Browse by Label: ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION

Artist:	VA
Title:	Southern Cones
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 027CD

"This CD contains a wealth of varied, interesting, talented, charming, and utterly captivating music from Africa and South America, all of it involving technology in some way. Curated by Jürgen Bräuninger for Leonardo Music Journal, this collection of compositions is not only a pleasure to hear, it also gives an idea of what music and technology means throughout the world. The composers include Lukas Ligeti, Diego Luzuriaga, FELEMA, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Daniel Wyman, Damián Keller, Aldo Brizzi, Jürgen Bräuninger, Rodrigo Sigal, TIMELESS, Didier Guigue, and Kurt Dahlke, and their styles range from computer-generated sounds to improvisation with traditional African and South American instruments."

Artist:	BAHN, CURTIS
Title:	R!g
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 030CD

"Curtis Bahn, bass player extraordinaire, takes his virtuoso performance to unbelievable heights of energy and musical mayhem with a sophisticated computer-based interactive electronic system that he himself designed and built. The madness in his method becomes clear when you realize that at the center of his r!g is his acoustical 'Sbass' which contains a variety of electronic sensors that greatly extend his performance possibilities. It also becomes clear that the musical power of extended performance together with responsive electronics is formidable, and in this case it allows him to mix sounds, follow algorithmically-generated shapes, process the sound of his own performance on string bass, and do it all so fast and so well that it grabs your attention."

Artist:	AUSTIN, LARRY
Title:	Octo Mixes
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 039CD

"Larry Austin, electronic music pioneering composer, remixes John Cage's 1952 classic as 'Williams [re]Mix[ed]', bringing all of the sounds of the world together into one computer-based sound collage. He brings the táragató, a Hungarian folk instrument, into the realm of the electronic world. He transforms Thomas Buckner's baritone voice. And more. This CD is a 2-track mix of music originally composed for presentation with a surround-sound eight-loudspeaker system. It combines an immense variety of electronic, vocal, and instrumental sound, performed beautifully by Thomas Buckner, Stephen Duke, and Esther Lamneck, soloists."

Artist:	REYNOLDS, ROGER
Title:	Last Things, I Think, To Think About
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 044CD

"Roger Reynolds' song cycle based on text by John Ashbery. It is sung by Philip Larson, baritone, accompanied by Aleck Karis, piano, and it is also recited by John Ashbery. And there is an elegant, sparing use of electronics which emphasizes the intimacy and subtlety of the entire work. Indeed, the presence of the singing voice, the speaking voice, and the electronics gives this disc a multiple dimension that is striking and thoughtful. It is a fine representation of Ashbery's poetry, reflecting its rhythms, contrasts, and depth, and more, it is perhaps a pointer towards a new approach in reconciling the meaning of music with the meaning of words."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Electroacoustic Music From Sicily
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CDR
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	EMF 047CD

Although not specified by EMF, this is a CDR release. Evidently released in 2003, we never saw a copy til now. Garish cover design as well. "The Electronic Music School of the Istituto Musicale Vincenzo Bellini of Catania was created ten years ago and is the only one of its kind in Sicily. Despite its short existence, the course has already given important results under the guidance of Alessandro Cipriani. This CD includes a selection of their compositions and represents an historical record as well as a means for diffusing the work carried out during the program's first 10 years." Composers: Cesare Rosa Calamaro, Mario Bajardi, Vincenzo Coco, Emanuele Casale, Massimo Carlentini, Vincenzo Cavalli, Massimo Fragala, Gabriele Cappellani, Anna Maria Gervasio, Mario Valenti, Giuseppe Rapisarda.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Etc.
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 053CD

2004 release. "Music by Jonty Harrison, Horacio Vaggione, and Trevor Wishart. And all of the compositions are related. Wishart's 'Imago' and Vaggione's 'Harrison Variations' are in fact variations on the sound material upon which Harrison's ...et ainsi de suite... (in English '...and so on...' or 'etc') is based. Harrison's work, including the title, could be seen as a salute to the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris and the tradition of musique concrète that it represents. Harrison is on the faculty of the University of Birmingham in the UK, and in 2002, to celebrate his 50th birthday, his students selected a group of composers to compose one-minute pieces that used source material from Harrison's works. Wishart and Vaggione were among the selected composers and, coincidentally, they both chose material from Harrison's ...et ainsi de suite.... They later expanded their works into the compositions on this CD, which are presented along with Harrison's source composition. These are wonderful works and beautiful examples of the genre, composed by extraordinarily gifted composers. It's a whole world of sound and sound manipulation that we too rarely hear."

Artist:	ANTHEIL, GEORGE
Title:	Bad Boy Made Good
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	2DVD
Price:	$50.00
Catalog #:	EMF 060DVD

... The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Méchanique. A film by Ron Frank and Paul D. Lehrman. "In the Roaring '20s, George Antheil's raucous piano recitals and futuristic compositions were creating scandals and riots all over Europe. Ten years later, Antheil was back home, broke and forgotten. His magnum opus, the 'Ballet Méchanique,' so technologically ahead of its time that it could never be performed the way we conceived it, was lost. Forty years after the composer's death, as the 20th century ended, it could finally be heard. This film by Ron Frank and Paul D. Lehrman is about George Antheil and his famous controversial piece 'Ballet Mécanique.' This 2 DVD set includes the award-winning documentary shown on PBS plus extended interviews with friends of Antheil featured in the film, the complete premiere concert performance of the original orchestration of 'Ballet Mécanique,' and the 1925 Léger/Murphy film 'Ballet Mécanique' with the newly-realized 16-player-piano version of Antheil's score." Narrated by Tony Kahn, Music by George Antheil, Paul Lehrman, Erik Satie, and Igor Stravinsky. Feature length: 72 minutes. Extras length: 101 minutes. NTSC format.

Artist:	BRÜN, HERBERT
Title:	Language, Message, Drummage
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	EMF 614CD

"And here's a historic moment, the complete works of Herbert Brun in four CDs. Language, Message, Drummage features Brün's compositions for tape and for instruments performed by LaSalle Quartet, Kathleen Keasey (piano), James Culley (snare drum), University of Illinois New Music Ensemble. Herbert Brün was born 1918 in Berlin, Germany and studied with Eli Friedmann, Frank Pelleg, Wolf Rosenberg and Stefan Wolpe. Brün first turned to electronic sound production for the composition of music during the late 1950s in the Paris, Cologne and Munich studios, particularly guided by Gottfried Michael Koenig. Before that, and at the same time, he composed works for acoustic instruments: small and large chamber ensembles and orchestra." Features classic early electronic works like "Futility 1964" (1964), an explosive, exhilarating piece utilizing intersected texts spoken by Marianee Brün -- a screamingly intense piece; "Anepigraphe" (1957) ("...with four different electronic generators and by mixing, modifying, and filtering, I have produced nine acoustic characters..."--Brün) & "Piece of Prose" (1972) -- commissioned by the Experimental studio of the Polish Radio and produced in Warsaw.

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