wandelweiser

[lukaz]

http://soundcloud.com/peckinpahtrio

Peckinpah Trio:

Christian Kobi: Saxophone
Craig Shepard: Trombone
Beat Keller: Electric guitar

playing music by Jürg Frey, Christian Wolff, Antoine Beuger

[lukaz]

i officially pronounce this line as my favorite review line of all times. It is from Our Frans reviewing the cd 'Un Lieu Pour Etre Deux' on Copy For Your Records (performed by Barry Chabala & Ben Owen) which is great BTW:

' ...I have no idea if Antoine Beuger is a real person, or the band name chosen by Barry Chabala (guitar) and Ben Owen (synthesized tones, field recordings)...'

[RFKorp]

The trademark FdW reviewing style. repeatedly blowing my mind. I fell in love with that sentence too.

[Dan Warburton]

Peckinpah Trio

WTF!!!

[leroysghost]

old news. they are named after a Beuger piece inspired by The Ballad Of Cable Hogue, which Les Rallizes Denudes has also named a release for. i've heard neither on account of how awful that film is

[barry]

i officially pronounce this line as my favorite review line of all times. It is from Our Frans reviewing the cd 'Un Lieu Pour Etre Deux' on Copy For Your Records (performed by Barry Chabala & Ben Owen) which is great BTW:

' ...I have no idea if Antoine Beuger is a real person, or the band name chosen by Barry Chabala (guitar) and Ben Owen (synthesized tones, field recordings)...'

just the best review ever

[faster]

What a waste of oxygen.

[lukaz]

now we can listen to Radu Malfatti's Nariyamu performed by Andrew Lafkas (bass), Cat Lamb (viola), Radu Malfatti (trombone) Tucker Dulin (trombone) at Fotofono in NYC last year here (along w Bryan Eubanks & Jason Kahn duo as well):

http://fotofono.net/

[Dan Warburton]

Thanks for posting the link - that's great. Meanwhile, I see that my ancient Signal To Noise piece on Wandelweiser is up online, for anyone that hasn't read it and might like to http://www.timescraper.de/warburton.html

[lukaz]

some of Samuel Vriezen's pieces and scores for download at Ubu:

http://www.ubu.com/sound/vriezen.html

and the piece The Weather Riots:

perf. by: Christine Tavolacci, Flute; Johnny Chang, Violin; Eric KM Clark, Violin; Dante Boon, Piano; Stephen Altoft, Trumpet; Lee Ferguson, Percussion.

http://f.cl.ly/items/0H2s3J3w0G2G2I0f32 ... 0Riots.mp3

[Dan Warburton]

Is Vriezen a paid-up card-carrying member of Wandelweiser now, Luka? News to me. Thanks for the link. You should try and get hold of him playing Tom Johnson's Chord Catalogue - that rocks.

[lukaz]

don't know about his 'official membership', but his music was on Dante Boon's cd on Edition Wandel, he has performed on some of their events and this piece was recorded in Aarau on the concert put by Jürg Frey ...

[lukaz]

you mean this one ... it is also available for dwnload on his site ...

http://sqv.home.xs4all.nl/ChordCatalogue.html

[lukaz]

just recived this mail from Herr Malfatti ... this was my favorite piece of music that i caught in London on Grundelweiser Festival:

b-boim 026 “darenootodesuka” [2011]

antoine beuger, flute – jürg frey, clarinet – marcus kaiser, violoncello – radu malfatti, trombone – michael pisaro, guitar – burkhard schlothauer, violin.

rcorded 5th november 2011 by the bbc in london/ica at the “cut and splice” festival.

“to doris ” 42:00 minutes

[Jacques Oger]

On 27 and 28 april: Wandelweiser is invited at Les Instants Chavirés
compositions by Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti, Jürg Frey.
will be performed by members of Dedalus : Thierry Madiot, Cyprien Busolini, Didier Aschour and Stéphane Garin, + Antoine Beuger and Jürg Frey.

[javier4w]

just recived this mail from Herr Malfatti ... this was my favorite piece of music that i caught in London on Grundelweiser Festival:

b-boim 026 “darenootodesuka” [2011]

antoine beuger, flute – jürg frey, clarinet – marcus kaiser, violoncello – radu malfatti, trombone – michael pisaro, guitar – burkhard schlothauer, violin.

rcorded 5th november 2011 by the bbc in london/ica at the “cut and splice” festival.

“to doris ” 42:00 minutes

composition or improvisation? In case of composition, who's the composer?
You can buy it here, 10€
http://shop.positionen.net/product_info ... ts_id=2965

[jon abbey]

Radu is the composer, I should have these in stock soon, looking forward to hearing it!!

[Dan Warburton]

On 27 and 28 april: Wandelweiser is invited at Les Instants Chavirés
compositions by Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti, Jürg Frey.
will be performed by members of Dedalus : Thierry Madiot, Cyprien Busolini, Didier Aschour and Stéphane Garin, + Antoine Beuger and Jürg Frey.

I'll be on holiday that week. Maybe you can persuade them to play very loud.

[Jacques Oger]

On 27 and 28 april: Wandelweiser is invited at Les Instants Chavirés
compositions by Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti, Jürg Frey.
will be performed by members of Dedalus : Thierry Madiot, Cyprien Busolini, Didier Aschour and Stéphane Garin, + Antoine Beuger and Jürg Frey.

I'll be on holiday that week. Maybe you can persuade them to play very loud.

Just imagine, that's enough

[bedouin]

Carried over from the other thread...

...but there's also a lot of fantastic and new music being made in that vein/area. I'd even maybe argue that the best of it is beginning to outgrow its roots and has become much more 'musical' in the last few years while still being connected to its origins...

Well, the first part of that sentence (outgrowing) is true as far as Pisaro's music goes. But I find the second part a little odd as: (a) this is the I Hate Music forum and; (b) this may be where the problem is for some.

His earlier work (say Mind is moving 1) seems to be preoccupied with the meticulous placement of sounds in space. There is no narrative and no flow. In a way reminiscent to Akiyama's early sparse acoustic work, the sounds exist on their own and given time they morph a perceptual space, alive, coexisting, conversing with the listener.

With the newer work (starting with Harmony Series 11-16, but most evidently with the newer discs) there is a much stronger emphasis on musical composition, where sounds are given distinct roles within a predetermined structure. In a way sounds are undebatable and are no longer in conversation with the listener. This, I feel, is the "musicality" you are referring to.

While I find Pisaro's choice and sequencing of sounds exceptional (Fields Have Ears 1, on AT, is a masterpiece), I tend to feel that this direction is not dissimilar to a lot of other music produced right now (especially with the use of field recordings), which inevitably brings Pisaro's music outside the Wandelweiser aesthetic and closer to the scrutiny of the listener's own musical preferences.