The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs. 

AGP1-55 are now available for direct download in the archive at dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/AvantGardeProject

NOTE: AGP60 has been withdrawn because 4 of 5 tracks were found to be available on CD after the torrent was initially seeded. The remaining track can be downloaded directly from the AGP archive.

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AGP61 combines the three of four works by Wilhelm Killmayer on Wergo WER 60068 that are out of print. The remaining track, "fin al punto", as well as the four tracks released on AGP60 can be purchased from the Schott Music Shop (http://www.schott-music.com/shop/3/show,93661.html). I am delighted to report that a few other CDs of Killmayer compositions are also available from Schott.

To fill out the CD, I have included the sole out-of-print work by Luigi Nono that I could find in my stacks. Nono is one of the major Italian composers of the late 20th century. He has produced some astonishing music that is really worth getting if you don't already have it. Two collections that I highly recommend can be found here and here:

http://www.amazon.com/Luigi-Nono-sofferte-Contrapunto-dialettico/dp/B00000E3Z2/ref=sr_1_9/002-3572765-0240002?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1179524035&sr=1-9

http://www.amazon.com/Luigi-Nono-Complete-Works-Solo/dp/B000I8OIYI/ref=sr_1_2/002-3572765-0240002?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1179524035&sr=1-2

Both LPs transcribed in this installment are low-noise German pressings in excellent condition. There is some very slight tracking distortion here and there in the latter half of y entonces comprendio, but most of the distortion in that work is from the electronic processing of voice recordings. The torrent includes a PDF file with the liner notes from the two LPs from which these works were transcribed. Pages 1-4 are notes from Wergo WER 60068, and pages 5-6 are notes from Deutsche Grammophon 2530 436. 

Equipment used for A/D conversion: Lyra Helikon phono cartridge, Linn LP12/Lingo turntable, Linn Ittok tonearm, Audioquest LeoPard tonearm cable, PS Audio PS2 preamplifier, Kimber PBJ interconnect, M-Audio Audiophile USB A/D converter. 

06 - Killmayer, The woods so wilde [10:40]
07 - Killmayer, Schumann in Endenich [9:15]
08 - Killmayer, Paradies [15:42]
09 - Nono, y entonces comprendio [32:03]

NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are currently out of print. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish any artists to be deprived of the royalties that they so richly deserve.