Avant-Garde / Experimental / Euroclassical (Reference)
The reference list includes records that have been obtained and/or rated
(in blue) as well as many other records that have been recommended from
various sources.
John Adams (1947 )
- Light over Water [1985, New Albion], B+
- The Chairman Dances [1987, Elektra], B+
- Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective [(1999), Elektra/Asylum, 10 CD]
Maryanne Amacher
- Stain: The Music Rooms / In "Imaginary Landscapes" [1989, Elektra/Nonesuch]
- Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear) [1999, Tzadik]
Charles Amirkhanian (1945 )
- Walking Tune [1999, Starkland]
Ruth Anderson
- I Come Out of Your Sleep [1997, XI]
George Antheil (190059)
Robert Ashley (1930 )
- Private Parts [1978, Lovely Music], U
- Perfect Lives (Private Parts) / The Bar [1980, Lovely Music], A
- Private Parts (The Record) [1990], A
- Yellow Man with Heart with Wings [1990, Lovely Music], B
- Perfect Lives [1991, Lovely Music]
- In Sara Mencken Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women [1991, Cramps]
- Improvement [1993, Elektra/Nonesuch, 2 CD], B
- In Memoriam ... Kit Carson [1997, Monroe Street]
Aube
- Pages from the Book [1998, Elsie & Jack]
Milton Babbitt (1916 )
- Piano Works [1986, Harmonia Mundi], U
- Sextets / The Joy of More Sextets [1988, New World], B+
Bang on a Can [1995 ]
- Brian Eno: Music for Airports [1998, Point Music], B
- Renegade Heaven [2001, Cantaloupe], B
- Terry Riley: In C [2001, Cantaloupe], A
- Gigantic Dancing Human Machine [2002, Cantaloupe]
- Bang on a Can Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing [2005, Cantaloupe]
- w/Don Byron: A Ballad for Many [20046, Cantaloupe], B
Beaver and Krause [19691975]
- In a Wild Sanctuary / Gandharva [197071, Warner Archives], B+
David Behrman (1937 )
- Canons [1959]
- Wave Train [1967, Source]
- On the Other Ocean / Figure in a Clearing [1977, Lovely Music], B+
- Leapday Night [1987, Lovely Music], B+
- Unforseen Events [1992, Experimental Intermedia]
Luciano Berio (1925 )
- Differences / Sequenza III and VII [Phillips]
Glenn Branca (1948 )
- The Ascension [1981, 99]
- Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Pexus) [1983, ROAR]
- Symphony No. 2 (The Peak of the Sacred) [1992, Atavistic]
- Symphony No. 9: L'Eve Future [1995, Point]
Gavin Bryars (1943 )
- The Sinking of the Titanic / Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet [1976, Obscure], A
- Hommages [1982, Disques du Crepuscle]
- Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet [1993, Point Music], B+
John Cage (191292)
- w/David Tudor: Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music [1959, Smithsonian/Folkways]
- Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano / A Book of Music for Two Prepared Pianos [197576, Tomato], B+
- Empty Words (Part III, Live Teatro Lyrico di Milano 2 Dec. 1977) [1977, Cramps]
- Etudes Australes for Piano [1978, Tomato], B
- Singing Through / Vocal Compositions by John Cage [194285, New Albion]
- Four Walls [1989, Tomato]
- Concert for Piano and Orchestra / Atlas . . . [1993, Wergo]
- Music of Changes, Books I-IV [1996, Lovely Music]
- The Lost Works: The City Wears a Slouch Hat (Music for the Radio Play by Kennet) . . . [Mode]
- Etudes Australes [Wergo]
Cornelius Cardew (193681)
- Memorial Concert 16th May 1982: First ... [1982, Gelbe Musik]
Wendy Mae Chambers
