, recording in Old Church, in Rotterdam Charlois for six pensive improvisations, a collective conversation of concurrently layered, minimalist melodic and textural lines expanded with drones, evoking the mythical Greek multi-headed monster. |
![]() Machinefabriek: Our Arms Grew Together (Music for a performance by Marta & Kim) (Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $11.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Following his collaborations with choreographers & dancers Marta Alstadsaeter and Kim-Jomi Fischer resulting in the performances & albums As Much As It Is Worth and Engel, Rutger Zuydervelt composed this work for their dance/circus performance Our Arms Grew Together about romantic relationships, developed around recordings from the daily lives of Alstadsaeter and Fischer. |
![]() Machinefabriek / Matt Wand / Nick Storring / Phil Macguire: Prisma+ (Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $11.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Unique to the vast catalog of Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, this album was developed with Zuydervelt original material and then remixed by Matt Wand, Nick Storring and Phil Maguire, presenting the original highly rhythmic electronics at the base of "Prisma", then 4 remixes: "Scarlett's Blood Bubbles"; "Tactile Debt"; "Thigh Slapping Without Tears"; and "Wheats Flats". |
![]() Zuydervelt, Rutger / Hugo Dijkstal / Peter Hollo: BERG (Music for a film by Joke Olthaar) (Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two versions of the soundtrack to the Dutch movie BERG composed by Rutger Zuydervelt, the first rearranging the tracks to the piece to create a long-form work that maintains the meditative qualities of the movie; then an early score proposal and more active concept than the final work, developed with recordings of improvisations from cellist Peter Hollo. |
![]() Talp, Linnea: Arch Of Motion (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Performed with Stockholm musicians including pianist Alexander Zethson, wind player Martin Küchen and trombonist Mats Äleklint, organist Linnéa Talp explores the areas of sound that emulate breathing, push/pull or back & forth motion, in eight beautifully paced recordings led by the organ's rich and microtonal vibrations & timbre and imbued by the contributor's subtle additions. |
![]() IQ+1: Conversaphone Plus [VINYL] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $20.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Describing their approach to their submersive electroacoustic music as a seance, the Czech Republic septet IQ+1 with Peter Vrba, George Bagdasarov, Veronika Hladka, Jana Kneschke, Michal Zboril, and Katerina Bilejova release their 3rd album, a mix of strings, trumpet, clarinet, harmonium, synth, electronics & field recordings, creating a virtual acousmatic music of great detail. |
![]() Kalman, Egil / Fredrik Rasten: Weaving a Fabric of Winds [VINYL] (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $22.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Swedish bass player Egil Kalman, here on modular syntheizer, joins Norwegian guitarist Fredrik Rasten, for a lovely album of drifting electronics and beautifully entwining acoustic guitar, unhurriedly developing environments of warm, slowly evolving chord structures that show influences from players like Catherine Lamb or the Wandelweiser collective. |
![]() Merzbow / Arcane Device: Merzbow & Arcane Device (Important Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two innovative sonic luminaries--Japan's Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, and New York City's David Lee Myers, aka Arcane Device--remix each other's work, bringing Myer's unique approach to feedback and ethereal electronics to harness Akita's agressive sounds, and in reverse, Akita's sense of disruptive sonics explode Myer's more contemplative feedback music. |
![]() Miller, Ben : In the Moment (Two Rooms -- USA ) Price: $11.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Destroy All Monsters and Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra guitarist Ben Miller in an album of experimental solo guitar works, augmenting his guitar with effects, synthesizer, bass, tapes and radio to create seven fascinating works that reflect on his rock background through solid rhythmic and melodic hooks, but also captivates through unusual and surprising sonic elements. |
