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V/A - An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music Vol. 1, Sub Rosa, 2002 (1921-2001)

Noise and Electronic music collection from the great Direct Waves blog.

Disc 1
Luigi Russolo and Antonio Russolo - Corale (1921) (1:57)
Walter Ruttman - Wochende (1930) (11:17)
Pierre Schaeffer - Cinq Etudes de Bruits: Etude Violette (1948) (3:18)
Henri Pousseur - Scambi (1957) (6:27)
Gordon Mumma - The Dresden Interleaf 13 February 1945 (1965) (12:43)
Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad and John Cale - Trance #2 (1965) (5:07)
Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide and Martin Tétreault - Untitled #1 (2000) (6:06)
Survival Research Laboratories - October 24, 1992 Graz, Austria (1992) (6:11)
Einsturzende Neubauten - Ragout: Küchen Rezpt von Einsturzende Neubauten (1998) (4:08)
Konrad Boehmer - Aspekt (1966) (15:13)

Disc 2
Nam June Paik - Hommage à John Cage (158-59) (4:13)
John Cage - Rozart Mix (1965) (7:18)
Sonic Youth - Audience (1983) (6:00)
Edgard Varèse - Poeme Electronique (1957-58) (8:00)
Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH (1958) (4:40)
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky (That Subliminal Kid) - FTP>Bundle / Conduit 23 (2001) (8:07)
Pauline Oliveros - A Little Noise in the System (Moog System) (1966) (30: 16)
Ryoji Ikeda - One Minute (1997) (1:00)

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deltasleep: A Very Special Treat

Post 3 in my vintage electronic music series: mp3s from a RCA Mark II synthesizer demo record.
The RCA Mark II was the main instrument at the famous Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1950s, and the first programmable electronic music synthesizer. Cheers!

deltasleep: A Very Special Treat

Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else: HAL's father??

Post two in a three-part series of cool vintage electronic music records: This is a great bell telephone labs 7" from 1963 which includes synthesized speech. Bell Labs was interested in synthesized speech to improve telephone call quality, but this technology, including the Vocoder, would soon be turned to creative purposes like being used on Electro records. Enjoy!

Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else: HAL's father??

First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival

Above: Computer Music '79!

Here's a cool record of the 1978 First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival, featuring mp3s you can download of various
composers, playing on obscure synths like the RCA Cosmac, ALF, SSM, or NOTRAN. This record is a surprisingly late issue of traditional academic electronic music (think Columbia-Princeton). It is weird to hear old chestunts like the Mexican Hat Dance played on synths several years after Kraftwerk had written Autobahn and Cabaret Voltaire were unleashing electronic squalls in Sheffield. Anyway, a great find and a generous post.

First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival

Dave Wright of Not Breathing and his circuit bent instruments of doom (you tube)

Cool clip with Dave Wright of not breathing and carrion sound demonstrating the use of various circuit bent instruments. If you're not familiar, Circuit Bending is a technique developed by Reed Ghazala in the 70s in which one takes an existing electronic sound generator, the classic example being a speak n spell, open it up, and resolder the parts, add various switches, and uncover the atonal monsters in the circuitry. Dave makes & sells some beautiful circuit bent instruments, which he gives cool names and nice finishes to.

There are two new DIY book out about circuit bending: this one and this one
and a documentary

YouTube - Dave Wright's Wall of Sound

Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Records

Above: Count Chocula Goes to Hollywood

Posting the Halloween record mp3s reminded me of the great Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Records, which has tons of related images and sounds from flexi-discs, novelty records, and kids' 45s. Some are interesting, like the Skippy self-amplified record, and some are fresh, like He Pioneers Electronic Music, many are just bizarre like the Sounds of Self-Defense or Chun King. Also, this is on the WFMU site, which is one of the best radio stations in the country-and also online.

The 8-Bit Construction Set

The 8-Bit Construction set is a great record that came out a few years ago. It's a collection of vintage Atari and C64 sounds, beats created using those machines, and even software--on vinyl! If you remember playing a software cassette in your tape deck and hearing an ungodly whirring and high pitched whine, yes, this is what they've included. You can actually record this sound and load it into your vintage machine as software! And to make things a bit easier on the ears, the software is only in one channel, with kitschy organ music playing in the other.

Here's a bunch of the Atari samples

8-Bit Construction

ten on the turntable: experimental album edition

"BBC Sessions +" - Faust
"Microtonal Works 2" - The New Band
"Sonic Encounters" - Margaret Leng Tan
"Electronic Works, Vol. 2" - Morton Subotnick
"Ensemble Music 1" - Iannis Xenakis
"The Inspirational Sounds Of" - Jah Works
"Dubliftment" - Vibronics
"Faust" - Faust
"Thahandclaspinduction" - Rummage
"Return of the DJ Vol. 5" - Various Artists