Showing posts with label Concrete Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concrete Music. Show all posts

January 10, 2024

Dormir dans la somnolence du monoxyde

 
Die Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977; is the primary project of the French electronic musician and multimedia artist Philippe Fichot; whilst the project was still in its infancy, the underlying concepts were still evident - a combination of esoteric electronic experiments with an underlying theme of erotism, death and other 'taboo' subjects, apparent in both the music and the album artwork, which Philippe also produces. Other early projects of Philippe Fichot included Krylon Hertz, Mental Code, Camera Obscura, Eva-Johanna Reichstag, Hurt and Fine Automatic.

Since many years, the band are well renowned for creating a type of music and image in league with the art form of "multimedia intervention" (combining music, performance, photography and cinema/video). Always motivated by their passions, Philippe Fichot and Eliane P. depict the ultimate beauty of love, at the boundary of the forbidden). 
 

February 14, 2023

उच्च ऊंचाई वाले पठार से रोता है

 
(Ruhail Qaisar is a musician and producer from Ladakh, India; he explores the confines of memory, the dry rot of intergenerational trauma, and the eerie swarms of the human unconscious, incorporating vernacular concepts, poetic gestures, and improvised chaos).
 

January 27, 2023

Hołd zapomnianej wiedzy

 
(Krzysztof Penderecki (1933 - 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. He studied composition privately with Franciszek Skołyszewski and then (1954–8) with Malawski and Wiechowicz at the State Higher School of Music (now the Academy) in Kraków. Later, he joined the staff of the school as a teacher of composition. His first major success came in 1959 when Strofy, Emanacje and Psalmy Dawida were awarded the top three prizes at a competition organized by the Union of Polish Composers. 
 
Soon afterwards he came to the attention of publisher Hermann Moeck and Heinrich Strobel, director of the music division at SWF. As the director of the Donaueschingen Music Days, Strobel commissioned several of Penderecki's works and Penderecki earned subsequently a reputation as one of the most innovative composers of his generation, especially for his experiments in notation, the perception of time, and extended instrumental techniques).
 

August 29, 2022

Hyperstimulating thylakoidal membranes

 
(Futurismo: The Soundtrack To A Type Face is a Experimental/Industrial/Concrete Music compilation made by US label P22 Records).

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August 3, 2022

Touching the ether with both hands

(Forbidden Planets (Music From The Pioneers Of Electronic Sound) is an Avant-Garde/Concrete/OST compilation compiled by Chrome Dreams label).

 
 

February 3, 2021

Old hymns for an opened brain

 
(Strain, Crack & Break Music From The Nurse With Wound List Volume 1 is an Experimental/Avant Garde compilation made by English superb label Finders Keepers Records).

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October 9, 2020

Sliši se iz temne preteklosti

 
(Laibach is an slovenian Post-Industrial band formed 1980 in Trbovlje, at the time Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Laibach is the German name for Slovenia's capital city Ljubljana; initially one of the founders of Martial Industrial music, they changed their musical direction to a more Rock/Pop and Techno-/Dance-inspired crossover style in later years).


June 27, 2020

Počast na prehojeno pot

(Laibach is an slovenian Post-Industrial band formed 1980 in Trbovlje, at the time Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Laibach is the German name for Slovenia's capital city Ljubljana; initially one of the founders of Martial Industrial music, they changed their musical direction to a more Rock-, Pop- and Techno-/Dance-inspired crossover style in later years

The 1500 copies numbered CD BOX includes:
  • CD1 LAIBACH - the first album, released in 1985 (recorded in 1983), now remastered and expanded with bonus tracks 
  • CD2 REVISITED – an album recorded in 2010 comprising new interpretations of songs from the first album, plus bonus tracks 
  • CD3 UNDERGROUND - a unique – live– Laibach industrial concert recorded in 2012 in the Velenje Coal Mines, 200 m below the surface of the Earth, plus selected recordings from the 2017 industrial concert at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofia + a bonus tracks CD4).

June 11, 2020

Oscillations de la réalité

(Estelle Lemire is a canadian musician, graduated from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec in Montréal after extensive musical studies from 1982 to 1991. A student of Jean Laurendeau, she was awarded a First Prize in Ondes Martenot performance (1988) and also studied composition under Gilles Tremblay, receiving a First Prize in composition in 1991. Her curriculum also includes Music Analysis in the class of Gilles Tremblay, for which she was awarded a second Prize in 1990, as well as training in electroacoustic music with Yves Daoust.

She is a soloist and chamber player, specializing in Ondes Martenot for over 25 years, Estelle Lemire focuses mainly on the performance of new music while advocating better knowledge and appreciation of her instrument. She has performed for radio and television programs as well as for contemporary music organizations, ensembles, orchestras and festivals in Canada and the United States. Her recordings include a solo album for the SNE label and a Messiæn CD with the Ensemble d’Ondes de Montréal for the ATMA label. In addition to playing staple works from the Ondes repertoire, including all of Messiæn's pieces, but also Jolivet, Milhaud, Honneger, Varèse, Murail, Vivier and Boucher, Estelle gave the premiere performances of several works by contemporary composers).

