For this episode of Soundmaking we spoke with Alex Paxton about his piece Prayer for Strings and Joan Rivers, which was released on Birmingham Record Company & NMC in April 2021.

Album available for purchase here: 
https://birminghamrecordcompany.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/music-for-bosch-people/

Soundmaking Ep.5: Alexander Paxton, Prayer for Strings and Joan Rivers

live recording from Gen X Festival April 24th 2022, Walt Disney Hall, LA
Voice: Catherine Brookman
Alarm Will Sound
Conductor: Alan Pierson

Recorded and mastered by Daniel Neumann

text: 
1. Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
2. Art-as-Art. Art from Art. Art on Art. Art of Art. Art for Art. Art beyond Art. Artless artifice.
13. Forms into uniform and formlessness. Style as recurrence.
14. Light as reappearance,dullness. Color as black, empty.
16. Verticality and horizontality, rectilineartity, parallelsim, stasis.
17. Outlines, monotones, blankness, quiescence, premeditation.
19. Matter only to the mind.
20. The strictest formula for the freest artistic freedom.
21. The easiest routine to the difficulty.
22. The most common mean to the most common end.
23. The extremely impersonal way for the truly personal.
24. The completest control for the purest spontaneity.
25. The most universal path to the most unique. And vice-versa.

From “25 Lines of Words on Art Statement” by Ad Reinhardt (permission to use text kindly granted by the Reinhardt estate)

music for people who like art (filmed/recorded at Walt Disney Hall, courtesy of LA Phil)

Worse than nothing

Hello there!

I'm back again with some more music!
I guess this is a mix between my good old electro (Or RUSS as i like to call it) style, and some trippy, messed up Complextro elements. But then again.. Screw genres :3

OH and we are currently at like, what.. 65 thousand subscribers or something? that's insane! That's not really that important to me to be completely honest, and its not the reason i do this, but having all you amazing people by my side definitely makes it all better :D
All this love and support is very much appreciated *heart*
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Vexento - Trippy Love

Speaking, running, field recording, hurling, pianoing, droning, humming,  concrèting, jumping, chanting... etc.  A ten minute edit of a forty-five minute piece, composed by Seán Clancy and Andy Ingamells.

Recorded live by BBC Radio 3 on 2 May 2019 in Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Listen to BBC Radio 3 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_three

This Is About (Radio Edit)

More information & score: https://andyingamells.com/read-this-text-at-a-medium-speed-2/. Recorded with 20 people via Zoom on November 6th 2020 as part of Non-Standard workshop series (https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wolters/files/Non-Standard-call-out-version-5.pdf)

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Two performers each take a roll of tape and simultaneously wrap it around both of their bodies. They pause to catch their breath, then try to break free from the tape. The title Tape Piece evokes 20th Century avant-garde electronic music produced using magnetic audio tape. But this performance playfully recasts those complex rhythms and sounds using entirely physical means, as two performers use ordinary household tape to create an ever-changing choreographic musical work that fully integrates movement and sound. Their dance creates purely acoustic sounds that are beautiful and compelling, yet could quite easily be replicated by the audience at home, encouraging mindfulness of everyday beauty in the listener. Tape Piece has been performed around the world, from Florida, Arizona, Ohio and California in the United States, to London, Dublin, Paris, Bruges and Berlin in Europe. It has been performed by leading contemporary music ensembles of the new generation such as soundinitiative, On Structure, Mocrep, Bastard Assignments, Kirkos, and An Assembly. This version was recorded directly onto magnetic tape and duplicated using analogue reproduction techniques, completely bypassing digital technology. It was release on limited-edition cassette in 2020.

Tape Piece

Birmingham Record Company is a record label that presents eclectic and exciting new releases by artists who challenge, innovate and transform ideas of music today. The label celebrates off-beat work that sits between genres. As well as 12-minute micro-operas and Country-and-Western piano quintets, listeners are just as likely to find music structured around famous football matches, recordings of 1920s mechanical dancehall organs, and story-telling in yoga position.

Tape Piece

Birmingham Record Company

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