The Improvisors

Tellus #15: The Improvisors, 1986 - [8 mp3s]

Excerpts from The Stephanie and Irving Stone Festival of Improvisors recorded at Roulette, NYC on November 8, 9, and 10, 1985.

• Chris Cochrane - electric guitar, Anthony Coleman - electric organ (8:53)
• Carol Emanuel - harp, Tom Cora - electric cello, Bill Frisell - electric guitar, Bobby Previte - drums (5:48)
• Lindsay Cooper - electric bassoon and sax, Fred Frith - electric guitar and homemade electric strings, Irene Schweitzer - piano (8:17)
• Christian Marclay - turntables, Bill Horvitz - guitar and electronics, David Weinstein - Mirage and electronics, Denman Maroney - keyboards (7:17)
• Lindsay Cooper - reeds, Fred Frith - electric guitar, etc., Christian Marclay - turntables, Samm Bennett - drums (8:40)
• Bill Frisell - electric guitar, Jim Staley - trombone (3:33)
• David Weinstein - Mirage, Fred Frith - electric guitar and homemade electric string instrument (8:10)
• Ikue Mori - drums, John Zorn - reeds and game calls, Lindsay Cooper - sax and electric bassoon, Fred Frith - electric guitar etc. (8:31)

Participants in the festival included:

Gregg Bendian - Percussion
Jill Burton - Vocals
Chris Cochrane - Guitar
Anthony Coleman - Keyboards
Tom Cora - Cello
Judy Danaway - Guitar
Carol Emanuel - Harp
Bill Frisell - Guitar
Bobby Previte - Drums
Jim Staley - Trombone
John Zorn - Sax, Clarinets and Game Calls
Irene Schweitzer - Piano
Fred Frith - Guitar and Homemade Strings
Samm Bennett - Drums
Lindsay Cooper - Bassoon and Reeds
Bill Horvitz - Guitar
Guy Klucevsek - Accordion
Christian Marclay - Turntables
Denman Maroney - Piano
David Weinstein - Mirage etc.
Ikue Mori - Drums

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(www.ubu.com/sound/tellus_15.html)

Vialka's audio page

§- Vialka: turbo folk micro-orchestra
§- Vialka's audio page [oggs & mp3s]

(http://www.vialka.com/
http://www.myspace.com/vialka)

Jealousy Party - Amaranta’s Dance / Play On (live)

WJM: jp set, mix
POGO: actual and recorded vocal
RICCI: alto saxophone, trombone
GELLI: laptop
ANDREINI: percussion

Performed at the Altera Festival @ Black House Blues (Avellino), 2008-04-04

(www.burpenterprise.com)

AGP99 - Iannis Xenakis

§- AGP99 features the work of Iannis Xenakis, a Greek composer who needs no introduction for votaries of the 20th century avant garde. [...] The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the liner notes from the two LPs from which these works were transcribed.

To download AGP99 files, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE LINK AS.

01 - Polla Ta Dhina, (7:39) - [flac : 39 mb]
02 - ST/10-1-080262, (12:11) - [flac : 54 mb]
03 - Cendrees, (23:18) - [flac : 115 mb]

Liner notes from LPs - [pdf : 700 kb]

[...]

(www.avantgardeproject.org/agp99/index.htm)

Lu focu di la paglia

(http://www.xzoert.org/cantu)

Vialka - Everywhere & Nowhere

#23 Musik For Potheads

Download: Musik For Potheads
Recorded November 8-9, 2007 - [mp3s : zip : 39 mb]

Tracklist:
1- Herd Mentality (3:05)
2- Checkers (5:42)
3- Transmission #37 (9:29)


(http://werelateforclass.blogspot.com/)

Claire de Lune

[insub25] So It Goes (Live at Geiger)

JOEL GRIP + CHRISTIAN MUNTHE + TATSUYA NAKATANI - So It Goes (Live at Geiger) - [mp3s : rar : 43 mb]

Joel Grip: double bass, etc.
Christian Munthe: acoustic guitar
Tatsuya Nakatani: drums & percussion, etc.

Live recordings by Keith Talent at Club Geiger,
Brewhouse, Gothenburg, December 7, 2007.


The following three people meet this evening. They arrange familiar and not so familiar objects. Two of them sit down while one remain standing. They play, and go for a meal. So it goes:

Joel Grip: swedish bassplayer, festival organiser, label producer, etc. Moving about in the improvised / experimental / creative music field he tours worldwide and has worked with, a.o., Eve Risser, Yoshida Tatsuya, Joe McPhee, Mats Gustafsson, Sam Rivers and Michael Zerang.

