Descriptive catalogue of works for audio-visual installations, Volume 2 (1983-1985)
Double-CD in slipcase with 72-page booklet (french/english)
Gérard Collin-Thiébaut (b.1946) is a French conceptual and installation artist whose "attitude is simple if radical. His purpose is to overturn convention and give the tree of the art world a good shaking, "when habits become form". Often elegant and deliberately traditional, even old-fashioned in appearance, his interventions suggest that things are easy, but go on to demonstrate that modernity is never what you see on the surface. […] Throughout his artistic career, he has worked to pursue the various categories of the fine arts using procedures of the day, bringing out correspondences, in order to achieve transversal knowledge and not only to allow a rereading of the world, but also to affirm that thought is a matter, not of found forms, but of forms that transform Not insignificant clues: Paul Otlet, Aby Warburg, Roussel, Duchamp, Flaubert, folk art.“ (Jean-Philippe Branche)
Christina Kubisch - Italienische Stucke (Art edition)
Special edition of 50 numbered copies. Includes signed photograph (13x18 cm) and reproduction of the score of "Liquid Piece“ (245g linen-stock, 29,7 x 42 cm) handcoloured with china ink by Christina Kubisch, signed & numbered.
Sound is almost always at its most thrilling, whether in practice or source, when it can not be easily defined. This is the liminal zone within which only the bravest and most ambitious among the avant-garde dare to tread, constantly pushing forward into unexplored zones which are yet to be claimed by the known. Of those artists who have taken on such a task, it is hard to call to mind any as important as the German composer, performance artist, and flautist, Christina Kubisch. First emerging during the 1970s and leaving an astoundingly singular body of work in her wake over the decades since, she is an artist for whom there has seemingly never been impulse to look back, each effort gathering momentum and pushing ahead from the last. If for this reason alone, we are overjoyed to highlight the latest release from the long standing Berlin based imprint, Tochnit Aleph, Italienische Stücke, gathering conceptual and perfomative pieces composed and realised by Kubisch during the early years of her career, spent living in Italy. Overflowing with incredible ideas and mind-melting sounds, it offers a rare opening into the very beginnings of one of the most important artists in our midst.
American Electric: Remixes from Reflecting on a Dying Man
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Settling in tonight with the first-ever recorded performance of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Sequentia Cyclica. It's 8 and a half hour length makes his Opus clavicembalisticum appear like "a walk in the park." Amazon has the 7-disc download for $8.99. Don't know if it's available on eMusic. Will probably listen in two parts.
Settling in tonight with the first-ever recorded performance of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Sequentia Cyclica. It's 8 and a half hour length makes his Opus clavicembalisticum appear like "a walk in the park." Amazon has the 7-disc download for $8.99. Don't know if it's available on eMusic. Will probably listen in two parts.
Not exactly sure when I will get around to it - probably at some point over the weekend. I am easily lead and all that! If folks are interested in the UK you can get a cd quality FLAC download from Presto Classical for £9.75. The composer seems to have been an interestingly perverse figure (banning performances of his own music...) Thanks for the heads up @rostasi
Opus clavicembalisticum on the other hand - possibly because it is on BIS records costs a whopping £47.93 from the same source. ($35.23 from e-classical which is basically BIS own storefront).
Not exactly sure when I will get around to it - probably at some point over the weekend. I am easily lead and all that! If folks are interested in the UK you can get a cd quality FLAC download from Presto Classical for £9.75. The composer seems to have been an interestingly perverse figure (banning performances of his own music...) Thanks for the heads up @rostasiOpus clavicembalisticum on the other hand - possibly because it is on BIS records costs a whopping £47.93 from the same source. ($35.23 from e-classical which is basically BIS own storefront).
Well, I'm not really expecting people to jump on this just because of my long interest in Sorabji, but folks can explore thru Spotify, for instance, and decide if they want to take advantage of the cheap download afterwards.
I wonder what Sorabji would've thought of this version of his work because since it's a full 70 minutes longer than what's in the score. He left during a performance of a segment from the Opus clav... when the performer (John Tobin, I think) went on too long, so...
