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Alvin Lucier – I Am Sitting In A Room
This is a reissue of an utterly original and classic work for voice and tape that was composed in 1969, recorded in 1980 and finally appeared on CD in 1990. The premise is…
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Rune Lindblad – Objekt 2
Objekt 2 picks up where Death of the Moon leaves off with nine more tracks spanning 1962 to 1988. “Objekt 2 (Op. 25)” takes the listener on a mesmerizing journey of gnarled, scraped…
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Rune Lindblad – Death of the Moon
Subtitled Electronic & Concrète Music 1953-1960, this is a collection of important yet very obscure works by this Swedish composer. Combining musique concrète and electronic music at a time when France and Germany…
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Pierre Henry – Messe Pour Le Temps Present
Pierre Henry only helped Pierre Schaeffer invent musique concrète in the late ’40s. You’re excused. This is a CD reissue–available on vinyl as well–of material from throughout the ’60s. “Messe Pour Le Temps…
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Henry Gwiazda – noTnoTesnoTrhyThms
Recent-era sampler collages of a top-notch sort highlighted by two tracks of virtual audio–one for headphones, the other for speakers–that place the works in a physical sphere of sound all around you and…
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Vittorio Gelmetti – Musiche Elettroniche
This rare, out-of-print CD, released in 1997, contains five beautiful electro-acoustic pieces from the 1960s by this self-taught Italian composer. There’s no way I’m going to sit here and type out all the…
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Luc Ferrari – Cellule 75
“Cellule 75” (1975) combines scored classical music, improvisation and minimalism into a half-hour piece for piano, percussion and tape. The piano and percussion “rock” on in myriad quirky yet rhythmic ways, at times…
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Luc Ferrari – Presque Rien
In 1958, Luc Ferrari helped Pierre Schaeffer found the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris and was, throughout the ’60s, the first electro-acoustic composer to turn realistic recordings into “musical photography.” Composed for…
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Tod Dockstader – Quartermass
Tod Dockstader (1932-2015) was a sound engineer and effects specialist at Gotham Recording studios in New York City from the late 1950s to the mid-’60s who, with no formal musical training, secretly composed…
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Francis Dhomont – Frankenstein Symphony
“Dhomont is one of the key historical figures in the INA-GRM electro-acoustic scene. The main document of his work to date is a double-CD overview on INA, in association with empreintes DIGITALes in…
