Browse by Label: ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Electronic Music
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 003CD

2009 repress, originally released in 1997. Superlative and long desired reissue of Xenakis's early electronic works, including the in-demand pieces from his pioneering Nonesuch album Electro-Acoustic Music. Issued in collaboration with France's INA-GRM, the studio where the first 3 of these compositions were realized. Although it only makes up a tiny portion of his total composed work to date, Xenakis's tape works are as legendary and significant as those of Schaeffer, Henry or Stockhausen. Powerful, mind expanding listening -- this release certainly will rate as one of 1997's most important experimental musical documents. Includes the following works: "Diamorphoses" (1957): "a study of white noise and its graduations through the process of densification." "Concret PH" (1958): "This very short work is a sound continuum without a single break. Xenakis pre-recorded crackling embers from which he extracted very brief (one-second) sound elements. Then he assembled them in huge quantities, varying their density each time. This work can be compared to his instrumental preoccupations concerning 'clouds of sound'." "Orient-Occident" (1960): "one of the major masterpieces for tape...conceived as a music for a film by Enrico Rulchignoni." "Bohor" (1962): "dedicated to Pierre Schaeffer...an extraordinary and deafening sound continuum where the listener is invited, in a figurative sense, to hear bells chime while standing inside them!" "Hibiki-Hana-Ma" (1970: ""Xenakis recorded and reworked sequences played by an orchestra, a biwa, and a snare drum but never rendered them unrecognizable. Distributed over 12 tracks, the work's sonorities were elaborated in function of a highly pronounced spatialization. The title of this piece means 'reverberation -- flower -- interval." "S.709" (1992) recorded with the GENDYN program: "Both the sounds produced in the piece as well as the global evolution of the composition are literally unheard of: despite the abstract nature of the processes involved and their mechanical nature, the Xenakis sound world is immediately recognizable."

Artist:	FOSS, LUKAS
Title:	Echoi
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 005CD

Performers include Foss (piano), Jan Williams (percussion), Douglas Davis (cello), and Edward Yadzinski (clarinet). "An assortment of (strangely enough) non-electronic chamber pieces from this noted American composer, head of the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, and conductor-in-chief of the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra. The CD presents three pieces, two of which ('Echoi' and 'Non-Improvisation') are for small ensemble and one ('The Fragments of Archilochos') for choral group with mandolin, guitar, and percussion backing. These recordings originally surfaced as a Wergo LP in 1969 (later re-issued on Heliodor) and represent the basis of Foss's experiments in 'controlled-improvisation' and 'cloudy-ambiance' that led up to the composition/performance/recording of such pieces as 'Paradigm' (Foss's classic entrance to DG's 70's 'Avant-Garde' series). These pieces link the tone-worlds of 60's 'academic' composition with later Zorn-related experiments quite well. Skilled." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Birdcage
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 013CD

"In 1972, John Cage, accompanied by a film crew from Germany, went to upstate New York to work for 3 days in the State University of New York at Albany's electronic music studio. He carried with him three piles of tapes: (1) sounds of birds in aviaries that he had made in the prior two weeks, (2) recordings of himself singing his 'Mureau', and (3) ambient sounds. While listening to tapes of himself singing 'Mureau', he commented, 'It makes the birds seem less ridiculous.' The result of his work was 'Birdcage', a complex, exuberant, and joyful fabric of juxtapositions of all of the sounds, to be played back in a space in which, as Cage put it, people were free to move and birds to fly."

Artist:	SPIEGEL, LAURIE
Title:	Obsolete Systems
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 019CD

An overview of Laurie Spiegel's electronics works, ranging from 1970 to 1983. Utilizing analog synthesizers (Buchla 100, Electrcomp 100), tape, digital synthesis, Echoplex, Bell Labs' GROOVE Hybrid system, etc. Comparable to classic 70s-era Schnitzler streaming, this is a very memorable document of this obscure composer's best works. "Laurie Spiegel, electronic music pioneer, has been working with cutting-edge electronic instruments since the 1970s. She has written software, designed systems, and explored most of the early synthesizers. And she is also a wonderful composer! And the music on this CD is so talented, beautiful, and fascinating that it becomes a stunning demonstration of how musical and humanly expressive technology can be. The CD also demonstrates relationships between instruments and the music that can be composed for them. Spiegel writes: 'Each musical instrument, whether electronic or not, implies an aesthetic domain and sensibility unique to its design ... These are a few I've personally explored. When it was new, each of these music systems, now long obsolete, was state of the art, visionary, radically new and so revolutionary that it required extended explanations in response to common questions such as 'Why would anyone ever want to do that?''"

