Chicago '82: A Dip in the Lake



Label: Les Disques Du Crépuscule
Catalog#: TWI 116
Format: Cassette
Country: Belgium
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Abstract, Experimental, Minimal, Avantgarde
Notes: A live report by Wim Mertens on the New Musical Festival in Chicago, July 1982, featuring music and interviews (by Mertens). Dedicated to John Cage, and intended to be released on his 70th birthday, 5 September 1982.

1. [listen] Peter Gordon "Peter Gordon's Mayor Jane Byrne's New Music America Opening Address"

Piano - "Blue" Gene Tyranny
Voice - David van Tieghem , Jill Kroesen , Robert Ashley

2. [listen] Peter Gordon "Wim Razor's Standing in the Shadows"

3. [listen] Peter Gordon "My experience as a human being and as a musician."

4. [listen] Jill Kroesen "Bum Song"

Percussion - Peter Gordon

5. [listen] Jill Kroesen "Jeanne d'Arc"

6. [listen] Harold Budd "Excerpt from Children on the Hill"

7. [listen] Harold Budd "Style comes the same way that a person's handwriting develops."

8. [listen] Jon Gibson "Excerpt from Extensions"

9. [listen] Meredith Monk "As if it came from an oral tradition."

10. [listen] Meredith Monk "Excerpt from Turtle Dreams"

Organ - Nicky Paraiso, Steve Lockwood
Voice - Andrea Goodman, Meredith Monk, Paul Langland, Robert Een

11. [listen] Charlemagne Palestine "Excerpt from Music for Carillon"

12. [listen] Michael Byron "Sad story."

13. [listen] David van Tieghem "Excerpt from Message Received"

14. [listen] Glenn Branca Excerpt from Symphony No. 2: The Peak of the Sacred

Drums - Stefan Wischert

Electric Guitar - Barbara Ess, Craig Bromberg, David Linton, David Rosenbloom, Glenn Branca, Jeffrey Glenn, Lee Ranaldo, Ned Sublette, Thurston Moore

15. [listen] John Cage / Wim Mertens "So that each person is in charge of himself.

16. [listen] Ned Sublette "Radio Piece"

Edited for UbuWeb by Ryan Biracree.

http://www.ubu.com/sound/chicago82.html

V/A : Intelligent Toys 5 (Sutemos023)




V/A - CD1: AGF/Delay - From Morning On [01] CD1: AGF/Delay - From Morning On .. 5:01
V/A - CD1: Praveen - No Sky, No Rain! [02] CD1: Praveen - No Sky, No Rain! .. 3:46
V/A - CD1: Gultkra Artikler - Berezka [03] CD1: Gultkra Artikler - Berezka .. 5:53
V/A - CD1: Deer - Elevators [04] CD1: Deer - Elevators .. 3:01
V/A - CD1: stockfinster - Golden Canyon [05] CD1: stockfinster - Golden Canyon .. 4:51
V/A - CD1: Wildach Sonnenkraut - Calypso [06] CD1: Wildach Sonnenkraut - Calypso .. 4:14
V/A - CD1: Ten And Tracer - Ties Crews Emerging [07] CD1: Ten And Tracer - Ties Crews Emerging .. 4:14
V/A - CD1: Praveen - Acts Rough [08] CD1: Praveen - Acts Rough .. 5:45
V/A - CD1: Sabi - Six Places [09] CD1: Sabi - Six Places .. 6:15
V/A - CD1: Swod - Fugitif 1 [10] CD1: Swod - Fugitif 1 .. 4:53
V/A - CD1: Miwon - Making Moves [11] CD1: Miwon - Making Moves .. 4:47
V/A - CD1: NGC 1365 - Second Coming [12] CD1: NGC 1365 - Second Coming .. 3:45
V/A - CD2: Octex - Broken [13] CD2: Octex - Broken .. 7:46
V/A - CD2: Yagya - Coconut Rice [14] CD2: Yagya - Coconut Rice .. 6:02
V/A - CD2: Kanobi - ILK [15] CD2: Kanobi - ILK .. 3:18
V/A - CD2: Maps & Diagrams - Habakkuk [16] CD2: Maps & Diagrams - Habakkuk .. 4:55
V/A - CD2: SoulSonic - Itau [17] CD2: SoulSonic - Itau .. 2:54
V/A - CD2: Karna & Sleepy Town Manufacture - Uplyvaet Moja Liubov [18] CD2: Karna & Sleepy Town Manufacture - Uplyvaet Moja Liubov .. 4:39
V/A - CD2: Ulrich Schnauss - Shine (MINT Remix) [19] CD2: Ulrich Schnauss - Shine (MINT Remix) .. 5:27
V/A - CD2: Leon Somov & Aurimas Rimeikis - Kruopu [20] CD2: Leon Somov & Aurimas Rimeikis - Kruopu .. 5:09
V/A - CD2: AGF - Than Reconsider [21] CD2: AGF - Than Reconsider .. 6:24

