Acousmatic music recommendations/discussion

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Just a thread to draw some attention to a specific kind of electroacoustic music. Please recommend me stuff!
One piece I listened to the other day was Douglas Lilburn's 'Carousel' which I thought was quite cute

[some guy]

Hey jessop, I think that the bulk of what's called "electroacoustic" is acousmatic. I may be wrong, but it seems like there's more of it than there is of soundscape or of electronic music or of eai. I think eai may be overtaking it. I think that glitch music and live electronics is where things are really happening nowadays. But that just may be me thinking that the stuff I like the best is what the cool kids are doing now. You know.

I also have found, over the years, that people who listen to "classical music" do not, by and large, listen to electroacoustic music. Certain people do manage to hear about, to hear, and sometimes even enjoy a very small body of works. None of that enjoyment, when it happens, seems to encourage further exploration.

I got sucked into that whole world with Varese's Poeme electronique in the mid-seventies and have been immersed in it since. Some of my closest friends in the music world are electroacoustic composers, most of them acousmatic folks.

I think generally, and for me in particular, you've set a really difficult task. Where would I start?? Everybody already knows Poeme electronique, I'm sure. Easiest is to recommend labels--though that opens things up to things that aren't acousmatic. It's a piffle. But Metamkine and emprientes DIGITALes offerings are largely acousmatic. As are the works on the Cultures Electroniques CDs, if you can find those. That's a good start, anyway.

[amw]

My personal introduction to acousmatic music was Roland Kayn's Simultan, which is still a fave.

In general though, yeah. Hard to make specific recommendations for an entire genre. Some guy's labels suggestion is pretty good (also anything you can find from INA-GRM—many of the pioneers of acousmatic music were associated with the GRM after all—and there's a lot of good stuff on sub rosa and Important Records) but mostly it's just about looking for connections.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Thanks so much for your replies! Some of these names I've heard before and I like very much, nice to see that there are other people around who like this music. 

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Interesting, I haven't heard that Liburn piece before 

Lilburn wrote a whole heap of works like this, I haven't heard them all but they are the only pieces by Lilburn I've listened to. Apparently he wrote some orchestral music too but I haven't yet listened to any. I only actually came across his music when finding out about more recent composers from NZ who have worked with electronics in their music (and one of them now teaches in Melbourne so that's how I came across her music).

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Lol, I'm the opposite way around. I've heard all his Symphonies, overtures and various piano works (such as the Sonatas, which where pretty good) but never bothered with his electronic music 

Have you heard much by Chris Cree Brown? He is another composer who created much electroacoustic music and i think he's a bit after Lilburn. Discovering Chris Cree Brown was when I found out that NZ actually has composers in it.............