![]() Miller, Ben: In the Moment [VINYL] (Two Rooms -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Destroy All Monsters and Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra guitarist Ben Miller in an album of experimental solo guitar works, augmenting his guitar with effects, synthesizer, bass, tapes and radio to create seven fascinating works that reflect on his rock background through solid rhythmic and melodic hooks, but also captivates through unusual and suprising sonic elements. |
![]() Thut, Stefan: Among (Inexhaustible Editions -- Slovenia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Creating complex intervals that the players must "notice among each other" as a model for coexistence, cellist Stefan Thut's score for three string players and sine waves, here configured for double bass (Félicie Bazelaire), acoustic guitar (Fredrik Rasten) and cello (Thut) with Léo Dupleix on sine waves tuned to multiples of prime numbers and attached to the wooden boxes that serve as transducers. |
![]() Akerlund, Lars / Eryck Abecassis: Falls (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Investigating the possibilities of instability with synthesizers and electronic instruments, sound artists Eryck Abecassis (France) and Lars Akerlund (Sweden) present 7 impressive tracks of "Dark Energy" in two parts, combining electronics and modular synth, with credits to VICC (Visby International Centre for Composers) and EMS (Electronic Music Studio, Stockholm). |
![]() Branche, Sebastien: Lignes de Fuite [CASSETTE] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Sebastien Branche (Insub Meta Orchestra, Miguel A. Garcia) uses the tenor saxophone as a sound source, meticulously applying extended techniques, circular breathing and the resonance of the saxophone itself during improvisation, using Supercollider software in a two-way collaboration where the instrument also transforms the sounds provided by the computer. |
![]() Ciciliani, Marko: Tullius Rooms (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Large scale composition for piano, electronics and ambient recordings by Marko Ciciliani with a diverse musical landscape of sounds performed by Ciciliani and Josh Dillon. |
![]() Filip, Klaus / Moe Kamura: Passagein (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock ppooll sound artist Klaus Filip and Japanese experimental vocalist Moe Kamura (10Tet, Taku Sugimoto) in a two-part improvisation of electronic tones, textures, silence, and minimalist vocalization and utterance, Filip using a dynamic frequency palette inspiring Kamura's wordless expression; lowercase or Onkyo, a meditative and moody work. |
![]() Ganfield, Ken x Kurt Liedwart x Petr Vrba: Something Wrong There (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two compositions--"Unbearable" and "Nauseating"Ð-from the synth & electronics trio of Ken Ganfield, Kurt Liedwart and Petr Vrba, starting with improvisations on three synthesizers and electronics brought to the extreme edge, the results remixed by Liedwart to create these outer limit tracks of sci-fi psychedelia and Gameboy nightmare; truly unique and disquieting music. |
![]() Hughes, Sarah: I Love This City And Its Outlying Lands [SINGLE SIDED CASSETTE] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A contemplative solo work of subtle nuance and laden atmospheres, slowly drifting through a virtual landscape of dampened details, from London composer and improviser Sarah Hughes, performing on zither, piano, Hammond organ, sine tones, white noise, electric harpsichord, and objects, using an eBow to draw sustained tones over which delicate progressions advance. |
![]() Junk & The Beast (Petr Vrba / Veronika Mayer): Trailer (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Petr Vrba and Veronika Mayer use non-idiomatic improvisation to research the combination of textural materials, crossing them with vibrations of objects on the speakers, pure sound waves, feedbacks, tones coming from trumpet, accordion, electronics, and laptop, culminating in the creation of a muscular frenetic soup of tense energy fields. |
![]() Kwang, Goh Lee: Avalanche (2 CDs) (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A double CD of experimental composition from Malaysian sound artist Goh Lee Kwang, hypnotic works of strangely repeating glitch that bookend shorter works of rich percussive abstractions, including a work with processed voice and an extended percussive "Ritual", singular pieces reflecting Kwang's curious mind and long experience merging aberrant and subtle sound. |
![]() Kwang, Goh Lee: Back2Bed (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Goh Lee Kwang recorded these tracks from 2012-2015, a diverse set of pieces using sound, noise, field recordings, even guitar and rhythm to create unique audio environments, a succint and interesting reflection on the inquisitive nature of this audio explorers work. |
