IIIII starts off with a silent track of four seconds, continues with a seven and a half minute track of an unprocessed thunder shower, and goes into another track of four silent seconds. This review is not going to be a track by track account of IIIII. There are 99 tracks, [...]

This piece could almost be taken as a test case of how inherently musical speaking voices are. I’m fairly certain that that’s not the main thing they set out to do in this piece, but it’s just as certain to me that that’s one of things that’s happened. Des travailleurs opens with [...]

1 – Le prévu—low drone that comes and goes; held accordion chord; balalaika* strumming. Over them, a woman speaking.
2 – En partance—younger woman. Long pauses. Accordion thrumming and some high pitched (falsetto) singing (also female). Older woman talking, then even higher high pitched, as high as only kids should be able to do. [...]

In Eliane Radigue’s music, nothing happens over a long time. As Biogenesis is one of her relatively short pieces, weighing in at just over twenty-one minutes, the nothing happens fairly quickly, especially that throbbing bass at about the halfway point. But not to worry. If you enjoy the spacious quality of Radigue’s other [...]

In 1912, Stravinsky wrote Le Sacre, in 1916, Charles Ives wrote his fourth symphony, in 1924, George Antheil wrote Ballet Mechanique, in 1948, Pierre Schaeffer wrote Étude aux chemins de fer, in 1958, Edgard Varèse wrote Poème électronique…
And in nineteen thirty, Walter Ruttmann wrote Weekend. Although the term musique concrète was coined [...]

1. attempt #4
2. collapse
3. attempt #2
4. music for french writings
5. attempt #1
6. psychotest, last attempt
7. attempt #3
8. the litigation
9. pulse and impulse
The sudden change from soft sounds to loud noise is shocking, as is the sudden change from loud noise to soft sounds. You get some of each (some, not a lot) [...]

Fragments and articulations no. 1 opens with some very soft, distant sounds that make almost a complicated little tune of sorts. Almost. Then in the foreground, some staticky noises appear, making the same complicated little pattern. After the background has become louder, and come to the front, everything falls away and some [...]