Neil Feather, "Revelation of an Anaplumb"

Appearing at the Red Room, August 18th

Luigi Nono, "Musica-manifesto no.1" (1968-9)

Musica-manifesto no.1, 1968-9
1. Un volto e del mare (Pavese), vv, tape
2. Non consumiamo Marx, tape

Source recordings for the taped portion are the 1968 student riots in Paris.

194142434445's Back!

Don't know if our reposts had anything to do with it, but one of the best experimental blogs has returned with a bang. Over the weekend, 194142434445 managed to post 7 different albums by Mirror, including:

A Pilgrim's Solace



As we do with the Avant Garde Project, we'll repost what we can in more user-friendly mp3's, because we think more people should hear the stuff that these guys go to great lengths to post.

The Verlaines, "Writing on the Wall"

From their 1996 album Over the Moon

Professor Graeme Downes

1/2 Japanese, "1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts"

Disc: 1

01. No Direct Line from My Brain to My Heart
02. 10th Avenue Freeze Out
03. Ta Sheri Ta Ta
04. My Girlfriend Lives Like a Beatnik
05. Her Parents Came Home
06. Shhh/Shhh/Shhh
07. Girls Like That
08. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
09. No More Beatle Mania
10. Tangled Up in Blue
11. Patti Smith
12. School of Love
13. Jodie Foster
14. Shy Around Girls
15. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
16. Bogue Millionaires/Cool Millionaires
17. TN TN TN TN Ki
18. I Can't Stand It Anymore
19. I Love Oriental Girls
20. Dream Date
21. Du du Du/ Du du Du
22. Ain't Too Proud to Beg
23. Ann Arbor, Mi
24. I'm Going to the Zoo
25. Shi Yi Yi
26. Rave On
27. I Ta Na Si Na Mi Eee
28. Till Victory
29. Rip My Shirt to Shreds
30. I Don't Want to Have Mono No More
31. She Cracked
32. BBBBBBBB/BBBBBBBBB
Disc: 2

01. Funky Broadway Melody
02. I'm Sorry
03. T/T/T/T/T/T
04. Worst I'd Ever Do
05. Live in Baltimore MD.
06. Live in Washington DC
07. Battle of the Bands
08. Worst I'd Ever Do
09. Ann Arbor, MI
10. School of Love
11. Her Parents Came Home
12. Shy Around Girls
13. Dream Date
14. Bogue Millionaires/Cool Millionaires
15. Knock on Wood
16. Top Secret
17. Guitar Solo
18. Calling All Girls

Theater of Eternal Music, Dream House 78' 17"

I | II



In 1974 the couple (LaMonte Young/Marian Zazeela) were approached by French experimental label Shandar to record a Theatre Of Eternal Music album. The resulting Dream House 78' 17" again featured two side-long pieces. Jon Hassell (trumpet) and Garrett List (trombone) joined the couple for a rendition of 13 1 73 5:35 - 6:14:03pm NYC, excerpted from Young's epic, continuous performance work The Tortoise, His Dreams And Journeys, while the second side was taken up with a further Drift Study. Hassell's and List's contributions to the Tortoise piece grafted fresh flesh on to Young's original vision, coaxing the eternally slumbering tortoise to poke its head out of its jewel encrusted shell and sniff the city air. There is also more than a hint of the massive influence that classical Indian singer Pandit Pran Nath had on Young's music during this period. The assembled voices tuned to their sinewaves and instruments eventually swell into a mass chorus of Asian adopted drone that rolls gently back and forth to produce a deep trance effect. -- The Wire

Harry Bertoia, "Continuum"

In the early 1970's Designer and Sculptor Harry Bertoia and his son Val, made hundreds of sound sculptures. These sculptures represent Harry Bertoia's formation of Sonambient®.

Sonambient® was Bertoia's term to describe the spatial and tonal environment created by these sound sculptures.

Harry Bertoia created these sculptures of different shapes, length and thickness in order to achieve a range of gentle and sharp sounds. He experimented as a way to seek harmonic balance with the metal, resulting in pure, unique tones.

When touched, struck or brushed, these sculptures became abstractions of sound as they sway and knock against one another. The sounds are organic and mysterious, as tones resonate and flow into each other.

The completed Sonambient® also consists of gongs and suspended sonic-bars. Within his renovated barn, Harry made more than 360 magnetic-tape recordings -- Bertoiaharry.com

Zoviet France, "Shamany Enfluence"

Paul Panhuysen & Johan Goedhart, "Long String Installations"

...Long string instruments have been a popular form of working with the coupling of sound and space as a compositional subject. The basic principle they work upon is the amplification of longitudinal waves in strings rather than transverse waves. That is, what is heard is the expansion and contraction of the length of the string, not the perpendicular displacement of the string. Thus, long string instruments can actually be "played" by the wind, by sounds travelling through the air, or by merely brushing the string horizontally. Long string instruments exist all over the globe, with instruments on the Isle of Wight, Nova Scotia, New Zealand, Australia and germany. Some Americans who have worked in this medium are Ellen Fullman, Terry Fox, Phil Niblock, Tom Johnson, and Alvin Lucier....

Side 5:

"The Paal" (9:28)
recording location: Municipal Museum, Arnhem, The Netherlands
date recorded: 25.5.1985

"Day Glo" (6:23)
recording location: Werkstatt Sudstadt, Hannover, F.R.G.
date recorded: 28.6.1985

"Steelband" (5:18)
recording location: Het Klein, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
date recorded: 15.6.1985

Side 6:

"Spider" (3:00)
recording location: Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
date(s) recorded: 28-30.5.1983

"Splitlevel" (2:30)
recording location: Cultureel Sentrum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
date(s) recorded: 26-28.8.1983

"Carillon" (2:54)
recording location: De Kijkschuur, Acquoy, The Netherlands
date(s) recorded: 10.3-24.4.1984

"Gymnasium" (2:00)
recording location: Provinciaal Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Hasselt, Belgium
date(s) recorded: 8.6-8.7.1984

"Requiem" (2:30)
recording location: Espace Nord 251, Liege, Belgium
date(s) recorded: 20.4-15.5.1985

"The Paal" (4:56)
recording location: Municipal Museum, Arnhem, The Netherlands
date(s) recorded: 25.5-1.8.1985

"Two Symmetric Automats" (2:59)
recording location: Werkstatt Sudstadt, Hannover, F.R.G.
date(s) recorded: 28-30.6.1985

Note: The tracks on each side are not separated, so as to preserve the original listening experience.

Jliat

Took their cues from Fiona when they titled this one, "When We Focus On Nothing As Opposed To The Set Or Subset Of Infinite Events With Whatever Intellect We Have In That Moment The Conscious State Becomes Aware Of The Alternative To The Infinity Of States Which In Its Apprehension Is Enlightenment".

Monos, "Everyday Soundtracks"

Darren Tate & Colin Potter from Ora are Monos.

Organum, "Sol Mara"

Arditti/Scelsi, Quartet No. 3

Gorgeous recording of gorgeous music, courtesy of 194142434445, which also furnished the LaMonte Young & Street recordings we just posted. They describe themselves as an "Avant blog for experimental music fans", but they're threatening to stop posting because no one's paying attention. So give them a visit and keep the flow of killer avant music coming.

The Gorgeous Arditti