The Avant Garde Project: back online

[Guest]

It's nice to see the Avant Garde Project finally made it back online--if you missed it last year, you're in for a bountiful cornucopia of musical surprises.
Christmas in June...enjoy!

THE AVANT GARDE PROJECT

http://ubu.com/sound/agp

The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.

With few exceptions, the LPs transcribed for the Avant Garde Project are in excellent condition and have low levels of surface noise resulting from the manufacturing process. The analog rig used for the Avant Garde Project introduces almost none of the tracking distortion that normally produces a flat, harsh sound in LP transcriptions. As a result, instruments and voices sound more realistic and detailed, and there is more of a sense of acoustic space in the recordings.

AGP installments not yet available on UbuWeb can be downloaded from this mirror site:

http://avantgardeproject.conus.info/mirror/index.htm

[MrGongGong]

This is great news
and Ubu comes highly recommended
some fantastic things there

[Roehre]

This is great news
and Ubu comes highly recommended
some fantastic things there

Can't agree more

[Serial_Apologist]

It's nice to see the Avant Garde Project finally made it back online--if you missed it last year, you're in for a bountiful cornucopia of musical surprises.
Christmas in June...enjoy!

THE AVANT GARDE PROJECT

http://ubu.com/sound/agp

The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.

With few exceptions, the LPs transcribed for the Avant Garde Project are in excellent condition and have low levels of surface noise resulting from the manufacturing process. The analog rig used for the Avant Garde Project introduces almost none of the tracking distortion that normally produces a flat, harsh sound in LP transcriptions. As a result, instruments and voices sound more realistic and detailed, and there is more of a sense of acoustic space in the recordings.

AGP installments not yet available on UbuWeb can be downloaded from this mirror site:
http://avantgardeproject.conus.info/mirror/index.htm

Wow, what a feast of goodies to go through - including the Schoenberg String Trio, which I've only ever heard on a tape of a mono broadcast from 1967. Many thanks indeed for bringing these to our attention, Cavatina :cool2:

S-A

[Simon]

Wonderful.

The composer Malec apparently recommends that you listen to his Triola 1 (Turpituda) as loud as possible.

Now, I'm not the slightest bit concerned whether any of the discord fanatics on this board do themselves an injury or turn insane because of this noise: they are old enough to make these decisions.

But I would be sorry if some younger person or student, misled into believing that this rubbish has any worth as music, should suffer any ill-effects.

So for those who don't know it, this piece is particularly painful and painfully awful. There is a note on the site about it inducing "blind panic" and about peoples' "ears bleeding", and whilst this is not, of course, meant to be taken as absolute, at high volume the chance of unpleasant symptoms shouldn't be dismissed.

It's pure noise, and has no resemblance to what most would regard as music at all. That said, if it turns you on, I'm happy for you. Some get their pleasure in unusual ways, and who am I to say it's wrong?

[MrGongGong]

Nurse, the screens !

[Flosshilde]

How good () it is to see The Prof back from his sabatical. Now that he has reassured () us all that he is well () perhaps he could go on another trip?