is the HAT reissue different from the original HAT CD of Roots (besides adding track marks?)
yes! http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=81273
I love New World, I recently heard a tape of that 1959 Feldman album and it's kind of ground zero
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, I wouldn't know if the Hat reissue is different. I only said that because it's what's available. I've got the original and I like it just fine, maybe better because I prefer the artwork on the old edition.
Is "ground zero" a good thing? Blue Gene does liners for the Cage/Feldman reissue.
― oo, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I prefer the original packaging too
'ground zero' = the Feldman most people heard first. Feldman's 'Piece for Four Pianos' (where four pianists play the same score but choose their own tempo, staggering out the chords) is huge for me, and when I realized it was first released in 1959 it seemed like a missing piece of history because the way the piece sounds takes a certain precedent over the later Riley / Reich / Oliveros / Eno pieces that explore phasing & overlapping motives using tape loops. Riley's 'Music For The Gift' and Eno's 'Music for Airports' in particular are very much following up on 'Piece for Four Pianos'. so it's great to see that coming back into print.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
aw
http://www.analogartsensemble.net/blog/oliveros_young.jpg
http://www.analogartsensemble.net/2007/07/pauline-oliveros-i-of-iv.html
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 19 July 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
:)
― Dominique, Thursday, 19 July 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha what a great picture! I've actually been listening to her a lot lately, actually this piece and the Primordial Lift stuff. It's awesome! I'm eager to hear more of her work.
― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 19 July 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I missed a free deep listening workshop the other month cos I went to sleep. I am a fucking dope.
― President Evil, Friday, 20 July 2007 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Her turntablism
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 22 November 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I got Accordion Koto with Miya Masaoka while I was in SF...so good.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
the new Sub Rosa compilation Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966 is fantastic, especially the first two pieces. they are living beasts and ten mazes ahead.
I thought we'd heard the best of her 60's electronic music by now, but I was wrong, this one is just as sharp as Electronic Works. Alien Bog / Beautiful Soop, No Mo, & A Little Noise In The System are the other three releases of her 60's improvisations, unique and wonderful but in enough of a similar mode that I don't play them as often (though when I'm in the mood, 'A Little Noise In The System' is really enjoyably uncompromising & relentless, it's flat out noise but it's more about curiosity than a display of power)
But this new one! 'Mnemonics III' is basically an extra 18 minutes of the setup she used for 'Bye Bye Butterfly', but instead of the plunderphonic sample detour, the oscillators just keep stretching
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
a friend of mine is putting out a new record by her, please support his great label
http://roaratorio.com/
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g273/Roaratorio/roar211.jpg
― mekka lekka hi mega-hiney hoes (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
bump
― mekka lekka hi mega-hiney hoes (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 January 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i am super broke right now but wld v much like to buy that record, at some point, in the near future
― Lamp, Friday, 14 January 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
title is so great
Oh noes, vinyl only?
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Friday, 14 January 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i think his records come with download code
― mekka lekka hi mega-hiney hoes (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 January 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i like roaratorio! i will stock this album.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 14 January 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah great label and just a fantastically nice dude too
ian i would highly recommend "rag" by george cartwright and davu seru, great local mpls free jazz rec he put out
― mekka lekka hi mega-hiney hoes (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 January 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
fans of drone-y accordion compositions should peep this album by bosnian composer merima kljuco - this track is really unsettling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHCsmDxAAG0
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Friday, 24 February 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
I bought that Roaratorio release, I like it.
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 February 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKaFeLQyVxY
Disc 1:Pauline Oliveros Home Electronic Music Studio 1961Time Perspectives
Disc 2:San Francisco Tape Music Center 1964-1966Mnemonics IMnemonics IIMnemonics III
Disc 3:San Francisco Tape Music Center 1964-1966Mnemonics IVMnemonics V
Disc 4:University Of Toronto Electronic Music Studio 1966II Of IVIII Of IVIV Of IVV Of IVIII
Disc 5:University Of Toronto Electronic Music Studio 1966Team & Desecrations ImprovisationThe Day I Disconnected The Erase Head And Forgot To Reconnect ItJar Piece
Disc 6:University Of Toronto Electronic Music Studio 1966Another Big MotherFed Back 1Fed Back 2
Disc 7University Of Toronto Electronic Music Studio 19665000 MilesAngel Fix
Disc 8:University Of Toronto Electronic Music Studio 1966Bottoms Up 1NiteRinging The Mods 1 HeadsRinging The Mods 2 TailsThree Pieces IThree Pieces IIThree Pieces III
Disc 9Mills Tape Music Center 1966-1967Big Slow BogBoone Bog
Disc 10Mills Tape Music Center 1966-1967Bog BogMind Bog
Disc 11Mills Tape Music Center 1966-1967Mewsack
University Of California San Diego Electronic Music Studio 1967-197050-50 1 Heads50=50 2 Tails
Disc 12University Of California San Diego Electronic Music Studio 1967-1970A Little Noise In The SystemRed Horse Headache
― Milton Parker, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
sheesh
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
awes
― j., Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
Wanna box that set.
