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    Another Timbre: Canadian Composers Series (Part 2)

    by 5:4 October 24, 2018 • 17:16
    October 24, 2018 • 17:16

    Record label Another Timbre has recently released the five discs that comprise the second part of its Canadian Composers Series, featuring music by Alex Jang, Cassandra Miller, Lance Austin Olsen and Linda Catlin Smith. While the excellent accompanying booklet to the series (which, at over 100 pages, is more a book…

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    all that dust: music by Morton Feldman, Matthew Shlomowitz, Séverine Ballon, Milton Babbitt and Luigi Nono

    by 5:4 October 12, 2018 • 11:57
    October 12, 2018 • 11:57

    The launching of a new label devoted to contemporary music is something to celebrate, and the newest kid on the block is all that dust, the brainchild of composer Newton Armstrong, soprano Juliet Fraser and pianist Mark Knoop. The label’s first five releases have recently appeared, and there are a…

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    Alexander Knaifel – Lukomoriye

    by 5:4 September 13, 2018 • 12:43
    September 13, 2018 • 12:43

    What is it that holds music together? How loosely can it be structured and/or organised, and at what point does its integrity irrevocably break down? When does intense earnestness become perceived as affectation? When does patience cease being a virtue and become a problem, even a handicap? i found myself…

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    Erkki-Sven Tüür – Illuminatio/Whistle and Whispers from Uluru/Symphony No. 8, Arvo Pärt & Alfred Schnittke – Choral Works, Arvo Pärt – The Symphonies

    by 5:4 August 24, 2018 • 16:35
    August 24, 2018 • 16:35

    Returning to one of my occasional themes, there have been some interesting releases of Estonian music in the last few months. In February, i wrote about the Ninth Symphony by one of the country’s most dynamic composers, Erkki-Sven Tüür, so it’s nice timing that the Ondine label has brought out…

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    Gráinne Mulvey/Christopher Fox – Aeolus/untouch, John Wiggins – The Listened To Sound, Lee Fraser – Cor Unvers

    by 5:4 August 7, 2018 • 16:29
    August 7, 2018 • 16:29

    A new EP out on the Metier label brings together two works that each exist in an interesting relationship to real sounds. Irish composer Gráinne Mulvey‘s Aeolus, as the title suggests, takes its inspiration from the eponymous king of the island of Aeolia, names better known to us today via the…

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    Beyond Pythagoras, Phantom Images

    by 5:4 June 27, 2018 • 18:00
    June 27, 2018 • 18:00

    Perhaps the most consistently and fearlessly challenging of UK new music labels is Huddersfield Contemporary Records. As such, they’re not exactly a label needing to up their game, but with their latest couple of albums they’ve done just that, releasing some of the most unforgettable stuff i’ve heard this year.…

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    Tom Mudd – Gutter Synthesis, Jeroen Diepenmaat – Ode

    by 5:4 June 21, 2018 • 11:44
    June 21, 2018 • 11:44

    Another recent release from the Entr’acte label that’s been intriguing me lately is Gutter Synthesis by British electronic experimentalist Tom Mudd. The six tracks on the album are divided between three Gutter Synthesis pieces and three Gutter Organ pieces, all of which were composed using Mudd’s own software, created specifically…

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    Coppice – Surreal Air Fortress

    by 5:4 June 16, 2018 • 13:10
    June 16, 2018 • 13:10

    For many years now i’ve been following the output of Joseph Kramer and Noé Cuéllar’s experimental duo Coppice. Their music is not only difficult to categorise, utilising a vast array of appropriated, re-purposed, handmade and/or otherwise kludged bits of elaborate mechanical paraphernalia, but also impossible to predict. ‘Frictional’ is a word…

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    North of North, Rohan Drape & Anthony Pateras – Ellesmere

    by 5:4 June 5, 2018 • 14:57
    June 5, 2018 • 14:57

    My first encounter with the music of Anthony Pateras – in the form of last year’s The Slow Creep of Convenience, his duo with violinist Erkki Veltheim – was a mind-blowing experience, one of the best things i had heard all year. So i was excited when two new discs arrived…

