Musique Concrete / Electro-Acoustic & other...

[piisti]

There is coming some Torba (compilation?) CD via AAD soon, but does anyone know is this guy still going on under different alias? Torba is one of most impressed project year after year to me. I have been hunting his records but some of those are so limited that it must be impossible to get whole Torba catalog. I'm sure I'm not the only one and his works would get much more praised if people have possibility to hear those! There's a little tip to someone publisher to do a CD box example?

Edit; just found tape under his own name under JDV 2022

[MkB]

https://falt.bandcamp.com/

[piisti]

Wow! Thanks for the link. Just checking  but there is really interesting stuff here. Didn't know this label. Few evenings listened Mauro Diciocia tape here.

[MkB]

Wow! Thanks for the link. Just checking  but there is really interesting stuff here. Didn't know this label. Few evenings listened Mauro Diciocia tape here.

Don't forget to check out their "radio" mixes which often contain unreleased recordings ;) - https://faltradio.substack.com/

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Ah! This is the thread where I really need to put this:

https://www.soundohm.com/product/denis-dufour-bundle-32cd

As I hinted in the Random Noise topic, this work deserves your investigation!

I think a lot of Noise Artists stand on the shoulders of such people/works, even if they are not conscious of it. (They might even make fun of Dufour and his ilk, with all this "beardstroking" stuff. But don't bite the hand that feeds ya.) 😂

I believe that the Acousmatics played a role in setting the stage for The Noise Explosion Of 1979.

(Yes, 1979 is the most significant year, imho.)

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Lately I've been exploring Roland Kayn's music, which has been nothing short of a revelation to me. He was a German composer who lived between 1933-2011. It's a shame he's little known, as his electronic music (he wrote contemporary classical music, too) is the best electroacoustic/electronic music I've ever heard. His music is unique; he very rarely utilised the kinds of sounds and motifs that are characteristic of academic composers. Often, his music is a kind of very intense ambient, with huge blocks of sound shifting constantly (I don't like ambient, but I can get totally lost in Kayn's music). The vast, expansive sense of space that's characteristic of his music is just amazing.

It seems Kayn's name has become somewhat more well-known after the release in the last couple years of the "A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound" 16xCD box set and the 3xLP reissue of "Simultan". While I like these works (although, ironically, his most well-known and easiest to get release, "A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound", is the least exciting in my view), the real deal for me are the CDs he released on his own label, Reiger-records-reeks. This is a lot of music: 12 double CDs and one single CD, not counting his contemporary classical works. He classified his music into several categories: cybernetic music (these are the CDs I least like at the moment, but I haven't really familiarised myself with them yet), electroacoustic music and what he termed multiplex sound art (almost all of these works contain surprising elements, like samples of techno-like music or classical music).

If I had to pick a favourite of his works, it'd be "Gärten Der Lüste", which is a totally unique electroacoustic piece. Play it on a good hifi at night (which suits the music's atmosphere) with no distractions of any kind, and you'll be transported to a strange place. It's as if you're walking through a dense, organic, constantly changing and alien environment at night with various sounds and sound textures surrounding you at different distances. I'm reminded of the movie Annihilation where the protagonists enter a strange world. "Gärten Der Lüste" is like being in such an alien and mysterious world. (Unfortunately there are no sound samples from any of his CDs on his own label on YouTube.)

I highly recommend Kayn to noise fans and people into strange and innovative electronic music (some of his early works as well as parts of the above-mentioned 16xCD box can be heard on YouTube). And for those who already like his music, there are good news concerning reissues: following "Simultan", the rest of Kayn's mythical and impossible to get LP box sets from the '70s and '80s will also be reissued by Die Schachtel ("Tektra" should be out this spring), and Reiger-records-reeks will release a CD box this year.

Oh man, I'm a complete Kaynhead! I adore the 3 big (so far) boxes: Scanning, Ortho, Milky Way.

I kept threatening to make a Kayn thread, before I learned how to search here. 😂

Your post is excellent. (And old.) 😂

Perhaps we can build on this.

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Ah! This is the thread where I really need to put this:

https://www.soundohm.com/product/denis-dufour-bundle-32cd

As I hinted in the Random Noise topic, this work deserves your investigation!

I think a lot of Noise Artists stand on the shoulders of such people/works, even if they are not conscious of it. (They might even make fun of Dufour and his ilk, with all this "beardstroking" stuff. But don't bite the hand that feeds ya.) 😂

I believe that the Acousmatics played a role in setting the stage for The Noise Explosion Of 1979.

(Yes, 1979 is the most significant year, imho.)

These samples on the Soundohm site are nice but going through 32 cds of this stuff feels like a chore. If you like Kayn I'd suggest listening to Jaap Vink as well. The best of the Dutch Sonology group in my book. Has a 2LP on Recollecting GRM with all his recorded material but it's really hard to find..

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This is the best thread for this one:

In the mornings I generally listen to works that are less Noisy, and more on the Experimental side.

I really enjoyed this for the previous 32 mornings in a row:

https://www.soundohm.com/product/denis-dufour-bundle-32cd

As I type: Small Cruel Party - Do You Believe In A Pencil.

This was a recent blindish buy from S+W. I knew nothining of the (French) artist, but brief samplings intrigued me. And the artwork for this CD is more than worth the price alone!

This plays as a single 73min track, but there are 2 distinct parts, separated at around 28min.

The first part is rather ambient...some might even call it...gasp...New Agey. But it's good! 😂

And then we move to a more interesting found sound / metallic object kind of vibe, with a soft white-noise type backing.

Well, I fucking love this.

And I'm really looking forward to 12 mornings of:

https://www.soundohm.com/product/oeuvremusicale-parmegiani

[impulse manslaughter]

Just ordered this reissue of classic Francois Bayle album on Recollection GRM; https://francoisbayle.bandcamp.com/album/je-ta-ou-murmure-des-eaux

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Just ordered this reissue of classic Francois Bayle album on Recollection GRM; https://francoisbayle.bandcamp.com/album/je-ta-ou-murmure-des-eaux

There was a 15CD Bayle box at Soundohm, and I snoozed on it for 12 milliseconds, and it was gone.

Kick my ass. Kick it hard.