Browse by Label: ANTS RECORDS (ITALY)

Artist:	MAYR, ALBERT
Title:	Hora Harmonica
Label:	ANTS RECORDS (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	ANTS 002CD

"File under: sound installations, electronic, sound art, experimental. The application of musical criteria to the organization of time. 'When we slow down a sound many times, all the way below 15 cps approximately, we perceive as a series of discrete pulses. In a physical sense it remains a sound. but not for human perception. Try now to imagine an extremely slow sound where the fundamental has a period of 50 minutes. The - virtual - overtones would be integer divisions of that period. i.e.: 30', 20', 15', and so on. This is the structural principle of Hora Harmonica.' (Albert Mayr). In Hora Harmonica the author transform sound in rhythm and time become music. All Mayr's work is concerned on the relationship between sound/time/environment and this electronic visionary work -- realized in 1983 and only now published -- represent one of his most hazardous and conceptually valid expressions."

Artist:	JOHNSON, TOM
Title:	Organ and Silence
Label:	ANTS RECORDS (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	ANTS 005CD

"File under: minimalism, conceptual sound art, organ music. A music whose talking about, as the author writes in the disc notes, 'the importance of silence in music'. This work is conceived not 'for organ' but, really, for 'organ and silence', as the silence is a founding part of it, and it's not possible to give it up. It's the tentative, as the author explain 'to permit as much silence as possible, without allowing the music to actually stop'. Tom Johnson is one of the masters of minimalism, that he strictly associate to a strong conceptual component. His work, free from false glitters, defines, better that any other one, the sense of a research the goes beyond the strict genre definitions, and become poetic application of original ideas." Recorded in Nerinx, Kentucky, spring 2001. Performed by: Wesley Roberts, organ.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	A Tribute
Label:	ANTS RECORDS (ITALY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	ANTS 006CD

Joshua Pierce: (piano & prepared piano); with Robert White: (tenor) -- AFMM Ensemble. "'John Cage wrote for keyboards throughout most of his life. Most famously, he invented the so-called 'prepared piano' but he also wrote for unprepared piano in both traditional and untraditional ways. His later piano works employ an almost ferocious complication and virtuosity at the outer limits of performer possibility. Earlier he used electronic extensions, chance and performer collaboration in complex ways. His early keyboard music was written for himself to play, much of it meant to 'accompany' modern dance performances. Cage's piano, prepared and unprepared, was the orchestra for a whole genre of solo dance performance by some of the greatest figures of modern American dance.' This recording of Four Walls grew out of live performances by Joshua Pierce and dancer/choreographer Sin Cha Hong at the Seoul NYMAX Festival and Anthology Film Archive's Courthouse Theater in New York City on October 27 and 28, 1994, marking the work's fiftieth anniversary. Plans to extend this album as a double CD came about as a result of Mr. Pierce's brilliant and revelatory performance of the composer's magnum opus: Sonatas and Interludes recorded 'live' at the Microthon Festival held at New York University on May 23, 1999, marking his twenty-fifth anniversary of live performances and his association with the music of John Cage, and in particular, Sonatas and Interludes. A very special feature of this summation of Pierce's work with the piano music of John Cage, is the presence of two compositions here recorded for the very first time: the 'Prelude (Piano Sextet) for Six Instruments in A minor', from 1946 and the 'Three Early Songs', from 1933. This release represent a great occasion to approach, at the highest level, the early piano masterpieces of the 20th century most important and influential composer, uniquely performed by one of he's most dedicated and well known interpreters." Limited stock.

Artist:	MASIN/GIUSEPPE CAPRIOLI, GIGI
Title:	Moltitudine In Labirinto
Label:	ANTS RECORDS (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	ANTS 007CD

"File under: minimalism, electronics, ambient. Moltitudine In Labirinto is a poetic journey drawn with sound. An unveiled meeting. The minimal sequences, the recognizable character of Masin's music, here are fused with the electronic 'vision' of Giuseppe Caprioli, more harsh, materic. The result is a fascinating hybrid, a new modern music, leaden and grieved, lost voice in the maze of memories. This CD, at the same time the new work of Masin and the 'first time' for Caprioli, stands as a high expression in the lineage of evolution of the ever growing ambient/electronic scene."

