Bagpipes & guitar

Our friend David Watson, born in New Zealand and located in NYC, answered to the 13 questions of the "Prepared Guitar" blog. With a lot of music excerpts...
Originally known as a guitarist, since early 90s Watson's work has also featured new music for the Highland Bagpipes.

 

Music for solo performer

"Music for a Solo Performer" (1965) , est une piéce pour ensemble de percussions jouées en temps réel par l'activation de modules électromécaniques reliés au modulations des activités cérébrales de l'interprète, ici Alvin Lucier lui-même.

Prepared guitar

 

         Keith Rowe material

"Prepared guitar" est un excellent blog, animé par Miguel Copón, théoricien en art basé à Madrid.

Il contient une grande quantité d'interviewes de musiciens aventureux et indépendants qui jouent, déjouent la guitare, entre autres. Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Eugene Chadbourne, Jim O'Rourke, Jean François Pauvros, Keith Rowe ... et de très nombreux autres...

Il y est largement question de nombreux musiciens contemporains qui abordent l'improvisation et les postures expérimentales...
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13 questions to Michel Henritzi   HERE

& live au Zorba en 2015


 
     Michel Henritzi

Contemporary composers

 

A strange and non-exhaustive timeline of contemporary composers, 

animated by the composer Daniel Cioccoloni, with a background's music composed by himself. 

His other compositions are listenable here

Sea organ of Zadar

"Sea organ of Zadar"  is an architectural object created by Nikola Bašić, in the city of Zadar (Croatia). As an experimental musical instrument, the waves of the sea generates random harmonic sounds by the way of polyethylene tubes inserted in a set of large marble steps.
It works as a pipe organ.

Nikola Bašić also created other experimental objects as the "Sun Salutation" and "Kornati firefighters"

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Uke

 Quelques documents concernant des chansons de Tahiti, le ukulélé et le banjo-ukulélé, une noix de coco, une tablature de "beyond the reef", le tout en forme d'hommage à Cyril Lefebvre , rédigé, compilé et publié par Philippe Gemgembre sur http://www.ukulele.fr.

Cela s'intitule "Mélanges pour Cyril Lefebvre"

et quelques "ladies" que Cyril aurait appréciées

OuUnPo ballad

"OuUnPo ballad", a soundtrack by Claudia Squitieri for a walk across the city of Gibellina Nuova (Sicilia).

After the earthquake in 1968, which ruined all the city, a new city was rebuild at 18kms away, with utopic and radical futuristic architectural projects as well intrusion of lot of monumental pieces by great italian artists ( Fausto Melotti, Daniel Spoerri, Mimmo Rotella, Salvatore Messina, Ludovico Corrao, Paolo Schiavocampo ... and many others), with the support of the "Fondazione Orestiadi"

With many different voices, as well Claudia Squitieri's voice, this 45 minutes' ballad was composed in the context of OuUnPoïesis session in May 2014. Using texts from Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, Pessoa ... etc ... it gives a poetical way to wander and randomly connect with masterpieces of this astounding city.

Le Città Invisibili, I. Calvino - extract - read by Claudia Squitieri
Chose an Object - Claudia Squitieri
Una Seconda Rinascita - voice of Liliana Saladino
Piccole Figure che Passano, R. Collovà - extract - read by Claudio Collovà
The Mariner, F. Pessoa - extract - read by Claudia Squitieri
Song for Sayoko - Claudia Squitieri
Speak of Houses, H. Helder - Translated and read by Pedro Gandra
Espèces d'Espaces, G. Perec - extract - read by C. Collovà & Claudia Squitieri
La Passeggiata, R. Walser - extract - read by Raffaella della Olga

All sounds composed by Claudia Squitieri

Urpf Lanze

 
Urpf Lanze is the moniker of his rather unorthodox solo guitar project, under which he has been playing for several years now. He plays strange music with acoustic guitar and his rough voice, evocating the harsh of Bill Orcutt
The person behind Urpf Lanze is Belgian visual artist Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, who is mainly known for his large-scale ink drawings that offer a hermetic blend of weirdo characters, medieval iconography and surrealist decors.

“Blues rugueux, crapuleux et rageur à la croisée de Bill Orcutt, Son House, Robert Johnson et cie.” 
(Young Girls Records)

"The lost wooden planet script" from his 2013's CD "Procession of talking mirrors" on audioMER.

Fragmentaire

On the invitation of the artists' international research collective OuUnPo  & the "Fondazione Orestiadi", "Fragmentaire" was performed in the magical "Giardino Segreto 2", in the city of Gibellina (Sicila), designed by Francesco Venezia.

Between two pieces of Daniele Spoerri and Mimo Rotella, a live performance by Eve Couturier (voice) and Palix (music), last 17th of May, for the sunset.

With fragments of the libretto "Woyzeck" by Georg Büchner.

Bobbyland

"Bobbyland" est un orchestre  d’automates dont tous les instruments sont joués par des moteurs et programmés informatiquement. Utilisant des instruments classiques (pianos, contrebasse, percussions,…) déjoués par des imprimantes, lecteurs de disquettes ou moteur d’essuie-glace, le dispositif créé plonge l’auditeur dans des sonorités inattendues. Musique électronique certainement, mais purement acoustique, et qui ne renie pas  l’héritage de la musique concrète.