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    Robert Scott Thompson – Of Natural Magic and the Breathing of Trees, William Price – Rush Hour

    by 5:4 May 14, 2018 • 16:13
    May 14, 2018 • 16:13

    A couple of noteworthy albums of electronic music by US composers have found their way to me recently. Of Natural Magic and the Breathing of Trees by Robert Scott Thompson was released last year and pretty much tells you everything you need to know in that title. Aesthetically, the five pieces contained on this album…

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    José Manuel López López – Horizonte Ondulado

    by 5:4 May 8, 2018 • 14:29
    May 8, 2018 • 14:29

    My ears have recently been extensively tickled by the sound of percussion, courtesy of Horizonte Ondulado (Undulating Horizon), the latest release from the always interesting Neu label, exploring five works for percussion by Spanish composer José Manuel López López. As always, Neu have lavishly produced the album in a beautiful slipcase containing a 60-page…

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    New release: ma

    by 5:4 April 5, 2018 • 13:38
    April 5, 2018 • 13:38

    In a few days’ time, my most recent cycle of electronic music will be released by the adventurous Portuguese label, Crónica. The title of the cycle is the Japanese word 間 (ma), which is difficult easily to translate into English. The concept it embodies is a spatial one, specifically the gap between…

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    Rebecca Saunders on record (Part 4)

    by 5:4 March 28, 2018 • 14:15
    March 28, 2018 • 14:15

    Before i conclude my survey of the available recordings of Rebecca Saunders‘ music, i want to flag up some omissions. There are three works that i’m not able to discuss at this point as i haven’t yet got hold of copies of the discs on which they’re featured: rubricare (2005) which…

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    Rebecca Saunders on record (Part 3)

    by 5:4 March 17, 2018 • 13:03
    March 17, 2018 • 13:03

    Continuing my survey of recordings of Rebecca Saunders‘ music, i’m looking today at a cluster of pieces featured on compilations as well as a couple of standalone releases. The last work i wrote about, still, initially bore the provisional title rage, and while Saunders ultimately pulled back from this in…

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    Rebecca Saunders on record (Part 2)

    by 5:4 March 6, 2018 • 13:09
    March 6, 2018 • 13:09

    In continuing my survey of recordings of Rebecca Saunders‘ music, i’m turning my attention now to works that are earlier than everything i’ve explored so far. Stirrings Still, released in 2008 on the Wergo label, is an excellent survey of what we might call (for now, at least) ‘mid-period’ Saunders,…

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    Rebecca Saunders on record (Part 1)

    by 5:4 February 24, 2018 • 00:00
    February 24, 2018 • 00:00

    Alongside the individual pieces i’m focusing on in this Lent Series, i’m also going to be providing an overview of as much as possible of Rebecca Saunders’ music that has been released commercially. When i started planning this series of articles last autumn, my perception was that there wasn’t very…

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    ionnalee – Everyone Afraid To Be Forgotten

    by 5:4 February 16, 2018 • 15:26
    February 16, 2018 • 15:26

    The fact that i’ve only written about Swedish musician Jonna Lee‘s music very occasionally belies the fact that i feel she’s one of the most inventive singer-songwriters at work today. This has been the case from the outset of her revamped career in late 2009, when she was posting anonymous…

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    Free internet music: Press Charges

    by 5:4 January 31, 2018 • 14:41
    January 31, 2018 • 14:41

    There’s so much i could write about in this series looking at free internet music, that i think it’ll be something i’ll have to return to regularly from now on. For the time being, though, i’m ending this series with an album that’s one of the most imaginative and effective…

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    Free internet music: Ektoise

    by 5:4 January 26, 2018 • 13:00
    January 26, 2018 • 13:00

    It’s Australia Day, so the next artist i’m featuring in my series looking at free internet music is the Brisbane-based group Ektoise. It’s difficult to know where to begin, partly because, stylistically speaking, it’s not easy to summarise succinctly what their music is like, and partly because Ektoise is just…

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    Free internet music: Brothomstates, Stephan Mathieu

    by 5:4 January 20, 2018 • 12:54
    January 20, 2018 • 12:54

    The next recommendations in my series looking at free internet music are a pair of pieces exploring extremes of computer-mangled audio. The first is a new release from Finnish composer Lassi Nikko, better known as Brothomstates, and even writing his name in the context of a new release – something i never…

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