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Monolake - Free Track of the Month [November]



This track is from June 2006. I found it on a backup drive whilst searching for something else. When I made it, I soon felt something is missing, it sounded old and nostalgic too me, a dead end, a film watched way too often. Now, i feel even more distant to it. During the last two years my musical interest moved away from anything that could be labeled 'minimal techno', a genre that became totally empty, uninspired and formalized. A straight bassdrum beat does not make me dance anymore.
However, I like the color of it, this reminiscence to this certain sub-genre of Chain Reaction / post Basic Channel tracks. If I would have done it in 1995 - fantastic.

Enjoy it as nice background. I tested it for washing dishes, sorting invoices and watering flowers. It worked quite well.
And if you want to get an idea of my current vision of electronic club music come to a Monolake concert.

Monolake Decay [ ~ 9minutes ]

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Bleep Podcast 117- Surgeon





This week I have the pleasure of broadcasting a mix from Tony Child of some of the most influential records that have shaped his musical path. You can also read his thoughts on each track below.There’s also the wonderful new record from Larry Heard to listen to.

TRACKLISTING

Boards of Canada - Nlogax
Larry Heard - 25 years from Alpha

————-SURGEON MIX————-

Coil - Amethyst deceivers

Coil’s music has, since I first discovered them in about 1996, always had a deep and spiritual meaning for me. Listening to Amethyst Deceivers at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii as the sun was setting is the most beautifully moving, yet sad thing I have experienced.

Psychic TV - Always is always

The album ‘Dreams Less Sweet’ by Psychic TV was recorded using the Zuccarelli Holophonic system which produced amazing 3D sound imaging with only stereo headphone playback.

Here, you can really feel the solo vocalist walk around as they sing Charles Manson’s ‘Always is always’.


Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)

This is the defining ‘Electro’ track for my youth. When I first heard it in about 1983 it blew me away, I knew at once that this was the music I had been searching for. It just sounded so alien and powerful.

Suicide - Che

Suicide are a big influence for me, simple, dark, psychedelic mantras. This track is often overshadowed by Rocket USA, Frankie Teardrop etc, but it builds to an amazing energy.

Faust - Chromatic

I love the anarchy of Faust, their songs are so varied. I remember introducing a friend to them by playing him their ‘71 Minutes of’ album. Afterwards he commented that listening to it had been like a mental assault course. Chromatic is like a musical puzzle that goes on forever.

Coil - Dark River

Whenever I listen to “Dark River”, it reminds of this time my friends and I went out to this bridge over a river. The moon was out, and the sky was totally clear. We put these candles on boats made of newspaper and set them adrift in the river. The “boats” all blew off to one bank of the river and sat there in the grass on the bank. It looked like the bridge was several hundred miles above the water, and the boats were little houses, with light coming from fires in their fireplaces. It was quite beautiful, but also very sad for some reason…that song is inexorably tied to that memory for me.

The Walker Brothers - The Electrician

Possibly the greatest song ever? From the ultimate darkness and despair to pure ecstasy in one song (and back again) A most beautiful and strange song.

Whitehouse - Neronia

William Bennett’s approach to his art is a great inspiration for me. Neronia is a lesser know piece from the early 90’s produced with Steve Albini. Perfect use of frequencies and tension.

Psychic TV - Clouds without water

Another track from the amazing ‘Dreams Less Sweet’ album. Brings to mind minimalist classical composers. Beautiful.

Tomita - Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque, No. 3)

This was possibly the first piece of electronic music that I ever heard. I was about 4 years old and remember being fascinated by the rich and varied, almost cartoon like sounds. Each sound has such a different size, shape, texture and temperature.

