Archive for the 'concrete music' Category

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Minha Galera – Not so Shallow Mix  by  Minha Galera Track List 1. Povarovo – J.S Bach 2. Teargas & Plateglass – Plague Burial 3. Leila – Mettle 4. Amon Tobin – Chomp Samba 5. Moondog – Why Spend the Dark Night With You 6. Al Chem – No Hopper 7. Instituto Mexicano del Sonido – Tristeza Hawaiana 8. King [...]

16 March 2010 at 03:04 - Comments
Razvan
Wicked.
4 November 10 at 14:23
arolF
so i could never expect to hear someone play leila, moondog and sibot in the very same mix. you killed ...
30 January 11 at 05:03

Estradasphere

Dubway (all vocal)

Estradasphere is a band of multi-instrumentalists from an unlikely variety of musical backgrounds. Timb Harris (violin/trumpet), Jason Schimmel (guitar/banjo/keyboards/vocals), Tim Smolens (upright and electric bass/vocals), Kevin Kmetz (Tsugaru Shamisen/guitar/keyboards), Adam Stacey accordion/keyboards/clavinet), and Lee Smith (drums/percussion) were trained in disciplines ranging from classical and jazz to metal. This diverse instrumental and [...]

2 February 2010 at 03:39 - Comments

Vladimir Ussachevsky

I love how it sound the Prelude to Wagner’s ‘Parcifal’ on Vladimir Ussachevsky’s electroacoustique composition: Wireless Fantasy (1960)

11 February 2009 at 18:07 - Comments

Matmos – Concrete pop

They’re friends with Bjork! Now that I have your attention, please enjoy this bizarre experiment, that can only be classified as as a pop version of the musique concrète genre. Undone

Alarm Call

In 1998, Matmos remixed the Björk single Alarm Call. Subsequently, Matmos worked with Björk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medúlla (2004), as well as [...]

11 December 2008 at 11:19 - Comments

Pierre Schaeffer

Etudes Schaefferiennes

Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète. He is generally acknowledged as being the first composer to make music using magnetic tape. Accordind to Wikipedia, musique concrète (concrete music), is a style of avant-garde music that relies on recorded sounds, including natural environmental sounds and other non-inherently-musical [...]

5 August 2008 at 13:56 - Comments

Varèse/ Xénakis/ Le Corbusier – Poème électronique (1958)

“Poème électronique” (Electronic Poem) was composed in 1958 by Edgard Varèse, the father of electronic music, and Iannis Xénakis, one of the most important modernist composers of the 20th century, under the direction of Le Corbusier, one of the most important architects of the 20th century. This recording is only an approximation of the true nature [...]

4 August 2008 at 10:26 - Comments

James Houston – Big Ideas (don’t get any)

A brilliant mix of Nude (Radiohead) by James Houston, played by old computer parts.

More info here or here.

21 July 2008 at 13:55 - Comments

Jean Paul Gaultier – How To Do That

WOW! WOW! WOW! http://www.myspace.com/jeanpaulgaultiermusic

11 July 2008 at 15:32 - Comments
Armand
Awesome post ... good music and tight video!
14 July 08 at 22:57

Hanayo – another kind of geisha

Hanayo & Ponpons — ISDN (no, it’s not your phone)

Joe le taxi

I liked the description: “she has the style of a little-girl-lost screaming and screeching.”

3 July 2008 at 13:31 - Comments

Dat Politics

Dat Politics is a French electronic music group. Its music is sometimes classified as musique concrète. The band creates their own art, as seen on their album covers, website, and music videos. They were present at this year’s Rokolectiv edition. www.myspace.com/datpolitics\ www.datpolitics.com

10 June 2008 at 10:43 - Comments