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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 3 Dezember 1999 (23.00 - 00.09)
Xenakis vs the rest of Music | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| The Wreck This Mess Story (Black Sifichi) #03b12wtm99 | |
| Birimbau | We [1] |
| Revenge | Khromozomes [2] |
| Kraanerg #2 | Iannis Xenakis [3] |
| + Photosennsitive | Puppy [4] |
| + Nightmare | Ryuchi Sakamoto [5] |
| + Sinpfonia No. 40 En Sol Menor | Waldo de los Rios [6] |
| Kraanerg #6 | Iannis Xenakis [3] |
| Kraanerg #7 | Iannis Xenakis [3] |
| +Pier | John Oswald & M. Sabat [7] |
| Eruption Insensitive | Broken Bells Breaks [8] |
| What I Have Discovered | si-{cut}.db [9] |
| Errata | Bill Laswell [10] |
| Little Red Riding Hood | Bit Tonic [11] |
| Kraanerg #10 | Iannis Xenakis [3] |
| + Chant, Bow Chime, and Horn | Robert Rutman [12] |
| + Kraanerg #11 | Iannis Xenakis [3] |
| Georgia Stone #1 | Yoko Ono [13] |
| + Kraanerg #15 | Iannis Xenakis [3] |
| + Quark Soup | We vs DJ Spooky [14] |
| + Type II: The Last Radio Show (excerpts) | Flat Planet [15] |
| Georgia Stone #2 | Yoko Ono [13] |
| + Kraanerg #17 | Iannis Xenakis [3] |
| Africa | John Coltrane [16] |
| The Eggman is Coming | Theodosii Spassov & Kaval [17] |
| Stadt | Pole [18] |
| Objekt Metal | Kreidler [11] |
| Ostad | Newt [11] |
| Sun | Stephen Vitello [19] |
| The Wreck This Mess Story (Black Sifichi) #03b12wtm99 | |
| + Kraanerg #4 | Iannis Xenakis [3] |
| + Kraanerg #5 | Iannis Xenakis [3] |
| [1] "Square Root of Negative One" on Asphodel www.asphodel.com one of the best bands operating in NY area. | |
| [2] "Khromozomes" Special 12" picture disc on Brooklyn Music Limited www.bml.entertainment.com | |
| [3] "Kraanerg" on Asphodel www.asphodel.com Certainly one of the most important composers of "serious" music alive today. From the liner notes: Xenakis = "In barely 3 generations, the population of the globe will have passed 24 thousand million. 80% will be aged under 25. The result will be fantastic transformations in every domain. A biological struggle between generations unfurling all over the planet, destroying existing political, social, urban, scientific, artistic and ieological frameworks on a scale never before attempted by humanity, and unforeseeable. This extraordinary multiplication of conflict is prefigured by the current youth movements throughout the world. These movements are actually the beginnings of this biological turmoil which awaits us, irrespectie of the ideological contents of these movements. A riveting perspective which underlay the composition of Kraanerg." Paul Miller: " Kraanerg highlights and demonstrates the skills involved with manipulating electronic/electromagnetic text, and brings home the methodolgy of a culture in which, by Xenakis's own words "the stochastic method has now become innate" . For X., Kraanerg represented and extension of his ideas about ... the culture music emerges from, not to mention the sense of idealism - of breaking down obsolete boundaried, of striving to create new spaces for art - driving the entire piece." | |
| [4] "Horizontal" on Sprawl www.dfuse.com/sprawl/ is drone & bass from Seattle on this chance-taking label. | |
| [5] "Love is the Devil" on Asphodel / KAB www.asphodel.comis Sakamoto's soundtrack to the film directed and written by John Maybury about the life and demented cravings of art-genius Francis Bacon. The film and soundtrack contribute to a woozy approximation of the warped vision of Francis Bacon. Sakamoto captures the demented alcohol-lubricated slide into cruel and dyspeptic genius. The soundtrack definitely alters your physical being - a queasy disembodied alienation which one thought only possible on bad drugs. The music seems to crawl out of the film's celluloid like som morphed being and during the course of the film it grumbles dyspeptically through your internal organs. | |
| [6] This poppified piece by Mozart was a number one hit in the Netherlands back in the early 70s. It sounds like a collaboration of Jose Feliciano & Wendy/Walter Carlos. Wacky & hooky. Arcade Records. | |
| [7] "Harbor Symphony - Music for Ships" A harbor full of ships playing compositions which ends up sounding like the bleatings of tortured barnyard animals. In a sense the concept here is better to think about than listen to - at least all the way through. This composition is by John "Plunderphonics" Oswald. I am told by Toek of Radio 100 that it was done much better 5 or 6 years ago in the Amsterdam harbor on the River Ij. | |