Artist:	MAYR, ALBERT
Title:	Proposte Sonore
Label:	ANTS RECORDS (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	ANTS 008CD

"Seven electronic compositions from the end of the sixties plus one instrumental piece from 1983. This is the content of the new CD by Albert Mayr that Ants is proud to present. Experimentations from near 40 years ago sounding so 'contemporary,' today more than ever. The work in the S 2F M studio was of high rigour, with the resulting sound structures presented in their brut condition, without any concession to taste or to smoothing out the edges, because the essential thing was to experience the new sound world, to experiment with it. Albert Mayr's Proposte Sonore, realized between 1966 and 1969 -- partly with the Battimenti materials created earlier by Pietro Grossi in the Florentine studio -- are certainly a beautiful example of this line of work. Proposals of new elements to be integrated in the puzzle; Proposte (proposals), and not Studies or Exercises and not even Compositions, presented with the doubts of a listener who is eager to find out what will happen, and not with the presumption and the certainties of those who want rather to find than to seek. A listener who tries to understand and mainly to perceive how 'the sounds coming from the machine stay together'. It is, on the one hand, this pioneer aspect, and, on the other, the freshness of the results that create the interest and pleasure one proves when listening to these pieces." -- Giuseppe Furghieri.

Artist:	MITI, LUCA
Title:	Just Before Dawn
Label:	ANTS RECORDS (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	ANTS 010CD

"What we are presenting here is one of the most intimate releases we produced ever. Luca Miti is a 'strange' kind of composer and musician. And organizer, too. He has the uncommon attitude to make private experiences and let them become 'public' in a very natural way. Primarily known for his compositions (most of them unconventional and 'experimental' in the best sense) and improlive-written collaborations, he's also a 'performer' with many different sides. One of these aspects is shown on this album. This is really an 'album' in the broader sense. It contains pieces that are 'images of life' for Luca. They are parts of his own musical essence. The daily activities, the loving moments, the earliest listening, the deep influences, all of this is comprised in this 'lovely' compilation. The piano is the 'classic' instrument of Luca. He's not the incredibly skilled performer, but he's, to me, the 'real' performer. And, most important, he really 'understands' (because he loves it) the music he plays. This CD is not only a collection of beautiful pieces by more or less known contemporary composers. It's, first of all, a gift that Luca makes to himself and to us, trying to communicate his own experience." Performed by Luca Mita (pianoforte). Featured composers: Gyorgy Kurtag, Terry Riley, Tom Johnson, Laurie Spiegel, Alvin Curran, Gilbert Delor, Enrico Piva, Anna Guidi, Gigi Masin, Sylvain Chauveau, Paul Burnell, Francesco Michi.

Artist:	MONACCHI, DAVID
Title:	Paesaggi di Libero Ascolto
Label:	ANTS RECORDS (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	ANTS 011CD

"David Monacchi's eclectic approach to sound include both the acoustic and the electronic world. The real and the artificial. He easily mixes them together and, working with a lot of different sound sources, he's able to define a rich and ever-growing palette of 'sound colors.' His primary research with field recordings forms his 'travelling baggage' of inspirations. His meticulous action and dedication gives the exact coordinates of his method, so well balanced between the 'natural' (chaotic) and the 'built' (rational). This collection represents an observation point on the electroacoustic side of his work. 'La Selva degli Orologi,' is an enchanting landscape of mechanical objects brought to life by mean of a clear musical sensibility. 'Acqua,' for water concrete sounds, is an exploration and a cinematic journey through the first source life. 'Ciclo Circadiano,' for environmental sounds, is the sum of years of on-site natural recordings, assembled and re-worked, in a genuine 'concrete' way, over the 24-hours division of the day. 'Intorno all 'Origine' represents a sort of 'Darwinian' summation, a path that the author rides, going through different states (the archaic recalling, the real images, the artificial soundscapes, the new sound experiences) finally finding his personal way of making music. Paesaggi di Libero Ascolto (Free-Listenings Landscapes) is the colourful portrait of a joyful musical mind, that deserve an attentive listening."

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