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ANTS 008CD
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"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.
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ANTS 011CD
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"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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ANTS 002CD
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"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."
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ANTS 005CD
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"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.
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