Artist:	ANTHEIL, GEORGE
Title:	Ballet Mécanique...
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 020CD

...and other works for player pianos, percussion, and electronics. "George Antheil's Ballet Mécanique, a wild, highly rhythmic composition combining industrial age sounds and jazz, is one of the most notorious musical moments of the 20th century. Antheil was an American composer living in Paris in the 1920s. He composed the first version of Ballet Mécanique in 1924 for 4 player pianos, then almost immediately expanded the instrumentation to 3 xylophones, 4 bass drums, tamtam, 2 pianos, siren, 3 airplane propellors, 7 bells, and 16 synchronized player pianos. He revised it again for performances in Paris in 1926 and New York in 1927. Following the New York performance, so badly received that it almost ruined his career, he visited Berlin, then went to Hollywood where he pursued a career as film composer. He revised the work again in1953, and that version, more practical than earlier versions, has been performed several times. The expanded 1924 version, however, was never performed until its premiere, produced by Paul Lehrman, at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in November 1999. And this CD, a recording of that performance, is a major event! Also on the CD: John Cage and Lou Harrison's 'Double Music' (1941), (for percussion quartet); Richard Grayson's 'Shoot the Piano Player' (1995), (for player piano and electronics), and 'Mister 528' (1996), (for multiple player pianos and electronics); Amadeo Roldán's 'Ritmica No. 5' (1930) and 'Ritmica No. 6' (1930),( for percussion ensemble); and Felix Mendelssohn's 'Saltarello-Presto from Symphony No. 4', arranged by Paul Lehrman (for 16 player pianos)."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Power and Responsibility
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 021CD

"This enhanced CD from Leonardo Music Journal, playable as a normal audio CD or as a CD-ROM with images, is a great compilation of music, multimedia, and software by composers, improvisers, programmers, and artists. The CD includes two excerpts from John Cage's 'Reunion' (1968), a chess game played with Marcel and Teeny Duchamp in Toronto in 1968, with David Behrman, Lowell Cross, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor playing their own music. It also includes Clay Chaplin's 'Jerry Deals', Chris Brown's 'Talkingdrum', Todor Todorov's 'Voices Part 1', Phill Niblock's 'Ghost and Others', Stevie Wishart's 'Gap below surface' and 'Lacuna#2', Atau Tanaka's 'Sensorband', Hannah Bosma and Boris Nieuwenhuijzen's 'Hoor Je Dat?!', Kim Cascone's 'vortex_shedding', and other pieces by Anne Wellmer, Audiorom, Barbara Held, BMB con., Elisabeth Schimana, GNYsic, Greg Schiemer, Heiko Recktenwald, Jane Dowe, Kim Cascone, Miekal And, Piet Van Wijmeersch, and Sergi Jordá. et more, the CD contains a collection of software including Max objetcs by Chino Shiuchi, Scot Draves' 'The Bomb', Andi Freeman's 'Headbanger', Atau Tanaka's 'netOsc', Tom Demeyer's 'IFS Gen, Digifilter, MidiJoy', Sergi Jordá's 'FMOL', Sukandar Kartadinata's 'MemoryScanner', and Heiko Recktenwald's 'makemusicfast.zip'. "CD companion to the 1999 issue of Leonardo Music Journal (edited these days by Nicolas Collins). Some thought the inclusion of Oval on last year's CD was a fluke, although judging by the volume of decidedly non-academically aligned individuals herein I'd guess a lasting paradigm shift within the organization. Beautiful CD-ROM interface allows quick access to multimedia content, although there are some propensities that might lead to computer crashing via several dodgy sound processing applications and Max extensions. Regardless, a fascinating item, full of top-notch forays into many-tiered modes of high-tech presentation." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	WISHART, TREVOR
Title:	Red Bird
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 022CD

"Extremely great reissue of the previously-semi-available-but-not-so-for-quite-a-l ong-time October Music CD (which itself was a reissue of the 1977 LP on Wishart's own Yes imprint, along with the piece 'Anticredos' for 6 voices, from an LP on Hyperion, 1982). Recent developments in Wishart's street cred (contributing to Or Some Computer Music Issue One, being name-dropped by Richie Devine on several occasions, Aphex Twin's use of CDP) seem to suddenly make Trevor... relevant to a younger set of listeners. Which is not entirely a bad thing (mind you). 'Red Bird' is for electronic sounds, where 'vocal sounds are changed into metallic hammers, a book slammed closed becomes a slammed door ... A vast array of recorded sounds shift and slowly morph into other sounds, and the effect is magical'. Rumours abound of this being the piece specified in Stapleton's'list' (adorning the fold of the Chance Meeting LP), NOT the 'Beach Singularity/Menagerie' set reissued by the seemingly 95% 'list'-fueled Paradigm reissue program (not surprising seeing the contained seminal vox-murk, sonic transformations, primalcy, etc... influentially evident in Nurse With Wound titles from just later). An amazing document, this. Completely essential." -- Hrvatski.

