I've been getting more and more into early electronic music/avant garde stuff lately (Stockhausen, Cage, Mimaroglu, etc.). Early music research studio type stuff when synthesizers took up an entire room and you had tape delay machines, not Pro-Tools plug-ins.
It's crazy how much we take it for granted. You can go to Rite-Aid and get a $10.00 Fisher Price Synth, and you press "violin" and it sounds like a violin, and you press "xylophone" and it sounds like a xylophone. But that is not a violin or a xylophone, it is a sine wave compressed and accentuated a certain way, a tone which is molded electronically to resemble a particular instrument. These guys invented that.
Anywho, if you are into this type of shit or want to look into it check out aventgardeproject.org. Damn, the archive page has 130 rare recordings of "20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD". Uhhh... word?
They are bit torrents with CD quality WAV files (or MP3's if you don't give a shit like me).
Rootless, check the copyright policy.
If this appeals to you at all, run don't walk over there (virtually), this is like the equivalent of the funky16corners blog but for early electronic avant garde ish.
D-Nice
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Cool, I'll check that out, into that kind of stuff too. I'm checking out Derek Bailey tonight, crazy avant garde guitarist, got his start doing mainstream recordings (in the 50s I think) and then went OUT, kind of like the Marc Ribot solo recordings on an old toy guitar.
In terms of the copyright policy, makes a heck of a lot of sense.
Thanks for the heads up, Don. I'm downloading from that site right now!
i have a compilation called "OHM+ Early Gurus of electronic music."
it's pretty cool, and it came with a dvd that is not super exciting to watch, but it has some moments.
anyway, cool site. i forwarded it on to a few chums who will make good use of it. i must say, it's a little overwhelming for an electronisch dabbler like myself.
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