The 70's dimension

An excerpt of  "Sonic outlaws" , directed by Craig Baldwin, american experimental movie maker.

Sweet and gentle

Eartha Kitt and Perez Prado did collaborate in the 50s, and released this record, perfect example of latin and jazz crossover...


























Eartha Kit and Perez Prado: Sweet and Gentle

Hiromichi Sakamoto

A famous solo of the cello player Hiromichi Sakamoto who's too one of the main character of
the unforgetable movie "We don't care about music"...

Filmarilyn

 Paolo Gioli è nato a Sarzano di Rovigo nel 1942. Si occupa di pittura, litografia e serigrafia.
Dal 1968 sviluppa le sue ricerche di stampo sperimentale con le tecniche del film, della fotografia e del video.

"Filmarilyn" - 1992
A haunting short movie by animating photographs taken by Bert Stern of Marilyn Monroe shortly before she died at the age of 36, fifty years ago today.  The original soundtrack was silent.

Viola audio

Just 3 choices for sound!

Free noisers

A great historical meeting : John Zorn and Keiji Haino @ Gospel, Sengawa, Tokyo - 1991



&  just let's appreciate the silence at the begining & the end of the piece...

Vinyls' modulation

A minimalistic and amazing idea from Benga, a dubstep music producer based in London.

Baron samedi

An excerpt of the new choregraphy of Alain Buffard, at théâtre de Nîmes,
premieres on tuesday 24th and wenesday 25th of april 2012,
with "Mack the knife" (Kurt Weill)

sung by Dorothée Munyaneza, with Seb Martel and Sarah Murcia





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Frozen in stone

A new release of our friend Benjamin L.Aman

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Cymbalvm pataphysicvm

An extract of the 1970's cassette, tribute to Luc Etienne, the famous pataphysician.
Luc Etienne published his first "patapèteries" In 1952 in the "Cahiers du Collège de Pataphysique".


"Java javanaise" , played by Cyril Lefebvre (guitar) , Joseph Racaille (piano) and Dora Lou (vocal)

"Par les soins de la Sous-Commission des Cliques et des Claques"

Listen to the radio

Pictures by the famous malian photographer Seydou Keïta

"Nous sommes tous des transistors, au sens littéral du terme. Les ondes arrivent, les antennes les captent..."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
 

Ethiopiques

Story of modern music in Ethiopia, a long article (in french language) of our friend Francis Falceto, founder of the famous records' collection "Ethiopiques" on Buda Music label.

                                                        here     

you can find good ethiopian archives  <<<HERE>>>

Nothing

"Eloge de rien" par Sirine Fattouh

"nothing's praise" (in french langage) 

à consulter ou à télécharger (free) à la Bibliothéque Fantastique

Beyond Hawaii

Tribute to our friend Cyril Lefebvre (1947-2012) who flied away yesterday...

Cyril, as an excellent blues guitar player, also played ukulele and was a fan of Gino Bordin
and contributed to re-discover  this french hawaiian guitar player.

                                   "Chant d'amour de Tahiti"                       

            "Maria La 0" composed by Ernesto Lecuona in 1943           

Audi(o)

The Way You Do That Is

2 video pieces by Alessandro Bosetti
 

& in 2005, where volunteers are just listening for Alessandro' music.

Voices

Yesterday at "Présences électroniques" in Paris Alessandro Bosetti  did a great performance yesterday with his "Mask Mirror 2.0" piece.
Where a dialogue is established between his own natural voice and other recorded voices, and when the talk become impossible, drowned by  concrete sounds.

As sound artist, performer and composer, his work explore the fringes in between spoken language
and music and sound. His "zwölfzungen" piece (released in 2010 as one of my best CD of the last two years)
is a real pertinent association of different languages he does not understand with music
composed in relationship with these speaks as they sounds.

Another interesting work in 2007 when people sing madrigals of Gesualdo ...

Dreams of the blinds

"Dreams" is an experience of music mediated through animated text by Yannis Kyriakides

on his Unsounds label

"Dreams", collects the large scale ensemble works performed by Ensemble MAE and ASKO Ensemble.
The DVD is in PAL format and also contains the films in computer and mobile device formats, as well as MP3 Audio, and PDFs of the scores.
"Dreams of the Blind" recently received the Dutch Willem Pijper Prize for musical innovation.

Tacet

Tacet, a brillant publication around John Cage directed by Matthieu Saladin.
(in english and french langage) 

with contributions by Matthieu Saladin, Philip Gentry, Sarah Troche, Jean Yves Bosseur,
Xavier Erkizia, Seth Kim-Cohen, Michel Pisaro, Sophie Stévance, Mattin, Jérôme Noetinger,
Radu Malfatti & Toshiya Tsunoda
as well John Cage' documents


Tacet : s. m. Mot latin qu'on écrit sur une partie de musique pour indiquer que la voix ou l'instrument doit garder le silence pendant toute la durée du morceau ou du mouvement. Fig. et familièrement: tenir, garder le tacet, ne pas parler, ne pas dire un secret.

"... the word "experimental" is apt, providing it is understood not as descriptive of an act to be later 
judged in terms of success and failure, but simply as of an act the outcome of which is unknown."
John Cage, Silence