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:	VA
Title:	State Of The Union 2.001
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	3CD
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	EMF 028CD

"Produced by composer Elliott Sharp, State of the Union 2.001 is a massive 3-CD set and the latest in this ongoing collection of one-minute pieces by the leading lights of the international avant-garde, both famous and unknown. Ranging from electronics to the human voice and everything in-between, these pieces are fast, furious, sardonic, ecstatic, dark, serious, fleeting, and wry. Highlights include music by Atau Tanaka, Christian Marclay, Dael Orlandersmith, Eric Mingus, Eszter Balint, Foetus, Fred Frith, Freight Elevator Quartet, Harriet Tubman, Harry Smith, Henry Kaiser, Ikue Mori, Jack Womack, Jad Fair, Jeffrey Ford, Jenn Reeves, Joey Baron, John Duncan, Jonathan Bepler, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Marc Ribot, Marianne Nowottny, Matthew Shipp, Merzbow, Phill Niblock, Stephen Vitiello, Tracie Morris, Voice Crack, We, Zeena Parkins, Z'ev, Zbigniew Karkowski, and Zoot Horn Rollo."

Artist:	WISHART, TREVOR
Title:	Voiceprints
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 029CD

"Master composer Trevor Wishart shapes recordings of the human voice into a majestic, sonic extravaganza. With satire, sympathy, and his extraordinary talent with sound, Wishart gives us an audio panorama of the world today through the voices of many different people, famous and unknown. You'll hear the voice of Margaret Thatcher as a political cartoon, a touching portrait of Princess Diana, the powerful resonance of Martin Luther King's well-known words, the crackly voice of Neil Armstrong, the zany musicality of Elvis Presley, the playful sounds of Wishart's young daughter's voice, and the touching story of an 80-year-old woman's dream. Tongues of Fire, the final work on the CD, is a masterpiece. It is a complex extended composition that explores the human condition through the transformation of the human voice. In a spectacular display of skill in performing audio transformations, Wishart bases a major work of sounds and textures on a few utterings. This disc is an important moment in the history of electronic music."

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:	FELDER/MORTON FELDMAN, DAVID
Title:
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 033CD

"Two first recordings of Morton Feldman's music in themselves make this CD a notable event. And then, David Felder's music puts it over the line. The music bridges two generations and two distinct personalities. Feldman, with John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, and Christian Wolff, was a seminal member of the New York School in the 1950s, and his work is known for the beauty and delicacy of its orchestral colors, its 'painterly' surface, its static and quiet structure, its contemplative character. Felder's work, on the other hand, is dramatic and powerful, with giant pulsing blocks of orchestral sound lending a strong sense of motion and force which is contrasted with soft poetic moments. The two composers are linked by their association with the June in Buffalo Festival, founded by Feldman in 1975 and directed by Felder since 1985. The compositions are Morton Feldman's 'The Viola in My Life IV' (1971) and 'Instruments II' (1975); and David Felder's 'Coleccion Nocturna' (1984) and 'In Between' (1999). The performances, recorded at the 2000 June in Buffalo Festival, are by the June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Harvey Sollberger and Jan Williams. The soloists are Daniel Druckman (percussion), Jesse Levine (viola), Jean Kopperud (clarinets), and James Winn (piano)."

Artist:	VA (CURATED BY DAVID TOOP)
Title:	Not Necessarily English Music
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	2CD
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	EMF 036CD

Incredible assemblage of UK-based experimental music, almost all of which is previously unreleased (according to Toop, only the Derek Bailey track is commonly available elsewhere). Issued in association with the Leonardo Music Journal. "David Toop curated this great 2-CD package, and he demonstrates that England was one of the hotbeds of musical experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s. These CDs are, to quote Toop, 'documentation of an extraordinary burst of musical experimentation that touches upon the overlapping practices of live electronics, improvisation, free jazz, free rock, tape music, experimental and revolutionary composition, sound sculpture, sound poetry, minimalism and a few pieces that refuse to confine themselves even to these unruly categories in order to explore the outer limits of free folk blues, symbolic table tennis, and similar improbabilities.' The musicians include David Toop, Cornelius Cardew, The Scratch Orchestra, Daphne Oram, Hugh Davies, Jane Manning, Gentle Fire, Howard Skempton, Michael Nyman, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, Michael Parsons, Max Eastley, AMM, The Scratch Orchestra, Intermodulation, Frank Perry, The People Band, Bob Cobbing, Robert Worby, John Stevens, Ron Geesin, Gentle Fire, Rain in the Face, Ranulph Glanville, The Campiello Band, Mike Cooper, A Touch of the Sun, and more."

