EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

rocketsandrayguns: Old compilations of electronic and avant garde music. Context here: http://retromaniabysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2014/04/conflicted-retromaniacs-blank.html

Jean-Claude Risset: Music From Computer (Recollection GRM) This release collects three different pieces from French composer Risset, each made with a computer in a different decade. The...

Helmut Lachenmann: “Guero” (1969) Lachenmann’s “Guero” is a fascinating piece of notation, calling for playing the innards of the piano. It sits in stark contrast to...

Drew Baker: “National Anthem” (Stress Position, New Focus Recordings 2012) “Pianists spend lifetimes alone in small rooms with antique instruments. This intimate scenario is...

Emmanuel Allard: Nouvelles Upanishads du Yoga (Baskaru) Paris-based visual and sound artist Emmanuel Allard created the pieces on this album using only a Buchla 200e hybridg analog-digital...

Bernard Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum (Recollection GRM) This 1975 opus by French composer Parmegiani is startlingly ahead of its time, even today, nearly 40 years later. Receiving a new...

Various Artists: An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music: Seventh and Last Chronology, 1930-2012 (Sub Rosa) The seventh and final installment in Sub Rosa’s massive series....

John Cage: “Music For Marcel Duchamp” (1947) Happy birthday, John Cage! This excerpt is from Hans Richter’s film Dreams That Money Can Buy and is a collaboration between the two...

Jan St. Werner: Blaze Colour Burn (Thrill Jockey) Jan St. Werner is perhaps best known as one half of Mouse on Mars, but he’s also the man behind Lithops in addition to collaborating...

Stefan Goldmann: “Radiant Grace” (The Transitory State, Macro 2008) Stefan Goldmann’s The Transitory State was perhaps somewhat overlooked given his label’s relatively low...

Barre Phillips: “La Folle” (Three Day Moon, 1978)

Pierre Henry: “Le Voile d'Orphée” (1953) I’ve been trying to find a good digital copy of the full version of this piece — this shortened version is over 10 minutes shorter than the...

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