Sound Art - Radio Art

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	2PartiMOLLItremolanti: 8cm CD Code:wallace01 Price: £8.81 Quantity in Basket: none
Xavier Iriondo, this time with Marco Tagliola, exploring the full gamut of sound and sounds, new and plundered, assembled in an intelligent, engaging way.
	ALAN LICHT: A New York Minute (dbl CD) Code:XI128 Price: £19.39 Quantity in Basket: none
With the exception of the title track (15 minutes) these are drone pieces, mostly for guitar, one for organ - and as such, you will like them if you like that sort of thing. He does it well, has worked with the full catalogue of Names. It was the title track I found interesting: a compilation of a month of New York radio weather reports.
	AMBIANCES SONORES: enregistrements domestiques & tourisme audio. Vol 1 (8 cm mini CD) Code:Ui-002 Price: £8.23 Quantity in Basket: none
Mini CD by various hands of very diverse sound environments, natural and human, close-up and long-shot, in a continuous sequence. It works.
	APOLLO and MARSAYAS: An Anthology of New Music Concerts Code:HetApollohuis1980-1997 Price: £24.68 Quantity in Basket: none
Recordings from concerts in the legendary Apollohuis, not only a great sampling of artists but also a valuable time capsule. Here are extracts of performances by a wide range of sound artists, Fluxus alumni, experimental and contemporary musicians of all stripes - including Tom Johnson, Alvin Lussier, Alvin Curran, Rhys Chatham, Jerry Hunt, Elaine Radigue, Warren Burt, Iva Bittova, Stevan Tickmayer, Borbetomagus, Elliott Sharp, Shelley Hirsch, Derek Bailey, The Hub, Matt Rogalsky, Phil Minton, Group 180, Rolf Julius, Terry Fox, Pauline Oliveros, Carl Stone, Arnold Dreyblatt, Joe Jones and Takehisa Kosugi. 3-way gatefold digipack with 36 page booklet of information and photographs. Limited art edition of 1250 copies.
	APPOLLONAIRE, ARTAUD, BECK, ee cummings, DUCHAMP, GYSIN, JAMES JOYCE, RICHARD HULSENBECK, MAYAKOVSKY Code:SR80 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A collection of historic spoken word documents. Interesting for collectors, the generally curious, researchers, lecturers (the Joyce and Duchampare also on 'Joyce' and 'The creative act' respectively). Full marks to SubRosa for making this collection available.
	ARTAUD ANTONIN: Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu Code:SR92 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The legendary banned radio piece of 1947, here restored. An historic item, in French with some short instrument interludes, for voices, various stages of hysteria. Only for those interested in the history of sound/radio art, but for them indispensable.
	ASHLEY, ROBERT: Your Money My Life Goodbye Code:LCD1005 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Recent work (1998) commissioned for Radio in Germany, this hypnotic 63 minute work features 5 voices, which speak, in a very musical way, over a continuous, slightly shifting, pulse and dramatise a strange and indefinite story involving fraud, the CIA, banks, intrigue and mysterious death. Hard to describe because it's really unlike anything else.
	AUTOMATED NOISE ENSEMBLE: Turntable Strings LP Code:automatedNoise Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Limited, numbered exhibition edition of 186 one-sided heavy gauge LPs with image on second side together with a single locked groove. Minimal sounds of transducers connected to turntables contacting strings; pulses, clicks.THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	AZZARIA, GEORGE: Concret (for headphones) Code:OHM/Avtr31 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Spatialised binaural work, ideally for headphone listening; a web of positioned and moving sounds, a central thread of cello (using plain and extended techniques, player unattributed), intermittent voice (tells complex, morbid, tenuous, tale; language: French), mysterious unidentifiable sounds (acoustic rather than electronic) and occasional field recordings. Fascinating and convincing. With a 5-foot concertina fold-out booklet containing text, some notes (rather minimal) a few photographs and a long, coloured, graphic score..