Rhys Chatham
- An Angel Moves Too Fast to See [1994, New Tone]
Anthony Coleman
- Sephardic Tinge [1995, Tzadik]
Nicolas Collins (1954 )
- It Was A Dark and Stormy Night [1992, Trace Elements]
- Devil's Music [1994, New Tone]
- Sound Without Picture [1999, Periplum]
Composers in Red Sneakers
- Composers in Red Sneakers [1984, Northeastern], B+
Sylvie Courvoisier (1968 )
- Birds of a Feather [1997, Unit]
- Abaton [2002, ECM]
George Crumb (1929 )
- Ancient Voices of Children / Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) [1971, Nonesuch], B+
Maria De Alvear
- En Amor Duro [1995, Hat Hut]
- World [World Edition]
Stuart Dempster (1936 )
- In the Great Abbey of Clement [1987, New Albion]
Charles Dodge (1942 )
- Earth's Magnetic Field [1971, Nonesuch]
- Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental [1992, New Albion]
Max Eastley
- w/David Toop: Doll Creature [2000, Bip-Hop], B
Luc Ferrari (1929 )
- Brise-Glace (Et Si Toute Entiere Maintenant...) [1991, Adda]
- Acousmatrix 3: Luc Ferrari: Petite Symphonie Intuitive pour un Paysag [Bvhaast]
Fred Frith (1949 )
- Guitar Solos [1974, Caroline], B
- Nous Autre [1987, Recommended]
- Technology of Tears [1988, SST]
- Guitar Solos Complete [197488, East Side]
- Eye to Ear [1997, Tzadik]
- Friends and Enemies [1999, Cuneiform]
- Traffic Continues [2000, Winter & Winter]
- Clearing [19962000, Tzadik], B+
- Eleventh Hour [19902002, Winter & Winter, 2 CD], B+
- w/Carla Kihlstedt, Stevie Wishart: The Compass, Log, and Lead [2003, Intakt], B+(**)
Diamanda Galas (1955 )
- Saint of the Pit [1986, Mute]
- Divine Punishment [1986, Mute]
- Plague Mass (1984 End of the Epidemic) [1991, Mute]
- Malediction and Prayer [1998, Asphodel]
Peter Garland (1952 )
- The Days Run Away [2000, Tzadik]
Philip Glass (1937 )
- Music in Twelve Parts, Parts 1 and 2 [1974, Cardine], B+
- North Star [1977, Virgin], B+
- Einstein on the Beach [1979, Tomato], B
- Koyaanisqatsi [1982, Antilles], B
- The Photographer [1983, Epic], A
- The Thin Blue Line [1989, Elektra/Nonesuch]
- Music in Twelve Parts [1989, Atlantic]
- Philip on Film [(2001), Elektra/Asylum, 5 CD]
Evelyn Glennie
- Her Greatest Hits [(1998), Red Seal, 2 CD]
- African Sunrise / Manhattan Rave [2001, Black Box]
Daniel Goode (1936 )
- Tunnel-Funnel [1998, Tzadik]
Annie Gosfield
- Burnt Ivory and Loose Wires [1998, Tzadik]
Bernhard Günter (1957 )
- Time, Dreaming Itself [1999, Trente Oiseaux]
- Univers Temporel Espoir [(1999), Trente Oiseaux]
Frode Haltli
- Passing Images [2004, ECM], B
Mary Halvorson
- w/Jessica Pavone: On and Off [2007, Skirl], B+(*)
Tom Hamilton (1946 )
- Formal and Informal Music [1981, Somnath]
- Sebastian's Shadow (Longer Ramblings on a Short Bach Fugue) [1997, Monroe Street]
Arve Henriksen (1968 )
- Chiaroscuro [2004, Rune Grammofon], B
- Poolplayers: Way Below the Surface [2006, Songlines], B+(*)
Pierre Henry (1927 )
- Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir / Viole d'Orphee [1994, Harmonia Mundia]
Shelley Hirsch (1952 )
- O Little Town of East New York [1995, Tzadik]
- States [1997, Tellus]
- Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch [2002, Tzadik]
Maurice Horsthuis (1948 )
- Elastic Jargon [2007, Data], U
Ken Hyder (1946 )
- The Known Is in the Stone [1998, Impetus]
Tom Johnson (1939 )
- An Hour for Piano [1979, Lovely Music], A
- Nine Bells [1982, India Navigation], B