![]() Liedwart, Kurt / Petr Vrba: Punkt (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The debut album of free electronic music explorers Kurt Liedwart on synthesizers, cracked homemade and everyday electronics, and Petr Vrba on synthesizers and electronics, where each track is built upon a permutating sonic foundation of well-paced compositions that transition between hypnotic abstract structural forms and textural and timbral experimentation. |
![]() Lucchese / Kaptra: 777+2 Per Aspera ad Astra (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Visual artists Maria Lucchese is also a multi-instrumentalist and voice performer based in Berlin, working with Gio Kaptra, a filmmaker, visual artist and scientist based in Urbino, take their listeners on a 7 part cosmic exploration using tibetan bells, theremin, voice, modular synth, breath and sound processing, the title translating to "through hardships to the stars". |
![]() M2; (M to the power of 2): Pink (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Maria da Rocha's name may not be familiar to jazz and improvised music lovers in Portugal, and this is because this violinist and violist from Lisbon has worked mainly on the Berlin and Stockholm circuits and much of her dedication goes... |
![]() Machinefabriek / Anne Bakker: Oehoe (Where To Now? -- Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The fourth collaboration between electronic composer Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, and violinist, violist and vocalist Anne Bakker, in a work that merges and contrasts Bakker's string work and wordless vocals with soundscape, obscured field recordings and concrete sounds, using consonance and dissonance to create emotional pressure and release. |
![]() Metal Chaos Ensemble: Luminiferous Aether (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Metal Chaos Ensemble, formed in 2015 as a working project to explore rhythms on metallic instruments guided by rules-based chaotic systems of a very large number of small components, in a quintet studio recording using three dedicated drummers, reeds, electronics, and accompanying "tape" mixes, resulting in epic, inspired and wonderfully unpredictable improvisation. |
![]() Moor, Andy / Kaffe Matthews: Locks (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Guitarist Andy Moor of The Ex plays his guitar while electronic artist Kaffe Matthews reprocesses the sounds live into loops, drones, and static buzz, allowing Moor to respond to the manipulated sounds. |
![]() Naphtali, Dafna / Gordon Beeferman: Pulsing Dot (Clang -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Gordon Beeferman and Dafna Naphtali perform duet pieces and improvisations for piano and voice with kinetic sound processing, fractal rhythms, and polyphonic/kaleidophonic disturbances, as Beeferman creates solid structures which are augmented by Naphtali's live processing, while she employs extended vocal techniques and hand & voice activated electronics. |
![]() Ohta, Takamitsu: Three Relations Among The Flock [CASSETTE] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Takamitsu Ohta, known for his work with artists Anne-F Jacques & Ryoko Akama, in three unexpected recordings using the microphone and speaker of small devices with recording and playback ability, from five to fifteen such linked devices creating surprisingly stacatto and expressive voices from feedback, each piece aptly named for the resulting articulation each combination creates. |
![]() Other Plastics (Dominic Coles / Hunter Brown): Overtime Liquor (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Unusual glitch and extreme electronics improvised by the duo of New York artist Dominic Cole and Chicago/NY artist Hunter Brown (Sound Tribe Sector Nine), using approaches including glitch, noise & circuit bending in 9 pieces with tongue-in-cheek titles, balancing erratic moments with exploratory sections and near silence, an interesting and enigmatic album of aberrant electronics. |
![]() Owen, Ben : Turning (Wind Measure Recordings -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using a reel to reel deck, a mixer, electronics, and extraneous room sound, Brooklyn-based Ben Owens creates an album of contrasting drones and spaces, harmonically rich or pure tones contrasting with slowly drawn tape and abstract environmental sound, bringing enigmatic moments amidst drifting hiss and subliminal resonance; mysterious and intriguing. |
