Friday, May 31, 2013

Free Download Greg Goodman


AGP169: Greg Goodman - The Construction of Ruins (1982)




The Avant Garde Project celebrates its fifth anniversary with its first new installment in over a year. AGP169 is a 24-bit, 44.1 kHz transcription of a remarkable, long out-of-print LP from 1982 on The Beak Doctor label, featuring the prepared piano of Greg Goodman with guest artistry by Jon Rose on violin and Henry Kaiser on electric guitar. It's a beautifully recorded LP in excellent condition with essentially no surface or pressing noise. The music occupies the shared outlands of extreme jazz and modern classical. With the exception of the last track, piano and violin are played more percussively than melodically, and the sounds of the prepared piano together with Henry Kaiser's idiosyncratic guitar is a real timbre-fest. Notes on the release can be found at The Beak Doctor website. While you're there, be sure to check out their other recordings, many of which are in print and available for purchase internationally.

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Artur Ruminski






Chameleon Guitar



'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech

Guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of electronic and acoustic.
October 23, 2012
Media Lab student Amit Zoran shows the Chameleon Guitar, along with a variety of the interchangeable soundboards -- made of different woods and other materials -- that can be inserted to alter the guitar's acoustic characteristics.
Photo ©Webb Chappell Photography 2009


Natural wood, with its unique grain patterns, is what gives traditional acoustic instruments warm and distinctive sounds, while the power of modern electronic processing provides an unlimited degree of control to manipulate the characteristics of an instrument's sound. Now, a guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of both worlds.

The Chameleon Guitar — so named for its ability to mimic different instruments — is an electric guitar whose body has a separate central section that is removable. This inserted section, the soundboard, can be switched with one made of a different kind of wood, or with a different structural support system, or with one made of a different material altogether. Then, the sound generated by the electronic pickups on that board can be manipulated by a computer to produce the effect of a different size or shape of the resonating chamber.

Its creator, Media Lab master's student Amit Zoran, explains that each piece of wood is unique and will behave in a different way when it is part of an instrument and begins to vibrate in response to the strings attached to it. Computers can't model all the details of that unique responsiveness, he says. So, as he began experimenting with the design of this new instrument, he wondered "what would happen if you could plug in acoustic information, like we do with digital information on a memory stick?"




Under the direction of Media Lab Associate Professor Pattie Maes, and with help from experienced instrument builder Marco Coppiardi, he built the first proof of concept version last summer, with a variety of removable wooden inserts. The concept worked, so he went on to build a more polished version with an easier quick-change mechanism for switching the inserts, so that a musician could easily change the sound of the instrument during the course of a concert — providing a variety of sound characteristics, but always leaving the same body, neck and frets so that the instrument always feels the same.

With Coppiardi's help, he selected spruce and cedar for the initial soundboard inserts. This January, he demonstrated the new instrument at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where it received an enthusiastic response. He also demonstrated the earlier version at two electronics conferences last year.

The five electronic pickups on the soundboard provide detailed information about the wood's acoustic response to the vibration of the strings. This information is then processed by the computer to simulate different shapes and sizes of the resonating chamber. "The original signal is not synthetic, it's acoustic," Zoran says. "Then we can simulate different shapes, or a bigger instrument." The guitar can even be made to simulate shapes that would be impossible to build physically. "We can make a guitar the size of a mountain," he says. Or the size of a mouse.

Because the actual soundboard is small and inexpensive, compared to the larger size and intricate craftsmanship required to build a whole acoustic instrument, it will allow for a lot of freedom to experiment, he says. "It's small, it's cheap, you can take risks," he says. For example, he has a piece of spruce from an old bridge in Vermont, more than 150 years old, that he plans to use to make another soundboard. The wooden beam is too narrow to use to make a whole guitar, but big enough to try out for the Chameleon Guitar.

The individual characteristics of a given piece of wood — what Zoran refers to as the "romantic value" of the material, "is very important for the player," he says, and helps to give an individual instrument a particular, unique sound. Digital processing provides an infinite range of variety. "Now," he says, "it's possible to have the advantages of both."

For now, Zoran is concentrating on developing the guitar as a thesis project for his master's degree, and hopes to continue working on it as his doctoral thesis project. After that, he says, he hopes it will develop into a commercial product.

