Avant Garde Project torrent 104 is up and running

[loudav]

AGP104 is a real gem. Two tracks comprise the two LP sides of Mauricio Kagel's Der Schall ("Sound") for five players with 54 instruments. The instruments include foghorn, spaghetti tube with trumpet mouthpiece, 20 meters of garden hose with plastic funnel, antelope horn, sitar, banjo, plucked rubber bands, organ pipes blown by mouth, taishokoto, ocarina, bass balalaika, bass mouth-organ, brass tubes, Cagniard de la Tour siren, tortoise shells, nose-flute, bassdrum, telephone, brass tubes, and musical box--just to name a few. This work is in essence the prequel to the first two sides of Acustica (AGP2), having been recorded 15 months earlier in the same studio by the same five instrumentalists working with the same producer and engineer. While it features some more familiar instruments than Acustica does, the emphasis is just as much on sound combinations; and while the texture is somewhat more open, I find it every bit as stimulating.

The remaining track--Société II--is by the French electroacoustic composer Luc Ferrari, but is like Der Schall in being a completely acoustic work exploring the same frontiers of timbre and structure that electroacoustic works often do. It is scored for piano, 3 percussionists, and 16 instruments. Both of these recordings were featured in the Deutsche Grammophon Avant Garde series in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They are wonderfully clear and detailed, and the LPs transcribed are both in excellent condition.

Check it out at:

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4180676

Enjoy!

[Subotnick]

Great! Thanks for the info. I did however just check out avantgardeproject.org and got the dreaded "service unavailable"! Hope that's just temporary...

TTFN.
Me.

[loudav]

I did however just check out avantgardeproject.org and got the dreaded "service unavailable"!

Thanks for the heads-up, Subotnick! I just got the same message, and the server is also inaccessible by FTP. This has happened before but it resolved itself within a few hours. If it's still out tomorrow, I'll try to find the time to call the hosting company.

[Subotnick]

I'll keep my fingers crossed! 

TTFN.
Me.

[loudav]

The site's up again.