AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC VOL. 2 - SECOND A-CHRONOLOGY 1936-2003
"SLOW EXPLORATIONS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
Given the present system of production there are reasons, some of them identifiable, why only a few names emerge in each period. There may also be a preference for concentrating information rather than letting it pile up in disordered fashion. Over the past 40 years the same ten electronic music composers get mentioned again and again (including in music dictionaries and histories). Yet behind them are many other names. Who are they? Second-raters? Not necessarily. For we then need to define the concept of top-rate (rated by who, and on what criteria?) and second-rate or minor artist. Great pleasure can be derived from the works of minor artists. The case of Tod Dockstader is instructive: when "for lack of academic qualifications" he was denied access to the electronic music facilities he needed, was there not great beauty in the pieces he nevertheless created and in his determination to make music without those facilities? His name was never seen on the labels of top record companies. But he influenced quite a few people - Richard James quoted him, and others then referred to his work. Some of his records were reissued, and what one could call the rehabilitation process continues. The same applies to many other composers. All such stories spell a passion for music, and weave myth.
HISTORICAL AXES
At the turn of the century there were efforts to find new sources of sound - a number of machines were exhibited, including Thaddeus Cahiel’s Telharmonium in 1887 and the Dynamophone presented to the New York public in 1906; they generally played well-known romantic or post-romantic pieces. After a few flamboyant skirmishes described in the previous volume, the postwar period saw the arrival in 1951, of Wladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening in New York’s Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. When audiences of the 50’s and 60’s first heard Varèse, Pousseur, Stockhausen, Berio, Ussachevsky, Yuasa, Dockstader and Mumma, what did they feel? Perhaps a sort of break, an epistemological break, like it must have been for the first audience of Monteverdi’s Orfeo (in Mantua, Italy on 24 February 1607). They left the auditorium completely stunned, because they had never heard anything like it.
WHAT CONTAINS THIS SECOND EDITION…
CD 1
Wladimir Ussachevsky + Otto Luening: Incantation for Tape (1953) 02:35
Luc Ferrari: Visage V (1958-59) 10:36
Tod Dockstader: Aerial > Song (2002) 12:56
Johanna M. Beyer: Music of the Spheres (1938) 06:01
Morton Subotnick: Mandolin (1962) 07:02
Daphne Oram: Four Aspects (1960) 08:10
Robin Rimbaud / Scanner: Emily (2003) 04:49
Hugh Davies: Quintet (1967-68) 12:10
Alan R. Splet: Space Travel w/ Changing Choral Textures (1983) 04:02
Kim Cascone: Zephirum Scan (2002) 04:50
CD 2
Autechre: Bronchus One.1 (1991) 06:04
Yoshihiro Hanno / Multiphonic Ensemble: On/Off Edit (2001) 09 :12
Meira Asher + Guy Harries: Torture - Bodyparts (2001) 03:42
Lasse Steen / Choose: Purzuit ov Noize (1994) 05 :37
Woody McBride: Pulp (1993) 06:07
David Lee Myers / Arcane Device: Lathe (1988) 05:54
Laibach: Industrial Ambients (1980-82) 09:57
SPK: Slogun (1979) 06:15
Percy Grainger: Free Music #1 (for four theremins) (1936) 01:28
Sun Ra: Imagination (1965) 02:04
Don Van Vliet / Captain Beefheart: She’s too much for my mirror / My human gets me blues (1969) 05:22
digipack 2 cd + 30 pages booklet / SR200"
(Source: https://www.subrosa.net)
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Second A-Chronology 1936-2003
Label: Sub Rosa – SR200
Series: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music – 2
Format: 2 × CD, Compilation, Enhanced
Country: Belgium Released: 2003
Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Rock
Style: Leftfield, Industrial, Free Jazz, Abstract, Blues Rock, IDM, Noise, Free Improvisation, Ambient, Electro, Drum n Bass, Experimental
Credits
Compilation Producer [Curated By] – Guy Marc Hinant
Design – Peter Maybury
Producer – Sub Rosa
(Source: https://www.discogs.com)
Given the present system of production there are reasons, some of them identifiable, why only a few names emerge in each period. There may also be a preference for concentrating information rather than letting it pile up in disordered fashion. Over the past 40 years the same ten electronic music composers get mentioned again and again (including in music dictionaries and histories). Yet behind them are many other names. Who are they? Second-raters? Not necessarily. For we then need to define the concept of top-rate (rated by who, and on what criteria?) and second-rate or minor artist. Great pleasure can be derived from the works of minor artists. The case of Tod Dockstader is instructive: when "for lack of academic qualifications" he was denied access to the electronic music facilities he needed, was there not great beauty in the pieces he nevertheless created and in his determination to make music without those facilities? His name was never seen on the labels of top record companies. But he influenced quite a few people - Richard James quoted him, and others then referred to his work. Some of his records were reissued, and what one could call the rehabilitation process continues. The same applies to many other composers. All such stories spell a passion for music, and weave myth.
