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Charlotte Moorman Cello Anthology 4cd 4cd 2007/2006/1963-82 new Incredibly packaged box of Fluxus happenings involving Nam June Paik & gorgeous Charlotte Moorman. Impressively dirty & uncellolike glorps and crackles abound in these...	Alga Marghen	$130.00 Add:
Hermann Nitsch Das Aktiontheater dvd + cd dvd + cd 2007/1962-05 new Aktionist painter who long ago decided to widen his canvas to include the bovine world & has staged over 100 performances of his 'Theatre of Orgies & Mysteries' since the...	Edition Krothenhayn	$96.50 Add:
Various Prix Italia 6cd + book 6cd + book 2012/1959-81 new Classy Italian radio plays that were entered in a long standing competition (still running today) held by the state broadcasting system RAI. Some of the avant garde's...	Die Schachtel	$91.50 ... more info Darn, All Sold Out
Baudouin Oosterlynck 1975-78 4cd 4cd 2009/1975-78 new Took me a while to get around to this box because of the $$$, but I shouldn't have waited. Oosterlynck is Belgian, started out making site-specific sound installations, has...	Matephon	$78.00 Add:
Francois Dufrene Ouvre Desintegrale 3cd 3cd 2010/1977/1965-76 new Multiple overdubs of little spit bubbles, impressions of wind, mouth-fwapping, blowing on a mic, cassette feedback, bits of classical records, & general squeak-tones. Easy...	Alga Marghen	$70.50 Add:
Yoshi Wada Earth Horns with Electronic Drone 3lp 3lp 2009/1974 new To get the big, round, slow, & airy sound he wanted, Wada made his own giant conch shells out of discarded plumbing pipes, and here you get 4 of them along with a pedal point drone...	EM	$62.50 Add:
Yoshi Wada Singing in Unison 3lp 3lp 2012/1978 new After growing up hearing Zen Buddhist chants & studying with Pandit Pran Nath, Wada was more than ready to explore vocal pieces. Here he gets 2 pals besides himself to om along to a...	EM	$62.50 Add:
Hermann Nitsch Eighth Symphony 2lp 2lp 2007/1990 new A full Viennese orchestra (Ensemble 20 Jahrundert) gets together with a brass band, a choir & some large bells & oversized percussion to burrow into the earth-rending drones of...	Organ of Corti	$61.50 Add:
Arsene Souffriau Experiences Bimes 3cd 3cd 2011/1962-98 new Best known for the electronic noises on the swingin' 'Free Electronic Pop Concept' lp, Souffriau was the quiet, dry sound engineer at the state television station in Belgium for...	Metaphon	$48.00 Add:
Eliane Radigue Feedback Works 2lp 2lp 2012/1969-70 new Radigue started out as a student of Pierre Schaeffer, & worked as an assistant to Pierre Henry. Henry gave her some leftover equipment that she used to make her earliest pieces....	Alga Marghen	$47.00 Add:
Various Het Apollohuis 2cd 2cd 2012/1980-95 new Magnif & long-running avant-garde art venue in the lower Netherlands, and boy did they get some fine folks to come through the doors over the years. Tons of unreleased, unheard...	Wergo	$47.00 Add:
Daphne Oram Oramics 4lp 4lp 2010/1958-72 new Daphne cofounded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and called her electronic music Oramics. It consisted of drawing onto a set of ten strips of 35mm film which were run over ten...	Young Americans	$44.50 Add:
Morton Feldman For Philip Guston 4cd 4cd 2008/2000/1995 new The reason late Feldman pieces stretch out so long & are so quiet is pretty simple. The longer the piece, the more you (and Morty himself) would have to pay attention to the...	Dog with a Bone	$44.50 Add:
Various 30 Jahre Inventionen VII 2cd+dvd 2cd + dvd 2012/1962-2010 new The annual Berlin avant music festival 'Inventionen' has now been running for 30 years, so they've been compiling some of the performances into sets now & again. One disc...	Edition RZ	$41.00 Add:
Harry Partch Enclosure Two 4cd 4cd 1995/1943-92 new Partch was driven into inventing his own microtonal system & building oversized fake-Grecian instruments to play it because he wanted to mimic the inflection of voices better...	Innova	$37.50 Add:
David Tudor Music for Piano 2cd 2cd 2007/1956-67/1931-63 new More than 50 years have gone by, and still, nobody but fucking nobody is better than Tudor at turning an ordinary instrument into a fantasy jujitsu match between a...	Edition RZ	$37.00 Add:
Franco Evangelisti 2cd 2cd 1999/1954-79 new Evangelisti expounded, and quite rightly, that creativity is not something that oozes out of people, but a critical faculty: a goal that people work toward by filtering out all...	Edition RZ	$37.00 Add:
