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Source: The Quietus. To accompany today’s extract from Alien Territory: An Experimental, Radical & Irrelevant Playlist from 1970s San Diego, author Bill Perrine has curated a special playlist of off-beat and oft-neglected music from the book, featuring essential tracks by Pauline Oliveros, Diamanda Galas, Harry Partch, Kenneth Gaburo, Peter Gordon, and more

Source: Echoes. Swedish composer Ralph Lundsten, a pioneer in the field of electronic music, left the planet on July 5, 2023, at the age of 86. He was best-known for albums like Erik XIV och Ristningar from 1969, Strömkarlen: Nordisk natursymfoni nr 1 from 1970, Shangri-La from 1975, and from the same year, Johannes och…

Source: The Guardian. Kubrick famously didn’t get Ligeti’s permission to use his music. After initial rancour and threats of litigation, composer and film director eventually reached an uneasy accommodation. Each admired the other’s work and, perhaps, recognised their shared brand of near pathological perfectionism. As well as the Requiem, Kubrick also uses Ligeti’s cloudy orchestral…

Source: Hudson Valley One. The mid-Hudson Valley music scene may be too narrowly defined, if not even a little tyrannized, by one extravagantly glorious chapter, the one starring the Band, Bob Dylan, Albert Grossman, and so on. That tradition is of course not only still alive locally but thriving, fully restocked with a dazzling community…

Source: Block Club Chicago. It’s official: The cultural venue HotHouse is coming to the South Side. Several months after launching a crowdsourcing campaign to raise $250,000 to buy the Donnelly Youth Center, 3947-3953 S. Michigan Ave., Hothouse founder Marguerite Horberg announced Wednesday she’s finalized the paperwork to bring the beloved cultural hotspot to the neighborhood.

Source: Freq. Zohastre – Abracadabra Stephen Grew – Chasm: The St James’ and St Basil’s Suite Swans – The Beggar Das Rad – Veer Andrew Poppy – Ark Hive Of A Live

I have to admit that 2023 has been a difficult year to find time for music in these parts. Despite attending the Big Ears festival and a handful of local shows, the amount of time that I’ve had for daily listening seems to have dropped off. I believe that this is a temporary circumstance due…

Zoh Amba’s latest is reviewed. John McLaughlin is interviewed about the return of Shakti. The new Matthew Shipp book is reviewed. And finally, an interesting video on Zappa’s influences and musical quotes.

Source: The Guardian. Peter Brötzmann, the saxophonist whose muscular and emancipated style of performance made him a central figure in European jazz, has died at 82.

Source: Musique Machine. An Moku & Stefan Schmidt – Raum im Raum Ludwig Berger – photosynthetic beats – utricularia vulgaris, mara Dosis Letalis/The Ide of Earth – The Unceasing Scars

A new album from Zoh Amba, Chris Corsano, and Bill Orcutt is reviewed. Annea Lockwood is profiled. Matana Roberts is launching the fifth album in the Coin Coin series. The video below uses the works of Cage to ask What is Music?

Source: Bandcamp Daily. Save your download for Monday to support some good causes. On June 19 (from midnight (PT) June 19 to midnight (PT) June 20), we’ll hold our annual Juneteenth fundraiser, where we donate 100% of our share of sales* to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to support their ongoing efforts to promote racial…

Source: Downtown Music Gallery. The next set featured Ikue Mori’s ‘Tracing the Magic’ sextet which featured Ikue on sampler/electronics, Sylvie Courvoisier on piano, Ned Rothenberg on alto sax, clarinet & shakuhachi, David Watson on bagpipes, Charmaine Lee on vocals & electronics and Ches Smith on drums & percussion. Ikue’s disc, ‘Tracing the Magic’, was released…

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar. Friday, June 16 Fri 6/16 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street] Audium V: Rewind Historic Tape Work Revived, First Time In 50 Years Fri 6/16 8:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland] Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros Friday, June 16, 8pm – Film screening + Q&A with director…

Source: The Guardian. So, why do these artists favour ditching conventional recording methods for more experimental, elaborate and often extreme techniques and concepts? “With Scott, it was almost like foley,” says Walsh of the recording technique used to replicate sounds in cinema or radio. “It’s creating sounds if they don’t exist. Scott wanted to be…

Source: Eighth Tower Records. AMN is co-sponsoring this award and has put up a portion of the award money. Looking forward to hearing the submissions! Eighth Tower Magazine (https://www.patreon.com/eighthtower), in collaboration with: Avant Music News web zine, Enclosure Three radio program, The Dungeon In Deep Space blog, This Is Darkness webzine, Horae Obscura podcast, CITR…