![]() PEK Solo: Coefficient of Unity (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A great example of the state of David Peck (PEK)'s approach to improvisation & arsenal of instruments, in an epic solo work merging acoustic and electronic sources with an unhurried path in a coherent long-form improvisation using reeds, sheng, fog horn, game calls, gongs, chimes, crotales, daxophone, [d]ronin, mpa 019, therimin, aquasonic, loops, & signal processing. |
![]() Red List Ensemble: Scope (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The Berlin-based electroacoustic Red List Ensemble founded by cellist Guilherme Rodrigues in a studio recording of the 3-part "Scope", improvised music created in real time using extensive techniques to create and raise tension in a game of contrasts, exploring orchestration in micro-groups through organization of surfaces that are opposed in terms of timbre and sound texture. |
![]() Servant, Robin: Du Souffle Et De L'Espace (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using a diatonic accordion and electronics, Robin Servant from Rimouski, Canada explores the acoustics of the places he visits by making them vibrate with his accordion and electronics, presenting 3 recordings from concerts in PiedNu in Le Havre, France, the Old Theater of St-Fabien, in Quebec, Canada, and at the Beaulieu Culturel du Temiscouata, in Quebec. |
![]() Snyder, Nicolas: Temporary Places (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock West Coast sound artist Nicolas Snyder is a composer, filmmaker, sound-documenter, gardener, and forager; fascinated by the sounds of nature, he took recordings from streams and National Parks in Vietnam, Pennsylvania, and California and merged them with music composed in the studio to create these works of great beauty as a study of locational and emotional memory. |
![]() Somnaphon: An Aligment of Various Things (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Assembling 13 tracks from obscure compilations released from 2011-2012 by the various monikers of 910 Noise artist August (September) Traeger, a wide-ranging and captivating set of approaches to sound & noise work. |
![]() Subliminator, The: Recalibrated (Scared Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Ex-Spaceseed wordsmith/gizmoist Serson Brannen explores the outer limits of high tech spoken word space art . |
![]() Szilard: Spokes (Palaver Press -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Jeremy Young, aka Szilard, in his debut full-length release as a solo performer on guitar and sine waves, with texts from Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs Du Mal" (1857) read by Aki Onda, Ella Joyce Buckley, Liam Singer and Catherine Metayer. |
![]() Vigroux, Franck: we (nous autres) (D'Autres Cordes -- France ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Electronic sound artist Franck Vigroux uses electronics, guitar, percussion, and his voice in this dark release with vocalist Annabelle Playe. |
![]() Weston, Matt: Searchlight Swings b/w Is That Helicopter Over Our House? [7-inch' VINYL] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Percussionist and electronics artist Matt Weston (Arthur Brooks Ensemble V, Arc Pair) in a 7" release showcasing his playing skills over his own notation systems employing additional dimensions of pre-and post-gestural strategies, using written standard notation and visual cues based on multiple and simultaneous, graphic scores. |
![]() Xambuca: Joulupukki (Erototox Decodings -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A series of vignettes inspired by and dedicated to the Saami people living at the top of Fenno-Scandinavian peninsula from Chandra Shukla (Xambuka), in absorbing beats and effects, synthetic sound sculptures and exotic sound. |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 3 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (4 Men With Beards -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 3rd installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
![]() Myers, David Lee: Xenography (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Xenography is the ability to write in a language which the individual has not learned, an apt description of the rich dialects sculpted from feedback sources and expertly routed through circular circuits of sound processors by New York sound artist David Lee Myers, AKA Arcane Device, captured and layered into these astounding electronic compositions. |
![]() Myers, David Lee: Lustre (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A perfect example of the radiant electronics David Lee Myers, aka Arcane Device, has developed over decades, in nine shimmering works of clear tones, controlled feedback and electronic errata, each piece transitioning in sublime ways as Myers evolves luminescent stories in glowing atmospheric sound, a richly lustered album of sound sculpting. |
