Solo instrument + electronics

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

A genre I have become very interested in lately. My hero Boulez composed two excellent works for solo instrument and electronics. Here is a piece which I first heard only yesterday and I am enjoying it immensely.

https://www.youtube.com/v/EgtB_uWkn78

what are some others that you lot enjoy?

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Some music by a local composer (so local that he lives in my suburb hahaha) but this piece in particular is very very very cool and I want to play it.

https://soundcloud.com/samuelsmith/bleed-through

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

There's another composer (I'll have to check my very large Youtube 'archive' playlist to find) that had an entire cycle dedicated to paring different solo instruments with electronics, which sometimes is pre-recordings of the same instruments which can be a real mind-twister 

Interesting! Post them here when you find them. I would love to hear this stuff.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

The composer is: Mario Davidovsky

He has a cycle of twelve pieces called Synchronisms, I haven't heard all 12 yet, what I have heard has left an impression! 

https://youtu.be/wJCcERdh6rA

Thanks so much for this! I will check out the link when I can, probably later tonight.

[Monsieur Croche]

Berio:

A handful of the Sequenzas are for solo instrument and prepared tapes, the only one I specifically recall is for clarinet and.

There is that monumental and terrific virtuosic Visages for solo Mezzo and prepared tape. Absolutely tremendous, and powerful, piece....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxGHXCMPcM

Luigi Nono:
La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura (1989)
for violin and eight prepared tapes... this is gorgeous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-CKVm8MXxU


Best regards.

[amw]

Luigi Nono:
La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura (1989)
for violin and eight prepared tapes... this is gorgeous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-CKVm8MXxU

Yes, that one.

Also:
Stockhausen / Mikrophonie I
Barrett / life-form
Fabbriciani / Glaciers in Extinction
Harvey / Advaya
Scodanibbio / Oltracuidansa

[bhodges]

I love Philomel by Babbitt, for Soprano synthesiser/electronics.
There is a lot left to achieve from combining live performance with pre-recorded tapes (if you will). It's not something I've explored much of yet with my own music, but maybe someday soon? 

Another "yes" for Philomel. Here's one with Tony Arnold, a fabulous singer who does lots of contemporary music -- a worthy alternative to the classic with Bethany Beardslee (also available on YouTube). Plus, you get to see Arnold perform it, which is always a plus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SMR5WIgSUg

And the Nono is marvelous, as are the Davidovsky Synchronisms.

--Bruce

[nathanb]

Yes, that one.

Also:
Stockhausen / Mikrophonie I
Barrett / life-form
Fabbriciani / Glaciers in Extinction
Harvey / Advaya
Scodanibbio / Oltracuidansa

Fantastic stuff, right there. Glad other people are listening to the new Barrett.

Don't forget Manoury's IRCAM works. He's got piano/electronics, viola/electronics, flute/electronics, percussion/electronics, and voice/electronics.

I think a number of Mahnkopf's pieces fit the bill too.

Then there's tons more ofc that we shan't mention yet.

[Karl Henning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/nQoiSBUgcao

[some guy]

Fun piece, Karl. I've been an Alvarez fan for some years, now.

Also worth exploring is all the music by Dumitrescu and Avram (and some of their friends), much of which is for instrument and electronics.

Tim Hodgkinson, one of those friends, has pieces for his instrument and electronics that are very much fun.

And Han Tutschku has a spectacular piece for electronics and prepared piano--prepared electronically, so there's no physical damage even possible to the piano by a careless preparer. (I say this only because a piano-tuner friend of mine gets all froggy whenever "prepared piano" comes up.)

The Tutschku piece is Zeilen-Linien. And there's a performance on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-QV2jiSUc

I heard this live somewhere, I don't remember where now. But Ludwig Brümmer, who was curating the show, introduced me to Tutschku, which was a nice little extra.

[Karl Henning]

And Han Tutschku has a spectacular piece for electronics and prepared piano--prepared electronically, so there's no physical damage even possible to the piano by a careless preparer. (I say this only because a piano-tuner friend of mine gets all froggy whenever "prepared piano" comes up.)

The Tutschku piece is Zeilen-Linien. And there's a performance on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-QV2jiSUc

Small world! Hans was the dial-twirler for the Nono we performed in March.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

http://www.youtube.com/v/nQoiSBUgcao

Oh my this is indeed fun! Rhythmically it seems simple with regular 2 and 3 beat patterns a great deal of repetition of small motific ideas....but texturally it is made so complex with a huge timbral palette and ever changing 'layers' of sound.

[GioCar]

+1 for La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura!

I'd add by Nono
...sofferte onde serene...(1976)
for piano and tape

[James]

Stockhausen was really the first major composer to get this going effectively .. with stuff like Kontakte (percussion/piano), Mikrophonie I (tam-tam) .. and all or most of his music utilized electronic media to project the sound 'around the space', whether it be a soloist or group setting. (transmitters, microphones, speakers, mixing console ...)

a few other works that mix a solo instrument with distinct electronic sound/music ..

Solo, for melody instrument & feedback (live electronics)
Aries, for trumpet & electronic music
Libra, for bass clarinet & electronic music
Capricorn, for bass & electronic music
Cycle of the week, for basset-horn & electronic keyboards (duet)
Abduction, for piccolo solo, (or soprano sax) and electronic/concrete music
Signals for Invasion, for trombone and electronic music
Pietà, for flugelhorn and electronic music
Strahlen, for a percussionist & 10-channel electronic music
Klavierstücke XV-XIX (his leap from traditional piano to synthesizer)
Klang Hours 14 thru 21, respectively (bass, baritone, basset-horn, horn, tenor, soprano, soprano sax, flute) w/ layers from his last major electronic piece, Cosmic Pulses)