	BABIN, BELANGER, BRAND, CUTLER, DOYON, DUMAS, LEBRASSEUR, d'ORION, OSWALD, SENEZ: Covers Code:OHMAVTR042 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Ten musicians (above) each chose a commercial recording that they thought could benefit from something being added to it. Each musician received all 10 tracks and each added something to all of them. Nobody heard anything but the original pieces, so no one knew what anyone else had added. Jocelyn Robert gathered all the recordings together, lined up the 10 added tracks from each - still synched to the original commercial recording - erased the originals and mixed the remaining overdubbed parts into a self-standing piece. Each piece, therefore, owed its existence to a commercial recording, but nothing of that recording remained. The result is this CD - which was commissioned to accompany a conference on copyright in Quebec. It's complicated, rich - and experimental - since there is always the phantom of the erased structure holding everything together. Not everything works, but.. In common with many recent releases, there is a minimum of information on the digipack, just a list of names - see above - but no indication of what each of them played, plus a list of the original tracks erased. A fascinating project, nicely realised, by a pretty good band.
	BAKSHI, ALEXANDER: Hamlet is Dying Code:CDLA00028 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Three works for performance (music-theatre).The first, Hamlet is Dying, for 2 violins, three string ensembles, Double Bass funeral train and Bass drum brought to my mind an echo of Broch's 'Death of Virgil' as Hamlet's life swirls around him and some external sounds penetrate following his fatal poisoning. Part music, more dramaturgy, a convincing and concentrated work.The second piece, Sidur Mystery, for Soprano and percussion ensemble seems less concentrated, certainly on the record, without the seeing and the being there. You can compensate a bit by turning the Volume up and the light down, but this is still more of a document than a listening piece. It's interesting but not gripping.The third, Shostakovich Concerto, for Violin and Strings (a piece about, not by Shostakovich) . Gideon Kremer is the main violinist on the first and third pieces. The sleeve notes are almost worth the price of the CD, Bakshi writes about his idea of theatre-music, about the unique and critical quality of individual performance and about the deep relation of sound, space and presence in performance that is centred on dramaturgy and not dependent on words or any separable element. And there's the rub, on the CD, of course, only the sound remains. Nevertheless, there is an intelligence at work here that even information of is worth the having. Russian release. Limited supply.
	BARRETT, NATASHA: Trade Winds Code:ACD5056 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A sustained and impressive electroacoustic/ documentary composition built around sounds recorded from old ocean-going wooden ships (the sea, the creaking rigging, occasional voices) as well as appropriately related sources, that blends the weight of the world's oceans, the hyper-reality of film soundtrack, the conventions of science fiction, total sensory immersion and an imaginative suggestion of narrative. So: unclassifiable. A one-off. And great. Composed as a 16-channel installation it comes here on an SACD hybrid disc - so it will play on any CD player, but if you have SACD hardware, you will get the extra quality.
	BASCHET, BERNARAD AND FRANCOIS : Les Structures Sonores Code:FMRCD63-0599 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Collated from many sources, including long deleted records (remember the Bam label?), this gives some idea of the extraordinary scope of the Baschet brothersÕ instruments. In a long career, starting in 1954, they produced families of beautiful, exotic, futuristic sculptures made from metal, sheet aluminium, glass, wire and plastic - in all sizes, some small, some over 20 feet high Ð all designed to be played: stroked, beaten, bowed, blown (even worn) and composed for. Here are compositions from various hands that exlore the amazing array of sonorities these objects can produce Some unfortunate vocalising now and then does not really detract. This is history. I recommended that you get this CD free with the Book Ð see the book section for details.
	BECKETT, SAMUEL. JOHN TILBURY: John Tilbury plays Samuel Beckett Code:MRCD62 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The redoubtable John Tilbury presents authoritative interpretations of two radio pieces by Beckett, Cascando and Rough for Radio 1. For the first he speaks both parts and plays subtly electronically modulated piano, for the second he is joined by Christina Jones (speaking) and Eddie Prevost and Sebastian Lexer (music, or rather sound interludes). Because Beckett is so musical himself, and his texts so open-ended, this will bear repeated listening; Tilbury is magnificent and both productions are exquisitely realised.
	BERTOIA, HARRY: Unfolding Code:PSFD32 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Japanese release of rare recordings by early sound sculpturist - he evolved his sonambient sculptures in the early 1970s - Harry Bertoia, a legendary sound art pioneer. Delicate and atmospheric metallic clouds of sound. Scarce supply.
