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music tagged with: improvisation

claudio nuñez – ninguna libertad/baladas

claudio nuñez – ninguna libertad/baladas
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claudio nuñez

“ninguna libertad/baladas”

claudio nuñez – ninguna libertad/baladas
claudio nuñez was born in buenos aires in 1959. he studied classical guitar during the 1970s and composition with hilda dianda. he received a choral conductor degree in 1980. he’s participated in several projects in los angeles and new york – storacci sextet, carlos miralles group, bhrama nada, the charlie martins quartet. he has also performed with sam hendrix, john riley, larry granadier, matt wilson, charles gayle, william parker, george fernandez, etc.

his music covers space modern jazz, free jazz, avant garde classical, indian classical music and new tango. he has long been a proponent of netlabels and free music

his first album for pan y rosas, ninguna libertad/baladas, is a double album that features free improv piano meditations with wordless vocal action underneath.

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posted 20 June 2013

philip corner – java improvs

philip corner – java improvs
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philip corner

“java improvs”

philip corner – java improvs
philip corner is an: action musician. trombone/alphornist, occasional vocalist, pianist, percussionist, theorist, visual artist. composer, improvisor, educator, collageur, assembleur, calligrapher. student of jahoda, cowell, messiaen, luening, borduas, cage, taubman. teacher in new york high schools and livingston college. fluxologist, resident composer for judson dance theatre, experimental intermedia foundation. member of: tone roads chamber ensemble. sounds out of silent spaces gamelan son of lion. his focus is: listen. silence. resonance. surroundings. action. ecstasy.

philip corner’s second album for pan y rosas, java improvs, is a box set that collects eight improvisations that were recorded over the course of a year during his travels in indonesia. from philip:

Surely what drew me to Indonesia was the gamelan. A connection through years of practice with the New York new-music group “Son Of Lion.” And there I met three marvelous musicians and played with them, drawn together by shared mind-in-the-moment music making – the only way it becomes an “universal language.”

the collection is divided into three boxes and contains six and a half hours of music. the first box consists of two separate performances with percussionist yasudah s. and the dancers susana miranti kroeber and phoebe neville. the second box consists of four performances with the singer and dancer restu kusumaningrum. the third box consists of two performances with the percussionist jalu pratidina and dancer phoebe neville.

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posted 11 June 2013

nicolás chientaroli trío – ViajeraMente

nicolás chientaroli trío – ViajeraMente
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nicolás chientaroli trío

“ViajeraMente”

nicolás chientaroli trío – ViajeraMente
based in buenos aires, pianist nicolás chientaroli is an active member of the city’s jazz scene where, in addition to his trio, he leads the group, la gran cena; and co-leads the groups los improvisadores gráficos and las formas avanzan. he has also performed with the groups andrés elstein trío, caravana colemanica, proyecto orgánico rave, trío dumpty, francisco salgado cuarteto, and la hormiga.

ViajeraMente is the third album from the trio and the first on pan y rosas. for this album the lineup features chientaroli on piano, carlos álvarez on bass and sebastián groshaus on drums. the album contains a mix of compositions by chientaroli, group improvisations and a cover of dizzy gillespie’s be-bop.

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posted 07 June 2013

marta sainz – tres piezas

marta sainz – tres piezas
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marta sainz

“tres piezas”

marta sainz – tres piezas
marta sainz is an improviser who uses her voice and body to conduct her investigations of sound. her work draws from butoh, german expressionism as well as artaud’s theater of cruelty. she seeks to create an emotional shock for the spectator as they experience all aspects of her total performance. she also performs with lali barrière in the duo, un coup de dès; with miguel a garcía and enrique zaccagnin in the group destruction des animaux nuisibles; and in a duo with maryah marymoto.

her first album for pan y rosas consists of three pieces of free improvisation, recorded at home, in one take, in november of 2012 and january of 2013. she used her voice, objects, a ukelele, an analog synthesizer and various effects to create this, el sonido de las entrañas.

