The Squid's Ear Magazine
Philz Birthday Sale! Save 10% - 15% on all new and used albums!

Acoustmatic Electronic Composition


 
Cirotteau / Lacasse / Massicotte / Normand: Face a la derive
Cirotteau / Lacasse / Massicotte / Normand:
Face a la derive

(Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $14.95

Price: $13.45    




In Stock

An audio and acousmatic documentary of the sounds along the St. Lawrence River, above and below water, and the voices of the people living around the shore.

Fictive Five, The (Ochs / Wooley / Filiano / Niggenkemper / Eisenstadt): Anything Is Possible
Fictive Five, The (Ochs / Wooley / Filiano / Niggenkemper / Eisenstadt):
Anything Is Possible

(Clean Feed -- Portugal )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $13.95

Price: $12.55    




In Stock

A tour-de-force of modern creative jazz from the quintet of Larry Ochs on tenor & sopranino saxophones, Nate Wooley on trumpet, Ken Filiano on bass & effects, Pascal Niggenkemper on bass & effects, and Harris Eisenstadt on drums, the familiar history of the musicians and the staggering skill of each bearing out the album's title, in 2 collective and 3 Ochs compositions.

Loriot / Vincent: Bobun: Suite pour Machines a meche
Loriot / Vincent:
Bobun: Suite pour Machines a meche

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $15.95

Price: $14.35    




In Stock

The string duo Bobun celebrates ten years of creative collaboration with this six piece suite, a studio recording of diverse improvisations that runs the gamut from lowercase minimalism to dense and technically exuberant interaction.

Loriot, Frantz : Reflections on an Introspective Path
Loriot, Frantz :
Reflections on an Introspective Path

(Neither/Nor Records -- USA )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $13.95

Price: $12.55    




In Stock

French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot's first solo album takes the viola into unusual territory, using an acousmatic approach to create music and sounds with no visual reference by transforming the sound of the viola through preparations and remarkable extended techniques, layering and assembling his works to create concrete statements of movement.

Petit, Philippe : Ear Me In
Petit, Philippe :
Ear Me In

(Bolt -- Poland )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $14.95

Price: $13.45    




In Stock

Composer Petit in an opus dealing with the dynamic of resonance and its incidences: a microphonic exploration of a single sound body made to resonate by means of different types of percussion, building a dramatic story from sampled and processed percussive elements.

Piotrowicz, Robert / Lukas Jincka: Samoobrona [VINYL]
Piotrowicz, Robert / Lukas Jincka:
Samoobrona [VINYL]

(Bolt -- Poland )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $17.95

Price: $16.15    




In Stock

Helmut Kajzar's theatrical play with themes of physicality and death with sound performed on synthesizers and electronics, in it's 4th recording including stage directions in the narrative (in Polish) with an insert providing English translations of a selection of dialog.

Various Artists: 30 Jahre Inventionen 1982-2012 [2 CDs + DVD]
Various Artists:
30 Jahre Inventionen 1982-2012 [2 CDs + DVD]

(Edition Rz -- Germany )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $33.95

Price: $30.55    




In Stock

Two re-releases of Edition RZ LPs that are now available in this double CD box with additional tracks, as well as a mainly acousmatic DVD that features electronic tracks by a variety of electroacoustic composers.

Various Artists: Victoriaville Matiere Sonore
Various Artists:
Victoriaville Matiere Sonore

(Les Disques Victo -- Canada )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $15.95

Price: $14.35    




In Stock

Francisco Lopez initiated this project in 2006 with the Pogus CD "Montreal Sound Matter", now expanded into an acousmatic group of linked tracks from a group of impressive sound artists.

Aarni, Olli: Mustikoita Ja Kissankelloja [VINYl]
Aarni, Olli:
Mustikoita Ja Kissankelloja [VINYl]

(Mappa -- Slovokia )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $19.76

Price: $17.78    




In Stock

Translating to "Blueberries and cat bells", Finnish electronic composer Olli Aarni's sound world is quick paced and surprisingly dense considering an overall feeling of brightness, sounds flashing and swirling by in strange segments of acousmatic exhilaration, pausing form moments before seizing his listener once more with swift streams of alien soundscapes; brilliant.

