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The Incessant Noise

The Incessant Noise

http://incessantnoise.blogspot.com

Looking at rare, forgotten works of experimental music. Mostly minimalism, contemporary classical, & avant garde / free jazz.

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  • Pauline Oliveros - The Well and the Gentle

    Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 04:34 in minimalism, improv, 20th century, accordion, oliveros

    Pauline Oliveros is one of the earliest composers linked to the minimalist movement, having worked with Terry Riley beginning in the late 1950s. In San Francisco, she co-founded the famous San Francisco Tape Music Centre with Morton Subotnick, Ramon ...

  • Updates, again

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 17:01 in updates

    Again, sorry for the long time without updates. I'm in school finals now, but should be finished-ish soon, and should be able to get some stuff up sometime in December. Next things coming up are probably Laurie Spiegel's "Expanding Universe" & Paulin...

  • Ingram Marshall - The Fragility Cycles

    Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 23:48 in concrete, minimalism, synth, drone, charlemagne palestine, ingram marshall

    Ingram Marshall has been active since the mid 70s, and this here is his first album. He's one of the earlier second-generation minimalists, along with John Adams, and studied under early electronic music greats Vladimir Ussachevsky and Morton Subotni...

  • Alvin Curran - Fiori Chiari Fiori Oscuri

    Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 15:03 in concrete, minimalism, synth, improv, 20th century, alvin curran, rzewski

    Alvin Curran was one of the members of the Musica Elettronica Viva collective, along with Fred Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum and others. Curran's first solo album, Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden, was originally released in 1975, and consisted o...

  • Updates

    Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 19:17 in updates, status

    Good to see some people are actually getting to this site & downloading the music. I've been away for a few weeks but now I'm back & plan on posting some more music.. Once I get into the swing of things I'll try to be posting at least one entry per w...

  • Dickie Landry - Fifteen Saxophones

    Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 01:54 in minimalism, philip glass, 20th century, terry riley, dickie landry

    More frequently credited as Richard Landry, for some reason he decided to go with the name Dickie for this LP. Landry would probably be best known for playing sax with Philip Glass throughout the 70's. He played on pretty much all the original record...

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