An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music

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An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music
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Cover art for the 6th anthology
Compilation album by
Various Artists
Released2001–2013
Recorded1860–2012
Genre Electronic, noise, experimental
Length1126:12
Label Sub Rosa
Producer Guy-Marc Hinant

An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music is a seven album compilation of 176 tracks of historic noise music and electronic music released on 15 CDs between the years 2001 and 2011. [1] It was curated, noted and edited by Guy-Marc Hinant.

Contents

Almost all of the CDs are out of print. [2] The breadth of the anthology makes it comparable to Harry Everett Smith’s 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music .

Anthology #1

No.TitleOriginal artist/releaseLength
1."Corale" Luigi Russolo & Antonio Russolo, 19211:57
2."Wochenede" Walter Ruttmann, 193011:17
3."Cinq études de bruits: étude violette" Pierre Schaeffer, 19483:18
4."Scambi" Henri Pousseur, 19576:27
5."The Dresden Interleaf 13 February 1945" Gordon Mumma, 196512:43
6."Trance #2" Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, & John Cale, 19655:07
7."Untitled #1" Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide, & Martin Tétreault, 20006:06
8."October 24, 1992: Graz, Austria" Survival Research Laboratories, 19926:11
9."Ragout: Küchen Rezept von Einstürzende Neubauten" Einstürzende Neubauten, 19984:08
10."Aspekt" Konrad Boehmer, 196615:13
11."Hommage à John Cage" Nam June Paik, 19584:13
12."Rozart mix" John Cage, 19657:18
13."Audience" Sonic Youth, 19836:00
14."Poème électronique" Edgard Varèse, 19588:00
15."Concret PH" Iannis Xenakis, 19582:44
16."FTP > Bundle / Conduit 23" DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, 20018:07
17."A little noise in the system (Moog System)" Pauline Oliveros, 196630:16
18."One minute" Ryoji Ikeda, 19971:00

Anthology #2

No.TitleOriginal artist/releaseLength
1."Incantation for tape" Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening, 19532:36
2."Visage V" Luc Ferrari, 195810:36
3."Aerial > Song" Tod Dockstader, 200212:56
4."Music of the spheres" Johanna Beyer, 19386:00
5."Mandolin" Morton Subotnick, 19627:02
6."Four aspects" Daphne Oram, 19608:14
7."Emily" Scanner, 19934:53
8."Quintet" Hugh Davies, 196712:11
9."Space travel w/ Changing Choral Textures" Alan R. Splet, 19804:04
10."Zephirum scan" Kim Cascone, 20024:49
11."Bronchus one.1" Autechre, 19916:04
12."On/Off edit"Multiphonic Ensemble, 20019:10
13."Torture / Bodyparts"Meira Asher + Guy Harries, 20013:42
14."Purzuit ov noize"Choose5:36
15."Pulp"Woody McBride, 19936:11
16."Lathe"Arcane Device, 19885:56
17."Industrial ambients" Laibach, 19809:58
18."Slogun" SPK, 19796:15
19."Free music #1 (for four theremins)" Percy Grainger, 19361:28
20."Imagination" Sun Ra and the Arkestra, 19652:00
21."She's too much for my mirror/ my human gets me Blues" Captain Beefheart, 19695:21

Anthology #3

No.TitleOriginal artist/releaseLength
1."De natura sonorum: matières induites" Bernard Parmegiani, 19753:44
2."Short presentation of the 1948 Sackbut: the Sackbut blues, followed by a noisome pestilence" Hugh Le Caine, 1953-19583:25
3."Stereo music for Serge Modular Prototype" Hrvatski 5:30
4."The last largo" Ilhan Mimaroglu, 19899:33
5."Room Pieces: excerpt"Michael J. Schumacher, 20034:41
6."Ovipool" Justin Bennett, 20033:25
7."Stone: Reciprocal" Lilith, 19923:30
8."Modular(2)-Flume"Fred Szymanski, 20036:41
9."Untitled #148" Francisco López, 200310:03
10."Execution of intelligence" Zbigniew Karkowski, 20048:20
11."Birds and warhorse" Merzbow, 200411:30
12."Requiem: Dies Irae" Michel Chion, 19736:00
13."Sähkösoittimen Ääniä #4+#1" Erkki Kurenniemi, 19715:26
14."Time...dot(3)" Alva Noto, 20004:26
15."Early work 6" Pita, 19843:00
16."Klangstudies II" Herbert Eimert + Robert Beyer, 19524:43
17."Eve"Günther Rabl, 19876:00
18."Teilmenge 35 C" Asmus Tietchens, 20044:40
19."Feuerland" Michael Rother, 19767:20
20."The Faust tapes: untitled #16+#17" Faust, 19732:55
21."Contacte" To Rococo Rot, 20044:30
22."Till Zakynthos (Op. 205)" Rune Lindblad, 198813:39
23."Eternal love #3" Phauss, 199313:07

Anthology #4

No.TitleOriginal artist/releaseLength
1."Wire recorder piece" Halim El-Dabh, 19442:01
2."Pièce Électronique #3" György Ligeti, 19582:15
3."Mutations" Jean-Claude Risset, 196910:32
4."Demeures aquatiques" Beatriz Ferreyra, 19677:20
5."Vox" Maja Ratkje, 200513:23
6."Sediment" Laurie Spiegel, 19729:16
7."Pendulum music" Steve Reich, 19687:27
8."Marfa mix" Stephen Vitiello, 20034:15
9."Ressac" eRikm, 20034:41
10."Sea-Food"Wang Changcun, 20054:49
11."Unyoga"Chlorgeschlecht, 20032:40
12."Funktion grau" Gottfried Michael Koenig, 196910:15
13."Broken music composition" Milan Knížák, 19793:28
14."Fucked up and naked" Les Rallizes Dénudés, 19778:33
15."Weaving the magic" Vibracathedral Orchestra, 20034:45
16."River Blindness" Andy Hawkins, 199510:11
17."Still And Moving Lines Of Silence In Families Of Hyperbolas: Voice" Alvin Lucier, 197411:39
18."Circa 1901"The Loop Orchestra, 20058:00
19."Still warm" John Watermann, 19893:00
20."It" François Bayle + Robert Wyatt + Kevin Ayers, 19683:41
21."Present time exercises" William S. Burroughs, 19712:23
22."Air attack over Kabul airfield"James Whitehead, 20054:14
23."Simultanéité aérienne"Vivenza, 19948:52
24."Oraison" Olivier Messiaen, 19377:42

Anthology #5

Anthology #6

Anthology #7

See also

Notes

  1. An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music (review) by James Harley, Computer Music Journal, The MIT Press. Volume 29, Number 3, Fall 2005 pp. 98-104
  2. Sub Rosa page for An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music