| [8] "Sub Rosa vs. Shi-ra-Nui" on Sub Rosa www.subrosa.netis a gallant effort to forge that dialectic between two disparate musics while searching for common beats, notes, themes, and ground. Mixed affair but you have to keep handing it to Sub Rosa for pursuing projects like this. Also includes Dj Wally & Tone Rec. | |
| [9] "Behind You" is si-{cut}.db's 2nd cd. This one is an email collaboration with noise-Bedouin and sonic-voyeur, Scanner. http://home.arthlink.net/~efrans/benford. This keeps growing on me. Althogh not a huge fan of frenetic break beats and drum & bass which seems all too intent on mirroring our frantic lifestyles or even feeding them in lieu of some antibiotic to this artificially hepped up consuming & moving that replaces living. I am finding here the same kind of play that jazz greats get out of a standard as they play with, in and all around a familiar tune. | |
| [10] "Divination: Ambient Dub volume 1" on Subharmonic seems like such ancient history. It is ponderous and serious and in ways still moving as it tends to be ego-driven while it hopes to be spirit-driven. From the most prolific man in (maybe all of) music. | |
| [11] "Chinese Whispers" on Sprawl Imprint www.dfuse.com/sprawl/ is a conceptual circle jerk or exquisite corpse of sound where the original samples of a Stereolab piece are taken and stretched and crunched and warped by succeeding producers such as Sons of Silence, Ultramarine, Freeform, Subtropic who take Sterolab and others further and further afield then re-re-re-remixed at the end. It also resembles the game of telephone. great conceptual fun. | |
| [12] "1939" on Pogus http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm is a stirring blend of electronic and indigenous sounds. Here on this live track from Berlin, it is as if the cello is allowed to speak for itself. No story, no plot just the complaints and brags of a cello. This label seldom fails to deliver the very edge of experimnetation but that doesn't mean unlistenable. Challenging can also be enjoyable. Formerly known as Sound of Pig, at the 80s avant garde of the cassette music revolution. | |
| [13] "Chance: A Chance Operation - The John Cage Tribute," This piece by Ono is part Cage, part her and part zeitgeist sounding. This disc has interesting people who help carry Cage part of the way out of the rarefied zone of Musical Pantheon arteest and they make Cage [almost] entertaining. With Kronos Quartet, Jackson MacLow, Ken Nordine, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, Oregon, Dave van Tieghem, Robert Ashley, Frank Zappa, John Cale & others... | |
| [14] "Necropolis: The Dialogic Project" on Knitting Factory www.knittingfactory.com is one of the more interesting discs out of KF and it is already 3 years old. The ambitious and driven DJ Spooky (competing, it seems with Laswell, to be the world's most omnipresent and prolific) remixes NY's illbient masters. Read through some of the pomo speak and you will hear and even read some interesting thoughts. | |
| [15] "The Last Radio Show" funny Firesign Theatre-esque take on FM freeform radio. A "sample" of broadcast highlight on their swan song broadcast. flatp@aol.com. | |
| [16] "Africa Brass volumes 1 &2" by Coltrane on the great impulse! label which was gobbled up by the execrable GRP label. It was funny temping there. I got lots of freebies but the only decent stuff they had in their jazz catalog was more than 20 years old. All the newer jazz sucked. Why is that? Is jazz too enamoredly living in the shadow of ginat shadows cast? Coltrane was exploring areas we did not even know existed. | |
| [17] "Welkya" on Gega New is on first hearing a kind of Bulgarian free folk jazz. Very eccentric and intrepid. Lots of jamming with echoes of folk themes wafting in and out. The Bulgarian Albert Ayler or Frank Zappa. Courtesy of Nina. | |
| [18] "Pole: 2" The band that took Kraftwerk into the 21st century. Using the detritus of a world too filled with static and noise they craft hypnotic autobahn beats out of scratches, pings, pocks, clicks and flits. | |
| [19] "Chairs Not Stairs" on JdK jdkprod@xs4all.nla small Amsterdam label dedicated to bringing difficult music out of its obscurity. This is an exploration of submusics that hide behind the facade of every dya music and sound. | |