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. 

AGP1-72 are now available for direct download in the archive at dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/AvantGardeProject

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AGP74 features electroacoustic works by Jean Dubuffet, one of the major visual artists of the 20th century. Dubuffet sought to create music as, "a man who ignores everything about western music and invents a music for himself without any reference, without any discipline, without anything that would prevent him to express himself freely and for his own good pleasure." In 1960-61, he recorded himself playing a variety of instruments for which he had no training, and used a mixing box to produce musique concrete works. The relative primitiveness of his equipment gives them a raw sound reminiscent of the pioneering musique concrete works of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, from a decade earlier. Ilhan Mimaroglu came across some of these works, and was so taken with them that he released an LP devoted to them on Finnadar Records (SR 9002). This installment is a transcription of that LP. 

NOTE: A CD of Dubuffet's electroacoustic works has also been released but is long out-of-print. Only three tracks are found on both the LP and CD, the rest differing. If someone has a copy of the CD and would be willing to transcribe it for a future AGP release, please email me at lou@avantgardeproject.org. 

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. 

01 - Aguichements [7:04]
02 - L'Eau [4:12]
03 - Deliberants [5:30]
04 - Pleure et Applaudit [11:15]
05 - Humeur Incertaine [7:50]
06 - Bateau Coule [8:38]
07 - Diligences Futiles [4:19]
08 - Gai Savoir [3:30]

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.