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AAVV - Myths & Masks Of Karol Szymanowski

AAVV, Myths & Masks, Karol Szymanowski, Kvitnu, Dunaewsky69, Nikolaienko, Kotra, Zavoloka, v4w.enko, Ujif_Notfound, Alla Zagaykevych, Andrey Kiritchenko, Polish Institute, Kiev, Tymoszówka, Ucraina, experimental, acoustic-digital, musica classica, Aurelio Cianciotta, AAVV---Myths-&-Masks.jpg

CD- Kvitnu
At the beginning of 2011, eight Ukrainian musicians were invited to play the same number of works by Karol Szymanowski, one of the most important European authors of the first half of the twentieth century. The renowned composer and pianist was born in 1937 in Tymoszówka, at the time a Polish ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:14 PM - Dec 27/2011
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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . impro

Mark Templeton - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vaches
"Mort Aux Vaches" (death to cows) shouted the anarcho-Communards as they turned against every form of authority. Echoes of this turbulent time still resound in the catalogue of Staalplaat, a Dutch indie label whose Berlin store has released some of the most interesting international experimental ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:05 AM - Nov 29/2011
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acoustic/digital . experimental . field recordings . impro

Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello - Moss

CD - 12k
Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello, have created an interesting live project recorded in the Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, California. The audio performance, part of the comprehensive program of the Biennial 01SJ Festival, an event focused on futuristic imagination ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:01 PM - Aug 10/2011
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Synusonde – Yug

CD - Minus Habens
"Yug" is an interesting project that stems from a meeting between the electronic composer Paolo Bragaglia, in a creative symbiosis with the talented Italian-American musician Matteo Ramon Arevalos, who both share a passion for one of the most important instruments of the Western concert tradition: the piano. The purpose of Synusonde is to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:02 PM - Jul 26/2011
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acoustic/digital . ambient . audio art . drone . soundscapes

Emanuele Errante - Time Elapsing Handheld

CD - Karaoke Kalk
Digital-acoustic mixes, delicate lullabies and ambient scores. Overlapping textures sometimes develop from a single note, among meandering drones and clear harmonic articulations. All of Emanuele Errante’s electro-acoustic wisdom comes together in the seven tracks (including two bonus ones in the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:42 PM - Jun 28/2011
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acoustic/digital . experimental . industrial

Alexander Schubert - Alexander Schubert Plays Sinebag

CD - Ahornfelder
Acoustic instruments and electronic processing converge in this new album by Alexander Schubert through hybrid experimental junctions of captured sounds and elliptical atmospheres. There are almost post-jazz sequences in "A Few Plateaus", while “Preliminary”, "Vowels", "All My Models" and "Slept" offer ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:00 PM - Jun 8/2011
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If, Bwana - Assemble.Age!

CD - Mutable
He's back to delight lovers of more "purist" experimentation. Al Margolis - aka If, Bwana – is an acrobatic audio-artist, active since the eighties, who remains effective and calibrated in the production of concrete techniques, weaving improvisation and deliberation, combining acoustic instruments, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:08 AM - May 20/2011
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Mari Kimura - The World Below G And Beyond

CD - Mutable Music
Interfacing MaxMSP with a violin, Mari Kimura extends the traditional expressive techniques of the instrument, focusing his research primarily on the range of subharmonics. "The World Below G And Beyond" - however - use an approach which seeks to implement a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:44 AM - Mar 15/2011
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acoustic/digital . audio art . drone . laptop . post rock

DiRac - Phon

CD - Valeot
Many laptops combined with several acoustic instruments – this is a set-up focused on pattern building, iteration on different levels through precise manipulations designed to modulate tones, resonance and vibration. Peter Kutin, Florian Kindlinger and Daniel Lerche, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:01 AM - Feb 7/2011
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David First - Privacy Issues [Droneworks 1996-2009]

3CD - XI Records
David First’s debut album with XI Records sees the experienced guitarist and composer working alongside such luminaries as “Blue" Gene Tyranny, Peter Zummo, Chris McIntyre and The Black Jackets Ensemble. The work features drones, dilated harmonies and diverse ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Jan 4/2011
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acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . field recordings

Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Bird, Lake, Objects

CD - Faitiche
Introspective, dreamy and dense sounds, intense but restrained, are intertwined in a very calibrated way in ‘Bird, Lake, Objects’. Using only one microphone to capture the whole ensemble (percussion and vibes by Masayoshi Fujita, electronic devices and laptops by Jan Jelinek), the work has been ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 11/2010
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Bill Wells & Stefan Schneider - Pianotapes