April 14, 2020

A green trap of death

(Demdike Stare is an ambient/dub/experimental electronic english music project, that was conceived in 2009 and based out of Manchester. Demdike Stare was formed in by Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker, both of whom were already well-established in Manchester's music scene. 

Whittaker is also known for his work in Pendle Coven and under his solo projects, MLZ, Daughter of the Industrial Revolution, Suum Cuique, and Miles. Canty is a respected DJ and also known for his involvement with Finders Keepers, an archival label based in Manchester and London. Their mixtapes and albums incorporate a wide variety of influence from Jazz to Library Music, and Industrial. they have steadily shifted their sound and setup throughout the span of the project).

September 18, 2019

Visitors from the past

(Demdike Stare is an ambient/dub/experimental electronic english music project, that was conceived in 2009 and based out of Manchester. Demdike Stare was formed in by Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker, both of whom were already well-established in Manchester's music scene. Whittaker is also known for his work in Pendle Coven and under his solo projects, MLZ, Daughter of the Industrial Revolution, Suum Cuique, and Miles. Canty is a respected DJ and also known for his involvement with Finders Keepers, an archival label based in Manchester and London. Their mixtapes and albums incorporate a wide variety of influence from Jazz to Library Music, and Industrial. they have steadily shifted their sound and setup throughout the span of the project).

January 5, 2019

Sizzling waves give way to darkness

About the melancholy of molecules breaking their covalent bonds.

(Since many years, the french band Die Form are well renowned for creating a type of music and image in league with the art form of "multimedia intervention" (combining music, performance, photography and cinema/video). Always motivated by their passions, Philippe Fichot and Eliane P. depict the ultimate beauty of love, at the boundary of the forbidden. This album is the new solo-project of Philippe Fichot).

November 17, 2018

The rhythm of today's people

A reflected message of craziness.

(The Focus Group is an english one-man band created for Julian House. Primal Scream, Razorlight, and most relevantly, Stereolab and Broadcast's sleeve designer Julian House brings out the latent and intrinsic séance-like aspect of sampling with "a collection of individuals.. an empty church hall, hoofprints, mirrors, echoes, sequences of ordered greenery, televisual images, fonties and ortres".

November 12, 2018

In the path to deep sleep

Getting into an spyral of rapid eye movements.

(Jean-Jacques Perrey (born 20 January 1929, France - died 4 November, 2016, Switzerland) was a French electronic musician, composer and an early pioneer in the electronic music genre.

He was studying medicine in Paris when he met Georges Jenny, inventor of the Ondioline. Quitting medical school, Perrey travelled throughout Europe demonstrating this keyboard ancestor of the modern synth. At the age of 30, Perrey relocated to New York City, sponsored by Carroll Bratman, who built him an experimental laboratory and recording studio at 209 West 48th Street. Here he invented "a new process for generating rhythms with sequences and loops", utilising the environmental sounds of musique concrète. With scissors, splicing tape and tape recorders, he spent weeks piecing together a uniquely comic take on the future. Befriending Robert Moog, he became one of the first Moog musicians, creating "far out electronic entertainment". In 1965 Perrey met Gershon Kingsley, a former collaborator of John Cage. Together, using an Ondioline and Perrey's loops, they created two albums for Vanguard: Perrey - Kingsley - The In Sound From Way Out! (1966) and Perrey & Kingsley - Kaleidoscopic Vibrations(1967). Perrey & Kingsley also collaborated on sound design for radio and television advertising.

Perrey returned to France, composing for television, scoring for ballet and continuing medical research into therapeutic sounds for insomniacs. Some of his compositions on library labels like Editions Montparnasse 2000 are credited to his daughter Pat Prilly. He said in an interview that she didn’t compose as such, but provided him with ideas and inspiration when she played on the organ. For this he gave her recognition). 

September 22, 2018

Prečkati pod mostom izgubljenih duš

Epic marches to face opponents.

(Laibach is an slovenian Post-Industrial band formed 1980 in Trbovlje, at the time Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Laibach is the German name for Slovenia's capital city Ljubljana; initially one of the founders of Martial Industrial music, they changed their musical direction to a more Rock-, Pop- and Techno-/Dance-inspired crossover style in later years).

May 14, 2018

Searching for bewitched messages from outside

Estochastic sounds coming outside the medium's throat.

(Hailing from Birmingham, this record mixed experimental dreampop with the most obscure growls from the vein of BBC Radiophonic Workshop, together 1960s-inspired vocals, under a heavily influence of ancient psychedelic sounds, moreover using samples taken from both library music compilations and real-life field recordings)

June 13, 2017

Dead jellyfishs choir atonalities

Climb the eigth steps to insanity.

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April 1, 2016

Vocalizing the nothingness

Eight scraping dives into perpetual ether. (A gift to Dr. Lao and his 7 faces)

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March 11, 2016

Redefining states of matter

Seven chants to rebuild the universe.

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February 4, 2015

L'interpretazione della musica per autore apre l'universo

Berio+Patton at odds with famed sounds, a new three parts world to discover.

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