Electroacoustic Music History - CD 1: 1937-1950 (re-up)

Posted By : caiobarros | Date : 07 Dec 2009 19:30:52 | Comments : 29 |

Electroacoustic Music History - CD 1: 1937-1950
Avant-garde/Electronic | FLAC, separated files, no CUE, no LOG | 1CD | 233Mb
Non-official collection

A non-official collection with more than 60 years of classical Avant-Garde Electronic music. It includes 62 CDs in total with a lot of rare and historical stuff.
All CDs rips were made using Linux's Sound Juicer wich uses by default the official FLAC encoder for lossless ripping.
CD 1 includes works by Oliver Messiaen, John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.

Track list of CD 1:
01 - Messiaen - Oraison - 1937 - For Ondes Martenot
02 - Cage - Imaginary Landscape - 1939 - For 2 phonographs
03 - Schaeffer - Presentation du Concert de Bruits - 1948/06/20
04 - Schaeffer - 5 Etudes de Bruits - 1948 - Chemins de Fer
05 - Schaeffer - 5 Etudes de Bruits - 1948 - Tourniquets
06 - Schaeffer - 5 Etudes de Bruits - 1948 - Violette
07 - Schaeffer - 5 Etudes de Bruits - 1948 - Noire
08 - Schaeffer - 5 Etudes de Bruits - 1948 - Pathétique
09 - Schaeffer - Variations sur une flûte méxicane - 1949
10 - Schaeffer - L'oiseau RAI - 1950
11 - Henry - Bidule en UT - 1950
12 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 01
13 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 02
14 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 03
15 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 04
16 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 05
17 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 06
18 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 07
19 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 08
20 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 09
21 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 10
22 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 11
23 - Henry-Schaeffer - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1950 - 12

Download Links:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

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UPDATE:
- Files re-uploaded!
- Now the files have a password to unrar: www.AvaxHome.ru

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Posted By: josechercheur Date: 07 Dec 2009 19:52:24

Thank you very much for this post. I Hope that you send the another one.

Posted By: xoconostle Date: 07 Dec 2009 20:15:24

Obrigado muito! - ¡Muchas gracias! - Thank you very much. :-)

Posted By: Antidatum Date: 07 Dec 2009 21:21:38

Thanks for an introductory CD. Could you explain what means a non-official release? Home-made rips from different official CDs or a set for educational purposes maybe? Anyway, I'm curious what's on your list next.

Posted By: d'Avignon Date: 07 Dec 2009 22:17:27

I saw the set before some time, don't remember where. I think it's an archive collection of recordings of a musical research centre/academy or university, or perhaps more likely a broadcast corporation. I'm not sure though. The quality will be OK.

Perhaps ooliver knows more. After all, he's the electro-acoustic expert on board

Posted By: caiobarros Date: 07 Dec 2009 22:33:59

Actually I don't know exactly where they came from. This CDs are in my university for educational purposes as you guessed. I'm sure the quality is good but keep in mind that this works were recorded/constructed in tapes and analogic equipment of late 40's, so there IS some noise.

Posted By: xoconostle Date: 07 Dec 2009 23:04:14

Thank you again. Your post explains why I couldn't find any information on these releases. I have numerous recordings of music by Messiaen but not the beautiful piece that opens this disc, so I was very grateful to hear it. I don't mean to be rude at all, but I wonder if it might not be too much to ask if you can please list the performing artists in future releases? It would be nice to know who is playing these pieces. Big thanks again. :-)

Posted By: v4v Date: 07 Dec 2009 23:10:29

Thank you for the upload, a nice choice to start with :)

Posted By: caiobarros Date: 07 Dec 2009 23:54:59

Unfortunately I don't have any information about the performance of this work but when I have it I'll sure post it!

Posted By: caiobarros Date: 08 Dec 2009 00:01:40

Oh and I don't know if you guys noticed but this work by Messiaen was later adapted for the last movement (for cello and piano) of his "Quatour pour la fin du Temps". The crazy thing is that this quartet was written in a german war camp during the W.W.II and he probably wrote it by memory!

Posted By: Dualtrack Date: 08 Dec 2009 00:11:09

A beautiful and awe-inspiring share! Thank you!

