Composers: David Tudor | Steve Beresford | Tashi Wada | Tod Dockstader
Electroacoustic Fragments, Improvised Sounds, Weird Songs and Aural Oddities
00:00 Jingle
00:25 Lee Ranaldo – Lee’s Raudive Mix
02:25 Sandra Boss – Luft A1
06:35 Jérôme Noetinger & Anthony Pateras – 21h24 – 21h37
09:45 Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends & Julia Holter – Fanfare (Julia Holter ”Unearthly Bird” Remix)
12:27 Werner Dafeldecker – Parallel Darks Part Two
14:40 Turbo Teeth – Tropical Tape Transit Part II
18:50 Nicola Ratti – Palace
21:24 Brunhild Ferrari & Jim O’Rourke – Le Piano Englouti
25:00 Max Eastley, Steve Beresford, Paul Burwell, David Toop – Suffolk (b)
28:25 XT (Seymour Wright & Paul Abbott) – C
30:30 Panos Alexiadis – A Husk Of Meaning
35:50 Elysia Crampton – Dog Clouds (feat. Jeremy Rojas)
40:13 John Chantler – We’re Always At The End (Part 2)
44:05 Mu-Ziq – Air
48:50 David Tudor – Dialect
50:50 Bernard Fort – Fractals I
52:10 Tod Dockstader – Aw
55:20 Miaux – Bal(l)ade Bucolique
Lee Ranaldo.
Singer, guitarist and producer born on the 3rd of February 1956 in Glen Cove, Long Island (NY, USA). He co-founded Sonic Youth in 1981 and has been/is active in lots of different projects. He’s also a writer and visual artist.
https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-voices-of-the-dead
Sandra Boss.
Sandra Boss is a composer and sound artist based in Denmark. Her work often evolves in the intersection between performance and installation, where machines and instruments becomes sculptures of sound. She explores the overheard sounds of diverse sound sources both familiar musical instruments but also instruments that was not orginally intended for music making such as hearing test machines, bird flutes, therapy instruments, and test equiptment. She has made works for homebuild or rebuilt instruments, such as a MIDI-controlled pipe organ and an elongated accordion and she has written works for solo musicians, ensembles and choirs.
https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/luft
Jérôme Noetinger and Anthony Pateras.
Having worked together in a number of different collaborative contexts over the years, the pair used Pateras’ 2018 residency at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart as an opportunity to develop a major durational work for Steinway piano and multiple Revox tape machines.
https://penultimatepress.bandcamp.com/album/j-r-me-noetinger-and-anthony-pateras-a-sunset-for-walter-lp
Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends & Julia Holter.
Following the release of last year’s Nue, the fourteenth installment of FRKWYS, RVNG’s intergenerational collaboration series, Tashi Wada shares musical space with Laurel Halo and Julia Holter by way of their respective remixes of “Niagara” and “Fanfare.” Holter revisits the steady drones and cascading keys of “Fanfare,” on which she contributed vocals and instrumentation on Nue, for her “Unearthly Bird” remix.
https://tashiwada.bandcamp.com/album/nue-remixes-laurel-halo-julia-holter
Werner Dafeldecker.
The sound world Dafeldecker creates is one that is simultaneously musical and profoundly abstract. As potential elements of harmony emerge, they are pulled away through various dynamic interjections, which the draw the focus of the ears. Even in the moments where the sound world settles, micro shifts and submerged densities call the listener deeper again. There is no one singular plateau of sound, rather a constant deepening, a beautiful abyss of spectacular pressure and vital acoustic darkness.
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-darks
Turbo Teeth.
Turbo Teeth is the solo project by Giorgos Axiotis. The highly idiosyncratic, unstable and addictive sound of T.T eventuates in transient deca-dance vignettes and consists of dysfunctional & fast tempo sliding cut-up rhythms, mangled loops, gonjo dance fantasies, dental hop dreams, and mutated mover spins.
https://untitled-1.bandcamp.com/album/yellow-equals-one
Nicola Ratti.
Musician and sound designer active since years in the experimental felds. He has performed live in Europe, North America, Russia and Japan and his albums had been released by labels such as Where To Now?, Boomkat Editions, Shelter Press, Room40, Students of Decay, Die Schachtel, Entr’acte, Senufo Editions, Holidays Records, Anticipate, Preservation. He is currently working with Giuseppe Ielasi with whom he formed the project entitled Bellows.
https://www.nicolaratti.com/
Brunhild Ferrari & Jim O’Rourke.
