With an all-star line-up that features Tenko, John Zorn and Christian Marclay (with guest Jim Staley on trombone), Technology of Tears started life in New York in 1986 as a dance commission by Rosalind Newman. Fred took this opportunity to experiment with Henry Kaiser’s brand new synclavier (the absolute state-of-the-art sampling and processing technology of the time – Henry had to take out a second mortgage on his house to buy it). It was the sophisticated sampling that fascinated Fred, and the piece is characterised by technological “comparisons” between real and virtual voices which constantly merge into one another. Tenko and Zorn tear through it all with breathless intensity. Parts two and three, which follow, couldn’t be more different, for them Fred adopts a completely different methodology, playing everything himself mostly on low-grade instruments, then inviting turntablist Marclay to add plundered parts. Here is a completely different approach to “sampling”: exploring dense layers of quotation intercut with melodies formed using random editing processes (with subsequent transcription and re-performance). Lastly there is Jigsaw, a later work, also made for Rosalind Newman, reflecting the frustrations experienced making Technology… where, every time Fred would complete a stable version, Rosalind would ask for changes (incidentally, sending the recording way over budget). This time Fred decided to make a modular piece that could be re-assembled in any way requested – and having no pre-determined structure at all. The original composition consisted of dozens of musical cells, each recorded separately in increments of between 3 and 12 measures; all at the same tempo, and in the same key. The idea was to play the elements separately and then ask Rosalind how she would like them constructed. Ironically, the test assembly, made as demonstration of what was possible, won instant approval, and no reconstruction was ever necessary. DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: MP3 – £6.99 FLAC – £9.99 Buy album as CD (£12.50 POST FREE)
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Category: LIBRARY
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FRED FRITH: Technology Of Tears
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FRED FRITH: Impur
In 1996, at the end of a two year residency, Fred organised an event at L’Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne in France. He roped in as many of the students as he could, grouped according to their departments (early music, rock, African drumming, classical &c), and set them up in all the rooms in the building. The public wandered around creating their own mix, or sat in the courtyard listening to the sound drifting out through the open windows. For their part, each group of musicians played their own specially written music and occasionally were asked to improvise, all of them following a precise time-score prepared by Fred (55 minutes long). Synchronize watches. The whole thing was recorded on 4 A DAT machines and was later mixed – this was the result: an exiting, lurching and capricious beast with many heads, by turns an orchestra tuning up, a salute to Sonny Blount, a roiling chaotic mass of sound that splitting into layers colliding back together, pullulating, ululating, roaring and sometimes mewing like a kitten.arkable song group from enver, who’s state of the art work is breathtakingly well represented on this CD,Which features new pieces (a new LP) plus ‘moonsongs’ completely remixed and remastered. 71 minutes
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CHRIS CUTLER and THOMAS DIMUZIO: Dust
The first of two tracks is a long Requiem which for me turned out to be a very serious piece of work – and unrepeatable, captured at a concert in New Mexico. Whatever were we thinking? It’s followed by a studio piece, mixing raw binaural sound with sophisticated and radical secondary processing. I use my extended electrified kit and Tom his state of the art sample and real-time processing rig and we try to work as a single, highly complex and sophisticated instrument, with two brains and a mind of its own.DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM:
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FAT: Automat Highlife
Canada's most extreme noise-music exponents caught here in a project built around short, diverse sound experiments..31 bites - which you are encouraged to programme for random order select (shuffle). DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: MP3 - £6.99 FLAC - £9.99 [wp_eStore_buy_now_button id=583] Buy album as CD (£12.50 POST FREE) [wp_eStore_buy_now_button id=2533]
