Think of saxophones in rock and someone always mentions Jazz.Think of violins in minimalism and you think Tony Conrad and Henry Flynt ....

Ok then, who invented Harsh Noise as entertainment?...I thought it was AMM ,but turns out Robert Ashley, he of catatonic spoken word oper...

This is like listening to an out of body experience as described by a semi-catatonic Robert Ashley floating above the scene like a dista...

The only album I know of that uses Tourettes syndrome to compose music,involuntarily, or automatically as the title suggests. Ashley us...

A minimalist electronic exploration of the music and sound of Language, is I guess how yer average avant-gardist would explain this ...

Hey i'm sitting in a room too, different from the one you're sitting in,and different to the one Alvin sat in.Wow! my mind is bl...

Heavy Cage and Tudor influence again with this one.,especially with the processed voice on "the Duke Of York", which sound...

Tudor's circuit bending classic was the future from the past,now!Finally captured on tape and released at a time when electronic mus...

So we have this pair to thank for Cornelius Cardew 's first big reactionary tantrum do we? The first recorded showcase for the musi...

As ones first exposure to pure unadulterated Noise outside of the 'Rock' idiom,except mabe a couple of early come organisation p...

When Cornelius Cardew wasn't wasting his time preaching marxist philosophy to the converted ,or more likely, unconverting the convert...

Nothing frightens me more than the prospect of being ruled by.... "The People"!!! The horrors that can be unleashed when you ...

As UK avant-garde legend ,Cornelius Cardew, actually came up with the idea of democratising music with his 'Scratch Orchestra Con...

Released in the same year as Throbbing Gristle's "20 Jazz Funk Greats", the Gavin Bryars and Brian Eno-less Portsmouth Sin...

  "Without the arts and sciences,and without music especially,life would be a dreadful mistake.Music begets happiness,and music ...

Most of the Obscure Records mob could be found on this album by the self-proclaimed "world's worst orchestra",there were...

These two works by a thirty year old Michael Nyman, "1-100" (composed in 1975) and "Bell Set No. 1" (1974) are built...

John White was in the Scratch Orchestra as far as i'm aware,but apart from that this was his obscure moment in the murky moonlight. ...

On the last post i suggested that you should play this simultaneously with Phill Niblocks 'A Third Trombone'...but to save you t...

We've heard long drawn out saxophones,viola's,violins,Bosendorfer Piano's,flutes, tape loops, fruit loops,you name it, some...

Here's another Philip Glass Ensemble member having a go at this minimalism fad; jazzy Saxophonist Richard "Dickie" Landry....

There ain't no-one in the world of minimalism that Jon Gibson hasn't played for.... Steve Reich , Terry Riley , LaMonte Young , ...