	BLACKBURN, PHILIP: Habanera Code:Innova204 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
A sonic snapshot of Havana, consisting mostly of excellent field recordings (markets, police, Mardi Gras, street cleaning, Castro and bad dubbing on TV, streets at night, water pumps, bars, parks, museums, flamenco - with music everywhere... as well as one electroacoustic work (which Cuba has been producing for many years, though it is seldom heard outside). Eccentric metallic booklet. Altogether a fascinating release in the still narrow field of soundscape.
	BLEGVAD, PETER: Opheus, the lowdown Code:APECD005 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
A coherent, integrated work of art. Spoken texts in a world of sounds; concise, complex and for the most part delicately or obliquely set. A model work of experimental radio, but wrapped in a dvd case with a set of dedicated pictures pitched somewhere between a rayogram and '60's bohemian underground graphics alternating with the printed text. Distinguished by a serpentine interconnectedness and a fastidious attention to sonic detail. Different approaches, different voices and different treatments for each tableau keep the ear in the air and the mind off the ground.
	BOSETTI, ALESSANDRO: African Feedback (book +CD) Code:bosettiAfrican Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
64pp A5 flatbound booklet with CD. The book consists of interviews made in small villages in Burkino Faso. Bosetti plays noise/music (Derek Bailey, Hugh Davis, Berio, Parch, Messaien, Yoshihide, Lucier, Chion, Parmegiani &c.) individually (via headphones) to people of all ages - who have never heard anything remotely like this before - and asks them first what they hear - eliciting the most extraordinary, elaborate, graphic and mystifying responses - and then what they make of it: whether it's music and what music is, &c. This is deep matter and the answers are sometimes luminous and always fascinating. It's rare to escape so completely from our own cultural frames of reference, and instructive how possible it is, notwithstanding, to approach and share experiences and concepts on the apparently fragile ground of language (even when that ground is compromised through interpretation). What is common as well as what is alien is made manifest and, above all, a kind of mental hospitality that seems hardwired is revealed. Bosetti is very sharp and accurate in his accompanying footnotes and doesn't mythologize or idealise. He is perfectly aware of his inescapable role as outsider and of the quasi parasitical relationship between white strangers like himself - neither tourists nor administrators -and indigents who know and will supply - for complex sets of motives - what they think is wanted of them. Many levels of information and of misunderstanding are at play here and they shift and elide as you read. Each short interview is accompanied by photographs of the people or the locality and a list of the specific music played. The CD is gripping - it's worth buying the book for alone. Made of the voices and vocal sounds of the questionees, imitations and musical sounds (Western and local) and the proximate soundscape - variously raw and processed - and brilliantly organised into a form that is like nothing I have heard before. I can't recommend it too strongly. But that's me. PLUS POSTAGE.
	BROWN, CHRIS: Talking Drum Code:POGUSP21034-2 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
27 tracks that combine binaural field recordings of urban and rural environments, and traditional musics, from Cuba, Bali, The Philippines, Istanbul, Hawaii, Holland, New York, California and Montreal, with 4 channel, layered, polyrhythmic electronic and instrumental improvisations. It's a very complex set-up, and to make matters more complex still, this recording is made from original materials and processed installation materials. The result is interesting - especially the urban sections - and startlingly binaural: there's real space here. A fascinating project (explained fully in the notes).
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S: Break through in Grey Room Code:SR08 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
15 essential cut up pieces mostly made in the early '60s, as the techniques were developed. Burroughs speaks, records, rewinds, records at random, moves tape, cuts and splices; texts are mysterious, ominous, sardonic, with extraneous sounds, newsmedia and shortwave interpolated. There is also a short extract from a lecture Burroughs gave on the ' Origin and Theory of the Tape Cutups' in 1976, a radio talk fragment, some early '70s cassette works with multiple tape recorders, a performance piece and some short field recordings. Nicely presented.
	BURT, WARREN: 39 Dissonant Etudes Code:TP093 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Each piano etude is 90 seconds long, each employs a different equal tempered scale - from 5 to 43 notes to the octave. Samplers and sequencers perform, though the sound is pianistic throughout. This belongs firmly in that small school of those following up on earlier experiments with microtanality (Ives, Nancarrow, Wyshnegradsky, Carillo, Grainger &c.). These pieces constantly shift the tunings, and they run together, making the experience even more precarious. Fascinating, and educational. The higher numbers, naturally, sound the strangest and the best. Perhaps best listened to in smaller chunks.