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posted 07 June 2013

Avelino Saavedra – MUD

Avelino Saavedra – MUD
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Avelino Saavedra

“MUD”

Avelino Saavedra – MUD

MUD, is basically a systemic study of an instrument and its resonance capabilities. Also is the culmination of the mixture between sound processing and live improvisation with a very limited palette of sounds and effects.

As usual in Saavedra’s work one can grasp the enormous amount of time invested on developing, to get the finest results, in terms of sound. Earlier in spring, Saavedra stated (while talking about this album) that his idea was to squeeze all the capabilities of this instrument until depletion. So he did, and this is the modus operandi of Saavedra, to be able to extract the most of it of his instruments and deliver a closed-up project, without cracks, a full album, enclosed and finished.

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posted 22 May 2013

ASTMA and Els Vandeweyer – Live at Naherholung Sternchen

ASTMA and Els Vandeweyer – Live at Naherholung Sternchen
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ASTMA and Els Vandeweyer

“Live at Naherholung Sternchen”

ASTMA and Els Vandeweyer – Live at Naherholung Sternchen
Performed and recorded by Olga Nosova, Alexei Borisov and Els Vandeweyer (Berlin, Germany, 25 July 2012)
Alexei Borisov: guitar, voice, electronics
Olga Nosova: snare drum, citra, recorders, sound objects, voice, effects
Els Vandeweyer: vibraphone, percussion, voice
Special thanks: Meli Anders
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posted 20 May 2013

N.O.F.P. – Live @ Sonoscopia

N.O.F.P. – Live @ Sonoscopia
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N.O.F.P.

“Live @ Sonoscopia”

N.O.F.P. – Live @ Sonoscopia

The event, held on March 15, 2013, marks the centenary of the publishing of Luigi Russolo’s manifesto “L’arte dei rumori”.

Recorded live @ Sonoscopia before a live audience.

N.O.F.P. is: Henrique Fernandes – intonarumori, wooden laptop, devices; Alberto Lopes – infinito, wooden laptop, intonarumori; João Martins – wooden laptop, devices; João Mascarenhas – intonarumori, percussion; João Ricardo – laptop, samples.

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posted 08 May 2013

Sergi Boal – Cercle

Sergi Boal – Cercle
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Sergi Boal

“Cercle”

Sergi Boal – Cercle

“A transposition of the soul into sound waves” NetMusic Life

“Cercle” is my most spiritual project. the most introspective. In this little EP the music flows, the themes don’t have any concrete structure, and maybe this gives the sensation of a visual dream, the sensation that you are floating, and you could create images, thoughts, sensations…. Not having a concrete structure, there’s no beginning, no end ; it’s like a circle! All the songs were recorded in one or two takes.only with a nylon guitar.
The music was almost improvised, except the theme “NILS” that was a rework of the pianist Nils Frahm, from one song of his album “Screws”, trying to “move” the sounds of his personal piano, to the guitar..
I recorded this EP with Hector Xiqués ( I/O Estudi de Gravació, Barcelona),and we tried to give that especial sound of the guitar, with some delays, and reverbs.
Nuvol ( Cloud) Angel Blau ( blue angel) Cercle (circle) Nils ( rework of Nils Frahm Composition ” LA” Sense tu…res… ( without you…..nothing)
please, sit down and dream……………..

This is a joint release with Alchemistica netlabel

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posted 06 May 2013

Pioggia d’ambra – Musick for ghosts

Pioggia d’ambra – Musick for ghosts
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Pioggia d’ambra

“Musick for ghosts”

Pioggia d’ambra – Musick for ghosts
Italy’s Pioggia d’ambra is back with another collection of self-described Depressive Ambient entitled Musick for ghosts. Recorded some time ago, but never released until now, this hour-long album was inspired by a lost love and its seven tracks, in the words of the artist, “range from freakish lo-fi folk to depressive drones and noise assault.” Despite the wide swings in style, the feeling of loss is pervasive throughout Musick for ghosts. Much like a ghost itself, melodies hover vaguely in the air, more of a suggestion than a framework upon which the songs are built. Occasionally there are vocals, seemingly moaned and whispered at no one in particular, and guitar pops up here and there, sometimes clean, but more often heavily processed through several effects until it sounds like mechanical wailing. When it comes to weird production techniques, Pioggia d’ambra pulls out all the stops: reversing phrases in post-production, overdubbing atmospheric drones, and filling the album with small expressions and eccentric details that keep the most droning parts of this collection as dynamic and engaging as the busier material. Above all else, and this project has a lot going for it, this attention to detail places Pioggia d’ambra a cut above much of the netlabel dark ambient jet set, and makes Musick for ghosts a haunting and inspiring experience.
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posted 05 May 2013

Rete del disagio – Concerto fantasma

Rete del disagio – Concerto fantasma
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Rete del disagio

“Concerto fantasma”

Rete del disagio – Concerto fantasma

Rete del Disagio

Concerto fantasma [0kbps029]

01 – overture
02 – cuore di palma
03 – il fantasma di un concerto
04 – disagio e rivolta
05 – ciao gente seria

fabiorosho, stefano balice: electronics
recorded live in rome, 11-04-13
“disagio e rivolta” includes “rivolta di una città”, by 7tn4CC

Rete del disagio (the uneasiness network) is not a band, and has no stable line-up.
Rete del disagio was born when followers and supporters from different web communities as upupachan, vaporized art movement, deep lake records and mav [0kbps] records, start to physically meet to bring the noise from the net to the streets.

MAV [0kbps] Records, April 2013

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posted 21 April 2013

KARST & VINCENT BARRAS – Corpusculairmetrique

KARST & VINCENT BARRAS – Corpusculairmetrique
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KARST & VINCENT BARRAS

“Corpusculairmetrique”

KARST & VINCENT BARRAS – Corpusculairmetrique
Abstral Compost: voix & texte
Cyril Bondi: percussions, objets
d’incise: percussions, objets, feedbacks
Luc Müller: Percussions, objets, micro contact
Vincent Barras: Voix & texte (Face A)Karst brings together three musicians/percussionists/improvisors, playing in a fusional, abstract, eletroacoustic way, and voice/text/word/sound. This LP, third publication of the ensemble, grows around the theme/word “corps” (body). On the first side, the Abstral Compost’s random text is put in regard of the improvised speech by Vincent Barras (facinatinf character, speaker, medecin historian, sound poet, Cage’s translater, sound anthropogist, etc).
Karst present as well in 2012 a sound theatre play, “Besoin modeste assiette plate”, around Samuel Ernest Daibe’s outsider writings.
Cyril Bondi and d’incise team together since years, mainly with their duo Diatribes. Luc Müller is involved in the Lausanne based collective Rue du Nord. Abstral Compost oscillats between sound poetry and wild rap with the Labrats Bugband.

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posted 16 April 2013

Viktar Siamashka & Co – BIOTOPE

Viktar Siamashka & Co – BIOTOPE
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Viktar Siamashka & Co

“BIOTOPE”

Viktar Siamashka & Co – BIOTOPE

“Free music from “the last dictatorship in Europe”. Spontaneous improvisation. Operative composing. Something at the intercrossing of free-jazz, folk, academic and electronic music. All compositions were created together, alive, “here and now” and without the using of phonograms or rehearse fragments.” – Viktar Siamashka & Co

Viktar Siamashka – winds, percussion
Eryk Arlou-Shymus – double-bass
Maxim Iukin – vocal, percussion
Raman Jarash – big drum

Recorded 08/11/2012 in anticafe “Fisher House”,
Miensk, Bielarus.

Art – Viktar Siamashka Sr.
Design – Ales Siamashka.

01 – Biotope (I, II)
part I (00:00 – 08:30),
part II (08:30 – 16:19)
02 – Risky men
03 – Without M.
04 – Thesis
05 – Dudaryki

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posted 15 April 2013

Netlabel Live Session – Ala Social Net 2012

Netlabel Live Session – Ala Social Net 2012
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Netlabel Live Session

“Ala Social Net 2012”

Netlabel Live Session – Ala Social Net 2012
Starting from an idea of Adriano Bossola and Giampaolo Campus and thanks to the Skywine Showroom support , there was a meeting in Ala (TN) on 12th January 2012 among some Italian netlabels. The aim of this event was to estabilish an active collaboration among the participants. This to get a wider spread of the Creative Commons Music in Italy and to create events with musicians belonging to this area.
During the two days meeting, the musicians coming from the invited netlabels performed first their own live music and then they joined together in a final improvisation session. From this last event it came out the idea to start a first collaboration project and, so, to publish this session on the web as a free download. On this occasion four of the following netlabels playing in Ala decided then to join the release publishing it simultaneously on the web:Acustronica
AlchEmistica
ozky e-sound
Parafonica

Musicians joining the improvisation session:

Cesare Discepoli – guitar
Enrico Coniglio – laptop, psalterium, sampler
Francesca Coniglio – live visuals Giampaolo Campus – zither
Massimo Croce – laptop
Massimo Discepoli – synth
Sergio Camedda – sampler

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posted 12 April 2013

T.BIRD – Hoi Bun Road

T.BIRD – Hoi Bun Road
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T.BIRD

“Hoi Bun Road”

T.BIRD – Hoi Bun Road
T.Bird (from “The Talking Bird”, the name of parrot-shaped 8bit toy sampler) came into being in 1996 at Moscow as a solo project of experimental musician and sound producer Victor “Mutant” Shevtsov (ex-Dolphin). Transformation into a full band happened at the end of the ‘00s. In 2009 bassist Ivan “Kester” Lebedev (ex-member and founder of cult Russian psychedelic bands Alien Pat. Holman and Dubovy Gaaj) and drummer “Plastic Monkey” joined Victor. Once being formed, the band began performing live improvisation sessions at “T-34 base” at the Arma Factory. Synthesis of space-electronic sound and a massive rhythm section creates a special musical hybrid, which can be called krautronic” or “urban raga”.
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posted 08 April 2013

philip corner – java improvs

philip corner – java improvs
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philip corner

“java improvs”

philip corner – java improvs

philip corner is an: action musician. trombone/alphornist, occasional vocalist, pianist, percussionist, theorist, visual artist. composer, improvisor, educator, collageur, assembleur, calligrapher. student of jahoda, cowell, messiaen, luening, borduas, cage, taubman. teacher in new york high schools and livingston college. fluxologist, resident composer for judson dance theatre, experimental intermedia foundation. member of: tone roads chamber ensemble. sounds out of silent spaces. gamelan son of lion. his focus is: listen. silence. resonance. surroundings. action. ecstasy.

philip corner’s second album for pan y rosas, java improvs, is a box set that collects eight improvisations that were recorded over the course of a year during his travels in indonesia. from philip:

Surely what drew me to Indonesia was the gamelan. A connection through years of practice with the New York new-music group “Son Of Lion.” And there I met three marvelous musicians and played with them, drawn together by shared mind-in-the-moment music making – the only way it becomes an “universal language.”

the collection is divided into three boxes and contains six and a half hours of music. the first box consists of two separate performances with percussionist yasudah s. and the dancers susana miranti kroeber and phoebe neville. the second box consists of four performances with the singer and dancer restu kusumaningrum. the third box consists of two performances with the percussionist jalu pratidina and dancer phoebe neville.

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posted 03 April 2013

volcano radar – refutation of time

volcano radar – refutation of time
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volcano radar

“refutation of time”

volcano radar – refutation of time

volcano radar is a fusion of ecstatic improvisational energy and apollonian intellect. a power quartet with dual free jazz/noise/avant guitarists elbio barilari and julia a. miller, legendary bassist harrison bankhead and incendiary drummer avreeayl ra, volcano radar moves fluently through a stylistic range from noise-funk improvisation to structured sonic forms.

their debut album, refutation of time, consists of an improvised set that was recorded at experimental sound studio in chicago on february 26, 2013.

