Do not expand your musical borders. Abolish them completely.
A total departure from drum-centric dance music, this 3 hour sound collage is pure listening. Densely layered, painstakingly detailed, yet immersed in silence and emptiness, representing the quiet, beautiful, and deep end of Collective Improvisation, Modern Composition, Free-Jazz, Musique Concrete, Spectralism, Microsound, Just Intonation, and Drone.
Potentially functioning in similar ways as ambient, but this is not ambient, because it rewards not only passive, background listening, but also active, focused listening. The aim is 3 hours the listener will likely never get tired of, in one lifetime.
Dialectical sound: improvisation is the thesis, composition is the anti-thesis, and this mix is the synthesis.
Featuring the Marxist composer/improviser Cornelius Cardew, the group he founded AMM, the music of affiliates, and much, much more.
Tracklist:
Xavier Garcia - 6 regards sul L Boca Raton - Tables 1 Anne Lockwood - water gong Steve Roden - Truth Is The Bell (Saarbrucken) kevin drumm • taku sugimoto DEN 1 Kenneth Kirtchener - february 19, 2004 Steve Roden - Bell Is The Truth (Berlin) Unknown - Amann Kenneth Kirtchener - february 19, 2004 David Toop -01 - Falling Light sugimoto, taku (1965)04. spoon river i William Mathews - Field Guide John Tilbury & Eddie Prevost - D Anthony Braxton - Dedicated to Ann and Peter Allen Steve Roden - fruit pants jacob_kirkegaard--swimming_pool Marc Favre - Le beau corps d'ether Cornelius Cardew - treatise CD 2 AudioTrack 02 RLW - Kleine blaue Hybriden Filipe Pires - Litania Kenneth Kirtchener - august 18, 2001 David Toop - DecompositionDecay Gerard Grisey – Tempus ex machina pour six percussionistes Sainkho - Tovarishi Bill Dixon - Places And Things Michael Pisaro - pi (920-994) Gerard Grisey – Anubis-Nout - II. Nout Alvin Lucier - Horn (James De Corsey) john butcher - Soft Logic RLW - ikk - purpur - scharlachrot ISMU K.L.P.L Thomas Koner - Tu, Sempre AMM - Meantime AMM - Conduit John Wall - Rumble-Hard-Abrupt Polwechsel - Not Forgetting the Forgetting Gerard Grisey – Anubis [tres precis] Bernard Parmegiani - Étude Élastique RLW - Restless Occlusion Xu Cheng - My Livingspace 4 RLW - In Acht Kenneth Kirtchener - october 13, 2001 Kaija Saariaho - Poèmes de Saint John Perse - I. The bird, most ardent for life Kenneth Kirtchener – september 2, 2003 Sainkho - Cschai-Su Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura - March 16, 2002 IRR. APP - A Body Rendered Disjecta Membra Through The Application Of Dust Pincher Appliances Sainkho - Tovarishi Bernard Parmegiani - Étude Élastique Eiko Ishibashi - Ichida Part 1 IRR. APP - track 9 Kaija Saariaho - Les vieux naturalistes français Gerard Grisey – Partiels pour 18 musiciens James Tenney – Form 3 (In Memoriam Stefan Wolpe)