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Grabación y Mezcla - Juán Belvis - estudio Los Elefantes -2013

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Sharif Sehnaoui

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Sharif Sehnaoui is a free improvising guitarist. He plays both electric & acoustic guitars, with (or without) extended and prepared techniques, focusing on expanding the intrinsic possibilities of these instruments without the use of effects or electronics. He now resides in Beirut, his hometown, after more than a decade in Paris, where he started his career as an improviser in 1998, playing at Instants Chavirés where he was a member of several orchestras. He has since performed his music worldwide and played in many clubs & festivals such as Soundfield (Chicago), Moers, Konfrontationen (Nickelsdorf), Météo Music Festival (Mulhouse), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Skanu Mesz (Riga) or Musikprotokoll (Graz).
In Lebanon, he actively contributed to the emergence of an unprecedented experimental music scene. Along with Mazen Kerbaj he created “Irtijal” (www.irtijal.org) in 2000, a yearly international festival that is at the moment the only improvised and new music festival in the Arab world. “Irtijal” celebrated its Xth anniversary in 2010.
He also runs several labels: “Al Maslakh” (www.almaslakh.org) devoted to "publish the un-publishable" on the Lebanese musical scene. “Johnny Kafta’s Kids Menu” (www.johnnykafta.com) an Al Maslakh sub-label dedicated to rock oriented experimentations. And finally, “Annihaya” (www.annihaya.com), focusing on sampling, recycling and the displacement of various aspects of popular culture.
His main groups and projects include the “A” Trio (with Kerbaj &  Raed Yassin), BAO (with Kerbaj, Charbel Haber & Tony Elieh), an acoustic guitar solo using exclusively percussion techniques and “Wormholes” an audio-visual performance with Kerbaj drawing live on a glass table.



Trane

Prepared acoustic guitar solo from "Old & New Acoustics" http://www.almaslakh.org/catalog_mslkh11.php

Reductionism
Mazen Kerbaj : trumpet
Sharif Sehnaoui : acoustic guitar

Recorded at STEIM, Amsterdam. Released on The Wire's Under the Radar Vol.2.


A Minefield Bicycle Ride

Cynthia Zaven : piano
Sharif Sehnaoui : acoustic guitar

A duo track recorded at Tunefork Studios as part of our work for Sebastian Meissner's 'Not by Note' project http://www.notbynote.net/

Track 16 by "A" Trio
Mazen Kerbaj : trumpet
Sharif Sehnaoui : acoustic guitar
Raed Yassin : double-bass

Unreleased track recorded at STEIM in 2007.

Duo with Michael Zerang
Sharif Sehnaoui : electric guitar
Michael Zerang : drums

From the Zerang duo CD "Cedarhead" http://www.almaslakh.org/catalog_mslkh06.php

Tomorrow, I'll Make Breakfast by "A" Trio
Mazen Kerbaj : trumpet
Sharif Sehnaoui : acoustic guitar
Raed Yassin : double-bass

From the album "Music to our Ears" http://www.almaslakh.org/catalog_mslkh14.php


Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Free Download Higuma

Higuma
Live at The Lab, October 1, 2010
Length: 25'50
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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San Francisco-based Higuma is Evan Caminiti (of Barn Owl) & Lisa McGee with smoked out vocals, guitar delays and any number of drone layered acoustics

Monday, May 27, 2013

Free Download Henry Kaiser - Outside Pleasure

This is Internet Archive Avant Garde Project installment 
agp102 "Henry Kaiser, Outside Pleasure LP."


With AGP102, the Avant Garde Project veers wildly off course. This installment is a transcription of an early LP by the avant garde guitarist Henry Kaiser, who has had a long, prolific career playing a remarkably diverse and profoundly strange assortment of musics. My favorite of his many recordings is "Outside Pleasure", recorded live without overdubs in August 1979 in San Francisco and Berkeley, California. Kaiser's guitar style, particularly at this stage in his career, is unlike anything anyone else does. Imagine a combination of Hawaiian slack-key guitar, the songs of humpback whales, and the music of the Krell, and you have some idea what it sounds like.



The tracks on this LP have been re-released on a now-out-of-print CD entitled "Outside Aloha Pleasure" that also includes most of the tracks from his follow-up LP "Aloha". AGP103 will be a transcription of that CD, but when I transcribed some tracks from my LP copy, I found that the LP transfer actually has more fine detail and sounds more alive than the CD. I'm guessing they used digital noise reduction on the CD re-release to reduce the hiss of the original analog recording, and in doing so lost some clarity as well.




