Category Archives: musique concrète

michael pisaro | étant donnés (2018)

Posted on February 26, 2018 by

Michael Pisaro’s Gravity Wave label has been dormant since the release of 2014’s 3-disc Continuum Unbound set, although the composer’s prolific output has hardly slowed in the intervening years. Nevertheless, this year finds him reviving his own imprint starting with … Continue reading →

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max neuhaus / john cage | fontana mix-feed (1966)

Posted on April 9, 2015 by

Technically, this LP consists of four realizations of John Cage’s 1958 Fontana Mix, an indeterminate graphic score originally intended to be used for a tape piece, with or without additional instruments. To say that, though, is not really to capture … Continue reading →

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marc baron | hidden tapes (2014)

Posted on March 9, 2015 by

Marc Baron has entirely remade himself as a musician over the last few years. Once an improvising saxophonist, his uncompromising 2012 solo album ∩ caught him at what must have been the end of a transitional period. A resolutely abstract and … Continue reading →

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éric la casa / taku unami | parazoan mapping (2015)

Posted on February 24, 2015 by

Here’s another challenging, provocative album from the recent Erstwhile Records batch. Like a lot of records in this area of late, it’s a tricky blend of styles and approaches, seemingly highly conceptual in nature but without spelling out what its … Continue reading →

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graham lambkin / michael pisaro | schwarze riesenfalter (2015)

Posted on February 20, 2015 by

Lambkin and Pisaro are two of the most exciting musicians around, albeit in very different ways and for very different reasons. There is, on the surface, a sizeable gap between Lambkin’s raw, intense sound collages and the more studied, rigorous … Continue reading →

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