Electronic
|
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. |
Novik, Aaron: Grounded [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock During the lockdown of 2020 clarinetist and composer Aaron Novik recorded the sounds of clarinet, bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet, using those samples to create this 10-part composition, a work of active counterpoint and minimalist structures with a playful sense of humor, the character of the samples bringing forth both acoustic and electronic evocations. |
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. |
Tsunoda, Toshiya / Taku Unami: Wovenland 2 [2 CDs] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $23.95 In Stock For their 2nd collaboration, sound artists Toshiya Tsunoda & Taku Unami present a series of acoustic experiments, each track using a single field recording — fishing spots, birds, a hiking trail, &c, — recording and manipulating those recordings using specific processes, seeking to emulate the way our minds process the senses that we encounter to create our perceived reality. |
Various Artists: 20 Jahre Inventionen VI (Edition Rz -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 In Stock New Pricing April 2019: Recordings from the Berlin Inventionen Festivals for New Music 2005 and 2006 featuring compositions by Edgar Barroso ("ODD"); Mario Verandi ("Comme un jeu des images"); Paul Wilson ("Trhough the Rain"); Ricardo Climent ("Wallwoodpeckers"); Vladimir Djambazov ("The Secret Life of a Snare Drum"); and Ludger Brummer ("Glasharle"). |
I.P.Y. (Ikue Mori / Phew / YoshimiO): IPY (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $10.65 In Stock Bringing together three Japanese avant experimenters and improvisers — Ikue Mori (DNA, Downtown NY mainstay), YoshimiO (Boredoms, Saicobab and OOIOO) and Phew (Aunt Sally) — for a live performance at U.F.O. Club, in Tokyo in 2019, blurring the edges of experimentation, improvisation, and rock, an exciting and powerful first meeting for this trio. |
Various Artists (Luigi Russolo / Chris Cutler / Nick Sudnick / Andrzej Karpinski / Alessandro Monti / Silvio Mix / Pietro Verardo: Intonarumori: Ieri Ed Oggi (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Four new commissioned works by Chris Cutler, Andzrej Karpinski, Nick Sudnik and Alessandro Monti performed on Futurist conceptualist Luigi Russolo's "Intonarumori", unique boxes capable of mechanically creating sounds including roars, thunderings, explosions, hissing, whistling, puffing, mumbling, muttering, gurgling, screeching, creaking, buzzing, crackling and scraping. |
La Casa, Eric: AIR.ratio (Swarming -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Reissuing La Casa's 2006 album of ventilation systems, which started with a bathroom vent and expanded to a sonic exploration of aeraulic devices and air flows in Paris buildings of various ages and dimensions, documenting their sonic and musical qualities, functioning as a sound study, a sonic data bank, a CD of environments, and finally as music. |
Turner, Roger / Henry Kaiser / Martin Kuchen / Damon Smith / Jeff Coffin / Ed Pettersen / Tania Chen / Jordan Muscatello: Interstellar Transmissions (Split Rock Records -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Two fascinating experimental concepts executed by Roger Turner, Henry Kaiser, Martin Kuchen, Damon Smith, Jeff Coffin, Ed Pettersen, Tania Chen, & Jordan Muscatello; Disc 1, each musician improvised alone to NASA recordings from the Voyager spacecraft, the results mixed together over the Voyager track; Disc 2, three improvisers play together in response to Voyager tracks. |
Livebatts!: (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Recorded in the mid-90s, Livebatts! was a project of John White (Cornelius Cardew, Scratch Orchestra) developed to exploit "toy" keyboards of the 80s--cheap battery-driven instruments that hold tremendous potential for "serious" music-making--used here in a playful quartet with vocalist MJ Coldiron, Andrea Rocca (guitar & samples) and Nancy Ruffer (electrified flute). |
Weston, Matt: A New Form Of Crime [VINYL] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Conceived and constructed over 16 years, composer, electronic artist & percussionist Matt Weston employs graphic and personal notation systems with elements including clandestine recordings in concert halls and athletic buildings while they were not in use, rural field recordings, and the sound of cars driving over a bridge at Weston's conducting; unique and fascinating. |
|
Fujii, Satoko: Piano Music
Cleaver, Gerald : Griots
Nakatani, Tatsuya: Monochrome
Lubelski, Samara / Bill Nace: S/T
Beins, Burkhard / Lucio Capece / Martin Kuchen / Paul Vogel: Fracture Mechanics
Allbee, Liz: Rille
Grdina, Gordon / Jim Black: Martian Kitties
Distel, Herbert: Travelogue
Banabila, Michel: Tapu Sampler 2016
Liedwart, Kurt / Julien Ottavi / Keith Rowe: L'Or
Gustafsson, Mats / Wendy Gondeln / Wolfgang Voigt / Martin Siewert: The Shithole Country & Boogie B
Rydberg (Werner Dafeldecker / Nicolas Bussmann): Rydberg
London Experimental Ensemble: Child Ballads
Tetreault, Martin : Plus de Snipettes!!
Baron, Marc : Un Salon Au Fond D'un Lac
Block Ensemble (Ratkje / Joh / Pernille / Ingvaldsen / Rasmussent ...): Hugs and Bugs
La Casa, Eric : Paris Quotidien [CD+60 page booklet of photos & text]
Merce, Sergio: Be Nothing
Hawkins, Chester: Magnetisk Nord
Merce, Sergio: En Lugar De Pensar