The installment includes two bonus tracks from Henry Kaiser's contribution to the Table of the Elements series (Neon), and a PDF file with front and back cover scans from Outside Pleasure. My scanner's bed isn't large enough to scan an entire LP cover, so each cover is scanned in two parts.

To download AGP102 files, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE LINK AS.


Sunday, May 26, 2013

Free Download Sascha Demand - Janus



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JANUS



Sascha Demand: e-Gitarre
Chris Heenan: Kontrabassklarinette, Altsaxophon
Michael Vorfeld: Perkussion
Hannes Wienert: Saxophone, Trompete, Trompsax, Schläuche, Sheng

Recorded at Christianskirche, Hamburg Altona, 2006
Mastering by Jürgen Hall, Hamburg, January 2007

Free Download Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay (b. 1955)




  1. Guitar Drag (2000)

    NEON 002
    12''
    Clear vinyl
    One-sided 14 min.
    Soundtrack from the video Guitar Drag, 2000. Recorded in San Antonio Texas, on 18th November 1999.

    Mastered by Vynilium.ch by Flo Kaufmann
    Cover design by Ellinor Gylling with stills from the video.
    Edition 1500 copies, 50 signed/numbered
    Released April 2006

    Guitar Drag by Christian Marclay is now being released on Neon Records. The record is actually the sound track for Marclay's video with the same title that was shown first at London's Hayward Gallery sound art exhibition �Sonic Boom� in 2000. The piece as well as Marclay has become an icon in sound art circles, and although the video can only be seen in exhibitions as an installation, it is widely known. The full 14 minutes sound track is released on a beautiful 12'' clear vinyl record packaged in a sleeve with stills from the video.

    Filmed in San Antonio Texas, it shows an amplified Fender Stratocaster guitar attached to a rope being pulled behind a pick-up truck. As the guitar drags across the road it produces a range of sounds from the bumping and the friction against the varied surfaces. A fantastic visual piece, but also an amazing sound piece, that stands just as well alone, and in some ways just as visual! From the first sounds of duct-tape being ripped, the familiar sound of someone gently slamming the strings of the guitar, to the sounds of an engine starting and then slowly the beginning of a sound that is hollow and at the same time human, and that takes us through the deepest roarings to high pitch screams until the very end when it all slows down and stops, unwillingly it seems. Knowing the story behind the work or not, the sound itself triggers your imaginaton, leaving your soul no peace. For even if this could be seen, or heard, solely as a beautiful noisy sound piece, there is too much to the idea behind Guitar Drag, for it to not leave you restless and thoughtful.

    Guitar Drag has many different layers of references, it alludes to the ritual of smashing guitars in rock concerts, it recalls Fluxus and its many destruction of instruments. It is also like a road movie, with reference to the landscape of Texas where it was filmed, with references to cowboys and rodeos. It is about violence in general and more specifically about the lynching of James Byrd Jr. who was dragged to his death behind a pickup-truck. I want the video to have these multiple layers and trigger people's imagination in contradictory ways. The piece ends up being seductive and repulsive at the same time.
    - Christian Marclay, 2001


  2. Record Without A Cover (1985)

    Recycled Records 1985
    One-sided LP, made to accumulate surface noise.



  3. Footsteps (1989)

    Recycled Records 1985
    One-sided LP, made to accumulate surface noise.




     


Free Download The 23five Live Archive

The 23five Live Archive

Since 1993, 23five has hosted numerous performances and installations
 from a wide range of sound artists.
The following selection of MP3s represents a growing library of audio documentation
 from these events, which mostly take part in and around the San Francisco Bay Area.
 While we are making these MP3s free to the public with the blessings of the artists in question,
we hope that you will consider donating to help offset the costs of the server space
and help insure that 23five can continue to offer adventurous programming for years to come.


 



Scott Arford
Live at Fifth Annual Activating the Medium festival 2002,
Beyond Baroque, Venice
Length: 26'08
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Bob Bellerue

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Live at swissnexsanfrancisco, 2009

Length: 29'47
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Barn Owl
Live at The Lab, December 12, 2008
Length: 30'04
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Dan Burke & Thomas Dimuzio
Live at The Lab, December 13, 2008
Length: 42'37
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Jesse Burson
Live at The Lab, October 1, 2010
Length: 14'32
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Tim Catlin
Live at Eleventh Annual Activating the Medium festival 2008, 
San Francisco Art Institute
L ength: 27'53
Format: MP3 160kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Joshua Churchill
Live at the 13th Activating The Medium Festival 2010, The Lab
Length: 43'14
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Coelacanth
Live at Seventh Annual Activating the Medium festival 2004,
 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo
Length: 54'24
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Randy Yau