Artist:	FERRARI, LUC
Title:	Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 037CD

"Luc Ferrari is among the best-known of the early electronic music pioneers. He was director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales from 1959 to 1960, working closely with Pierre Schaeffer, and his music played a decisive role in defining the range of musique concrete. But he went further to become one of the most radical composers of his time, and this CD, with its incisive character and exceptional sounds, marks the starting point for his artistic evolution. The compositions include 'Etudes aux accidents I Study on accidents' (1958), 'Etudes aux sons tendus / Study on stretched sounds'(1958), 'Visages V / Appearance V (1959), 'Tate et queue du dragon I Head and tail of the dragon' (1960), 'Tautokgos 1(1961), 'Tautologos 2' (1961), 'Und so weiter! And so much further' (1966, with Gerard Fremy, pianist)."

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:	BLUM, EBERHARD
Title:	Berlin To Buffalo
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 041CD

"Flutist extraordinaire Eberhard Blum discovered the music of Morton Feldman and other members of the New York School when he became a Creative Associate at the center for the Creative and Performing Arts in Buffalo, New York, during the 1960s. Since then he has been at the forefront of innovative musical performance. On this CD, Blum crosses the Atlantic from his native Berlin to the United States, performing works by Berlin-based Erhard Grosskopf and California-based Ralph Jones." Features three long works: "Proportion 1" (1968, for flute and electronics); "NIght Tracks" (1972, electronic sounds); "Saturday Afternoon 5 O'Clock" (1973, flutes).

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:	THIGPEN, BENJAMIN
Title:	Human For Scale
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 052CD

2004 release. "This multifaceted CD of Benjamin Thigpen's music is an essay in a great diversity of sensitive sound. But in its evocations, the music is also about more than sound. For Thigpen, music is a medium that speaks about ideas, thoughts, activities, scenes, images, conflicts. His music emerges from his thoughts on time and his feelings for poetry. 'step, under' (1998), for example, 'is an exploration of the polyphony and heterophony of time.' Of 'not even the rain' (2000), he writes: 'What it's about. The vast energy concealed within any object, the infinite mystery beyond every surface. Glimpsing the beyond ...'."

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:	TUDOR, DAVID
Title:	Live Electronic Music
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 054CD

"This CD of early works by David Tudor, available also as the CD insert to Volume 14 of Leonardo Music Journal, presents three previously unreleased works. 'Anima Pepsi' (1970), which combines sounds of animals, insects, and other like sounds with electronic processing, was composed for the EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology) pavilion at the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan, in 1970. 'Toneburst' (1975), a classic, commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, is based on pure electronic feedback. 'Dialects' (1984) combines and transforms vowel-like and fricative sounds into relentless rhythms."

Artist:	VA
Title:	50 Years Studio TU Berlin
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	DVD
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	EMF 054DVD

"This DVD documents the 50th anniversary of the Electronic Studio TU Berlin, one of the major studios of Europe. The DVD contains 13 musical works and two video works. It also contains a data section with audio tracks for performance in a concert hall and historical materials. The musical works are Boris Blacher's 'Skalen 1:2:3' (1964) and 'Musik für Osaka' (1970), Herbert Brün's 'auf und ab und zu' (1978), Ricardo Mandolini's 'Vox veterrima' (1988), Unsuk Chin's 'Allegro ma non troppo' (1994), Franz Martin Olbrisch's 'studi and speaker' (1996), Kirsten Reese's 'Mandelkern' (1997), Clemens Nachtmann's 'Tafelmusik' (1999), Orm Finnendahl's 'kommen und gehen' (2000), Daniel Teige's 'Emotionsparameter (2003), Hans Tutschku's 'Object - Obstacle' (2004), Robin Minard's 'Das Buch der Räume' (2004), Trevor Wishart's 'Globalalia' (2004). The video works are Sukhi Kang/Robert Darroll's 'Stone Lion' (1990) and Kotoka Suzuki/Claudia Rohrmoser's 'Umidi soni colores' (2002). The data section contains the eight tracks of performance audio for Orm Finnendahl's 'kommen und gehen,' Daniel Teige's 'Emotionsparameter,' and Hans Tutschku's 'Object - Obstacle,' and text, mostly in German, describing the history of the studio." The DVD video portions are NTSC format.

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.

Artist:	BRÜN, HERBERT
Title:	Wayfaring Sounds
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	EMF 624CD

Subtitled: Compositions for Instruments with Tape. Features "Non Sequitur VI" (1966, for flute, cello, piano, harp, marimba, percussion and tape), "Wayfaring Sounds" (1959, for solo electronics), "on stilts among ducks" (1997, for viola & electronics), "Sonoriferous Loops" (1964, for flute, trumpet, bass, percussion & tape), "Infraudibles With Percussion" (1968-84, percussion group and tape), "Sentences Now Open Wide (1984, performed by the Performers Workshop Ensemble).

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