Gottfried Michael Koenig 2cd 2cd 2006/1995-96/1957-92 new Koenig is best known for taking electronic music to it's logical conclusion. Installed at an electronic music studio run by West Germany's state radio station, he helped...	Edition RZ	$37.00 Add:
Harley Gaber The Winds Rise in the North 2cd cd 2010/1976 new The rising, looming Drone monster has many heads with snapping teeth & many more tentacles, all the better to tickle you with. Sliding strings that range from corrosive to pinching...	Edition RZ	$37.00 Add:
Iannis Xenakis 2cd 2cd 2003/1969-74/1959-72 new Xenakis' stochastic pieces were being calculated on giant IBM computers by the mid-60s. Stochastic just means 'statistics' or 'probability'. Think of a screen printed...	Edition RZ	$37.00 Add:
Nascita Della Sfera Per Una Scultura Di Ceschia lp lp 2006/1977 new Italian composer trying to make a tribute to a local sculptor hires a bunch of prog musicians, including 5 singers, in the middle of the 70s. Though a sure recipie for some sort of...	AMS	$32.00 Add:
Various An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music 3lp 3lp 2012/1921-2001 new First volume in this dont-try-it-at-home series that pairs major classics & rarities of 20th century avant with cuts by today's kids. Suprisingly successful on the ears. Even...	Sub Rosa	$32.00 Add:
Various An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 2 3lp 3lp 2012/1921-01 new This series looks like it's going to be a cringer when you read about it. But stick with it, cause the sounds completely prove otherwise. Half is amazing & historic 20th century...	Sub Rosa	$32.00 Add:
John Cage/David Tudor Indeterminacy 2lp 2lp 1992/1959 new One of Cage's more famous records, oddly enough, is this dry but interesting inside-out version of a Keroac or Ken Nordine spoken word record. Cage's one-minute long paragraph...	Doxy	$31.50 Add:
Karlheinz Stockhausen Mantra 2lp 2lp 2011/1986/1970 new Written for the Kontarsky Brothers (pianist duo who were instructors at Darmstadt) & premiered at Donaueschingen. Mantra was one of Stock's first completely written-out pieces...	Doxy	$31.50 Add:
Seiji Nagai Electronic Noise Improvisation lp 2lp 2012/1999 new Trumpeter & mini-korg player from Taj Mahal Travellers makes a big bubbling morass with a laptop, some synths, a turntable, a piano, and an electric mandolin. Lots of fat...	Klimt	$31.50 Add:
Anton Bruhin Deux Pipes lp lp 2010/1994-2000 new Bruhin's been playing jew's harp since the mid 60s and has invented several unusual modifications for the instrument. He samples himself on a little casio, and then solos over...	Alga Marghen	$30.00 Add:
Charlemagne Palestine Sound 1 lp one sided lp 2009/197x new In his search for the most cozy, enveloping sound, Palestine has tried out Bosendorfer hammerings & long tone yowls, but he's also known for these oscillator drones, and...	Alga Marghen	$30.00 Add:
Luc Ferrari Labyrinthe de Violence/Dance one sided lp one sided lp 2009/1975 new A deep bass drone with choppy & trebly bits seeping through over the top, and they turn out to be bits of Ferrari himself playing the electric organ. Sounds more like the...	Alga Marghen	$30.00 Add:
Toshi Ichiyanagi Obscure Tape Music of Japan Vol. 9 cd cd 2008/1974 new Ring modulator, weather whistlers, & prepared piano clunkings loaded with echo, by Ichianagi at his most extreme & Cagean. Yoji Kuri did the booklet cartoons, and also owned the...	Omega Point	$30.00 Add:
Takis Pendules Magnetiques/Le Siecle de Kafka lp lp 2010/1993/1964-84 new Greek sculptor who is known for his interest in sound. Vassilakis Takis started out working with mobile sculptures, often made from taut nylon strings and magnets. In '63, he...	Alga Marghen	$29.50 Add:
Akos Rozmann 12 Stationer VI lp 2lp 2012/1978-2001 new Hungarian organist who moved to Stockholm & discovered the starry allure of Pierre Henry's 'Variations for a Door and a Sigh'. Mostly big trapezoids of blurred choral vocals...	Ideologic Organ	$28.00 Add:
Alvin Lucier Wind Shadows 2cd 2cd 2005/1984-03 new 2nd generation (that is to say, mid-1960s) electronic composer whose unique contribution was in connecting electronic music to performance and site-specific installations....	New World	$28.00 Add:
Luc Ferrari Presque Rien lp 2lp 2012/1969-98 new Ferrari's best, and that ain't no bad shakes. The highlight here is Ferrari's most famous piece, 'Presque Rien No. 1', a minimally processed field recording of a small...	Mego	$28.00 Add:
Morton Feldman Music for Piano and Strings Vol. 2 dvd dvd 2012/2006/1981-87 new A dvd with no visuals (you have to play it in a dvd player, but the screen goes black). Made so that these extra-long, extra-slow Feldman pieces could both fit in one place....	Matchless	$28.00 Add:
Gruppo NPS Nuove Proposte Sonore lp lp 2011/1965-72 new Loose gang led by Teresa Rampazzi using oscillators and lab testing equipment. Sets of static tones that overlap to form planes of pulsing, buzzing, and quivering. Rampazzi was a...	Die Schachtel	$27.50 Add:
George Toet Smits Isomopolis one sided lp one sided lp 2011/1981 new Antwerp painter, sound sculptor, & radio artist, who got started playing in the mid-60s band of Belgian-skiffle-hippy Ferre Grignard. Smits eventually moved on to strofoam...	Ultra Eczema	$27.00 Add:
Raymond Scott Manhattan Research 2cd 2cd 2001/1953-69 new Scott's well known as a 30s bandleader & the silent architect of the Warner Bros. cartoon sound. Like James Brown, Buddy Rich & more, his perfectionism led him to demand greatly...	Basta	$27.00 Add:
Tod Dockstader Boosey & Hawkes Vol. 2 lp lp 2013/1981 new Super bouncy library zoomers that show off Dockstader at his swinginest & funkiest. He got started cutting audio strips of films, as that was the only recording equipment he had...	Mordant	$27.00 Add:
Various Willkommen in Weltraum lp lp 2010/196x new Since the year 2323 will be the year of the future, the past isn't what it's going to be. Vintage electronic/pop blorpage, from both serious academic composers and wanton studio...	Weltraum	$27.00 Add:
Matsuo Ohno I Saw the Outer Limits cd + 3 inch cd + 3 inch 2011/1978 new A professional sound effects maker who spent much of his childhood escaping to the planetarium or hiking in the mountains to look at faraway things, Ohno used tape loops, an...	EM	$26.50 Add:
Brunhild Ferrari Tranquilles Impatiences one sided lp one sided lp 2010 new Luc Ferrari's wife took some tapes (5 of them) that her husband made in 1977 and boiled them down to a quiet, quivering little drone. Very smooth & clean, and not at all like...	Alga Marghen	$26.00 Add:
Malcolm Goldstein Early Electronic Tape Collage Music lp lp 2009/1963-67 new Violinist Goldstein got his start at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music center, and has a large collage here ('Illuminations from Fantastic Gardens') that gives a montaged &...	Alga Marghen	$26.00 Add:
Arnulf Meifert Unrein Bis Zum Abend/Reise Ins Diesseits lp lp 2009/2007 new Arch as eyebrows & horribly German art experiment. Arnulf appeared on the first Faust lp, and is here with Mama Bar & Kommissar Hjuler (whom you might remember from their version of...	Die Taubnessel	$25.50 Add:
Charlemagne Palestine Two Electronic Sonorities lp lp 2012/1970 new Very gritty electronics for Palestine. Really seems like a slowed/sped cassette of a zildjian cymbal more than anything involving oscillators. In actuality however, it's a table full...	Alga Marghen	$25.50 Add:
Gol/Ana Maria Avram/Iancu Dumitrescu Musique Directe lp lp 2008/1985-06 new Great bout of deep grunting and creaking here which could be either acoustic or electronic in source. French ensemble Gol uses orchestral instruments alongside electronics & toys,...	Planam Golda	$25.50 Add:
Gol/Charlemagne Palestine Pandamoniahbleeummm lp lp 2008 new Honker of an ominous drone which Palestine slams out on a Paris church organ while the improvising ensemble Gol swirls & eddies with electronics & guitars all around him.	Planam	$25.50 Add:
John Cage Cheap Imitation lp lp 2012/1976/1969 new Cage had arranged a cover of an Erik Satie solo piano tune for one of Merce Cunningham's dances at the end of the 1960s, and just before the dance was to be performed, he...	Mirumir	$25.50 Add:
Luc Ferrari/Brunhild Ferrari/Gol Exercices D'Improvisation lp lp 2010/1977 new Gol has recently collaborated with a ton of 60s/70s avant eurostars, & their latest conquest is Brunhild Ferrari, widow of Luc. This is also the 3rd record to be issued recently from...	Planam	$25.50 Add:
Philip Corner Coldwater Basin 2 one sided lp one sided lp 2012/196x new Freshly back from studying with Olivier Messiaen in Paris, Corner got a pal to hold the mic of a portable tape recorder up next to the sink in his crappy NYC apartment, and...	Alga Marghen	$25.50 Add: