Computer Music 09.2019

Roland Kayn - Scanning, 1982-1983 (2019) {10CD Box Set, Reiger Records Reeks KY-CD 1901-10}
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© 1982-83, 2019 Reiger Records Reeks | KY-CD 1901-10
Experimental / Avant-Garde / Modern Classical / Electronic

A hitherto-unreleased electronic masterpiece from Roland Kayn, singular pioneer of cybernetic music. Over a period spanning the late 70s through the early 80s, Kayn (1933–2011) issued a quintet of extended works that quietly but definitively redrew the map of electronic music. Informed by cybernetics and a desire to actualise analogue circuitry as an agency in the compositional process, this music adopted a form that can only be described as oceanic, as side after side of vinyl allowed a wholly new vocabulary of electronic sound to find its shape. This set features a staggering batch of mesmerising computer music realised in 1982-83, roughly between his totemic ‘Infra’ and ‘Tektra’ boxsets. Essential listening for fans of Xenakis, Æ, Cam Deas, Jim O’Rourke, Laurie Spiegel.

James Tenney - Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps - Nicholas Deyoe (2019) {New World Records 80810-2}
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© 2019 New World Records | 80810-2
Classical / Modern Classical / Avant-Garde / Microtonal / Algorithmic

Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps (1985) is a large-scale work that combines and connects many of James Tenney's (1934 - 2006) most important theoretical and musical ideas, including gestalt segregation principles and complex intonation systems. Composed with the aid of a mainframe computer at York University, the piece also marks a return to computer-aided, algorithmic composition after a long hiatus. It was one of the first pieces Tenney composed with a computer after he left New York City in the late 1960s to teach at the California Institute of the Arts. After Changes, the majority of Tenney's works involved computer software and formal, algorithmic processes. Tenney was both a prolific composer and theorist but rarely wrote in detail about his own pieces even though his music consistently implemented his theoretical ideas.

Killer selection of boogie-disco and early electro templates from a golden, foundational era of Afro Futurist space exploration.

Mikael Wiehe & Ebba Forsberg release new album with Dylan interpretations in Swedish. The album "Med Kropp Och Själ" will be released on October 4 both in physical, CD and LP, and digital form. Mikael Wiehe's relationship with Bob Dylan has been long and good. Ebba Maria Knigge Forsberg (born in Stockholm on 31 July ) is a Swedish pop singer. She sings solo and was a member of many musical band projects, most notably in Traste Lindéns Kvintett. Forsberg's family moved from Sweden to Tortola in the West Indies when she was five years old, although her older sister Kajsa Ribbing.