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Joe Colley
Live at Fourth Annual Activating the Medium festival 2001, 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Length: 11'07
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Aaron Ximm
Mastered by: Scot Jenerik

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Paul DeMarinis
Live at Fifth Annual Activating the Medium festival 2002, 
Beyond Baroque, Venice
Length: 25'59
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Bob Bellerue

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John Duncan
Live at The Compound, July 2007
Length: 25'01
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes
also available on CD through Die Stadt

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RK Faulhaber
Lecture at The Lab, December 13, 2008
Length: 6'12
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Live at The Lab, December 13, 2008
Length: 23'52
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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G*Park
Live at the 13th Activating The Medium Festival 2010, The Lab
Length: 47'53
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Higuma
Live at The Lab, October 1, 2010
Length: 25'50
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Illusion of Safety
Live at The Lab, December 12, 2008
Length: 42'24
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Infinite Body
Live at The Lab, October 30, 2009
Length: 6'39
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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R.Jencks
Live at The Lab, January 31, 2010
Length: 22'02
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Jason Kahn
Live at Eleventh Annual Activating the Medium festival 2008, San Francisco Art Institute
Length: 30'04
Format: MP3 160kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Zbigniew Karkowski
with Ulrich Krieger (saxophone), Xopher Davidson (electronics), 
Suzanne Thorpe (flute), and Andy Strain (trombone)
Live at the Eleventh Annual 
Activating the Medium festival 2008, San Francisco Art Institute
Length: 7'38
Format: MP3 160kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Zbigniew Karkowski
Live at Fifth Annual Activating the Medium festival 2002, Beyond Baroque, Venice
Length: 27'34
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Bob Bellerue

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Pedestrian Deposit
Live at the 13th Activating The Medium Festival 2010, The Lab
Length: 18'44
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Dave Phillips
Live at The Lab, September 1, 2010
Length: 18'18
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Preyers (R. Jencks & R. Ludlow)
Live at The Lab, September 1, 2010
Length: 14'02
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Rale
Live at the 13th Activating The Medium Festival 2010, The Lab
Length: 14'27
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Damion Romero
Live at Fourth Annual Activating the Medium festival 2001, Beyond Baroque, Venice
Length: 18'44
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Scot Jenerik

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Helmut Schäfer
Live at Horse Cow Gallery, Sacramento, October 14, 2001
Length: 24'15
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Randy H.Y. Yau

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Live on KXLU October 14, 2001
Length: 13'30
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Damion Romero

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Matt Shoemaker
Live at The Lab, October 1, 2010
Length: 18'08
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Adam Sonderberg
Live at the 13th Activating The Medium Festival 2010, The Lab
Length: 20'01
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Howard Stelzer
Live at Misanthropic Agenda 11.08.08
Length: 8'47
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Live at Misanthropic Agenda 11.08.08
Length: 3'16
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Live at Misanthropic Agenda 11.08.08
Length: 5'18
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Live at Misanthropic Agenda 11.08.08
Length: 3'01
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Sudden Infant
Live at The Lab, January 31, 2010
Length: 18'46
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Tralphaz
Live at The Lab, January 31, 2010
Length: 13'34
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Edwin van der Heide
Live at the Fifth Annual Activating the Medium festival 2002, Beyond Baroque, Venice
Length: 11'22
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Bob Bellerue

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Vertonen
Live at the Fourteenth Activating The Medium festival : The Lab, April 243, 2011
Length: 25'10
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Zachary James Watkins
Live at the Fourteenth Activating The Medium festival : The Lab, April 23, 2011
Length: 21'15
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Byron Westbrook 
Live at the Fourteenth Activating The Medium festival : The Lab, April 23, 2011
Length: 12'05
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Gerritt Wittmer 
Live at The Lab, September 1, 2010
Length: 14'04
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Wobbly 
Live at The Lab, December 13, 2008
Length: 36'35
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Live at the Fourteenth Activating The Medium festival : The Lab, April 22, 2011
Length: 37'45
Format: MP3 192kbps
Recorded by: Jim Haynes

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Achim Wollscheid
Live at Fourth Annual Activating the Medium festival 2001, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Length: 20'34
Format: MP3 128kbps
Recorded by: Aaron Ximm
Mastered by: Scot Jenerik

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