	CAGE, JOHN / LEJAREN HILLER: HPSCHD Code:EMFCD038 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
A monster of a work, and massive, this originated in a harpsichord commission Cage was reluctant to undertake but eventually completed in the course of three years work with (early computer programmer) Lejaren Hiller. It turned into - for its 1969 premiere - a four-hour multimedia overload for seven harpsichord soloists, electronic keyboard and 52 pre-prepared tapes (with material in 52 different computer generated microtonal divisions of the octave). A lot of existing music was used, especially Mozart - using his dice method - but also Beethoven, Chopin, Schoenberg, Busoni, Gottschalk and others. The result is a massive cacophony of wide spectrum pitches and melody fragments, like nothing before or since. This version was made by Joel Chadabe, the harpsichords played by Robert Conant. It lasts 65 minutes and there are two short demos of the materials used as extra tracks. The packaging is stunning. Flourescent colours and great design based on the small edition screened posters overseen by Cage for the first concert. The full and informative text is printed on 16 full colour cards which, when laid out form a wildly lurid poster themselves. It all comes in a psychedelic slipcase. Altogether a great work.
	CAGE, JOHN / KENNETH PATCHEN: The City Wears a Slouch Hat Code:organofcorti14 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The original, classic radio version (1942). Absolutely great.
	CAGE, JOHN and DAVID TUDOR: Indeterminacy (Double CD) Code:SF40804/5 Price: £22.33 Quantity in Basket: none
1959. Cage tells 90 short stories, all one minute long - reminiscences, zen tales, observations, pensees - stretching or compressing them to say in the time limit - while in another room, out of earshot, David Tudor plays, sporadically, selections from the piano part of Cage's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and extracts of a tape of Fontana Mix. Recorded by the legendary Moses Asch, it was a double Folkways box years ago (1961, two years before the publication of 'Silence') and has finally been reissued by the Smithsonian Institute. A pleasure to listen to, Cage has a very engaging tone and a fine way with words; and the texts are all little gems. Well worth it.
	CAGE, JOHN: James Joyce, marcel duchamp, erik satie: an alphabet. Code:WER63102 Price: £21.74 Quantity in Basket: none
Dbl CD. Words, words, words Ð a kind of play in fact Ð made for German radio. 2 Versions here, English and German. Some poor jokes, some engaging moments, some eclectic and interesting quotationsÉ adding up to - an acquired taste, a politeness test for the public, another Cagean experiment? Is it interesting that thereÕs not enough sense here in the text for sense and not enough music for music in the sound; that it skips about, leaving in passing some engaging thoughts, some pointless observations, some silly formulations -with half embarrassed titters from the public? I was more charmed by reading CageÕs books than hearing similar narratives and commentaries read aloud and invested with specific colour, tone and interpretation by awkward readers. So, though it is a sometimes charming trail through the unexpected byways and readings of CageÕs enthusiasms, for this listener it was more often an irritating, self congratulation session where good thoughts are devalued and bad ones delivered as gems. ThereÕs a lot of bad writing, bad reading and annoying public reaction here. Pretentious, amateurish are words that come to mind. As a performance piece it might work - if you were there; and as a radio piece maybe Ð disappearing into the air as spoken. But as a CD? For me it works only as a document, as evidence in a case; it gives no pleasure. Is it possible that thereÕs too much reverence for Cage around these days, and not enough calling a spade a spade? King John it seems was often walking naked, but his courtiers saw finery anyway. Unhappily, that way what was really fine gets devalued. Cage did a lot that was important, but some things are better left as ephemera.
