Loops4Ever -
Manuel Zurria Music by Alvin Lucier, William Basinski, John Duncan, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveiros, Giancinto Scelsi among others…
The restless experimentation and creativity of Manuel has resulted in a
brilliant series of collaborative works with legendary composers such as
Luc Ferrari, Alvin Lucier, Arvo Part, John Cage, Morton Feldman, László
Sáry, Louis Andriessen, Gavin Bryars, Stefano Scodanibbio, Salvatore
Sciarrino and Jonathan Harvey. He was invited to many international
festival and he recorded for RAI, Dutch radio, Radio France e
SudWestfunk Baden-Baden and for Capstone Records, EdiPan, Stradivarius,
Die Schachtel, Megadisc and Touch.
"The recently composed Ricochet Lady (2016) is the only work for solo
acoustic glockenspiel by the American experimental composer Alvin
Lucier. Following in the manner of his pieces I am sitting in a room and
Vespers, Ricochet Lady embodies Lucier’s approach toward sound’s
individual function and mobility within space. This recording defines
this approach through four realizations recorded in four dissimilar
spaces, ranging from the standard to extraordinary: a university
rehearsal hall with walls of drywall and glass, a chapel made of oak and
stone, an empty forge and foundry warehouse for steel railway wheels,
and a 36-meter tall dilapidated cement grain elevator.
Never one
to shy away from convention, Lucier intensifies each performance by
instructing that the glockenspiel be placed against a wall or other
reflective surface where the soloist systematically traverses the entire
range of the instrument in rapid, repetitive patterns, actively
disseminating the glockenspiel’s sustain, clicks, and interferences
throughout the space. In doing so, the glockenspiel maps the unique
acoustical characters of each space as each space helps to compose the
piece.
Created in close collaboration with Trevor Saint, a rare
(if not the only) specialist of experimental music for glockenspiel,
Lucier has further enhanced the sophistication of this re-imagined
instrument while maintaining his devotion to letting spaces speak.
First Terrace deliver another instalment of their split series, following on from the meditative trip supplied by Chihei Hatakeyama and Vida Vojic on FTS002 & the blissful first edition from K. Leimer & Like A Villain. On the ‘line’ side of FTS003 we hear the meeting of three veteran improvisors - Anna Homler (Breadwoman/Pharmacia Poetica), Adrian Northover (Remote Viewers) and Dave Tucker (The Fall). Born from the fertile creative friction of the London Improvisers Orchestra, they incantate together to deliver a clutch of winding, curious, mesmeric compositions. On the ‘circle’ side we present a recording from Pierre Bastien - an artist of startling singularity and endless, joyful creativity. Recorded at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona with Catalonian group Cabo San Roque, Pierre takes the helm of their monumental mechanical sound sculpture - the Orquestra Mecànica de la França Xica - and guides the vast array of cogs and pistons through three movements. The orchestra was made up of thirty or forty machines, all linked to Pierre’s casio keyboard.
"The recently composed Ricochet Lady (2016) is the only work for solo
acoustic glockenspiel by the American experimental composer Alvin
Lucier.
Got to experience Ricochet Lady on March 24 as the opening piece of a Lucier concert. Wow! You're ears start feeling like they're being pummeled by tiny sonic darts.
Present is a Belgian avant-progressive rock group formed by guitarist Roger Trigaux in 1979. Trigaux was a founding member of Univers Zero and participated on the first two albums. After Heresie (1979) he left Univers Zero to concentrate on his own vision and founded Present. The early lineup of Present featured fellow Univers Zero members Daniel Denis and Christian Genet playing drums and bass respectively. Present disbanded after releasing Le Poison Qui Rend Fou in 1985, but reformed a decade later in 1993. The new lineup featured Roger's son Réginald Trigaux as a second guitarist, another former Univers Zero member, Guy Segers, on bass, and Dave Kerman (of 5uu's) on drums.
"The Slotmachine is a project by Achim Zepezauer that is currently combining 225 different recordings (each one with a length of 45 seconds) from 18 artists in a random order. You can either simply press START and get surprised or deactivate the AUTO PLAY button to make a selection of specific instruments."
There's a 10" record and dl of selected versions, but it is only 30 tracks out of a possible 11,390,625.
The website lets you create and/or listen to your own experience for as long as you choose.
Some of the performers:
Jaap Blonk - Voice John Chantler - Modular Synth Serge Corteyn - Guitar Rhodri Davies - Harp Gailė Griciūtė - Prepared Piano Richard Lerman - Piezo + Hydrophone Seán Mac Erlaine - Woodwinds Jérôme Noetinger - Tape Machine Pablo Paredes - Keyboards Michael Vatcher - Drums Simon Whetham - Field Recordings Marta Zapparoli - Radio Waves Achim Zepezauer - Electronics, Acoustics, Drum Computer
"The recently composed Ricochet Lady (2016) is the only work for solo
acoustic glockenspiel by the American experimental composer Alvin
Lucier.
Got to experience Ricochet Lady on March 24 as the opening piece of a Lucier concert. Wow! You're ears start feeling like they're being pummeled by tiny sonic darts.
So You ... (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice) is a major new work by
legendary experimental composer Alvin Lucier. It is an hour long epic
that tracks the familiar Orpheus myth from a less familiar perspective:
that of Eurydice as imagined by poet H.D.; a Eurydice who rails at
Orpheus for his hubris in attempting to rescue her. Two key, and
formerly distinct, aspects of Lucier's practice come together in this
piece: the exploration of interference patterns in closely tuned
intervals, and the exploration of resonant chambers. From speakers
mounted inside amphorae a constantly turning braid of beating sine waves
trace the descent into the depths of hell, and then the doomed attempt
to climb back into life.
Singer Jessika Kenney and long-time
Lucier collaborators Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis embody the three
title characters in deeply focused performances that assert themselves
against the process of the sweep, or become enfolded in it. The
electronics were mixed in real time by programmer and equipment designer
Tom Erbe
This is an immersive space odyssey using only sound coming from electronic vibrations of the planets, moons, rings,electromagnetic fields, planetary magnetosphere, trapped radio waves bouncing between the planet and the inner surface of it's atmosphere as captured by NASA.
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released May 3, 2019
- The latest Arlene & Larry Dunn purchase at Bandcamp . . .
1993 Twang Thang - The Duane Eddy Anthology
Dr. Frankenstein
2005 The Cursed Tapes (Stolen Songs From Dr. Frankenstein's Lab)
archive.org - You Are Not Stealing Records*
* Thanks again to @Brighternow.
2009 Carmina Burana 2009 Music Of The Gods - Vol. I
2009 Music Of The Gods - Vol. II 2009 Le Sacre Du Printemps (Le Sacrifice)
I'm not sure if they can still be downloaded at the FMA - You Are Not Stealing Records
I can't seem to get it to work now. I thought they got rescued.
Eta I guess they are listed separately at archive.org
"The recently composed Ricochet Lady (2016) is the only work for solo acoustic glockenspiel by the American experimental composer Alvin Lucier. Following in the manner of his pieces I am sitting in a room and Vespers, Ricochet Lady embodies Lucier’s approach toward sound’s individual function and mobility within space. This recording defines this approach through four realizations recorded in four dissimilar spaces, ranging from the standard to extraordinary: a university rehearsal hall with walls of drywall and glass, a chapel made of oak and stone, an empty forge and foundry warehouse for steel railway wheels, and a 36-meter tall dilapidated cement grain elevator.
Never one to shy away from convention, Lucier intensifies each performance by instructing that the glockenspiel be placed against a wall or other reflective surface where the soloist systematically traverses the entire range of the instrument in rapid, repetitive patterns, actively disseminating the glockenspiel’s sustain, clicks, and interferences throughout the space. In doing so, the glockenspiel maps the unique acoustical characters of each space as each space helps to compose the piece.
Created in close collaboration with Trevor Saint, a rare (if not the only) specialist of experimental music for glockenspiel, Lucier has further enhanced the sophistication of this re-imagined instrument while maintaining his devotion to letting spaces speak.
Denis Kolokol
2009 Ily 2011 Proud To Be Loud
ps I'm happy to add him to the library and really enjoyed Proud To Be Loud
the credits and listen for bits I remember.
2013 III 2015 Indians & Cowboys
2018 Den Sorte Skole And Copenhagen Phil
- Symphony No. II For Sampler And Chamber Orchestra
Bandcamp
released September 14, 2018
On the ‘line’ side of FTS003 we hear the meeting of three veteran improvisors - Anna Homler (Breadwoman/Pharmacia Poetica), Adrian Northover (Remote Viewers) and Dave Tucker (The Fall). Born from the fertile creative friction of the London Improvisers Orchestra, they incantate together to deliver a clutch of winding, curious, mesmeric compositions.
On the ‘circle’ side we present a recording from Pierre Bastien - an artist of startling singularity and endless, joyful creativity. Recorded at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona with Catalonian group Cabo San Roque, Pierre takes the helm of their monumental mechanical sound sculpture - the Orquestra Mecànica de la França Xica - and guides the vast array of cogs and pistons through three movements. The orchestra was made up of thirty or forty machines, all linked to Pierre’s casio keyboard.
2006 Text Of Light 2006 Sleep
(Alan Licht, Christian Marclay, DJ Olive,
Lee Ranaldo, Tim Barnes, Ulrich Krieger,
William Hooker)
- Rotterdam 1
2008 Triage 2014 coco
Wow! You're ears start feeling like they're being pummeled by tiny sonic darts.
And the latest Cuneiform "five" album:
Trigaux was a founding member of Univers Zero and participated on the first two albums. After Heresie (1979) he left Univers Zero to concentrate on his own vision and founded Present. The early lineup of Present featured fellow Univers Zero members Daniel Denis and Christian Genet playing drums and bass respectively.
Present disbanded after releasing Le Poison Qui Rend Fou in 1985, but reformed a decade later in 1993. The new lineup featured Roger's son Réginald Trigaux as a second guitarist, another former Univers Zero member, Guy Segers, on bass, and Dave Kerman (of 5uu's) on drums.
"The Slotmachine is a project by Achim Zepezauer that is currently combining 225 different recordings (each one with a length of 45 seconds) from 18 artists in a random order. You can either simply press START and get surprised or deactivate the AUTO PLAY button to make a selection of specific instruments."
There's a 10" record and dl of selected versions, but it is only 30 tracks out of a possible 11,390,625.
The website lets you create and/or listen to your own experience for as long as you choose.
Some of the performers:
Jaap Blonk - Voice
John Chantler - Modular Synth
Serge Corteyn - Guitar
Rhodri Davies - Harp
Gailė Griciūtė - Prepared Piano
Richard Lerman - Piezo + Hydrophone
Seán Mac Erlaine - Woodwinds
Jérôme Noetinger - Tape Machine
Pablo Paredes - Keyboards
Michael Vatcher - Drums
Simon Whetham - Field Recordings
Marta Zapparoli - Radio Waves
Achim Zepezauer - Electronics, Acoustics, Drum Computer
2001 The Passing Measures 2003 Child
2005 Elevated 2013 Death Speaks
2017 David Lang, Maya Beiser - The Day 2018 Writing On Water
This takes me back to virtually 50 years ago!!
So You ... (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice) is a major new work by legendary experimental composer Alvin Lucier. It is an hour long epic that tracks the familiar Orpheus myth from a less familiar perspective: that of Eurydice as imagined by poet H.D.; a Eurydice who rails at Orpheus for his hubris in attempting to rescue her. Two key, and formerly distinct, aspects of Lucier's practice come together in this piece: the exploration of interference patterns in closely tuned intervals, and the exploration of resonant chambers. From speakers mounted inside amphorae a constantly turning braid of beating sine waves trace the descent into the depths of hell, and then the doomed attempt to climb back into life.
Singer Jessika Kenney and long-time Lucier collaborators Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis embody the three title characters in deeply focused performances that assert themselves against the process of the sweep, or become enfolded in it. The electronics were mixed in real time by programmer and equipment designer Tom ErbeSearching for the cover on Amazon, I see they have a new album out. I shall be exploring that!
2003 Unfortunately
2004 The Dead Texan
Nicola Tirabasso - Sounds From The Cosmic Silence
- Really excellent . . .Thanks !
Petrels - Jörð