Dance Macabre

Dance Macabre

Wednesday 6 January 2016

A Couple Of Figure From The Avant Garde



Pierre Boulez ~ 90 ~ Avant Garde Classical composer and pioneer of Electronic, Serial and Chance Music from the 1940's onward. Influential on John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Phillip Glass, Glen Branca, one of the first to play the Ondes Martenot, an early electronic keyboard instrument.

PIERRE BOULEZ ~ "STRUCTURES 1 & 2";


PIERRE BOULEZ ~ "EQUIVALENCES";


ONDES MARTENOT DEMO;



Paul Bley ~ 83 ~ Ottawa based Free Jazz pianist, played with Ornette Coleman, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Jimmy Giuffre, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Lee Konitz, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorious, Charlie Parker

PAUL BLEY & CHARLIE PARKER;


PAUL BLEY & ORNETTE COLEMAN;


Tony Conrad ~ 76 ~ New York Avant Garde composer who started out as a guitarist with 1960's Garage band The Primitives along with Lou Reed and John Cale. Was a member of Theatre of Eternal Music, nicknamed The Dream Syndicate, which included John Cale, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young, and Marian Zazeela, who pioneered the use of feedback and sustained sound drones that would influence the Velvet Underground. Later became part of the Avant Garde scene with Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Glen Branca and Lukas Foss and composed soundtracks to art films.

THE PRIMITIVES ~ "THE OSTRICH";


THEATRE OF ETERNAL MUSIC ~ "B FLAT DORIAN BLUES";


THEATRE OF ETERNAL MUSIC ~ "THE FIRE IS A MIRROR";


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