	CHOPIN, HENRI (ed): OU 4 CD BOX Code:15VocSonLimitedEdition Price: £68.15 Quantity in Basket: none
From 1964 to 1974 Henri Chopin edited and released a magazine dedicated to sound poetry, and with each included a record. This extraordinary box collects the works on all those records. For the most part we are not listening to familiar voices speaking or making noises: this was the age of the tape recorder and people were using tape, microphones, overload, distortion, environmental recordings, noise, overdubs - anything at all to make sound objects to tape; the voice as the centre but mostly not recognisable any more as a voice. There are some here who speak, or make sounds, repeat words - even tell stories, but the rest is in the world of musique concrete. Contributors include Henry Chopin himself, never less than extraordinary, Bryin Gysin, Charles Amirikhanian, Ake Hodell. Bernard Hedsieck, Ladislav Novak, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Cobbing, Hugh Davies, Francois Dufrene, William Burroughs, Raoul Hausmann, Mimmo Rotella, Paul DeVree, Gil J Wolman and Emil Begt Johnson. The deep LP-sized box comes with a 70pp flatbound book, full of texts in English and French by Chopin - about the magazine, with details of each issue; photographs, other texts, manifestos and notes on the works (less complete than I'd like, no dates and places of recording usually, and not much about method). Then there is a half inch thick stack of single and LP gatefold size sheets with graphic texts, scores, visual poems, concert flyers, programmes and exhibition notes. It's a much needed record of material seldom heard and mostly ignored in other collections. For students, the curious and the adventurous. Limited Edition of 1000.Because of weight there will; be a 2 surcharge toward postage outside Europe.
	COPELAND, DARREN: Rendu Visible - I Code:MED9841 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Completely made from environmental recordings and intended to be listened to in the dark. Exactly what it claims.
	COPORAL BLOSSOM and..: A Mutated Christmas Code:IA105 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
It's a plunderful life with these lucky 13 mutated easy listening xmas songs. The one's you'll hear coming out of every retail outlet for the next month. Gently but intelligently done for the most part, not an obvious rip and glitch noise event ; somehow in the pocket while at arms length. Works to listen to and to be disturbing in the background where it sounds familiar and then.... A genuine one-off. From the Illegal Art label, while you can. Really a must-have for every festive home.
	CURRAN, ALVIN: Maritime Rites (Dbl CD) Code:80625-2 Price: £22.33 Quantity in Basket: none
10 environmental concerts for radio, each with a featured performer, not always terribly prominent, and the sounds of the US Eastern Seaboard (foghorns, bells, gongs, whistles, wildlife). The featured performers are Leo Smith (tpt), Pauline Oliveros (accordion), Steve Lacy (sax), Clark Coolidge (reading), Joseph Celli (reeds), Jon Gibson sax), Malcolm Goldstein (violin), George Lewis (trombone), John Cage (reading) and Curran himself (some voice). The booklet is excellent with extended and useful background on Curran, and good documentation of the pieces. For me Oliveros, Lewis and Cage make the most interesting listening, and Curran's own 24 minute piece (about double the length of the others) is the jewel in the crown. An epic, symphonic work with environmental sound. Not for everyone, but.....
	CUSACK, PETER and MAX EASTLEY: Day for Night Code:PD14 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Made over the last 25 years from location recordings, sounds from Max Eastley's delicate kinetic sculptures, bazouki and guitar, this is an enigmatic and subtle collection of organic and engaging pieces somewhere between electronics and soundscapes, with a fine ear for structure and detail. Exquisite miniatures.
	CUSACK, PETER: Baikal Ice Code:ReRPC2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
In 2004 Peter took a field trip out to lake Baikal to record the ice breaking up (it's a dramatic annual event) and to make an aural document of the environs (port, jettys, generators, the trans-siberian express, settlements &c.). These are beautifully recorded sound-in-time snapshots, with excellent visual co-documentation. Such works belong nowhere and begin to constitute a new genre; this is one of the pioneering works in that genre.
	CUSACK, PETER: Favourite Beijing Sounds Code:cusackBeijing Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Peter follows his favourite London Sounds with this fine collection of 30 Beijing sounds and soundmarks, including the Temple of Heaven Park, dates falling into bowls, subway announcements, knife sharpening, banknote counting, magpie chattering, street scenes and pigeon whistles. Chinese release in brown card envelope with off-white booklet in Chinese and English.
	CUSACK, PETER: Where Is the Green Parrot? Code:ReRPC1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Welcome release from this subtle but complex composer-performer-instrument designer. More than musical, these are dramatic constructions with environmental sound, birdsong, conversation, narrative... the guitar shop section of "two small boys go shopping" is a masterpiece.. A record hard to describe since it deftly side-steps all the usual categories.