Christian Munthe: swedish free improviser concentrating on the sonar possibilities offered by an acoustic guitar. Since the 1980's he has performed/recorded solo as well as with Günter Christmann, Anders Dahl, Mats Gustafsson, Paul Lovens, Phil Minton, Christine Sehnaoui, Roger Turner, a.o.

Tatsuya Nakatani: contemporary percussionist, originally from Osaka, Japan. He performs creative music around the world, and has created a totally unique sound which defies category or genre. He utilizes the drum set, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls and metal objects.

(www.dincise.net/insubordinations/releases25.html)

Le Grand Macabre

§- Interview by Herman Sabbe, 23 October, 1978

Translated into French and authorized by the composer on 4 February, 1979
First published in Interface, Vol. 8, 1979, pg. 11-34
Translated into English by Josh Ronsen, February-March, 2003

Abstract: The interview traces the background of Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre (1977) through the whole of his career to a fundamental eschatological concern. It retraces its genesis and discloses sources of inspiration in literature and formal analogies to cinematography and the arts. Drawing a parallel with Three Pieces for Two Pianos (1976), it focuses on time neutralization, quotation techniques, the problems of synesthetics and acoustical illusion.

In April 1977, Ligeti finished the score to Le Grand Macabre, an opera in two acts and four scenes based on the play Ballade de Grand Macabre (1934) by Michel de Ghelderode. The work premiered at the Royal Opera of Stockholm, who had commissioned the work. After this, it had its German premiere, in the German language, at the State Opera of Hamburg, in October, 1978, and recently, the Italian premiere, in Italian, in Bologna.

(www.ronsen.org/monkminkpinkpunk/9/gl3.html)

The Mutopia Project

Classical and contemporary music

The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others.

(www.mutopiaproject.org)

Webern - Variations for Piano, op.27

Anton Webern - Variations for Piano, op.27
Pianist: Glenn Gould, 1964.

Planète Sauvage II

Planète Sauvage II - [mp3s : 76 mb]

LP album (2008)
7 tracks
total time 46 mns 49s.

The second album and first LP of Planete Sauvage presents seven pieces of a quite melancholic caracter. Most of them are given as a tribute to their creators different passions, first of all cinema, but also litterature and philosophy.

1-Mélancholia (Kassiel)
A novel from the japaneese writter-scenarist Ryu Murakami gave the piece it's name, but its theme was inspired by David Cronenberg's subversive film Crash, eroticism and death allegory. Besides we can hear the bewitching voice of the beautiful Déborah Unger.

2-Nos Années Sauvages - Our Wild Years (Kassiel)
This is the french title of the movie Days Of Being Wild, from the chineese director Wong Kar Wai.The duo remembers his youth full of hopes, yet outraged and rebellious, related to their father's youth, enthusiasmes and desillusions ( the french student's revolt in May 1968, first man on the moon 1969 ... ).

3-La Métamorphose Des Krolls - Métamorphosis Of The Krolls (Kassiel)
Personnal reflections on Guy Debord's thought , tribute to the free souls.

4-Le Monologue De La Rose Morte - The Dead Rose's Monologue (Usull)
Back to our father's revolt and their youth : the decay of one's soul is becoming an ironic large audience show, with this imaginary soundtrack of one of the most breathtaking scene played by Marlon Brando, in Bernardo Bertolucci's Dernier Tango a Paris - ( Last Tango In Paris ).

5-Cassiel (Kassiel)
Caracter from the films Wings Of Desire and So Far So Close of the german director Wim Wenders ( in this case, more
"berliner" than anything else ), Cassiel is before all the angel of solitude, the one who cannot but look and listen.

6-Le Retour De Biculah Dans Sa Patrie (chapitre2) - The Return Of Biculah In His Land (part two) (Kassiel)
Second episode of Biculah's adventures, back on his journey in Berlin, our hero, quite a bit desillusioned will cross
the path of one of the greatest 20th century's thinker, Herbert Marcuse .

7-L' Eveil De Shemty - The Awakening of Shempty (Kassiel - Usull)
Nymphean Chant rising upon the birthplace of our next messiah ( see The Book Of The Shadows - Amagimah's Epistle - chapter one - Resurrection - verses 18 - 23 ).

(http://planetesauvagesound.free.fr)