Avant Garde Project torrent 118 is up and running

[loudav]

AGP118 is a complete transcription of two LPs released on the Nonesuch label in 1970 (H-71224 and H-71231).

The first includes HPSCHD for harpsichords & computer generated sound tapes by John Cage and Lejaren Hiller, and String Quartet No. 2 by Ben Johnston. Both works are available in other recordings, but two different AGP partisans specifically requested these original recordings of the works, which I've been assured differ materially from the recordings currently available on CD. Johnston's string quartet is one of his microtonal works, more of which can be found in AGP9.

The second features The Nude Paper Sermon: Tropes for Actor, Renaissance Consort, Chorus, and Electronics, by Eric Salzman. I remember listening to this latter work repeatedly in my youth, but I hadn't heard it in years before transcribing it for this installment. It is noteworthy among other things for being one of the earliest art works to be described as "post-modern" (in the LP liner notes). While the use of that term in 1970 pre-dates the eventual meaning of the term, the description is apt in that the texts recited by the actor are not offered in earnest but merely as examples of the ongoing cultural chatter of the time.

Check it out at:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4404371

Enjoy!

[mahler10th]

Well... ...thank you for posting these as you release them... ...I always read your release posts, but I'm sorry to say they are completely beyond me, some names I recognise and wouldn't give time to (eg: John Cage, I wouldn't give him 4:33 mins even)...but 'old' Avant Garde - it's not real 'Classical Music' is it?

[Guido]

Well... ...thank you for posting these as you release them... ...I always read your release posts, but I'm sorry to say they are completely beyond me, some names I recognise and wouldn't give time to (eg: John Cage, I wouldn't give him 4:33 mins even)...but 'old' Avant Garde - it's not real 'Classical Music' is it?

Is this post a joke?

[mahler10th]

Is this post a joke?

No.  The one below it is.

[greg]

Okay, once I went into a bar and there was a Jew, an Asian, and a Russian.
The Jew ordered a pork sandwich, the Asian ordered a taco, and the Russian ordered some fried chicken.
The end of the world is near.

[mahler10th]

 

[greg]

World unification, man. We finally join as a one, live as one, and then we die as one.

[mahler10th]

World unification, man. We finally join as a one, live as one, and then we die as one.

Yeah baby...chill out, drop out...  I just aint rollin' with it yet daddy-o...groovy 

Is this the appropriate and correct attitude for approaching this thread?
Or should it be argued that Stravinskys 'Rite of Spring' was 'avant garde' in it's time and can still be considered so today...man, yeah, etc...

I'm completely out of my depth in here...better go.

[greg]

Or should it be argued that Stravinskys 'Rite of Spring' was 'avant garde' in it's time and can still be considered so today...man, yeah, etc...

Unfortunately  ........ although for avant-garde, it's performed quite a bit.