Quote from: Zeno Marx on December 04, 2019, 10:41:43 PM
Costin Miereanu - Luna Cinese 1975
(see also Tempo Furioso by Martin Davorin Jagodic)
These albums are great indeed, and I think there's definitely a stylistic similarity between them. They have an unusual atmosphere compared to contemporary "serious" electroacoustic music such as INA-GRM stuff, but they clearly have their roots in that world. Too bad the Miereanu album has only been reissued on CD in Japan, so it's expensive, but at least I have the Creel Pone CDR.
Various
Mania and
Taint releases
After reading about the tragic passing of Keith Brewer, I played my Mania and Taint releases I haven't heard in a while (still have to pull out Taint's
Justmeat LP reissue). While I rarely listen to PE/heavy electronics, I really like the heavy industrial noise/PE mix of Mania. He definitely knew how to create a unique atmosphere of being in a rusty factory or scrapyard where you're bombarded with fucking heavy industrial noise, often mixed with a sense of dread (and he knew how to make his releases sound excellent, too). I especially enjoyed the
Grim Conditions and
Decrepit tapes, and I can't wait to listen to
All Aftermath (which is currently waiting for me at a friend in the UK). As for Taint,
Indecent Liberties has a special atmosphere that I like a lot. Looking forward to listening to
Justmeat as I don't remember what that one's like.
Roland Kayn -
Scanning (10CD box, Reiger-records-reeks)
Recently listened to this for the third time and I like it more and more with each listen.
Scanning is a massive electronic work from 1982-83. It is what Kayn termed "cybernetic music": he set up a network of electronic equipment (in this case, at the Institute of Sonology at the university of Utrecht), set instructions for the system and then turned it on, letting the system create the music with no intervention by him. Beyond this, he never went into technical details about what exactly he did. The music on
Scanning is usually what one could call intense ambient, with vast waves of sound washing over the listener. It's hard (for me at least) to link any specific atmosphere to the music, but it's definitely otherworldly. Some pieces are darker in tone, and yet others are strange electroacoustic works, but the atmosphere remains pretty alien throughout.
Scanning is simpler in structure, higher in pitch and less dark than
Tektra (a 5-hour piece Kayn made a few years before
Scanning, and which is fairly similar to it musically), but those who like
Tektra will like
Scanning too. Highly recommended listening for anyone into completely abstract and otherworldly electronic music.