I've sat thru two performances of the Opus clav... - one by the great John Ogden - but I wonder if I could sit thru this (still, it wouldn't be the longest performance of a work in one sitting for me). The Geoffrey Douglas Madge version is worth hearing too (if a bit stilted).
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2003 Numbers Add Up 2007 I Was Thinking of You the Whole Time
followed by
XTC - Skylarking
Double-CD in slipcase with 72-page booklet (french/english)
Gérard Collin-Thiébaut (b.1946) is a French conceptual and installation artist whose "attitude is simple if radical. His purpose is to overturn convention and give the tree of the art world a good shaking, "when habits become form". Often elegant and deliberately traditional, even old-fashioned in appearance, his interventions suggest that things are easy, but go on to demonstrate that modernity is never what you see on the surface. […] Throughout his artistic career, he has worked to pursue the various categories of the fine arts using procedures of the day, bringing out correspondences, in order to achieve transversal knowledge and not only to allow a rereading of the world, but also to affirm that thought is a matter, not of found forms, but of forms that transform Not insignificant clues: Paul Otlet, Aby Warburg, Roussel, Duchamp, Flaubert, folk art.“ (Jean-Philippe Branche)
Christina Kubisch - Italienische Stucke (Art edition)
Special edition of 50 numbered copies. Includes signed photograph (13x18 cm) and reproduction of the score of "Liquid Piece“ (245g linen-stock, 29,7 x 42 cm) handcoloured with china ink by Christina Kubisch, signed & numbered.
Sound is almost always at its most thrilling, whether in practice or source, when it can not be easily defined. This is the liminal zone within which only the bravest and most ambitious among the avant-garde dare to tread, constantly pushing forward into unexplored zones which are yet to be claimed by the known. Of those artists who have taken on such a task, it is hard to call to mind any as important as the German composer, performance artist, and flautist, Christina Kubisch. First emerging during the 1970s and leaving an astoundingly singular body of work in her wake over the decades since, she is an artist for whom there has seemingly never been impulse to look back, each effort gathering momentum and pushing ahead from the last. If for this reason alone, we are overjoyed to highlight the latest release from the long standing Berlin based imprint, Tochnit Aleph, Italienische Stücke, gathering conceptual and perfomative pieces composed and realised by Kubisch during the early years of her career, spent living in Italy. Overflowing with incredible ideas and mind-melting sounds, it offers a rare opening into the very beginnings of one of the most important artists in our midst.
2002 One All 2002 7 Worlds Collide - Live At The St. James
Earlier today in the car, picking my son up from school early because of the tornado watch.
Been digging deep into my collection and found this, memories of listening to this years ago
1971 New Riders Of The Purple Sage 1972 Powerglide
1973 The Adventures Of Panama Red 1974 Brujo
1976 New Riders
1974 Stars And Stripes Forever 1989 Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Volume Two)
2001 51 Phantom
1989 Wild Weekend
2005 Mulebite Deluxe
2008 Norman Kapoyos & The Swinging Mood Orchestra
I still find this magnificent after all these years.
but folks can explore thru Spotify, for instance, and decide if they want to take
advantage of the cheap download afterwards.
I wonder what Sorabji would've thought of this version of his work
because since it's a full 70 minutes longer than what's in the score.
He left during a performance of a segment from the Opus clav... when the
performer (John Tobin, I think) went on too long, so...
I've sat thru two performances of the Opus clav... - one by the great John Ogden -
but I wonder if I could sit thru this (still, it wouldn't be the longest performance of a
work in one sitting for me). The Geoffrey Douglas Madge version is worth hearing too (if a bit stilted).
2007 You Follow Me
3 new 'bonus tracks' just added at Bandcamp
In The Dead Of Night When Everything Is Asleep by Aaron Martin & Leonardo Rosado
2002 Blacklisted 2006 Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
The New Pornographers - A.C. Newman, Daniel Bejar, Neko Case & others
2003 Electric Version