The Beatles - A Day In The Life

Another contender for greatest song ever. I have always felt as if there was some kind of awesome power lurking beneath the surface of this song, like getting the briefest glimpse of something from the corner of your eye. It is somehow linked to (my?) death, but not in any kind of depressing way. Difficult to explain. I want this to be played at my funeral.
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Tin Man - Falling Acid
Jus-Ed - CT lowdown
Dubbyman - Loveless (Above smoke remix)
Walter Jones - All Gods Children (Maurice Fulton remix)
Eddy & Yannah - Solid Ground (Crazy P remix)
DJ Sprinkles & Terre Thaemlitz - The Occasional Feel Good
Marco Passarani - Nova
Sendex - Hypenosis
Dopplereffekt - Infophysix
Ed DMX - Street Boys

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http://bleep43.squarespace.com/podcast/2008/11/24/podcast-117-surgeon.html

http://evolutionnights.ciant.cz

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Ran Slavin - Nocturnal Rainbow Rising
Label: Crónica
Catalog#: Crónica 037~2008
Format: File, Album
Country: Portugal
Released: 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dark Ambient, Glitch, Abstract, Experimental, Illbient

Crónica is very proud to present Ran Slavin's “Nocturnal Rainbow Rising”. After 2004's “Tropical Agent / Ears in Water” and last year’s “The Wayward Regional Transmissions” — awarded a honorable mention at the Prix Ars Electronica — Ran’s third full-length release in Crónica is now available in the Unlimited Release series, with 10 tracks available for free download or choose-to-pay-as-you-will donations.

“Nocturnal Rainbow Rising” drifts across far removed cinematic panoramas of lush nightly atmospheres. The tracks bear forms of sound memories, occlusions of dreamy nocturnal passages, of introspective and illusory projections arising from the metropolitan environments to the tundra.

The 10 tracks form evasive atmospheres between the audible and the visual, at times resembling fragments of a cinematic tale yet untold, a characteristic of Ran's ongoing work that has made it so dear to his listeners.

Download as MP3 256 VBR (111MB)

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Crónica
CRÓNICA is a media-label based in Porto, Portugal, Europe. The CRÓNICA media-label project has its roots in an online and strictly digital operation known as CRONICAELECTRONICA.ORG whose url constitutes CRÓNICA avatar and digital base in the electronic nightscape.

In the first day of January of the year 2003, CRONICAELECTRONICA.ORG, till then a bit based project, morphed to a media-label configuration and expanded its activities to the field of residual arts and physical cultural artifacts, meaning: atoms, objects, commodities, value, etc.

With a strong emphasis towards electronic and experimental music and its intertwining with all forms of time-based audiovisual media, CRÓNICA embraces the digital domain and its explorers, as the perfect context for the flowing of data and for processes that enable the maximization of a full intermedia experience.

http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/

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LEVOS_BOB: bezva :)

Surreal Madrid 19: Karaoke Tundra - Kill the remixers!

Couple of audio frequencies are nice, the rest is disturbing. Here's an advice how to kill your neighbour.

raster-noton artists / podcast, chile / 10/08



>>here

jolly report about Kvitnu Fest 2008!

http://vimeo.com/2278178

zato se tváří jako šulin...

UNCLEAN: to je tusim prva fotka na ktorej sa ivan pavlov netvari ako masovy vrah:)

Frank Bartz DE "Matrix" Noise NoD 08/galerie NoD

MATHEW: LOL

NOIK: 12k gay Richard Chartier (dokonce ma na facebooku fotky s jeho klukem) a Ivan Pavlov aka COH (ktery je beztak taky) :))

NOIK: to jsou Filipovi bráchové, Otakar Škubal a Vendelín Škubal

co to je za buzíčky v tom záhlaví?

Rare archive video from collaborative live of Kotra and Andrey Kiritchenko in club Subbunker in Kharkiv, which happened on 18.12.2004.

http://vimeo.com/2223388

BRANCALEONE: nj, nevim co to rapid blbne :-/

UNCLEAN: Už to nesviští - dosažen limit 10 stažení. Škoda...

pozvanka dnes...
[ 07.11.2008 - Kaktusí večírek / vylet / 7.11.2008 / CR - Praha - Moje Muza BAR ]

Audio Gourmet - Subconscious Substance [wh112]



This album is themed around the idea of nostalgia, the subconscious and distant memories; that strange intangible feeling triggered by a familiar stimulus. The brain associates these stimuli with a dormant memory in the brain. Sometimes, these memories can be relived clear as day…others so feint a glimmer that you cannot possibly comprehend what your brain is trying to tell you.
This album should hopefully capture the essence of nostalgia, and also serve as a preservation for the sound that I have lifted from every day life.

(1) Garden’s Apex
Some of the faintest of memories lie in childhood. It will seem a natural process to explore as time presses on and you grow older, yet for children the first experience of this begins within their own back-garden.

(2) 7 Minutes Of Peace
This track is an effort to preserve and transport the listener to the amazing level of peace I felt as I wandered around Caldey Island, near Tenby, Wales. The piece accurately captures the sheer tranquility and general aura of the island, and shall serve as a vivid nod of nostalgia for as long as I live.

