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acoustic . experimental

Quadrat:sch - Stubenmusic

2CD - Col Legno
Quadrat:sch are a chamber music ensemble that includes Barbara Romen, Christof Dienz, Gunter Schneider, Alexandra Dienz, Zeena Parkins, Herbert Pirker and Kassian Erhart. The band plays many instruments; some conventional (various guitars, contrabass, electric harp and jazz drums), some less ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:24 PM - Jul 26/2012
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acoustic . experimental

Seth Horvitz - Eight Studies For Automatic Piano

CD - Line
Inspired by the work of James Tenney, Gyögy Ligeti, Charlemagne Palestine, and Conlon Nancarrow, these eight studies for piano by Seth Horvitz use some simple computer-assisted composition processes. The purpose here is testing the limits of the human perception and the accuracy of the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:35 PM - Jul 19/2012
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acoustic . audio art . experimental

Alvin Lucier - Zeitkratze: Old School

CD - Zeitkratze
Recorded live at the Philharmonie Luxembourg in October 2009 and edited in the summer of the following year in Germany (GreenHouseStudios), these five new compositions by Alvin Lucier resonate intensely due to the quality of their structures and acoustic instrumental twists. In a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:29 AM - Mar 10/2011
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acoustic . ambient . audio art . drone . experimental

Olan Mill - Pine

CD - Serein
This is the debut album by the Alex and Svitlana Samoylenko Smalley duo, aka Olan Mill - two rather cultured and refined audioartists who propose elegiac instrumental sequences with elegant and solemn jumps that are modulated throughout the scores. The melodious succession of pipe organ and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:04 AM - Mar 3/2011
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acoustic . audio art . drone . field recordings

AAVV - E84

CD - Entr'acte
This very interesting collection, published by Entr'acte, opens with the tense and grinding drones of Greek experimenter Yiorgis Sakellariou. The metallic, sustained sounds are presented in the guise of iterated strings and harmonics, before the second track, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Dec 21/2010
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acoustic . drone . experimental . free form

Ignatz - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vaches
In Ignatz, floating guitar sequences merge with an exotic, repetitive score, creating melancholic and sensitive environments. Simultaneously lo-fi and yet of an unusually high technical caliber, this work generates dense drones that are infused with many influences (blues, postrock, improvisation, world ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 2/2010
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acoustic . audio art . experimental . field recordings . free form . impro

Kiko C. Esseiva - Sous Les Etoiles

CD - Hinterzimmer
Oblique, hollow melodies, horror-movie-style audio samples, suspended atmospheres, elegant iterations, intermezzo organ, voice experiments, and - unmistakably - a taste for a certain pure mental automatism, which pierces the free flow of creativity. There are strong references to the historical avant ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:42 PM - Oct 14/2008
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abstract . acoustic . experimental . free form

Kapital Band 1 - Playing By Numbers

CD - Mosz
Behind the moniker Kapital Band 1 there's a duo formed by Martin Brandlmayr and Nicholas Bussman (also known as 'The Golden Boys' and 'Hair'), two musician very skilled in iterating sensitive sounds, dilating patterns and organizing improvisations. Their abstractions chase the possibilities inspired by ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Mar 10/2008
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acoustic . experimental . minimal

Charlemagne Palestine - A Sweet Quasimodo Between Black Vampire Butterflies For Maybeck

CD - Cold Blue Music
With microtonal assonances reminiscent of the American minimalist tradition, Charlemagne Palestine excites us again with 'A Sweet Quasimodo...', playing on two different Yamaha pianos at the same time, with polished abstract soundscapes, dreamlike sound passages, trembling reverberations and shadow ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:26 PM - Mar 3/2008
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acoustic . experimental . free form

Daniel Lentz - On The Leopard Altar

CD - Cold Blue
Complex assonant vocalism exercises, mindful of 'polite' inspirations, mediaeval interlacings, reworked in new acoustic research contexts. The work of Daniel Lentz can be placed with the above unusual parallelism between trobadoric suggestions and avant-garde performances. He's a mature musician ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:18 AM - Feb 11/2008
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acoustic . experimental . impro

Greg Malcom & Tetuzi Akiyama - Six String

CD - Korm Plastics
These productions are the result of the collaborative work carried out in Extrapool's studios, in Nijmegen, Holland. They are eight delicate compositions, improvisational guitar sequences by Greg Malcom & Tetuzi Akiyama, juxtaposed in sensitive acoustic harmonies to follow the original spirit of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Aug 9/2007
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acoustic . ambient . experimental . impro . minimal

Yoshio Machida - Naada

CD - Amorfon
No electronic stuff, this time. Just an acoustic improvisation using different 'steel pans', very peculiar percussion instruments typical of the Caribbean, in Machida's first projects, turned into audio samples and processed with the Max/MSP software. In 'Naada', the result gives birth to more natural ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:45 PM - May 23/2007
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acoustic . electronica . experimental

Rlw - I.k.k. Purpur

CD - Sirr
This project by Ralf Wehowsky is inspired by an eighteenth-century Christmas song, 'Ihr Kinderlein Kommet' (chrildren come here). It's an elaboration of old recordings, heavily manipulated to extract sounds and tonal modulations. The procedure is free-form, and it ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:14 PM - Mar 18/2006
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