"electronic" music

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#61
All,
something quite different:
Karlheinz Stockhausen: "Aus den sieben Tagen" (From the seven days)

A mindboggling but very intensive composition for natural and electronic instruments. The (ab)use of the instuments goes far, far enough to say that the difference between electronic and natural instruments is vanishing. The sound patterns open a huge space. Incredibly huge space. The music has an utterly slow pace, it reminds me to minimal music.

I have a recording performed by musique vinvante under Diego Masson with the composer participating; the liner notes say "Karlheinz Stockhausen at filters and potentiometers" and Aloys Kontarsky plays (prepared) piano. MIchel Portal plays all sorts of reeds and a lot of percussion and two abused double basses also are on the menu.
From what i hear, i would judge this as electronic music as all sonic elements are either generated or altered by electronic devices.

Reminds me on a cartoon drawn by Paul Hindemith: a prepared lobster playing a prepared piano for prepared listeners 🙂

For those who want to hunt it, It is harmonia mundi France HMA 55795 on vinyl (CD order code you have to find out yourself)
 
#62
Dice,


dice45 said:
Reminds me on a cartoon drawn by Paul Hindemith: a prepared lobster playing a prepared piano for prepared listeners 🙂
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it might be of some interest to you, Hindemith also composed for the Trautonium........ Check out the link I posted above: www.trautonium.de

I also like Hindemith, but since my PC is f'cked up at the moment ( I use my mother's Pc to post), I can't look up the title of my favourite Hindemith piece

🙂

regards,

bob
 
#63
Hi guys,

Let's not forget Robert Fripp and Brian Eno.
Anyone remembers the moog and mellotron?

The German guys should not forget Klaus Schulze either,my favourite music for listening with the Stax ESL headphones in bed when I was a kid.

Cheers,😉
 
#64
SID!

Hi,
Just wanted to throw in my $.02 at this thread. I'm surprised that noone has metioned the good old Comodore music scene. That little sid chip inside my trusty old C64 is just a miracle when it comes to produce "electronic" music. There is just too many tracks to mention.

Also, Paula is pretty good at generating mods. Beats the living crap out of modern soundcards. Who needs a CD player 🙂
 
#69
Here is a record of the beginning of electronic rock:

White Noise “An Electric Storm”.

It is a recording of 1969. It has loads of tape dubbing, filtering, synthetic sounds and so on. Maybe it sounds a bit obligate to modern ears but it is a statement in the history of electronic rock IMO.
 

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#70
A really cool CD with electronic music is Spacelab and the title "Space is big, man is small.

Telegram records Stockholm number TCD-4.

I read a review in a paper: To the float tank next... This is float tank music.

Blue planet
An ocean of dreams
Space age
The contact
Life in universe
The intruder
When time means nothing

etc.
 
#71
Lou Reed ?

Pjotr said:
Here is a record of the beginning of electronic rock:

White Noise “An Electric Storm”.

It is a recording of 1969. It has loads of tape dubbing, filtering, synthetic sounds and so on. Maybe it sounds a bit obligate to modern ears but it is a statement in the history of electronic rock IMO.
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Hi,
That`s a very nice one, i liked the "humming" part and Electric storm in...of course.
Here`s a link to an curious electronic example.
Nobody did mention Lou Reed`s Metal Machine Music ?😕
See ya.... 🙂
 
#77
Too Experimental ?
Very strange, if there`s one good combination it`s experiment and electronic music...
Perhaps you could set yourself more to it, you might get to like a more "difficult" kind of music. you don`t have to of course.
Just think : why not...🙄
 
#78
tito said:

Perhaps you could set yourself more to it, you might get to like a more "difficult" kind of music. you don`t have to of course.
Just think : why not...🙄
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I've been trying this for last 10 years, however it never work out for me. Which doesn't mean it can't work for you.😉

I have very specific idea of what I want to hear in music and when it's right I can enjoy it. When it's not, it's just a passing thing and I move on looking for something else.

Why cheat myself saying that there must be something in that particular recording and it seems to be a modern art, when after all it's only artist's imagination pushed to the limits.

Everybody has different tastes and ideas, and that's what makes the world an interesting place.

The latest example of so called "difficult music" (at least for me) was Psychic TV - 'Cathedral Engine'. Apart from an interesting cover, I couldn't find anything interesting in the music. And although I bought this disk in 1994, I still keep it because I delude myself that maybe one day I grow up to be able to enjoy it.😉 I tried it 2 weeks ago: wasn't ready yet😉. Which brings another question: what must to be going on in a listener mind that he finds it fascinating?

But I like most of Sleep Chamber albums, and although some of them remind me of 'Cathedral Engine', there is something different in its content that draws me to it.

Still, listening to "electronic chirps and gurgles and hums that stretch out and overlap sometimes seemingly only in random structures, it sometimes simply sounds like someone messing around with high tech equipment and making noises that either sounds like aliens talking to one another (think Predator style) or two video game consoles mating with one another " seems like a waste of time to me (and this is my personal opinion only) when there is so much good music around.:angel:
 
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Everybody has different tastes and ideas, and that's what makes the world an interesting place
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Hi peter,
That`s a fact i `don`t deny,but my postings are merely suggestions, i don`t mind what you do with them.
But you wrote too experimental after reading instead of listening and i know you are familiar with that kind of artists, but this one is somewhat different.
About the Pschick TV. album ( got it myself) i find `t is not the best of the bunch, but i didn`t fell for the cover and checked out in the store, you got to be carefull with those guy`s....
After 8 years i still think it is not my favourite and that probably won`t change over the years, but there are things that did change, like for instance my mind about some music i didn`t like 8 years ago ( Bach )
Still, listening to "electronic chirps and gurgles and hums that stretch out and overlap sometimes seemingly only in random structures, it sometimes simply sounds like someone messing around with high tech equipment and making noises that either sounds like aliens talking to one another (think Predator style) or two video game consoles mating with one another " seems like a waste of time to me (and this is my personal opinion only) when there is so much good music around.
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Yeah, that was the funny part...
I was able to post several linkages, but i chose that one as an example of a weird kind of humor to discribe electronic music, a view i don`t share.....
But don`t worry i`m not wasting my time.
 
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