- w/Eberhard Blum: Rational Melodies [1993, Hat Art], U
Mauricio Kagel (1931 )
- Staatstheater [1967, Deutsche Grammophon]
- String Quartet I / Pan for Piccolo and String Quartet [1991, Disques Montaigne]
- Exotica [1993, Koch Schwann]
- Tremens [Deutsche Grammophon]
- Acustica [Deutsche Grammophon]
Eyvind Kang
- w/Tucker Martine: Orchestra Dim Bridges [2004, Conduit], B+
Zbigniew Karkowski
- One and Many [2005, Sub Rosa], C
Simon Keep
- Interview With the Eggs [2005, Sub Rosa], D
Phil Kline
- Glow in the Dark [1999, CRI]
Guy Klucevsek (1948 )
- Scenes From a Mirage [1987, No Man's Land]
- Manhattan Cascade [1991, CRI]
- Who Stole the Polka? [1992, Eva]
- Polka Dots and Laser Beams [1992, Eva]
- Stolen Memories [1996, Tzadik]
- w/Alan Bern: Notefalls [2006, Winter & Winter], B+(*)
Kreepa
- Inside-A-Sekt [2006, Monium], B+(*)
Leo Kupper
- Electro-Acoustic [1998, Pogus]
Joan La Barbara (1947 )
- Sound Paintings [1990, Lovely Music]
- ShamanSong [1998, New World]
Paul Lansky
Bill Laswell (1955 )
- Baselines [1983, Rough Trade], B
- Hear No Evil [1988, Venture], B+
- Deconstruction: The Celluloid Recordings [(1993), Restless, 2 CD], U
- Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation [1994, Axiom]
- Ambient Compendium [(1996), M.I.L. Multimedia]
- Sacred System: Nagual Site [1998, RCA]
- Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 19691974 [1998, Columbia], A
- Invisible Design [1999, Tzadik]
- Carlos Santana: Divine Light: Reconstruction & Mix Translation [2001, Columbia/Legacy], B
Elodie Lauten
- Inscapes from Exile [2000, New Tone]
Mary Jane Leach
- Adriadne's Lament [1998, New World]
Daniel Lentz
- Apologetica [1998, New Albion]
Lightning Bolt [1999 ]
- Ride the Skies [2001, Load], U
- Wonderful Rainbow [2003, Load]
Annea Lockwood (1939 )
- World Rhythms [1997, XI]
- w/Ruth Anderson: Sinopah [1998, XI]
Frank London
- Di Shikere Kapelye [2000, Piranha]
- Invocations [2000, Tzadik]
- From the Belly of Abraham [2001, Knitting Factory]
Alvin Lucier (1931 )
- Music for Solo Performer for Enormously Amplified Brain Waves and Percussion [1982, Lovely Music]
- I Am Sitting in a Room [1990, Lovely Music]
- In Memoriam Jon Higgins / Septet for Three Winds, Four Strings / Crossings [1991, Lovely Music]
Christian Marclay (1955 )
- Records 19811989 [(1997), Atavistic]
- High Noon [2000, Intakt]
Denman Maroney
- w/Hans Tammen: Billabong [2000, Potlatch]
Richard Maxfield (192769)
- Richard Maxfield: Electronic Music [1992, Meia Foundation]
- Night Music in "New Sounds in Electronic Music" [Odyssey]
Merzbow (1956 )
- 1930 [1998, Tzadik]
- Dharma [20001, 2XHNI], D+
Ilhan Mimaroglu (1926 )
- Agitation [196874, Locust]
- Face the Windmills, Turn Left [1976, Finnadar], A
Meredith Monk (1942 )
- Dolmen Music [1980, ECM]
- Mercy [2002, ECM]
Moondog (191699)
- Moondog [1956, Prestige OJC]
- More Moondog [1956, Prestige OJC]
- Moondog [1969, CBS]
- Elpmas [1992, Kopf/Roof]
- Viking of Sixth Avenue [194995, Astralwerks]
- Sax Pax for a Sax [1997, Atlantic], B
Ikue Mori (1953 )
- Painted Desert [1994, Avant], A
- Hex Kitchen [1995, Tzadik]
- One Hundred Aspects of the Moon [2000, Tzadik]
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company
- Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company [1973, Earthquack], B
- Like a Duck to Water [1976, Earthquack], B+
Jon Mueller
- Pianobread [1999, Crouton]
Naftule's Dream
