Electronic Music

[Mandryka]

It has legs, so I am sure I would!

Ah yes, you're thinking along the right lines. I think it actually raises all sorts of moral questions about pornography (I'm not saying it is pornographic, but it may be), and about a man making a commodity about lesbian sex . . But if you can't understand French, you won't notice!

[Mandryka]

The booklet says

In Regnum animale the setup includes a string trio
surrounded in circle by a mass of computer-driven, electro-mechanical devices built from discarded and scavenged every-day objects and
appliances (electric knives, radio clocks, turntables, and so on). Regnum animale is a sequence of
24 very short pieces, each one lasting approximately 40” and dedicated to an imaginary animal.

But it's just so annoying because they don't tell us anything about these imaginary animals -- like Pokemon I suppose, but I don't know. Very disappointing.

The music is fun sounds.

[Joseph K]

I checked out Systema Naturae on Richard Barrett's recommendation back in December IIRC; it is an interesting piece...

[Dave2002]

Christopher Fox wrote an electronic piece called Zone, it has been performed by Apartment House, there's no commercially available recording but I have a bootleg. I like it very much.

Anyway, just randomly looking at what Google threw up about it, I found this article which had, for me, an irresistible-to-click title, Music for a Dis-Uniting Kingdom?

https://journalofmusic.com/focus/music-dis-uniting-kingdom

so I clicked and found a reference to a musician whose music I hadn't explored before, Matthew Wright. And Spotify led me to this -- I love it!

At least one of the tracks seems to work here - https://evanparkerintakt.bandcamp.co...elsdorf-part-1

[Quarky]

I can understand French well and I think it really helps! If you can understand French, then possibly you will enjoy this

Listening on YouTube to part 4, it doesn't leave much to the imagination , doesn't it?

From my brief acquaintance, I like Luc Ferrari, he deals with earthly subjects . I can get bored, floating for hours in an Intermediate State.......

[Mandryka]

At least one of the tracks seems to work here - https://evanparkerintakt.bandcamp.co...elsdorf-part-1

There's a lot of interesting stuff from Matthew Wright on Spotify, and an earlier Trance Maps CD (not on Spotify as far as I can see) -- presumably the music that Christopher Fox mentioned in that article -- full of trippy intensity (can't find better words than that at the moment.)

[Quarky]

Free Improvisation
FURT Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer plus John Russell - Live Vortex - 20.10.13

IMHO, one or more acoustic instruments bring quite a lot to the party....

[Bryn]

Free Improvisation
FURT Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer plus John Russell - Live Vortex - 20.10.13

IMHO, one or more acoustic instruments bring quite a lot to the party....

As in

[Mandryka]

Continuing my exploration of Matthew Wright’s music with this laid back, CD - intricate counterpoint, nothing manic, intimate and rapt, colourful living room sized music.



Also started to listen to some turntable music, with this by Martin Tétreault - 21 Situations, like 21 Etudes. What I’m learning is that there’s a lot of variety to turntableism. It’s not all fast and jumpy.

[Joseph K]

Thought it'd be worth copying and pasting this over onto this thread -

I didn't know where to put this little announcement so I guess here is as good a place as any. Over on the "What are you Practising/Composing" thread I've been banging on about this work in progress for a few weeks now, and it's no longer in progress. For those who haven't seen the other thread: this is an album consisting of five new electronic compositions, each of which is based on an improvisational solo specially recorded by one of five instrumentalists: Daryl Buckley (electric lap steel guitar), Ivana Grahovac (cello), Lori Freedman (bass clarinet), Anne La Berge (flute) and Lê Quan Ninh (percussion). Released a few minutes ago on the STRANGE STRINGS label. I hope some of you will listen and enjoy.

https://richardbarrett.bandcamp.com/...binary-systems

I'm currently on the penultimate track and can already highly recommend it! Such fantastic sounds & forms are conjured.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thought it'd be worth copying and pasting this over onto this thread -



I'm currently on the penultimate track and can already highly recommend it! Such fantastic sounds & forms are conjured.

Thanks Joseph K for doing that. I enjoyed that piece more than anything I've heard of recently composed music for a long time.

[Dave2002]

Thanks Joseph K for doing that. I enjoyed that piece more than anything I've heard of recently composed music for a long time.

Does that piece only exist in recorded form, and presumably also in RB's head? If anyone else wanted to produce a rendition, are there notes, or a score of any sort? I ask that because I've heard other pieces based on instrumental sounds where there are sufficient instructions for a performer to play, either using "real" instruments or synthesisers. On the other hand this might be a "one off" - just what RB wanted to do on a particular day in a particular location with dedicated equipment, and it would be difficult for anyone else to reinterpret it.

[Joseph K]

Does that piece only exist in recorded form, and presumably also in RB's head? If anyone else wanted to produce a rendition, are there notes, or a score of any sort? I ask that because I've heard other pieces based on instrumental sounds where there are sufficient instructions for a performer to play, either using "real" instruments or synthesisers. On the other hand this might be a "one off" - just what RB wanted to do on a particular day in a particular location with dedicated equipment, and it would be difficult for anyone else to reinterpret it.

Having read RB's posts on the What Are You Practising/Composing thread, it seems no score or notation was involved...

[Bryn]

Having read RB's posts on the What Are You Practising/Composing thread, it seems no score or notation was involved...

Or, indeed, read the programme notes in the booklet pdf.

[Richard Barrett]

Or, indeed, read the programme notes in the booklet pdf.

The album consists of fixed media electronic pieces based on recordings of improvising instrumentalists to whom I gave no directions or suggestions or notations. I made that pretty clear on the "What are you... " thread as well as in the liner notes!