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MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.001. The Way On listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/01 Fat - The Way On.mp3"]2. Automat Hi-Life listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/02 Fat - Automat Hi-Life.mp3"]3. Mamihlapinatapel listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/03 Fat - Mam.mp3"]4. Ted'kon listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/04 Fat - Ted'kon.mp3"]5. Dumb Fellow listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/05 Fat - Dumb Fellow.mp3"]6. The Little Girl listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/06 Fat - The Little Girl and the Workers.mp3"]7. You Speakin' Chinese? listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/07 Fat - You Speakin' Chinese.mp3"]8. Cold, Cold Ground listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/08 Fat - Cold Cold Ground.mp3"]9. You Me Saturday Night Car Fun listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/09 Fat - You Me Saturday Night Car Fun.mp3"]10. Ear Chrome listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/10 Fat - Ear Chrome.mp3"]11. Dazzle listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/11 Fat - Dazzle.mp3"]12. Mr Csodor listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/12 Fat - Mr. Csodor.mp3"]13. La Cucuana listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/13 Fat - La Cucana.mp3"]14. Was, Is listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/14 Fat - Was Is.mp3"]15. Pipe Dream listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/15 Fat - Pipe Dream.mp3"]16. Deux S.V.P. listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/16 Fat - Deux S.V.P..mp3"]17. The Golden Handshake listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/17 Fat - The Golden Handshake.mp3"]18. Breathing listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/18 Fat - Breathing.mp3"]19. Al-A-Din's Lamp listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/19 Fat - Lamp.mp3"]20. And They Waited listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/20 Fat - And They Waited.mp3"]21. Workers Leaving the Factory listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/21 Fat - Workers Leaving the Factory.mp3"]22. Trigger listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/22 Fat - Trigger.mp3"]23. Wolf Trap listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/23 Fat - Wolf Trap.mp3"]24. First Ride on the Staten Island Ferry listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/24 Fat - First Ride on the Staten Island Ferry.mp3"]25. More Workers listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/25 Fat - More Workers.mp3"]26. Ziggurat listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/26 Fat - Ziggurat.mp3"]27. Vegetable Kingdom listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/27 Fat - Vegetable Kingdom.mp3"]28. Debt-Equity Swap listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/28 Fat - Debt-Equity Swap.mp3"]29. The Chromolodotron listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/29 Fat - The Chromolodotron Turns a Fancy Step at the Factory Social.mp3"]30. Praha 4 listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/30 Fat - Praha 4.mp3"]31. Misty Dawn listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Automat Hi-Life/31 Fat - Misty Dawn.mp3"] -
PETER CUSACK: Where is the Green Parrot?
Welcome release from this subtle but complex composer-performer-instrument designer. More than musical, these are dramatic constructions with environmental sound, birdsong, conversation, narrative… the guitar shop section of “two small boys go shopping” is a masterpiece.. A record hard to describe since it deftly side-steps all the usual categoriesDOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM:
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MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.001. Echo Location listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/01 Peter Cusack - Echo Location.mp3"]2. Woodlark listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/02 Peter Cusack - Woodlark.mp3"]3. Squabble listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/03 Peter Cusack - Squabble.mp3"]4. Safari listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/04 Peter Cusack - Safari.mp3"]5. Good Sport listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/05 Peter Cusack - Good Sport.mp3"]6. Pets listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/06 Peter Cusack - Pets (Talking to the Animals).mp3"]7. Toy Shop listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/07 Peter Cusack - Toy Shop.mp3"]8. Travel Agent listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/08 Peter Cusack - Travel Agent.mp3"]9. Guitar Shop listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/09 Peter Cusack - Guitar Shop.mp3"]10. Gangplank Screech listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/10 Peter Cusack - Gangplank Screech.mp3"]11. Nightjars listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/11 Peter Cusack - Nightjars.mp3"]12. Tyne Tunnel Kids listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/12 Peter Cusack - Tyne Tunnel Kids.mp3"]13. Siren listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/13 Peter Cusack - Siren.mp3"]14. Remains of the Year listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Where Is the Green Parrot/14 Peter Cusack - Remains of the Year.mp3"]