CD - Karaoke Kalk
Gentle, fragile chords played by Bill Wells and Stefan Schneider, a form of "chamber music" we might say, digs up an old-fashioned stylistic category. The former engages with harmonic scales while the latter records everything on two old tape recorders and replays elements at ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 4/2010
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Philippe Petit & Friends - A Scent Of Garambrosia

CD - Aagoo
Elegant cinematic and orchestral movements, made using both acoustic and digital instruments, are unraveled in rarefied and narrative structures and juxtaposed with melancholic, anxious sequences by Philippe Petit. The artist has carefully coordinated an eclectic group of musicians, artists and sound-experimenters ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Oct 14/2010
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acoustic/digital . audio art . circuit bending . experimental . field recordings

KGB - Noise Forest

DVD - Aural Terrains
Behind the acronym KGB hide Kim Cascone, Guido Henneböhl and Brendan Dougherty, all well-known musicians and researchers in the contemporary digital-electroacoustic scenes. This combo - founded in 2004 - stands out for their use of field recordings and processed sounds in performances. In this recording, created at an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 14/2010
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acoustic/digital . audio art . drone . experimental

Mem1 - +1

Mem!, +, Interval, Laura. Mark Cetilia, audio art, acoustic/digital, experimental, laptop, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneid, Jen Boyd, Steve Roden, Ido Govrin, Aera C, Kadet Kuhne, Jeremy Drake, RS-232, Aurelio Cianciotta, Mem1-_+1.jpg

CD" - Interval
The dreamily ambient sequences of "+1", a project by Laura and Mark Cetilia, constitute a fruitful and challenging colloborative work. The precision with which the duo compose has never been greater. Laptops and cello combine to produce a painstakingly thorough acoustic and digital confluence of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:18 AM - Mar 26/2010
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acoustic/digital . bastard pop . experimental . free form

Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic Materials

CD - Room40
Marina Rosenfeld is rather famous in the underground New York scene (and not only there) for her compelling combination of an atypical conceptual turntablism along with more avant-garde and original experimentation. In "Plastic Materials", too, some of the electro-acoustic structures typical of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:06 PM - Mar 23/2010
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . soundscapes

Nommo Ogo - Across Time And Space

CD - Record Label
Rather emotional and psychedelic electronica, with strong melodic ingredients and space-future influences. Nommo Ogo, a combo hailing from the glacial latitudes of Alaska recorded this album in the United States, in California, Colorado and Oregon, arranging plots that are unraveled - contrarily - in a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:21 PM - Mar 22/2010
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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica

Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele - Les Couleurs Ne Meuvent Pas Les Peuples

CD - Persistencebit
The new project by Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele is replete with divergent inspirations. They are both sound designers who are well-versed in several genres, manipulating both acoustic instruments and laptops/electronic devices with equal skill. Compared to their earlier productions, the duo seem to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:40 AM - Mar 21/2010
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acoustic/digital . electronica . ethnic . experimental . free form

Mice - World Tour

CD - Ecosono
As a combo whose typical sounds are very wobbly and crooked, permeated with electronic, experimental and jazz influences, "Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble", traveling 30,000 miles by ship around the world, have created a successful series of concerts, collaborating with and connecting ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:12 AM - Mar 8/2010
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Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano

CD - Someone Good
Akira Kosemura creates fascinating miniatures in form of delicate piano elaborations, pop and classical at the same time, gentle and repeated, with light backgrounds of natural sounds and measured clicks. Pants, scratches, light percussions of string instruments, discrete field recordings that reinforce the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:38 PM - Feb 1/2010
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abstract . acoustic/digital . electronica

Milosh - III

CD -!K7
Gentle melodies and indietronic patterns are veined with a very insistent downtempo melancholy and crystal clear sounds in this finely modulated work by Milosh, a Canadian classical and jazz composer. This is his third release, emblematic in its sensitive junctions, embedded in a tenuous electronic music, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:55 AM - Jan 17/2010
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Stephan Moore - To Build A Field

CD - Deep Listening
Sounds that seem to converge in ultra-rarified sequences, hesitating in sensitive constructions with strong environmental and narrative structures, reflect the background of Stephan Moore, the author, a long time member of the live band at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Moore is a composer ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:33 AM - Dec 23/2009
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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica

Anne Laplantine - A Little May Time Be

CD - Ahornfelder
The harmonic structures in this work have a distracted quality, a fragile polyphony. Experimenter and transalpine videomaker Anne Laplantine is well-known for projects created under the moniker Michiko Kusaki e Angelika Koehlermann. She is now turning her attention to a style of digital pop, rendered in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:04 AM - Oct 29/2009
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Tom Hamilton - Local Customs

