Name: a figure of speech by Chloe Alexandra Thompson
Duration: 3 min 6 s
Description: Recorded for home school field day #2 compilation released by Deep White Sound.

Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975
FKR082LP
Finders Keepers Records

Finders Keepers invite you to witness the incredible first ever Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking.

This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance.

In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith.

These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then.

Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)

RASHAD BECKER - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol II

Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 74
Release Date: 02 December 2016

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Rashad Becker's new full length album, 'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol II', due for release next month on PAN is a newly developed continuation and exploration of work since his highly-acclaimed first 
volume.

Incorporating more instrumental-sounding components, the record moves through both fluid and dissonant sounds which take on different structural and sculptural challenges through carefully-layered compositions. 

Following 'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol I', the new album expands in various elements, distorted and warped, focusing in on the tension and energy of synthesized sounds that appear to exist hauntingly physically.

Known for his unrivalled attention to sonic detail across his work, Becker's unique techniques and expressive manipulations of sound are laid bare in an exhilarating new form, stylistically distinctive and uncompromising. 

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring artwork by Bill Kouligas.

traditional music of notional species vol.II

Rashad Becker - Dances VII (PAN 74)

excerpt from :: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/hallowed

Emily Berregaard - Yucca (ENM01)

Recorded for home school field day #2 compilation released by Deep White Sound.

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uon + Exael - Piano

Nicolas Jaar & Maceo Plex - Gravy Train (Nicolas Jaar Remix) [Get Physical Music]
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise [Clown & Sunset]
Laxx & Farkas - Creature
Nicolas Jaar - Don’t Break My Love [Clown & Sunset]
Angelo Badalamenti - Conversation On Twin Peaks [Warner Bros]
The Brothers Four - Greenfields [Columbia]
Jay-Z - My First Song (Acapella) [Roc-A- Fella]
Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood [NONESUCH]
Los Ángeles Negros - Tu Y Tu Mirar… Yo Y Mi Cancion [Harmless]
LaShun Pace - It’s Me Oh Lord (Acapella Praise) [Shanachie]
Jonny Greenwood - Open Spaces [NONESUCH]
Pearson Sound - Footloose [Pearson Sound]
The Electric Prunes - Holy Are You (There Is No God Edit) [Reprise]
Aphex Twin - Ziggomatic 17 [WARP]
Keith Jarrett - Tokyo, November 14 (Encore) [ECM Records]
My Girl And Me - Always Back To You (feat. Lorraine) [Unknown]
Vera November - Last Night Together (You’re Coming Back Edit) [Rough Trade]
Nikita Quasim - L’amour L’après Midi [Clown and Sunset]
Nikita Quasim - The Way I Felt Today [Clown and Sunset]
Feist - Caught A Long Wind [Polydor]
Shigeru Umebayashi - Yumeji’s Theme [In The Mood For Love OST, Higher Octave OmTown]
*NSYNC - It Makes Me Ill (Edit) [JIVE]
Unknown - Unknown
Charles Mingus - Myself When I’m Real [IMPULSE]
Bill Callahan - America! [DRAG CITY]
The Field - The Little Heart Beats So Fast [Kompakt]
Sneaky Sound System - Always By Your Side (Nicolas Jaar Remix) [Modular]
Just Friends - Avalanche [Unknown]
Pavla + Noura - Don’t Owe Me A Thing [The Prism, Clown and Sunset]
Acid Pauli - La Voz Tan Tierna [Clown and Sunset]
Igor Wakhevitch - Taddy’s Dream: Ramallah’s Road [Pathé Marconi EMI]
Nikita Quasim - Derridu [Unknown]
Beyoncé Knowles - 1+1 [Columbia]
Anouar Brahem - Vague / E La Nave Va [ECM]
Rio Grande - Let’s Groove (Tonight Edit) [Unknown]
Gonzales - Manifesto [Sunnyside]
The Grass Roots - Let’s Live For Today (Learn To Live Edit) [Dunhill]
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Sk Edit) [TAMLA]
Man Friday - Real Love (The Paradise Garage Mix) (feat. Larry Levan) [Nite Grooves]
Shigeru Umebayashi - What That Do [Subterranean Playhouse]
Ricardo Villalobos - What You Say Is More Than I Can Say [Playhouse]
Untitled - Untitled [Unknown]
Nicolas Jaar - The Student [Wolf & Lamb]

BBC Radio One Essential Mix:::: Nicolas Jaar

Ben Vida Heteroglossic Riot

Music for Serge Modular, inspired by Maryanne Amacher's music and research. 

PLEASE USE SPEAKERS, NOT HEADPHONES.

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Canadian Sound Artist living in Brooklyn, New York
Max, Pure Data, Spatial Audio, Voice
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