Jazzy D's Soul Notes

More bleeps and noises -

John Cage - Williams Mix (1952/1953)



This is a work for eight tracks of ¼ inch magnetic tape. The score is a pattern for the cutting and splicing of the sounds recorded on the tape.
The rhythmic structure is 5-6-16-3-11-5.
The sounds are in 6 categories: A (city sounds), B (country sounds), C (electronic sounds), D (manually produced sounds), E (wind produced sounds) and F ("small" sounds, which need to be ampified). Pitch, timbre and loudness are notated as well.
Approximately 600 recordings are necessary to make a version of the piece.
The compositional means were I Ching chance operations.
Cage made a realization of the work in 1952/53 (starting in May 1952) with the assistance of Earle Brown, Louis and Bebe Barron, David Tudor, Ben Johnston and others, but it also possible to create other versions, using the score.

Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH




Concret PH, the title being a reference to the architectural design and construction material, is a crackling two minutes of pointillistic sounds. Xenakis recorded the sound of burning charcoal, then layered and transposed the recordings to create evolving densities and ranges of snaps, crackles, and pops. This piece, along with Varèse's Poème électronique, remains a classic of the electroacoustic genre.

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Reissued on vinyl and download

Bernard Parmegiani ‎– Mémoire Magnétique, Vol​ 1. [1966-1990] - (2018 - Compilation)




Tracklist:

A1. Indicatif Pour L'Émission "Stade 2" (Version Inédite)
A2. La Guerre Des Insectes I
A3. L'Herbe Rouge I
A4. Je Tu Elles
A5. Versailles​.​.​.​ Peut​-​être I
A6. La Guerre Des Insectes II
A7. Opération Ypsilon
A8. Image De Marque I (Extrait)
A9. L'Herbe Rouge II
B1. La Ville En Haut De La Colline I
B2. Image De Marque II
B3. Abel-Abeth
B4. La Guerre Des Insectes III
B5. Versailles​.​.​.​ Peut​-​être II
B6. La Ville En Haut De La Colline II
B7. Récession
B8. Versailles​.​.​.​ Peut​-​être III

In a year which also saw the reissue of Bernard Parmegiani’s sci-fi soundtracks (on WRWFWW’s similarly excellent Les Soleils De L’Île De Pâques/La Brûlure De Mille Soleils release) this collection of what Transversales Disques termed “commercial and secret music” added yet another dimension to our appreciation of the French electronic/acousmatic composer.

Music I have been listening to this evening -


Howard Skempton - Well, Well, Cornelius




Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry - Erotica [1950]



Kate Carr - Things Did Seem Kind of Magical



Delia Derbyshire - Blue Veils and Golden Sand



Shiva Feshareki - Composition, No. 3



Foul Play - Ricochet




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I do love electroacoustic and experimental electronic music and one of my CD's in my collection is a dual format CD/DVD of electroacoustic music.
Just four tracks and here are two of them. The first track is a different version of the piece to the one on the CD by Peter Zinovieff.


Sir Harrison Birtwistle - Chronometer



Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco



Artist: Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology
Artist: Jonathan Harvey
Composer: Jonathan Harvey

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This time some avant-garde stuff, from the century list.

La Monte Young - Sunday Morning Blues (1964)



Personnel:
La Monte Young: Sopranino Saxophone
Marian Zazeela: Voice Drone
Angus MacLise: Hand Drums
Tony Conrad: Bowed Guitar 1, 2, Plucked Mandola 3
John Cale: Viola

Cale joined the VU later on.

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang Der Juenglinge



Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples Of The Moon



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Musique transformative,oiu?

Lionel Marchetti - L'incendie



Christine Groult - L'heure alors s'incline




Michèle Bokanowski - Tabou




Pierre Henry - Prismes



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Ohmy,this is one of the most important releases with the musique concrete to electo-acoustic and electronic music genres to come out recently by a pioneer - 12 CD's all remastered!

 

Nore sonic bricolage -


Daphne Oram - The Oram Tapes



Phensic (1961).
Illustrations (Fireworks/Ardwich High School) (1967).
New Atlantis (1963).
Stroke (1965).

Although not as well known or as revered as Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram was an unlikely looking pioneer of electronic sound and music. In 1958 she co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and was its first studio manager but left shortly after to open her Oramics Studios for Electronic Composition.


( More sonic bricolage )


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Some contemporary music selections today -

First recommended by everville340 -

John Luther Adams - Sila: The Breath of the World



Watch a full performance of "Sila: The Breath of the World" by 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams, which premiered at Lincoln Center July 25, 2014. The work was commissioned by Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Mostly Mozart Festival.

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