Electronic Music

[Joseph K]

Currently listening to Trilogie Plain-temps by Bernard Parmegiani, currently broadcast on The Sound Barrier, an Australian radio programme.

I'm enjoying it.

https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/the-sound-barrier

[Boilk]

...I feel like this is due another listen. Uranus, the first and longest piece is on. Lots of these electronic sounds seem to skirt a spectrum between pitched and unpitched; and again it's trippy and phantasmagoric...

That album cover reminds me of Egg's album 'The Civil Surface'...

[RichardB]

That album cover reminds me of Egg's album 'The Civil Surface'...

The cover image is in fact Uranus.

[Joseph K]

FURT: 'n ("impossible")' from the album FUNCTION.

For me this music provokes vivid surreal and abstract shapes, colours and forms.

... this album again, specifically '(n + 2) - x'. It's wonderful, has a lot of verve about it, I'm playing it loud.

[Joseph K]

An improvisational duo of Stefan Prins on electronics and Frank Gratowski on alto sax -

https://soundcloud.com/stefan-prins/gratkowski-prins-improvisation-1-live-at-inmm-darmstadt?in=stefan-prins%2Fsets%2Fimprovisations-1&si=0bc4d1ec43f5491ab6916d01b1d2d510&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&fbclid=IwAR0nwCIHxqV1E_XOo4g4LoOEJxqs6pvcZApkSfdlE6_1IdqR0Daw2VdE-uU

[Joseph K]

An improvisational duo of Stefan Prins on electronics and Frank Gratowski on alto sax -

https://soundcloud.com/stefan-prins/...dqR0Daw2VdE-uU

Just getting round to giving this a proper listen now. It's very good.

[Joseph K]

... this album again, specifically '(n + 2) - x'. It's wonderful, has a lot of verve about it, I'm playing it loud.

Listening to this through headphones, right now. It may not be binaural but listening in this way certainly increases my appreciation of this great music...

[Joseph K]

Listening to this through headphones, right now. It may not be binaural but listening in this way certainly increases my appreciation of this great music...

Just finished listening to 'n ("impossible")' from this very same album. It's worth reiterating what absolutely wonderful music it is, and how I relish playing it quite loud, how colourful, abstract and 'arty' it is, it really conjures images for me similar to a lot of Kandinsky's more abstract art, and of course there are strong surreal elements. In fact, for some reason I find it easier to relate it to painting (modernist painting more specifically) and other visual arts than most other music! (Probably says more about me though, not having a broad or deep knowledge of electronic music.)

[Joseph K]

FURT - 'Emergency' from Accident and Emergency. Another FURT album to add to my collection. I spotted a vocal sample that reappears in another FURT track (from FUNCTION perhaps?). Anyway, I am really enjoying this, it is truly wondrous and everything I said above about FUNCTION applies to this too!

https://furtlogic.bandcamp.com/album/accident-emergency

[Joseph K]

I wasn't going to bother posting anything, but f*** it: I'm listening to FURT's message for, I think, a third time and it's great! One of those ones where you're not quite sure why it's so great but it is - that just about sums up my thoughts. As detailed on the previous page of this thread, the primary ingredients are voices and synthesizer sounds, and these, in the way they're sculpted, distorted and/or manipulated here have some incredible unexpected expressive import. Best experienced with headphones, I find.

[Joseph K]

https://matiere-memoire.bandcamp.com/album/mmxx-14-fully-automated-luxury-communism?fbclid=IwAR2FJbTCGy-vQaxulK0E8wLwMX07UBFqME2Gqgn-Nt78qByFSJH8lkZzEA4

Mauro Lanza - FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY COMMUNISM

As the title suggests, I'm enjoying this.

[Bryn]

Not sure if this has been drawn attention to before: https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/electronic-music/zk8gpg8

[Serial_Apologist]

Not sure if this has been drawn attention to before: https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/electronic-music/zk8gpg8

Wonderful! - many thanks, Bryn.

[RichardB]

The choice of clips there makes one wonder what might have been possible if the BBC Radiophonic Workshop had received the support for actual musical innovation that its counterparts in Paris, Cologne and Milan did, rather than (or as well as) being used for making TV themes.

[Joseph K]

Currently listening to Beatriz Ferreyra's Huellas Entreveradas, which Richard B reminded me of the other day. I'm enjoying it immensely - I'm listening through headphones which seems to enhance electronic music like this more than is the case with most acoustic music, I find.

https://youtu.be/M9a7PUuX_Zg