Avant Garde Project torrent 145 is up and running

[loudav]

AGP145 is another in our occasional series of found avant-garde: sounds that are not organized in modern art works but that I have for years listened to in the same spirit as I listen to electracoustic music.

This one is a 24-bit transcription of an LP on Hungaroton records (SLPX 19213), featuring sublime recordings of Hungarian steam locomotives. These are by far the best recordings I have ever heard of steam locomotives, and includes the sounds of the steam engines themselves, together with the clanking and squealing of metal on metal, birds, dogs, insects, and other ambient sounds.

If you have doubts about this as legitimate avant-garde "composition", I refer you to Luciano Berio's definition of music as anything one listens to with the intention of listening to music, and to Luc Ferrari's classic electroacoustic work "Presque Rien No. 1", which is not categorically different in approach from these intriguing recordings.

Check it out at: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4854930

Enjoy!

[Maciek]

This is the sort of thing that makes AGP so special (even more special than what the music recordings alone already make it). Thanks a lot!!!