Christopher Koenigsberg 'brains'

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anyone heard this?

(also other 'computer music' recommendations plz)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 12 April 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Yes--I guess I gravitate more towards his abstract, noisier piecesBack To Nothing, The Rat's Nest--but for me, that's about it. Sometimes a little too much digiverb/signal processing/coloration--just let the sounds be. I'd recommend James Tenney's "Selected Works 1961-1969"--all created and recorded at Bell Laboratories--good scientific sound. Wergo has a series of early computer music recordings(Max Matthews, J. Tenney, many others whose names escape me), and Folkways has old demonstration recordings from Bell Labs--pretty fun. Look around www.emf.org--lots of computer/computer assisted sounds, old and new.

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

haha after no one replied to my thread I got hold of this from forced exposure but they took so long to deliver I'd forgotten.

What a start to a record tho'! The noisier pieces are really dynamic, I quite like ambient piece too. I should put it on again later today but he sort of loses faith in it and does some other stuff, including a reggae-ish piece and tries to do some singing on another. But classic just for the first 3-4 tracks. Maybe a couple of others.

Thanks for your ans, I actually did the 'computer music recommendation plz' thread again on my EMF thread:

Electronic music foundation

Got 3 CDs just last week so I'll prob report at some point.

I kind of know a bit abt earlier attempts at making computer music, was asking abt more contemporary names like koenigsberg (yes I do know that CD was released in '93 but there's a 50 year history now so I guess its contemporary).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 20 June 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

not sure I've been seeing much contemporary 'computer music' in the pure form (no acoustic or analog sources whatsoever). the pioneers (matthews & the others at bell labs, tenney, chowning, risset) have gotten their blows in, early practitioners like lansky polished up the technique, most composers in the wake of that have moved on to hybrid works.

max/msp has opened things up a bit though. I like kevin blechdom's 'the inside story' ep, it's weird microtonal computer pop (instrumental, contains no lyrics about coming on babies etc.)

― (Jon L), Monday, 21 June 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

link to kevin's patches

koenigsberg's CD I sold a long time ago during a purge, I thought it was a mess, now I want to hear ti again

― (Jon L), Monday, 21 June 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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