Mp3 and visual archives of La Fondation, a musical parisian collective from the beginning of the 80’s, are now online @ here.
Dig into this vault of avant-garde and experimental visual and sonic art, you will be rewarded for sure.
First find for Merzbau:
In my wishlist for quite a while,
Nini Raviolette - Suis-Je Normale
Looking for more.
The music of The Microscopic Septet was the sound of jazz in 20th C. America: all of it, from Ellington to Ayler, bebop to Zorn, Dixieland to experimental, captured in a microcosm. It distilled the essence of jazz as a popular music into a sound that swung, a music that was intelligent, sometimes smart-aleck, and always good clean fun. Optimistic and upbeat, full of innocent confidence, the Microscopic Septet captured not only the sound of jazz, but also the sound - or soundtrack - of 20th Century America. …
the rest here
Lobster in the Limelight
Baghdad Blues
an ancient document, recently disinterred, possibly an explanation of the Micros’ music
Found about it a short while ago while surfing on the net. A whole (new(?)) fetish genre of Japanese descent. Come on in and take a look.
Gilles Berquet’s work on the subject is also pioneering.
by Ground Zero
ReR Megacorp, RéR GZ1 (UK) (CD)
Locus Solus, LSI 1007 (Japan) (CD)
Based on a re-sampling of Heiner Goebbels and 23 Alfred Harth’s sampled rendition of 1960’s Revolutionary Pekinese Opera from China the Peking Opera (from the LP Frankfurt-Pekin: CD Goebbels Heart) from 1984.
Ver. 1.28 is a updated edition of the original version released from Trigram in 1995.
All music by Otomo Yoshihide, the performers, and the sampled guests.
Ground Zero
Otomo Yoshihide: guitar, turntables
Kazuhisa Uchihashi: guitar, effects
Sachiko M: sampler, voice (10)
Mitsuru Nasuno: bass
Masahiro Uemura: drums, enka keyboard (9)
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: percussion, voice (10, 11)
Classic and solid goth rock from Athens, Greece.
After Dusk, making music in the vein of bands like Fields Of The Nephilim and Sisters Of Mercy, are working on their debut album. A part of that music material can be heard in “Primal Memorandum - demo CD”, released in December 2005.
Listen to Strange Aeons’ Signs in shared files (box.net widget) and don’t forget to pay them a visit here
Earlier this year (in March), Columbia University’s School of the Arts (SoA) has awarded the 2007 William Schuman Award to one of the most prolific composers of our time, John Zorn.
“The School of the Arts is pleased to present the William Schuman Award to John Zorn, whose astonishingly diverse and extraordinary body of work has enlightened, startled and enchanted its listeners,” said Dan Kleinman, acting dean of SoA. “His lasting contribution to the repertoire of today has changed the landscape of composition.”
more here
No more words, just go look for his music. It will most probably be a thrilling experience.
Directed by Maya Deren
No sound in this film. I have watched it with Throbbing Gristle’s In The Shadow Of The Sun playing in the background. It worked rather well.
