christina kubisch

would clear most rooms. I'm into it, on the lookout for the other stuff.

'On Air' is a lot more varied than my description above. It's also got some lovely unsettling extended drones. don't like the speak-and-spell piece though.

If anyone has any more suggestions then here's another list to choose from:

http://www.forcedexposure.com/bin/search.pl?search_string=christina+kubisch&searchfield=artist

(What sound art will translate into a good record at home is a question...hope these people will do some installations here someday soon: this is what half of my threads end on these days, hoping these people will play here)

yeah I got hold of 'twelve signals' and its a cracker, if you think of it as an ambient album.

Got a couple of others 'dreaming of a major third' and 'diapason'. Heard these a while back but its the same vein as I recall; set of sounds, and run (crawl) with it.

Tried ordering 'on air' and forced exposure don't have it :-(

ok Night Flights is really something

electronic treatments of field recordings, sort of following on from works like Wendy Carlos' Sonic Seasonings or Luc Ferrari's Presque Rien No. 2 but even more abstracted and subjective. seems like more of a personal statement, though that statement is still left open. I am a sucker for any insect concreté but the opening movement with the crickets and the analog drone takes about three seconds to transform any room.

listening to it a lot, it should be getting a lot of attention.

http://www.importantrecords.com/releases/imprec168_release_page.htm

are three posters enough to make a thread on the genre of insect concrète worthwhile

See I have often wondered about whether there ws an attraction of these insect sounds to abstract music composers or whether it ws a mere coincidence. Unfortunately, this question might be deemed too daft to be asked.

But I def don't hear enough bird sounds.

in the 50's-70's many reviews of electronic music were stuck on words like cold, inhuman, alien to describe the works, while the whole time so much of the music was actually exploring a newfound ability to mimic & expand on nature sounds & animal communication. you can play birdsong or insect trills a lot more accurately on an oscillator with a noise gate than you can on a piano or even a violin

bird & insect concrète:

Jim Fassett - Symphony of the Birds
Leo Kupper - "Automatismes Sonores (conclusion)"
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien No. 1 / No. 2
Péter Eötvös - "Tücsökzeme (Cricket Music)"
Wendy Carlos - "Spring" / "Summer" (from Sonic Seasonings)
Christina Kubisch - Night Flights
Jean-Claude Risset - Sud
David Dunn - Angels & Insects
Francisco Lopez - "Addy En El Pais De Las Frutas Y Los Chunches"
Tod Dockstader / David Lee Myers - Pond

bonus joke: Graeme Revell - The Insect Musicians (ha ha)

bird & insect electronic mimicry:

Louis & Bebe Barron - "A Shangri-La In The Desert, Garden With Cuddly Tiger"
Pierre Henry - "Spirale"
Delia Derbyshire - "Birdsong"
Eliane Radigue - Σ = a = b = a + b
Wendy Carlos - "Spring" / "Summer" (from Sonic Seasonings)
Conrad Schnitzler - "Electric Garden"
Bernard Parmegiani - "Capture éphémère" / Creation Du Monde
Graeme Revell - The Insect Musicians (ha ha)
Q.R. Ghazala - Threnody to the New Victims of Hiroshima
Tod Dockstader / David Lee Myers - Pond

oh yeah, of course

Hildegard Westerkamp - "Cordillera / Zone Of Silence Story", "Harbour Symphony"
Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia (though who knows what this really is)

ok ok new thread

http://orpheusrecords.blogspot.com/2007/10/oskar-sala-sound-effects-from-birds.html