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posted 26 March 2013

andrea pensado – teraz, tak!

andrea pensado – teraz, tak!
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andrea pensado

“teraz, tak!”

andrea pensado – teraz, tak!

andrea pensado works with sound as a performer, composer and teacher. she has been using digital media and live interactive musical systems since 1995. she studied in argentina and poland. at first she composed mainly for acoustic instruments, however, she gradually felt more attracted by different sound realms. today, the abrasive digital noise of her improvisations is far away from her earlier pieces. harsh dense layers of sounds, often interwoven with her voice, combine hybrid synthesis and sampling techniques to create a highly personal sound language, which reflects an intuitive, emotional and paradoxically also logical approach to music making. she currently lives in the united states.

teraz, tak!, her first album for pan y rosas, begins with a solo performance by andrea and is followed by a series of duets between andrea and the musicians: walter wright, davindar singh, adriana de los santos and alexei borisov who provide additional electronics, saxophone, piano and guitar respectively.

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posted 26 March 2013

ARÍN DODÓ – ¿ES VD. ARÍN DODÓ?

ARÍN DODÓ – ¿ES VD. ARÍN DODÓ?
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ARÍN DODÓ

“¿ES VD. ARÍN DODÓ?”

ARÍN DODÓ – ¿ES VD. ARÍN DODÓ?

El primer disco de Arí­n Dodó con La Gramola Netlabel consta de seis temas de una duración total de poco más de media hora. Es un trabajo que exige a quien lo escucha y no válido para oídos cómodos, pero realmente fascinante y que merece el esfuerzo de entrar en él.

Este trabajo está dedicado a Alberto Dí­az Dí­az, miembro y fundador de Arí­n Dodó.

La portada es una foto de Ana Pérez y el logo es de Enrique Cordero

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posted 21 March 2013

isteronproject – smells like teen pussy

isteronproject – smells like teen pussy
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isteronproject

“smells like teen pussy”

isteronproject – smells like teen pussy

isteronproject – smells like teen pussy [DLR027]

01 – un mollusco tentativo
02 – isteronproject’s top summer hits

Ingredients:
BENT: tape recorder, casio sa65, barbie bontempi keyboard, yamaha pss6, casio sk1, toy farm
NOT BENT: sw radio, monotron, metronome

Deep Lake Records

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posted 17 March 2013

Pioggia d’ambra – Manipolazioni casuali della realtà

Pioggia d’ambra – Manipolazioni casuali della realtà
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Pioggia d’ambra

“Manipolazioni casuali della realtà”

Pioggia d’ambra – Manipolazioni casuali della realtà

Pioggia d’ambra

Manipolazioni casuali della realtà [0kbps026]

01 – Campanelli
02 – Chitarra acustica
03 – Legno su chitarra acustica
04 – Legno
05 – Microfono su superfici varie
06 – Voci
07 – Il silenzio non esiste

http://soundcloud.com/pioggiadambra
http://pioggiadambra.bandcamp.com
http://musickforghosts.blogspot.it

MAV [0kbps] Records, March 2013

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posted 17 March 2013

Rete del disagio – Almost (a)live – vaporizing milano 03-03-2013

Rete del disagio – Almost (a)live – vaporizing milano 03-03-2013
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Rete del disagio

“Almost (a)live – vaporizing milano 03-03-2013”

Rete del disagio – Almost (a)live – vaporizing milano 03-03-2013

Rete del Disagio

Almost (a)live [0kbps025]

01 – sabotati dai bambini
02 – il parco
03 – la ventola del mistero
04 – una bella giornata

Giovanni Nembrini, Stefano Balice, Tommaso Busatto: electronics
Celeste: photo & video
Special guests: two random children

Recorded in Milan, 03-03-2013, using a microcassette recorder.
You can see the video of this performance here:

Rete del Disagio (the uneasiness network) is not a band, and has no stable line-up.
Rete del Disagio was born when followers and supporters from different web communities as upupachan, vaporized art movement, deep lake records and mav [0kbps] records, start to physically meet to bring the noise from the net to the streets.

La Rete del Disagio non è una band, e non ha una formazione stabile.
La Rete del Disagio è nata quando frequentatori e sostenitori di diverse comunità del web come upupachan, movimento arte vaporizzata, deep lake records e mav [0kbps] records, hanno cominciato ad incontrarsi fisicamente per portare il rumore dalla rete alle strade.

MAV [0kbps] Records, March 2013

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posted 11 March 2013