Belgium’s Metaphon label – responsible for that amazing Ranta / Lewis / Plank album few years back – present a fascinating and in-depth book commemorating 50 years of the Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music based at Ghent University, accompanied by two CDs of haunting experimental recordings.
The book affords an engrossing insight to the development and contributions of Belgium’s national electronic music institute – a lesser known counterpart to the esteemed GRM in France, Cologne’s Studio für elektronische Musik, or Italy’s Studio di Fonologia Musicale – through in-depth history and essays by alumnus and professors.
The two CDs give clear, and often shocking evidence of what they were up to: 18 tracks…
320 kbps | 344 MB | UL | CL | MC1+MC2 ** FLAC
… from the likes of Louis De Meester, Raoul De Smet and Boudewijn Buckinx, among others, spanning unearthly electro-acoustic, drone and concrète compositions recorded between 1963-1999 and distinguished by a certain gothic or dark mittel European sensibility that’s really pushing our buttons… — boomkat
1 Louis De Meester – Incantations 6:34
2 Lucien Goethals – Studie I 5:24
3 Didier Gazelle – Studie I 3:08
4 Lucien Goethals – Cadenza (From Dialogos) 4:58
5 David Van de Woestijne – Les Céphalopodes 5:41
6 Stefan Beyst – Ekreksis 4:40
7 Helmut Lachenmann – Scenario 12:32
8 Boudewijn Buckinx – Simparolo 3:37
9 Karel Goeyvaerts – Nachklänge Aus Dem Theater Part 1 5:06
10 Emmanuel Van Weerst – Monochroom 6:22
11 Peter Beyls – Prints 9:29
12 Raoul De Smet – Torso (Tape Part) 7:11
13 Ricardo Mandolini – El Cuaderno Del Alquimista 9:28
14 Frank Nuyts – Chile (Part 1) 8:00
15 Peter Schuback – L’Ombre Négatif De Monsieur Sandomir 9:11
16 Stephen Montague – Slow Dance On A Burial Ground 24:30
17 Yves Knockaert – Foto II (From Portraits) 11:56
18 Lucien Goethals – Dendrofonies
