| All of a sudden a sound emerges. It hurts like a scream, it make a hole in the skin of the air, like a bullet, or it can be a whisper and a caress. Then silence. All of a sudden the silence becomes taut, the void becomes wait. Its ends lean out of the edge and detach, becoming alienating answers that open to unexpected speeches. In a place where the boundaries are porous and always changing, particles of electrical life that appear and hide and draw the map of their territory just as they pass on it READ MORE |
Known to the very few, The Electric Harpsichord is possibly THE obscure masterpiece of the days of the early American minimalism. Recorded live in 1976 after many years of study under the guidance of Pandit Pran Nath and LaMonte Young, it has finally found the perfect home in the DieSchachtel ART catalogue: a lavishly produced and innovative silver/black cardboard book+CD edition, that gives the work the space and merit it deserves as a unique work of art, complete with two poems by LaMonte Young especially written for this edition, and an extensive essay by Henry Flynt. READ MORE |
Although Alvin Curran is almost universally recognized as one of the leading figure of the late 20th Century musical avant-garde, he has never received the recognition he deserves in the form of a proper publication. This is in fact the first book ever to present a complete and coherent picture of this gigantic figure of experimental music. A radical experimentalism and a kind of innate volatility have, in fact, long kept the person and the work of Alvin Curran, one of the historic READ MORE |