― nobody gives a shit about the githzerai (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
holy fucking shit.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 08:58 (twelve years ago) link
Only semi-related, anyone heard that whole C.C. Hennix album the same label put out? Sample sounds good.
― nobody gives a shit about the githzerai (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
Damn
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
"A most important discovery and major influence on my work came in 1958. This discovery came with the aid of technology; I simply put a microphone in my window and recorded the sound environment until the tape ran off the reel. When I replayed the tape, I realized that although I had been listening carefully while I recorded, I had not heard all of the sounds on the tape."The microphone did not selectively "listen" to sounds as she did, but rather documented the entire sonic environment. From that day on Oliveros decided to work toward refining and expanding her awareness of what she termed the total "sound field".
from the box's David Bernstein essay
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 31 May 2012 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this box
I think the thing that really hits me most about it is how it's not only vintage, but all recorded in real time. Back in the 60's electronic music was still not really being conceived of by anyone, let alone 95% of its practitioners, as a medium for live performance. Audiences had no idea of how the sounds were realized, they just emerged intact on the tapes, and even the composers who you could imagine spending hours rocking out with an oscillator & reel to reel tape delay were hesitant to 'compose' any such pieces for performance, in the age of serialism everyone had to have everything meticulously scored out in advance.
So a 12CD box of pure uninterrupted live takes is kind of a revelation -- a couple of these pieces are perhaps a little tentative and there's a little bit of feeling around but the level of quality is so unbelievably high that these all do go down as early proof-of-concepts for electronic music as a live performance discipline.
Retail price is much much much higher than when you order it direct, but... still worth it
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
& yes as Owen said the 2 CDs worth of extra 'Bog' pieces from the Mills Tape Music Center, where she wires up the Buchla to engage in Frog & Insect concertos with the wildlife singing loudly in the pond outside the studio... those are particularly amazing (I think they're even deeper than Beautiful Soop/Alien Bog), but discs 2-4 with the early Mnemonics and all the alternate takes of the X of IV series are the ones I've been playing the most
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
― nobody gives a shit about the githzerai (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:17 AM
'electric harpsichord'? its one 25min piece, on the ominous discordant side of drone
― am0n, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't cracked the Hennix just yet, only heard about her a couple weeks ago (?!)
― is capybara gay? (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
ubu web has a 3hr long dutch radio broadcast of c.c. hennix that is def worth grabbing (when their servers get back up)
― am0n, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
talked about here - Catherine Christer Hennix
― am0n, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
That Hennix is wonderful
― sarahell, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
n e one ever attended pauline's "college"
http://deeplistening.org/site/content/certificate-program
― am0n, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
an ex of mine did, she loved it. I don't remember much of her descriptions other than lying on the floor with her eyes closed listening to various things Oliveros would play them.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
i took part in a full day programme with her when she was in glasgow a few years back. it involved waking up the body, learning how to walk slowly, learning how to sing slowly, walking and singing slowly (simultaneously) and, to be honest, it was.... really really beautiful. an amazing experience and she's an inspirational woman.
― jed_, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
I think he's asking about the new one, Chora(s)san Time-court Mirage: http://importantrecords.com/imprec/imprec354
I like it a lot; a long single piece very much in the vein of La Monte Young's "Map of 49's Dream", sharing the same sine wave major chord drone + sustained brass chords + alap vocal singing over the top. It's got slightly more forward motion than the Young piece. Doesn't come on as instantly as "49's Dream" or "Harpsichord" but if you like those two you definitely want this
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
o sweet, i want to hear that
here's the 3 hr radio thing - http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/hennix_cc/Hennix-CC_Dutch-National-Radio_2005.mp3
some pauline stuff there too - http://www.ubu.com/sound/oliveros.html
― am0n, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
heads up bay area: http://musicnow.mills.edu/concert3.php
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah! i will be there.
― geeta, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.citypages.com/2012-12-26/arts/2012-artists-of-the-year/
See page 7.
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 27 December 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6568
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
12 cd box set of "early and unreleased electronic work" anyone?
http://boomkat.com/cds/1046954-pauline-oliveros-reverberations-tape-electronic-music-1961-1970-reissue
(oh, was out in 2012, now repressed along with a couple of others - The Wanderer, Accordion and Voice)
― koogs, Friday, 5 September 2014 10:14 (nine years ago) link
She posts my favorite kitten and bunny videos on Facebook.
― warning, #4 can't be unseen (WilliamC), Saturday, 11 October 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
deep kittening
― grayson m'razz (wins), Saturday, 11 October 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
kitten cistern
― j., Sunday, 12 October 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
hearing reports that Pauline Oliveros died on Thanksgiving :(
― Dominique, Friday, 25 November 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
RIP Pauline ;_;
So happy I got to see her perform last year.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 25 November 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link