IQ+1: Conversaphone Plus [VINYL]
IQ+1:
Conversaphone Plus [VINYL]

(Mappa -- Slovokia )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $20.95

Price: $18.85    




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.

Loriot, Frantz / Christian Wolfarth: The Call [VINYL]
Loriot, Frantz / Christian Wolfarth:
The Call [VINYL]

(Shhpuma -- Portugal )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $22.95

Price: $20.65    




In Stock

Two unconventional and experimenting improvisers--French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot and Swiss percussionist Christian Wolfarth--in a deceptive album of acoustic improvisation that elusively takes on electric qualities in the hands of these two innovators, seducing the listener through unusual twists and turns of perfectly paced interactions.

Roigk, Stefan : Suffering For The Promised [VINYL]
Roigk, Stefan :
Suffering For The Promised [VINYL]

(Fragment Factory -- Germany )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $19.95

Price: $17.95    




In Stock

Multi-disciplinary artist living in Berlin, Stefan Roigk developed "Suffering For The Promised" over a 14 year period, composing this large work of acousmatic music as an atmospherically intense yet utterly fragile piece, combining concrete sounds, field recordings and devotional vocal fragments in an eclectic and highly intimate composition of great depth and detail.

Ease: Klaus Filip / Noid: No No No, No
Ease: Klaus Filip / Noid:
No No No, No

(Mikroton Recordings -- Russia )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $13.95

Price: $12.55    




In Stock

An anniversary release for the 10 year collaboration of Ease, the duo of Klaus Filip and Noid, using Filip's ppooll software (formerly lloopp) to tailor both pure electronic sound and modified field recordings into subtle and mysterious sound environments.

Massaro, Francesco: Maniera Nera
Massaro, Francesco:
Maniera Nera

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $15.95

Price: $14.35    




In Stock

Translating to "Black Manner", saxophonist and electroacoustic artist Francesco Massaro, a member of the Italian band Bestiario, presents a dark and troubling album of intense and power solo saxophone and acousmatic accompaniment, which he refers to as "fixed media", each of the 8 pieces referencing musicians including Lenoci, La Volpe, &c.; enigmatic and superb.

Teruggi, Daniel: Sphaera [VINYL]
Teruggi, Daniel:
Sphaera [VINYL]

(Recollection GRM -- Austria )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $27.95

Price: $25.15    




In Stock

Italian electroacoustic composer and former directed of the French GMR studio Daniel Teruggi is heard in four major and spectacular acousmatic works from the 1980s into the 2000s: "Space of Mind (2004)" in four movements; "Birds (2006)" in five moments; "Transmutations (2009)" in five movements; and the earlier "Terra" exploring the four fundamental substances.

Durrant, Phil / Daniel Thompson: Live / Studio <i>[Used Item]</i>
Durrant, Phil / Daniel Thompson:
Live / Studio [Used Item]

(Bead -- UK )



Philz Birthday Sale!

Price was $10.00

Price: $9.00    




In Stock

The improvising string duo of stalwart London improvisers, Daniel Thompson on acoustic guitar and Phil Durrant on the octave mandola, are heard in two settings of texturally rich, intricate interactions, first at Cafe OTO in 2022 for an extended improvisation, then at Cable Street Studios two months later for six succint, impressively diverse dialogs.



Best Sellers in This Category:

Fictive Five, The (Ochs / Wooley / Filiano / Niggenkemper / Eisenstadt): Anything Is Possible

Various Artists: 30 Jahre Inventionen 1982-2012 [2 CDs + DVD]

Various Artists: Victoriaville Matiere Sonore

Petit, Philippe : Ear Me In

Loriot / Vincent: Bobun: Suite pour Machines a meche

Loriot, Frantz : Reflections on an Introspective Path

Teruggi, Daniel: Sphaera [VINYL]

Piotrowicz, Robert / Lukas Jincka: Samoobrona [VINYL]

Loriot, Frantz / Christian Wolfarth: The Call [VINYL]

Cirotteau / Lacasse / Massicotte / Normand: Face a la derive

Aarni, Olli: Mustikoita Ja Kissankelloja [VINYl]

IQ+1: Conversaphone Plus [VINYL]

The Squid's Ear Magazine

The Squid's Ear Magazine

© 2002-, Squidco LLC