(3) October
It is October, late Autumn, and winter begins to draw near. The familiar scent of burning wood reminds us of many a year gone by. The leaves have turned, shrivelled and dropped, leaving our trees bare once again as yet another year passes.

(4) Preserving The Obsolete
A well looked after piano can last over a century, outliving most human beings. It was my usual walk home from lunch, past the auction rooms, where I was to discover the piano. It was left out for the skip, discarded and disused. I decided to come back when nobody was around and see if I could squeeze any last sounds from it before it were to be condemned to the tip forever. I can be unsure of the age of this piano, but try to imagine the lives that it has touched? The people who have played on it? The people listening? Its past owners?

(5) Forgotten Dreams
We spend days, months, years sleeping and dreaming. During which, all of our thoughts and past experiences are regurgitate and merged together to create surreal experiences that for just a moment, seem real. Each time we go to bed, for the hours that we spend sleeping, our brain creates a subconscious existence within our mind. Only a fraction of this will be remembered vividly. For the rest of our life, these forgotten dreams can only be faintly relived…just for a split second.

(6) Subconscious Substance
The subconscious substance - the brain’s basement of memories, events and past experiences, forgotten. We only revisit them for a split second, when a familiar stimulus triggers a sudden moment of unexplained nostalgia.

(7) 25 Years On
In just a 25 year lifespan, a village, town or city can change considerably. Imagine revisiting somewhere you have not been 25 years on…Old buildings are destroyed, new ones are built. The size of the place can grow, the shops and businesses can change and the whole place will seem rather unfamiliar in comparison to the way you remember it. Yet, in and amongst all this change, a few things remain unchanged and familiar.
All of this change is difficult to comprehend, as the memories you hold so fondly seem like yesterday. It is only when you look how you too have changed and what has happened in your life that you will realize the magnitude of time that has elapsed.

(8) Underlying The Mind
Inside our minds, there are many negative aspects that we are constantly battling with. Doubts, regrets and things we’d have done differently, just eating away at us. An optimist will try to put these niggling pessimistic thoughts to the depths of their subconsciousness. However, regardless, from time to time the thoughts will creep up to the surface of our minds and infect our dreams…

(9) The Future [BONUS DRONE]
This track was included on the album at the last minute and is an edited version of a 25 minute piece. This quiet reflective track serves as a window into the boundless and unknown future. It is quite easy as humans with our advanced brains to ponder upon the past, but it is fascinating that the future and what will happen is a complete mystery. Even more mysterious and intangible than nostalgia itself…

TRACK ORDER:
01 Garden’s Apex (03:52)
02 7 Minutes Of Peace (07:23)
03 October (09:39)
04 Preserving The Obsolete (07:49)
05 Forgotten Dreams (03:30)
06 Subconscious Substance (09:47)
07 25 Years On (07:22)
08 Underlying The Mind (04:59)
09 The Future [Bonus Drone] (12:57)

Recorded and Produced by H. Towell
Cover photo by H. Towell
total time: 01:07:18

Download the whole album as a zip file or click here for more downloading and streaming options.

Drone



Presentation delivered on 9/05/2008.

Presentation and Research: Miguel Negrão
In Depth Research: Pablo Sanz Almoguera


Further Reading

Web:

Historical:

The role of the DRONE & COUNTERPOINT in the DEVELOPMENT of HARMONY
Antique Drone I – William Byrd’s The Battell (c.1591)
Vielles
Acoustical Characteristics of Latvian and Bulgarian Drone-Singing
Tibetan Sacred/Monastic Music
Kulintang
Drone in Indian Music
Pandit Pran Nath: Infinity’s Pathfinder

1st generation:

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Dream House
Following a Straight Line: La Monte Young
MELA Foundation
Ubuweb La Monte Young
Learn about The Theater of Eternal Music
Tony Conrad interview
Early Minimalism and Beyond: Tony Conrad in Music, Film, and Video
Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine and Tony Conrad An Aural Symbiotic Mystery
Taking Henry Flynt Seriously
Three Recordings By Henry Flynt: A Review
Phill Niblock Interview
Phill Niblock
Notes on Catherine Christer Hennix's The Electric Harpsichord
Catherine Christer Hennix
Eliane Radigue
Eliane Radigue: Death Becomes Her
Eliane Radigue - (ADNOS I-II-III)
Ellen Fullman
Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument
Terry Riley
2nd generation:

Paul Panhuysen
Rafael toral
Telectu
Jim O'Rourke
Jean François LaPorte
Jacob Kirkegaard
Brendan Murray
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Experimental Audio Research

Rock:

My Bloody Valentine
Spaceman 3
Pablo's Drone mix tape

http://www.friendlyvirus.org/artists/zlb/drone.html