- Smash, Clap! [1998, 7125]
Chris Newman (1952 )
Luigi Nono (192490)
- Das Atmende Klarsein (Fragment) for Bass Flute and Magnetic Tape in Roberto Fabbriciani [1991, Koch]
Pauline Oliveros (1932 )
- Alien Bog / Beautiful Soop [196667, Pogus]
- I of IV [1968, Odyssey]
- The Roots of the Moment [1987, Hat Art]
- Deep Listening [1989, New Albion]
- Crone Music [1989, Lovely Music], B
- Duo for Accordion and Bandoneon with Possible Mynah Bird Obbligato [1998, Musicworks]
Pärson Sound
- Pärson Sound [196668, Anthology, 2 CD], A
Harry Partch (190174)
- The Music of Harry Partch [195067, CRI], B+
- The Seventeen Lyrics of Li Po [(1996), Tzadik]
- The Harry Partch Collection, Vol. 1 [195058, CRI], B+
- The Harry Partch Collection, Vol. 2 [195882, CRI], B
- The Harry Partch Collection, Vol. 3 [195872, CRI], B
- The Harry Partch Collection, Vol. 4 [(1997), CRI]
- Enclosure Five [(1998), Innova, 3 CD]
- The World of Harry Partch [Columbia], U
Zeena Parkins
- Mouth = Maul = Betrayer [1996, Tzadik]
- Phantom Orchard [2004, Mego]
Henri Pousseur (1929 )
- Musique Mixte 19661970 [196670, Sub Rosa], B
- Scambi (Exchanges) (1954) / Trois Visages de Liege (Three Faces of Liege) [1990, Bvhaast]
- Dichterliebesreigentraum (Dream of the Round of Poet's Loves) [1995, Cyprés]
The PrimeTime Sublime Community Orchestra
- A Life in a Day of a Microorganism [2004, Corporate Blob], B+
Eliane Radiague
- Adnos I-III [197380, Table of the Elements, 3 CD], U
- Kyema, Intermediate States [1992, Experimental Intermedia]
- Trilogie de la Mort (Trilogy on Death) [1998, XI]
- Geelriandre-Arthesis [2003, Fringes Archive]
Steve Reich (1936 )
- Four Organs / Phase Patterns [1970, New Rose], D+
- Drumming / Six Pianos / Music for Mallet Instruments [1974, Deutsche Grammophon], B+
- Music for 18 Musicians [1978, ECM], B+
- Early Works [(1987), Elektra/Nonesuch]
- Different Trains / Electronic Counterpoint [1989, Elektra/Nonesuch]
- Another View of Counterpoint [1993, Amiata]
- The Cave [1995, Elektra/Nonesuch]
- Works: 19651995 [196595, Elektra/Nonesuch, 10 CD]
- Music for 18 Musicians [1998, Elektra/Nonesuch]
Terry Riley (1935 )
- In C [1970, Columbia], B+
- A Rainbow in Curved Air [1971, Columbia], A
- Persian Surgery Dervishes [197172, Newtone, 2 LP], B+
- Shri Camel [1980, Columbia], B
David Rosenboom (1947 )
- Precipice in Time [1991, CDCM Computer Music Series]
Frederic Rzewski (1938 )
- Coming Together / Attica / Moutons de Panurge [1973, Opus One]
- The People United Will Never Be Defeated [1978, New Albion], B+
Sten Sandell (1958 )
- Solid Musik [2002, Nuscope]
- w/John Butcher: Strokes [2006, Clean Feed], B+(**)
- w/Mattias Ståhl: Grann Musik (Neighbour Music) [2007, Clean Feed], B
Pierre Schaeffer (1910 )
- Erotica "Symphonie pour un Homme Seul" [1984, INA]
- Etude aux casseroles, Edute aux chemins de fer ... [Philips]
Peter Scherer
- Very Neon Pet [1995, Metro Blue]
John Schott
- In These Great Times [1997, Tzadik]
Paul Schütze (1958 )
- Deux Ex Machina [1989, Tone]
- The Annihilating Angel [1990, Extreme]
- Regard: Music by Film [1991, Tone]
- New Maps of Hell 2: The Rapture of Metals [1993, Big Cat]
- Apart [1995, Virgin]
- 7 Degrees [1996, Fell]
- Site Anubis [1996, Big Cat]
- Second Site [1997, Virgin]
James Sellars
Elliott Sharp (1951 )
- I/S/M [1981, Zoar]
- Fractal [1986, Dossier]
- Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup [1989, SST]