HISTORICAL AXES
At the turn of the century there were efforts to find new sources of sound - a number of machines were exhibited, including Thaddeus Cahiel’s Telharmonium in 1887 and the Dynamophone presented to the New York public in 1906; they generally played well-known romantic or post-romantic pieces. After a few flamboyant skirmishes described in the previous volume, the postwar period saw the arrival in 1951, of Wladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening in New York’s Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. When audiences of the 50’s and 60’s first heard Varèse, Pousseur, Stockhausen, Berio, Ussachevsky, Yuasa, Dockstader and Mumma, what did they feel? Perhaps a sort of break, an epistemological break, like it must have been for the first audience of Monteverdi’s Orfeo (in Mantua, Italy on 24 February 1607). They left the auditorium completely stunned, because they had never heard anything like it.
WHAT CONTAINS THIS SECOND EDITION…
CD 1
Wladimir Ussachevsky + Otto Luening: Incantation for Tape (1953) 02:35
Luc Ferrari: Visage V (1958-59) 10:36
Tod Dockstader: Aerial > Song (2002) 12:56
Johanna M. Beyer: Music of the Spheres (1938) 06:01
Morton Subotnick: Mandolin (1962) 07:02
Daphne Oram: Four Aspects (1960) 08:10
Robin Rimbaud / Scanner: Emily (2003) 04:49
Hugh Davies: Quintet (1967-68) 12:10
Alan R. Splet: Space Travel w/ Changing Choral Textures (1983) 04:02
Kim Cascone: Zephirum Scan (2002) 04:50
CD 2
Autechre: Bronchus One.1 (1991) 06:04
Yoshihiro Hanno / Multiphonic Ensemble: On/Off Edit (2001) 09 :12
Meira Asher + Guy Harries: Torture - Bodyparts (2001) 03:42
Lasse Steen / Choose: Purzuit ov Noize (1994) 05 :37
Woody McBride: Pulp (1993) 06:07
David Lee Myers / Arcane Device: Lathe (1988) 05:54
Laibach: Industrial Ambients (1980-82) 09:57
SPK: Slogun (1979) 06:15
Percy Grainger: Free Music #1 (for four theremins) (1936) 01:28
Sun Ra: Imagination (1965) 02:04
Don Van Vliet / Captain Beefheart: She’s too much for my mirror / My human gets me blues (1969) 05:22
digipack 2 cd + 30 pages booklet / SR200"
(Source: https://www.subrosa.net)
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Second A-Chronology 1936-2003
Label: Sub Rosa – SR200
Series: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music – 2
Format: 2 × CD, Compilation, Enhanced
Country: Belgium Released: 2003
Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Rock
Style: Leftfield, Industrial, Free Jazz, Abstract, Blues Rock, IDM, Noise, Free Improvisation, Ambient, Electro, Drum n Bass, Experimental
Credits
Compilation Producer [Curated By] – Guy Marc Hinant
Design – Peter Maybury
Producer – Sub Rosa
(Source: https://www.discogs.com)
- Format Audio: CD(Audio: CD compact disc)
- Year 2003
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