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The first sampler features live and electronically manipulated instrumental music. The second sampler features mostly electroacoustic music. Night Music, by Robert Erickson is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard. It is based around the agile, sinuous trumpet playing of David Burkhart, supported by flute, clarinets, trombone, cello, bass, and percussion. It starts off quite softly for the first few minutes--no adjustment to your equipment is necessary. (from AGP3) Monochrome Sea, by the Japanese percussionist Yasukazu Amemiya feature an especially vivid and detailed recording on the Japanese RCA label. Amemiya's compositions exhibit a very nice sense of the sound potential of the instruments at his disposal. (from AGP20) In Motu Proprio by Dieter Schnebel has some intriguing interference harmonies involving pairs of woodwinds playing notes that weave in and around the unison. It is from his Tradition series, and while not strictly canonical is based on canonic processes. (from AGP15) Ascent Into Air, for 10 instruments and ghost electronics, is the third part of Morton Subotnick's series "The Double Life of Amphibians". The "ghost" electronics make no sound on their own, but alter the amplitude, frequency, and location of any sounds produced as the electronic score is playing. The rather simple electronic manipulations in the "ghost" electronics produce an interesting range of timbres, depending on the tone color of the instruments being manipulated. (from AGP6) To download the files in the first sampler, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE LINK AS. 02 - Yasukazu Amemiya: Monochrome Sea [21:41] 04 - Ascent Into Air (ten instruments and "ghost" electronics) [24:04]
ANIMUS III by Jacob Druckman is an electroacoustic work that derives its sound material largely from Arthur Bloom's clarinet playing. It has an incredibly rich and complex sound, yet largely mellifluous owing to the use of clarinet as sound source. (from AGP4) Ponomatopees II by Bernard Parmegiani was inspired by the electro-acoustic treatment of the voice and also by some of the vocal ravings of pop singers. "These chomatopoeic fantasies should be heard, according to the composer, as follows: 1. Sit in the manner of bad European yogis. 2. Pretend to concentrate, thinking of nothing but what is said. 3. Catch the meaning . . . repeat . . . turn around. 4. Then "ponomatopise" . . . you will free yourself from the enjoyment of the verb!" (from AGP13) Musique Douze, by the Swedish composer Ragnar Grippe, combines acoustic and electronic sounds in a rich and detailed mix. (from AGP16) Glas-Spiele (Glass Games) by Josef Anton Riedl was sketched in 1974 and composed in 1977 in two versions. This is one of Riedl's pieces for self-constructed instruments. Here the instruments are as unconventional as the manner of performance: they are made entirely of glass. (from AGP1) To download the files in the second sampler, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE LINK AS. 02 - Bernard Parmegiani, Ponomatopees [6:18] |
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