![]() Talp, Linnea: Arch Of Motion [VINYL] (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $24.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Performed with Stockholm musicians including pianist Alexander Zethson, wind player Martin Küchen and trombonist Mats Äleklint, organist Linnéa Talp explores the areas of sound that emulate breathing, push/pull or back & forth motion, in eight beautifully paced recordings led by the organ's rich and microtonal vibrations & timbre and imbued by the contributor's subtle additions. |
![]() Wubbels / Lee / Olencki : Field of Action / contraposition [VINYL] (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two collaborations in a split LP, and the continuation of a series of duo pieces for piano and other instruments that pianist and keyboardist Eric Wubbels has been pursuing since 2006: first an intensive 3-part "Field Of Action" with vocalist and noise artist Charmaine Lee; then "Contraposition" with trombonist Weston Olencki in a duo with Wubbels on prepared piano. |
![]() Transistor: The Din of Eons [VINYL] (D'Autres Cordes -- France ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The NY duo of Ben Miller (voice) and Franck Vigroux (electronics) in a studio recording influenced by industrial, punk, and electroacoustic music. |
![]() Hydra Ensemble (Almeida / Hitz / Gregov / Zuydervelt): Vistas (A New Wave of Jazz -- Belgium ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second album from the Hydra Ensemble (Goncalo Almeida on double bass, Lucija Gregov on cello, Nina Hitz on cello, Rutger Zuydervelt on electronics) is a live recording with no audience from the Worm club in Rotterdam during the pandemic, reaching deeper into their masterful world of darkly intense chamber improv and electronics, slowly yielding to a spaciously brighter ending. |
![]() Machinefabriek w/ Anne Bakker: Wisps (Not On Label (Machinefabriek Self-released) -- Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The followup to their album Oehoe, electroacoustic composer Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) developed this set of 10 tracks from improvised recordings on violin, viola and voice by Anne Bakker, creating a fascinating and succinct set of compositions through the deconstruction of her virtuosic playing and Zuydervelt's electronic additions. |
![]() Silvola, Juhani: Wolf Hour Roundelay (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Finnish/Norwegian guitarist Juhani Silvola describes the music on this fascinating solo album, performed on acoustic and prepared acoustic guitars (using objects below and above the strings) and augmenting his playing with electronics & amplifiers, as "speculative sonic archaeology" or "ritual music made by a civilisation that could have stepped off the pages of a Jorge Luis Borges story. |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 4 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 4th installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
![]() Munden-Dixon, Adrianne / Leo Chang: Some Time [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Unusual interactions between electronically manipulated violin and an AMPIRI--an electronically enhanced Korean double reed instrument--from the Brooklyn duo of Leo Chang and Adrianne Munden Dixon, seven improvisations numbered "Sixteen" to "Twenty-Two", each a uniquely idiosyncratic exchange from quick slippery dialog to raspy dissonance of unexpected directions. |
![]() Franek, John: About The Color Of The Moon (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An album of evocative electronic and acousmatic soundscapes from German composer, electronic artist and keyboardist John Franek, who performs the four pieces on this album on organ and electronics, interweaving rich harmonics with stark tones, melding his sounds in slowly evolving interaction, like beams of light piercing peaceful atmospheres. |
![]() Physique (Sam Scranton / Neil Quigley): Curve Tote (Amalgam -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Creating soundscapes from homemade instruments, Text-To-Speech, AI voices, lap steel guitar, found objects, field recording, &c., the duo of sound artists Sam Scranton from Chicago and Neil Quigley from Kilkenny, Ireland, present six unusually unfolding compositions of deceptively relaxed environments layered with mysterious elements and a sly sense of humor. |
![]() Shepard, Craig: Broken Silence (Music For Contemplation, Inc. -- Austria ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The music to composer Craig Shepards performance work that presents listeners with text drawn from court testimony in the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, here concentrating on the quiet long tones generated by wind instruments and ebow strings, where pure tones pass between the musicians to build a pulsating chord that then drops away tone by tone. |