- Terraplane [1994, Homestead]
- Figure Ground [1997, Tzadik]
- Blues for Next [2000, Knitting Factory]
- Do the Don't [2004, Gaff Music]
- Commune [2005, Zoar]
- Plays the Music of Thelonious Monk [2004, Clean Feed], B+(*)
- Secret Life [2005, Intuition], B+(*)
- Octal Book One [2008, Clean Feed], B+(*)
- w/Scott Fields: Scharfefelder [2007, Clean Feed], B
So Percussion
- So Percussion [2004, Cantaloupe]
- Steve Reich: Drumming [2004, Cantaloupe]
- Amid the Noise [20026, Cantaloupe], B+(*)
David Soldier
- Utah Dances [1994, New Tone]
- The Kropotkins [1996, Koch]
- w/Richard Lair: Thai Elephant Orchestra [2000, Mulatta], B
Laurie Spiegel (1945 )
- Unseen Worlds [1991, Scarlet]
Starship Beer [19761988]
- Nut Music: As Free as the Squirrels [197688, Atavistic], B
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 )
- Konkrete und Elektronische Musie: Etude / Studie I und Gesang der Jünglinge [195556, Stockhausen Gesamtausgabe]
- Kontakte [1959, Ecstatic Peace]
- Hymnen: Anthems for Electronic and Concrete Sounds [1967, Deutsche Grammophon]
- Gesang der Junglinge / Kontakte [Deutsche Grammophon]
Carl Stone (1953 )
- Woo Lae Oak [1983, Wizard]
- Mom's [1992, New Albion]
Ned Sublette
- Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly / In "Life is a Killer [1982]
Morton Subotnick (1933 )
- Silver Apples of the Moon / The Wild Bull [1968, Nonesuch]
- Key to Songs / The Return [198586, New Albion]
George Tsontakis
- Four Symphonic Quartets [1998, Koch]
David Tudor (192696)
- Microphone [1975, Cramps]
- Neural Synthesis, Nos. 69 [1995, Lovely Music]
Blue Gene Tyranny (1945 )
- The Intermediary [1982, Lovely Music]
- Free Delivery [1990, Lovely Music], B
Vladimir Ussachevsky (191190)
- Electronic Film Music [1990, New World]
Edgard Varèse (18831965)
- Poème Electronique [1958, Neuma]
- The Music of Edgard Varèse [(1996), One Way]
Julia Wolfe
- Arsenal of Democracy [1996, Point]
Stefan Wolpe (190272)
- String Quarter (19681969) [1991, CRI]
- Quartet (Piece) for Oboe, Cello, Piano, and Percussion [(1997), Cpo]
Charles Wuorinen (1938 )
- Time's Encomium [196869, Nonesuch], A
Iannis Xenakis (19222001)
- Medea for Male Choir, Hand-Held Stones and Orchestra [1969, Erato]
- Electro-Acoustic Music [1972, Nonesuch], B+
- Mycenae-Alpha [1990, Neuma]
- Media / Nuits / Knephas / A Colone [1998, Hyperion]
- Electronic Music [2000, Electronic Music Foundation]
Otomo Yoshihide (1959 )
- Ensemble Cathode [2002, IMJ]
- ONJQ Live [2002, DIW]
- Tails Out [2004, DIW]
- ONJQ Live in Lisbon [2004, Clean Feed], B
- Out to Lunch [2005, Doubt Music]
La Monte Young (1935 )
- The Well Tuned Piano [1987, Gramavision]
- 90 XII 9C, 9:3510:52 PM NYC, The Melodic Version of the Second Dream of the Hig [1991, Gramavision]
- Poem for Chairs, Tables, Benches, etc. [Tellus]
Various Artists
- Antologia de Música Electónica Portuguesa [197297, Tomlab/Plancton], B+
- Electro-Acoustic Music: Classics [(1990), Neuma]
- Lesbian American Composers [1998, CRI]
- Light [2004, Touch], U
- Musica Futurista [(1991), Cramps]
- OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music [193782, Ellipsis Arts, 3 CD], U
- Panthalassa: The Remixes [1999, Columbia], B+
- Pioneers of Electronic Music [195271, CRI]
- Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music From Philips Research Laboratories [195663, Basta, 4 CD]
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