	CUTLER, CHRIS: Twice Around the Earth Code:ReRCC2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
An experiment in listening. These compositions are an offshoot of the daily soundscape programme I ran for Resonance FM radio between July 2001-2002, which consisted of commissioned real-time recordings made all around the world between 23.30 and midnight GMT (the time of the broadcast). This CD begins with material from these broadcasts confecting, as it were, two composites of the Earth and a few of its inhabitants, somewhat analogous to what an impossible satellite ear with pinpoint acuity might hear in transit - plus one ear-cleaning stretch between them, taken from a single hear-point. I have tried to make these pieces both open and to work on parallel levels: not only do they have their own narrative and aesthetic qualities, but I hope they also offer a meditation on listening and not listening, interpretation and structure, chance and microphonics. The list of ears around the world who supplied basic material is too long to print here, but it includes many names familiar from these catalogues, and many from the still young soundscape and phonograpic community. Full details of people and places are given in the booklet, along with artwork and thorough notes. You have to trust me on this, it's a really engaging record. Sometimes unbelieveable. I don't think you'll regret giving it a chance.
	DADA, PANSAERS et CORRESPONDANCE: 1917-1926 Vol 1. Code:dadaPansaers Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Spoken word documents of the Avant Garde, featuring James Ensor, Loius Aragon, Philippe Soupault, Henri Michaux, Pierre Bourgeois, Pascal Pia, Paul Neuhuys, Clement Pansaers, Franz Hellens, Robert Guiette, Marcel Lecompte, André Souris, Marcel Marien, Paul Nougé and Salvador Dali. Historic documents, entirely in French.
	DAUBY, YANNIC: Trois Photograhies de Présences Animales en Milieu Urbain. Code:8CnEPui011 Price: £8.23 Quantity in Basket: none
Three straightforward short soundscapes capturing, as the title suggests, animals (mostly insects) in an urban environment. Made in Nice, Taipei and Tours. Tiny edition.
	DAUBY, YANNICK: Songs of a few crickets from Europe Code:daubyCrickets Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Getting the hang of it now? This is a colourful best of sampler .... of European crickets. You thought all crickets sounded pretty much the same? Tsk tsk. Not at all - and here's the proof. Small and limited Taiwanese folded card edition. Of specialist interest.
	DAUBY, YANNICK: Songs of the Frogs of Taiwan Code:daubyFrogs Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Uniquely packaged in a very beautifully designed threefold, rough board, square, album containing a 28pp full colour booklet in Mandarin Chinese and English with photographs, drawings and information (biological and technical). It catalogues the - very musical - songs of Taiwanese frogs. Specialised but good to listen to, or to have colour the air of your room, and a valuable research reference catalogue. A thing of beauty in every dimension.
	DAUBY, YANNICK: Volcanic Tattooed toads Code:daubyToads Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
If this were Frank Zappa, the title would describe a tricksy composition with marimbas and horns; in Dauby's case what you read is what you get. This is a 47 minute documentary of recordings of Bombina variagata - a tiny toad - or, rather, a lot of them, crazily hooting in Nancarrowish de-synchronisation without surcease. Banish sleep or test your friends with this highly radical recording, which leaves minimalists and epater le bourgeoisie poseurs on the starting block. Rhythmic complexity doesn't get near it; this CD will either drive you mad or shift your consciousness onto another plane. Just pray that the US psych-ops people don't get their hands on it. Technically, this is a fantastic spatial recording, and impressive experientially, if you persevere. But it demands a special kind of listening. Small and limited Taiwanese folded-card edition.
	DAVIES, HUGH: Sounds Heard - with Free CD Code:HUGHDAVISSoundsHeard Price: £18.80 Quantity in Basket: none
An immensely useful book by one of the UKÕs early experimenters and pioneers in sound art, and a working authority in the field. This book collects much of his own writing on environmental listening, musical history, improvisation and indeterminacy, new instruments, audio art and installations and includes project descriptions and workbooks. 124 pp, with pictures and photographs. The CD contains a great collection of early plunderphonia, installation recordings, pieces for invented instruments and sound sculptures, musical boxes and found instruments (buzzers, dot matrix printers, eggslicers, tin can and fishing line &c). An important contribution to the field. ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight