Favourite electroacoustic works/works featuring electronics?

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

What are some of your favourites?

To start off with, in no particular order (except for Boulez works which are obviously at the top of my list):

Boulez: Répons, Dialogue de l'ombre double, Anthèmes 2
Ligeti: Artikulation
Stockhausen: Gesang der Jüngling
Samuel Smith: Bleed Through
Dai Fujikura: Sparking Orbit
João Pedro Oliveira: In Tempore
Pauline Oliveros: Mnemonics III
Anthony Pateras: Immediata, Architexture, Keen Unknown Matrix
Babbitt: Philomel
Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Yeah I suppose anything that has electronics as a feature. Kraanerg is great, but also Polytope de Cluny is something I could mention as more of a favourite in the tape music genre.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Boulez > Ligeti = Xenakis > the rest of dem composers

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Varèse certainly was a source of inspiration for many of the most well known composers after him! Although maybe I should point out that I believe Ligeti and Xenakis to be very very very different but still equal favourites for me. I can't say whether I prefer one or the other. Both wrote great (but extremely different) electronic works...but in this genre maybe Ligeti wins out just by a little bit because I feel like I honestly prefer Artikulation to most other electronic works ever composed!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I have never heard anything by Pierre Schaeffer........but the name 'Pierre' makes me think of Pierre Henry whom I have outrageously overlooked in my original list! 

I prefer Cage's acoustic works to his electroacoustic works tbh

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

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[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Schaeffer and Henry knew eachother other didn't they? 

Williams Mix was the first ever Cage piece I heard, it blew my mind back then. I would also agree to like his acoustic work more, I really like his chamber music, but that's another thread

Well I don't know too much about la vie de Pierre Henry to say for sure.

And yes, a think a Top 5 Favourite Cage Compositions is a thread which is due to be made!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I listened to Artikulation, it is highly structured, very brilliant. It is a fun piece, he didn't compose many other electroacoustic pieces did he?

I think he may have composed one or two others but it/they were lost/destroyed or barely ever mentioned anywhere for some reason.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

One without any 4'33 jokes would be a miracle 

I think jokes about 'Seventeen' are much funnier! Although I haven't actually heard any jokes surrounding the 'composition' so I might be the only one who tells them. :/

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

That's one that "exists" right? Better than 4'33, because people actually know how to play it 

Absolutely! In my opinion it is the most groundbreaking of all of Cage's works! Much more so than 4'33"!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Of course there's also Ferneyhough's Time and motion study 2, which intrigues me! (more than a lot of his other work)

Hm i haven't heard that but ive seen it mentioned a fair bit on the internet. I am a big Ferneyhough fan though so i should check it out!

[bhodges]

What are some of your favourites?

To start off with, in no particular order (except for Boulez works which are obviously at the top of my list):

Boulez: Répons, Dialogue de l'ombre double, Anthèmes 2
Ligeti: Artikulation
Stockhausen: Gesang der Jüngling
Samuel Smith: Bleed Through
Dai Fujikura: Sparking Orbit
João Pedro Oliveira: In Tempore
Pauline Oliveros: Mnemonics III
Anthony Pateras: Immediata, Architexture, Keen Unknown Matrix
Babbitt: Philomel
Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco

The ones bolded are those I have heard (and like), and will try to come up with some others. PS, am hearing two works by Dai Fujikura next week, with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), part of the - believe it or not - Mostly Mozart Festival! I don't know if either one uses electronics, we'll see.

http://mostlymozart.org/events/international-contemporary-ensemble

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--Bruce

[bhodges]

Ah, thought of several recordings that fit here:

Polytopia by violinist/composer Mari Kimura, who works closely with people at IRCAM and elsewhere. This recording, all for violin and electronics of various kinds, has many interesting works, such as Robert Rowe's Submarine and Tania Leon's Axon.

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Roberto Gerhard: Symphony No. 3, "Collages," for orchestra and tape (1960) - Wonderful piece that I would love to hear live some day. At least in the United States, his music is quite off the radar.

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--Bruce

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I've seen a lot of stuff being uploaded on facebook and youtube from ICE and Dai Fujikura. Pretty exciting! I actually made a lil page called 'Living Composers' to promote the music of living composers....if you have facebook you should check it out and maybe send some recommendations in of works i could share on the page.

I've heard of Mari Kimura but not any compositions unfortunately....

[James]

What are some of your favourites?

Stockhausen - Kontakte & many others.
Viñao - Son Entero
Lansky - Ride
Boulez - ...explosante-fixe...
Carlos - Switched-On Bach

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Oh goodness me! Explosante-fixe is certainly a brilliant work which I missed in my original list. I'm glad you enjoy it, James!

[aleazk]

he didn't compose many other electroacoustic pieces did he?

He did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcHH8lRtgBg

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

He did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcHH8lRtgBg

This is the one I was thinking of earlier, actually, but I don't recall listening to it all ever.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Milton Babbitt – Correspondences for string orchestra and synthesized tape

I haven't heard this piece for a long time!!! Almost forgot it existed

[chadfeldheimer]

Some of my favorites would be:
Ashley - Tap Dancing in the Sand
Berio - Visage
Boulez - Repons
Ferrari - Presque rien
Grisey - Vortex Temporum
Nono - Prometeo
Radigue - L'île re-sonante
Stockhausen - Telemusik
Xenakis - La légende d'Eer