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Ballet Mécanique (1924) was a project by the American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artist Fernand Léger. Although the film was intended to use Antheil’s score as a soundtrack, the two parts were not brought together until the 1990s. In this film apear Kiki of Montparnasse as the woman with the weird lipstick smile. Kiki [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
I discovered Laurie Anderson’s voice years ago on a midnight radio show from Bucharest, called Lipstick Traces, but without knowing her name. And I kept her songs recorded on some audio tapes. After I discovered the internet, and recently the wonderful LastFM, I solved my puzzle: the lovely voice is Laurie Anderson. This is one of [...]
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Ross Bolleter (born 1946) is an Australian avantgarde composer and improviser notable for his experimentation on ruined pianos. He has been a member of The Blackeyed Susans and he is a co-founder of the WARPS Music label.
Preview: Piano Dreaming, Unfinished Business, Under Rookwood, Going to War Without the French is Like Going to War Without [...]
One of the most beautiful songs in the world!
This is the original and still the best version.
