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Last post 5 Nov 2012 | 12:11 pm
There won’t be any more posts on this blog. Time to move to other projects. Thanks to all the people who have supported the blog during these 5 years. * * * Filed under: sound art
Various – Walrus compilation 29 Oct 2012 | 11:39 am
Including Walloon- and Flemish-based composers from the Brussels area (Bierges, Archennes, Leuven), this double LP set, the sole compilation to appear on Lawalrée’s Walrus Records, is also the most ex...
Jacki Apple – The Mexican Tapes 25 Oct 2012 | 01:08 pm
Californian performer and audio artist Jackie Apple produced the Soundings radio show on KPFK-FM Los Angeles Public Radio from 1981-1995, where she aired experimental music and sound art and commissio...
Various – The Inaugural Perth Festival of Improvised Music 22 Oct 2012 | 10:39 am
Inspired by Jon Rose’s first Relative Band Festival held in Sydney in 1984 – where Ross Bolleter, Tos Mahoney, Mark Cain and Richard Ratajczak all performed–, the first Perth Festival of Improvised Mu...
Dominique Lawalrée – Vis à Vis 18 Oct 2012 | 12:04 pm
Apparently his 5th LP, Dominique Lawalrée‘s “Vis à Vis”, or Face to Face, published in 1979, is entirely played on a Bösendorfer grand piano, but instead of the brick and mortar barrage of fortissimos...
Lucien Bertolina – Aller Simple 15 Oct 2012 | 12:52 pm
French composer Lucien Bertolina, born 1946, was first an improvisor and trombone player before becoming one of the leading figures in electroacoustic music in the South of France when he co-founded t...
Various – Feedback #001 8 Oct 2012 | 09:43 am
Published in 1990, the Feedback #001 anthology blends post-punk and anarcho-punk bands like K4 Quadrado Azul, C.I.A. neto or Censurados, avant-rock acts like Ocaso Épico or Neon Hippies with experimen...
Dominique Lawalrée – Clandestin 4 Oct 2012 | 09:41 am
Collecting tracks recorded between 1979 and 1981, Dominique Lawalrée‘s achingly melancholic Clandestin LP, published in 1982, belongs to his more “experimental” period, before he turned to solo piano ...
Dominique Lawalrée – Traces 1 Oct 2012 | 09:06 am
Belgian composer, keyboard player and educator Dominique Lawalrée, born in Brussels in 1954, studied music in Namur and began composing in 1973. With a name inspired by his love of The Beatles (I Am t...
Baobab issue #9 – Altagor 27 Sep 2012 | 01:20 pm
French proto-Lettrist poet Altagor (real name Jean Vernier, 1915-1992) used onomatopeia in his “Métapoésie” writings and an invented language in the “Parole transformelle” visual poetry. Also an instr...