![]() Harris, Bill: Blinking Glue (Amalgam -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An extension of his prior solo record, ONOMAT, Chicago drummer & percussionist Bill Harris also uses a prepared floor tom and feedback in this unedited 25 minute live performance at Music Garage in Illinois, notated for six track section as he explores unique rhythmic concepts augmented with encompassing environmental sonics and unusual disruptive elements. |
![]() Bruckmann, Kyle: Triptych (Tautological) (Carrier Records -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Performing on oboe, English horn and live electronics, West Coast double-reedist Kyle Bruckmann presents three extended solo works of deep electroacoustic binding, each dedicated to a writer, artist or musician: "A Spurious Autobiography for John Barth (2015)"; "An Extruded Introversion for Blixa Bargeld (2016)"; and "A Fuzzy Monolith for James Turrell (2015)". |
![]() Clement, Joda / Tim Olive / Mathieu Ruhlmann: Eidolon (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock During his 2018-19 Canadian tours, Tim Olive joined Vancouver residents Joda ClŽment and Mathieu Ruhlmann for two trio performances, after which they went into the studio to record these four detailed improvisations using synthesizer, harmonium, glockenspiel, field recordings, feedback, magnetic pickups, preamps, octave generators, ukelin, cymbal, tapes, and objects. |
![]() Dadge, Chris / Tim Olive: Nice You! (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock After a performance in 2019, Kobe-based Canadian sound artist Tim Olive and Calgary percussionist, experimenter and Bug Incision lAfter a performance in 2019, Kobe-based Canadian sound artist Tim Olive and Calgary percussionist, experimenter & Bug Incision label leader Chris Dadge recorded these two studio pieces using Dadge's amplified percussion, small instruments & electronics, as well as Olive's magnetic pickup/electronics system, running through a number of guitar & bass amplifiers.abel leader Chris Dadge recorded these two studio pieces using Dadge's amplified percussion, small instruments & electronics, as well as Olive's magnetic pickup/electronics system, running through a number of guitar & bass amplifiers. |
![]() Eventless Plot (Vasilis Liolios / Yiannis Tsirikoglou / Arias Gatas): Parallel Words (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock With 20 years of performance history, the "Eventless Plot" trio of Thessaloniki, Greece — Vasilis Liolios (Psaltery, percussion, electronics), Yiannis Tsirikoglou (electronics) and Arias Gatas (piano, percussion, electronics) — present three chamber works, performed with other other Greek instrumentalists; extraordinary works of embracing creativity and depth. |
![]() Jone, Jean Claude (JC) / Raymond Boni: Visions of Sound (Kadima -- Israel ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Twelve studio improvisations between Kadima-label leader JC Jones playing on a lap-steel plugged in Spanish guitar and French guitarist & improviser Raymond Boni, also performing on harmonica and electronics, where Jones, leveraging his history of work as a double bassist, often takes on the role of percussive/rhythmic foundation against Boni's incredible explorations. |
![]() Joonyong, Choi / Jin Sangtae: Hole in My Head (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Recording in two locations in Seoul by Taku Unami, electronic, sound and noise artists Choi Joonyong and Jin Sangtae present a series of unusual interactions using sonic events, concrete and acousmatic interjections and aberrant expression, patiently conveying each event with clarity and intention and an almost theatrical sense of drama and narrative. |
![]() Kostyrko, Sergey / Tim Olive: Rasputitsa (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Selected from several hours of real-time interaction and presented as recorded with minimal editing, this album presents the first-time meeting of Kobe, Japan sound artist Tim Olive with St. Petersburg, Russian synthesist and electronic musician Sergey Kostyrko, recording in the studio together, the title aptly referencing the season of spring when roads are laid bare. |
![]() Maguire, Phil / Tim Olive: Invoer (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Stymied by Covid-19, the planned May 2020 tour of sound artists Tim Olive and Phil Maguire was cancelled, motivating each to create four 10-minute solo pieces which were then overlayed to create four "distant duo" pieces, merging Olive's textured home-made electronics and Maguire's reductive approach to audio simplicity and spare sonic environments. |
![]() Myers, David Lee: Prototype Of The Veil (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock David Lee Myers began creating feedback music in 1989, originally under the name Arcane Device, developing unique approaches to harnessing feedback between audio devices in ways their manufactures did not intend; since 2014 he has used a set of new devices that allow intense control and beauty through vibrational interactions, as heard in this, his 18th solo album of feedback music. |
![]() Myers, David Lee: Reduced to a Geometrical Point (Cronica -- Spain ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using feedback matrices, oscillator banks and multi-processing, NYC sound and feedback artist David Lee Myers, A.K.A. Arcane Device, references the quote from metaphysics scholar Frithjof Schuon--"You must detach your life from an awareness of the multiple and reduce it to a geometrical point before God"--which he manifests in four focused works of rich, slowly evolving sound. |
![]() Olive, Tim: Spot of the Foul (total mass retain) (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second-ever solo release from Tim Olive and his first since 2008, in a distinctive set of compositions that layer and superimpose multiple, darkly intense recordings of improvisations made with magnetic pickups, metal plates, springs, wire, tuning forks, electromagnets, bow, breath, dental floss, envelope generator, fuzz, spring reverb, and preamplifier. |
![]() Parkins, Zeena / Jeff Kolar: Scale (Two Rooms Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Commissioned by choreographer Jennifer Monson, the collaboration of Downtown NY electric harpist and sound artist Zeena Parkins and Chicago sound artist Jeff Kolar explore the intersection of acoustic phenonema against electronic, synthetic & radio sounds, inspired by the timing of natural phenomena like ocean currents and daylight emergence; fascinating. |
![]() Schindler / Schimanski: Ging Lenz Den Zwanzigsten Durchs Gebirg Order Nicht (FMR -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recorded at the 79th Salon fur Klang+Kunst, in Krailling, Munich, the pairing of multi-instrumentalist Udo Schindler performing on alto saxophone, brass & synthesizer and Patrick Schimanski performing on percussion, live electronics & voice was inspired by the novella fragment Lenz written by Georg Büchner in 1836 based on Jean Frédéric Oberlin's diary. |
![]() Skist (Bennett / Ito): Ellipsis (Polarity -- Japan ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Cuni, Amelia / Alex Mendizabal: Stimmen Aus Himmel Und Holle (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Translating to "Voices from Heaven and Hell", the meeting of two Berlin artists--Amelia Cuni, whose vocal work is described as in/voluntary singing; and Alex Mendizabal, a sound artist who here electronically manipulates the voice of Cuni--using texts from poet Erin Honeycutt as the two apply diverse, fascinating and sometimes unnerving approaches to voice, utterance and expression. |
![]() Olive, Tim / Kayu Nakada: Kanpu (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 2nd album from the duo of Japanese circuit bender Kayu Nakada, using circuit boards from electronic instruments short circuited for new effects, and Japan-based Canadian electronic instrument maker Tim Olive (845 Audio) on shortwave radio, magnetic pickups & undokai, recorded together in Kobe, Japan and then edited and composed into these two intriguing works. |
![]() Wachsmann, Phillip: Chathuna (Bead -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recordings from a unique concert at the Synagogue in Oerlinghausen, Germany in 1996 between long-term collaborators Philipp Wachsmann and artist Sarah Brigitte Eckel, Wachsmann improvising in the resonance of the synagogue on violin, viola, electronics & tape in response to Eckel's exhibition extemporizing five canvas painting and a floor installation. |
![]() Wachsmann, Philipp / Matthew Hutchinson: Startle The Echoes (Bead -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Beginning their collaboration during the 1970s in the Chamberpot Ensemble, the duo of violinist Philipp Wachsmann and keyboard and electronic improviser Matthew Hutchinson are heard in live recording from three London Concerts in 2002 & 2003, Wachsmann's violin extended via live signal processing and transformations, extending their dialogs in expansive ways. |
![]() Wachsmann, Philipp / Michael Bunce: Refractions In Air (Bead -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Philipp Wachsmann's acoustic violin is routed through his own electronics and then fed into the Live Electronic Sampling & Transformations (LiSa) systems of Michael Bunche, processed and re-performed using time-based transformations shaped by gestural input or as static samples, creating new and unexpected trajectories, sounds snd forms for Wachsmann's playing. |
![]() Wachsmann, Philipp / Lawrence Casserley: Garuda (Bead -- UK ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Both members of Evan Parker's Electro Acoustic-Ensemble and Colourscape, the ea-improv duo of Philipp Wachsmann on violin & viola and Lawrence Casserley using a signal processing instrument and percussion, are heard in these 2012 studio recordings in Buckinghamshire in 9 wide-ranging dialogs exploring permutations of playing, processing and transforming their instruments. |
![]() Olive, Tim: Okay Grand Dependable [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Verz Imprint -- UK ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A mysterious set of four works using magnetic pickups to create a diverse set of soundscapes, from ringing tones to cantankerous scratchy earthquake zones, with radio captures alone or on top of those environments adding a sense of mystery to each piece, sometimes providing enigmatic voices, sometimes static, sometimes strange signal and carrier waves; fascinating. |
![]() Davis, Greg: New Primes [VINYL + DOWNLOAD] (Greyfade -- USA ) Price: $22.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Using custom-written software to translate prime number sequences into a tonal palette of rich, compatible sounds, Vermont-based electronic musician and sound artist Greg Davis investigates the compositional properties of those numbers by paring the representation of each sequence into a network of pure sine tones which interact with fascinating harmonic and rhythmic structures. |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 5 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 5th installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
![]() Street Tentacle (Chan / Wang / Bryerton): Preserves (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Assertively probing like a squid raging out of the sea, Street Tentacle is the trio of Chicago tenor saxophonist Jeff Chan, guitarist Da Wei Wang also on electronics, and drummer Jerome Bryerton on drums, cymbals, gongs, bowed metal & assorted percussion, in five assertive improvisations of an everything including the kitchen sink style; daunting and domineering! |
![]() Motl, Kyle / Carlos Dominguez : Field of Fried Umbrellas [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock An apt title for this collection of improvised works for double bass and feedback mixer between long-time collaborators Kyle Motl and Carlos Domínguez Reinhardt, both members of the band Not the Circus and having previously released the duo album Artabotrys Hexapetalus, this album recorded in 2020 at Rat's Mouth in Florida for five diverse and often abrasive interactions. |
![]() de Asis, Clara / Ryoko Akama: Sisbiosis (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Engrossing interactions of electronic sound, abstract percussion, static, metallic ringing and other ephemeral sonic assertions, from French-based Spanish sound artist Clara de Asís and UK-based Japanese-Korean installation & sound artist Ryoko Akama: three tracks of live electroacoustic improvisation, and three compositions extracted from those sessions. |
![]() Deane, J.A. / Jason Kao Hwang: Uncharted Faith (Tone Science Music -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The final collaboration of innovative electronic artist J.A. Deane, working remotely with violinist Jason Kao Hwang who sent Deane improvised solo acoustic violin recordings that Deane edited into 57 gestures, mapping them to a keyboard and creating six tracks of morphed electronics which Hwang improvised over with an electric violin to complete this unique and fascinating album. |
![]() de Leon, Mario Diaz: Enter Houses Of (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock NY composer Mario Diaz de Leon, who is influenced by Scelsi, Ligeti, Dumitrescu & Radulescu, focuses on acoustic & electronic hybrids that often fuse both elements into unified meta-instruments. |
![]() Degrassi, Franco: rage (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Acousmatic work from electronic composer Degrassi: two serial pieces using algorithmic software, an elabration of recorded sounds, and an improvisation using real-time synthesizers. |
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