CD - Mutable Music
The elegant and modulated instrumental interventions of Jacqueline Martelle (flute), Richard Cohen (clarinet), James Martin (trombone), Terry Kippenberger (bass) and Rich O'Donnell (percussion) are twisted with electronic harmonic sequences dictated by Tom Hamilton, in a work similar to electro- ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:08 PM - Sep 19/2009
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acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . impro . laptop

Domenico Sciajno - Doves Days In Palermo

CD - Bowindo
From March to July 2008 Palermo held the 'Doves Days', 'Meetings of music, sounds and experimental electronic arts' – a festival organised for the third time by Antitesi. Works were selected for this edition for their ability to cultivate a sense of cultural exchange between artists, practitioners and a public of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:09 PM - Jun 19/2009
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Nicolas Bernier - Les Arbres

CD - No Type
Acoustic and electronic sounds in 'Les Arbres' can be listened to in the form of a delicate but rigorous project, led by Nicolas Bernier, a composer able to activate symmetries between piano and environmental textures, developing intense and expanded melodic tunes. The Canadian author places ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:12 PM - Jun 17/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . electronica . experimental

Ethan Rose - Oaks

CD - Baskaru
To create these minimal sound ellipses Ethan Rose uses an old Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. The sounds are often velvety, ambient and symphonic, and are manipulated using computers and other electronic devices. They are also intertwined with more traditional acoustic instruments such as flute, clarinet, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:24 PM - Mar 27/2009
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acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . laptop

Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner - May

CD - Room40
Recorded live at the Lisbon's OFF Festival in May 2008, this collaborative project by Taylor Deupree and Kenneth Kirschner is specifically focused on the relationship resulting from the interaction between the sounds produced by an acoustic piano and those produced in subsequent laptop manipulation. The ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:44 AM - Feb 25/2009
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Zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino - Electronics

CD - Zeitkratzer
Live sessions recorded at the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, during November 2005, and at the Donaufestival Krems, in Austria, the following year, are used here to compose the rarefied acoustic and digital sequences by Zeitkratzer. This is an ensemble founded by Reinhold Friedl, and is ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:23 PM - Jan 28/2009
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Kenneth Kirschner - Filaments & Voids

2CD - 12K
Delicate sequences, rarefied samples followed by silence, active suspensions and short drones, reminiscent of Cage's main intuition: that sounds include a certain absence. The opposite is also true, and here silence is sprinkled by barely perceptible frequencies and vibrations. This condition of lack ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:05 PM - Jan 27/2009
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Noah Creshevsky / If,Bwana - Favorite Encores

CD - Pogus
An experimental 'one + one' - non-collaborative - between Noah Creshevsky and Al Margolis (aka If, Bwana), whose respective compositions are skilfully framed, meticulously organizing the imaginary and the forms of sound that the concept of 'hyperrealism' suggests. Orchestrations that take raw materials ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:07 PM - Jan 23/2009
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Carrier Band - Voice Coil

CD - Deep Listening
A recording of Pauline Oliveros, Peer Bode and Andrew Deutsch's 2003 performance at the Deep Listening Space in Kingston (New York), 'Voice Coil' is structured as an extended suite. It is an experiment that merges rarefied accordion with the sounds of a particular vocoder, creating elegant ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:31 PM - Jan 16/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . field recordings

Miya Masaoka / Joan Jeanrenaud - For Birds, Planes And Cello

CD - Solitary B
Joan Jeanrenaud, the irreproachable cellist of the Kronos Quartet (who can boast of collaborations with Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, but also with David Byrne and Joan Armatrading) gives instrumental support to this 54-minutes-long continuum of field recordings and ambient textures; a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:44 PM - Jan 10/2009
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acoustic/digital . experimental . folktronica . soundscapes

Nole Plastique - Escaperhead

CD - Nexsound
Strange hybrid sound jumps, somewhere between pop, glitchy folktronics, psychedelia and more contemporary soundscapes are some of the specific ideas that meet in the work of atypical composers like Andrei Kiritchenko. The owner of the Nexsound brand is also a digital experimenter and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:54 AM - Jan 9/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . laptop

Fennesz - Black Sea

CD - Touch
Melodic emphasis and discontinuous threads, fragments, hybridizations and crossed patterns: a thick and changing sea of sounds submerges the listener with ambient textures and thousands of streams, confluences and stagnations. Fennesz, walking down a similar path to the one he took with his previous ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:34 AM - Jan 6/2009
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