First collaboration between Brunhild Ferrari and Jim O’Rourke, offering up two side-long realisations of Ferrari’s tape compositions recorded in concert at Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe in 2014, revised and mixed by O’Rourke in 2019
https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/le-piano-englouti
Max Eastley, Steve Beresford, Paul Burwell, David Toop.
Whirled Music by Max Eastley, Steve Beresford, Paul Burwell and David Toop is one of the key documents of the inventive and energetic scene around the London Musicians Collective in the late 1970s and early 1980s.Beginning in 1979, Whirled Music was the title given to a series of performances in which a variety of instruments and objects, both home made and store bought, traditional and invented, would be whirled to produce sound. In addition to variations on traditional instruments such as the bullroarer, Whirled Music also made use of whirled whistles, hand drums, radios and microphones.
https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/whirled-music
XT. (Seymour Wright & Paul Abbott)
Empty Editions presents Palina’tufa, the newest work from saxophonist Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott’s long-running duo XT. Wright and Abbot’s respective practices have been marked by a simultaneous engagement (with) and desire to challenge the limitations (of) the British tradition of improvised music – represented by groups such as AMM and John Stevens’ Spontaneous Music Ensemble. This album charts a new trajectory for Wright and Abbott, as they draw on recent live collaborations with RP Boo and Container in developing a sound which hybridizes the spontaneous interplay and timbral experimentation of free improvisation with the recursive formal structures of dance music.
https://emptyeditions.bandcamp.com/album/ee004-palinatufa
Panos Alexiadis.
Panos Alexiadis is a sound artist based in Athens, Greece mainly working with electronics and magnetic tape. His approach to sound lies between composition and improvisation, all merged in long form built structures of synthetic and acoustic textures, evolving a sense of wandering in an introverted semi – abstract sound environment.
http://www.panosalexiadis.com/
Elysia Crampton.
Bolivian-American sound artist.
https://elysiacrampton.bandcamp.com/album/orcorara-2010
John Chantler.
John Chantler makes records and performs concerts (when possible) of electronic music using digital and analog synthesizers.
He organises a small annual festival for ‘other music’ in Stockholm called Edition.
https://johnchantler.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrow-is-too-late
Mu-Ziq.
Mike Paradinas has become one of the very few artists working with electronics to produce a recognisable and personalised sound while at the same time mixing far-reaching experimentalism with accessibility through infectious melodies and rhythms. Achieving healthy record sales and staying true to the pioneering spirit of the underground is no mean feat.
https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/somerset-avenue-tracks-1992-1995
David Tudor.
American pianist and composer of avant-garde music. Originally an organist, he went on to become one of the leading performers of avant-garde piano music, giving first or early performances of works by, to name a few, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young.
https://www.discogs.com/Takehisa-Kosugi-David-Tudor-Music-For-Merce-Cunningham-Dialects-Untitled/release/686167
Bernard Fort.
Bernard Fort (born in Lyon, France, 1954) is a composer and writer. Co-founder and in charge of the Groupe musiques vivantes de Lyon (GMVL, France) since 1976. From 1980 to 1990 he teaches electroacoustic music at the Faculté de musicologie of the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France) and, since 1982, acousmatic composition at the École nationale de musique (Villeurbanne, France). He has been devoting time to ornithology and the study of natural soundscapes for many years.
http://editionsmego.com/release/REGRM-024
Tod Dockstader.
Born in 1932. In the ’70s and ’80s, he worked in Westport on audio-visuals: films, filmstrips, slide shows, TV films and videotapes for a variety of publishers – most notably a series on American history for American Heritage. In 1990, he retired, built a home studio and began work on what would become “Aerial.”
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/early-electronic-music/tod-dockstader.html
Miaux.
Miaux is the operating handle of Sarajevo born Belgian Mia Prce. Miaux is a mistress of elaborate keyboard shenanigans of a very soundtrackly nature. It is soaked with a haunted, lonely quality that touches the edges of mystery like a torch. Armed with a Casio and devastating song writing skills. Her music is minimal, melancholic and timeless.
https://miaux.bandcamp.com/album/black-space-white-cloud