Posted By: d'Avignon Date: 08 Dec 2009 00:38:47

Anyway, the picture shows Pierre Schaeffer in what must be his own, new studio at Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF) That's my guess. Don't kick me if I'm wrong.
I'd say the GRM archives would have been an important source for this compilation.
Ooliver! Say something!

Posted By: caiobarros Date: 08 Dec 2009 00:59:47

from http://emfinstitute.emf.org/exhibits/musiqueconcrete.html: The photo shows Pierre Schaeffer in 1952 playing the phonogène à clavier, a tape recorder with its speed altered by playing any of twelve keys on a keyboard.

Posted By: basa005 Date: 08 Dec 2009 06:54:55

incredible post!
thanks for everything!

Posted By: ooliver Date: 08 Dec 2009 09:44:38

Hi caiobarros: many thanks for this non-official history!
It's seem that you are between us the only one to have on hands physically this monster "compilation", of which I must confess I don't know nothing. From what you write it's go out around 2000-2002?
You thinks you go until the last 62th cd? Can you anticipate who are the composers of just this last one?
Can you describe the physical aspect of the set?: only a lot of uncovered cd on anonymous plastic sleeves? (you have not added covers: it's seem that pictures are yours).
Sorry for all these questions, but I'm very curious to try to understand the origin of the set: who you thinks it's the mind, the organizer of the "history", american, european or elsewhere? (you know, from Braudel, that there is not only one history...). Just for check, at wild:
http://sonhors.free.fr/
http://www.music.psu.edu/Faculty%20Pages/Ballora/INART55/listening.html
http://pcm.peabody.jhu.edu/~boyle/HEM.html
Thanks again for your stimulating undertaking!

@d'Avignon squeeze your memory. nothing yet?

Posted By: pholas Date: 08 Dec 2009 10:37:59

Speechless!
Thanks indeed caiobarros.
Any additional infos as per ooliver request much appreciated.
Of course hopefully look forward to see all 62 cds here! take your time but pls do it if you can.

Posted By: caiobarros Date: 08 Dec 2009 11:57:56

For you guys understand it better. I'm a music student in Brazil, and in my university we have this collection made by one of our professors wich consist in a bunch of recorded (= pirate) CDs without covers, only a piece of paper indicating the works. So actually the university cannot have it officially, but this compilation was made with the highest possible quality (in audio and in rareness/importance). Another thing is that soon some brazillian composers will apear.
ooliver: The 5 last Cds are actualy extra Cds with works by Francois Bayle, John Chowning, Pierre Henry and the very last one is an Anthology by GRM wich is around in the market. The last non-extra CD ends in 2000 with works by Francois Bayle and Denis Smalley.

Posted By: ooliver Date: 08 Dec 2009 12:36:31

Thanks caibarros! Sorry for the, perhaps, dangerous questions. Don't reply anymore...
Now with yours future uploads, the challenge will be to recompose the puzzle...
I've see that in Brazil there is a flourishing "Sociedade Brasileira de Música Eletroacústica" that edited also a 5 cd set with 54 works by 33 "compositores brasileiros"; can be bought here:
http://www.sbme.com.br/iiieime.htm
Good learning caibarros!

Posted By: povipovillas Date: 08 Dec 2009 13:19:35

Thanks a lot, caiobarros, for these uploads!
Just in order to get precise: Messiaen's catalogue of works has no piece untitled "Oraison". The first track of your CD is actually the 1937 composition for 6 ondes Martenot named "Fête des Belles Eaux". It was commissioned by the city of Paris, and was premiered outdoors, on the banks of the Seine, planned to be part of a light show on the Seine with fireworks and fountains, for the 1937 World Exhibition.
It can be divided into six parts, and Messiaen used indeed the slow prayer of the third part, three years later, when he was a war prisoner in stalag 8 A in Görlitz, but not in the last part of the 8-part "Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps" as you wrote, but in the 5th part ("Louange à l'Eternité de Jésus"). In the last part, he did use another former composition, but it was "Diptyque" (1930) for organ.
Without understating the fact that he wrote them by memory, however I think we can consider that such a memory work was probably very easy for a musical figure such as Olivier Messiaen, who used to walk in the woods and transcribe immediately the melodies and the rhythms of the bird songs! Even if later on he double-checked what he has written by listening to the tape recordings made by his wife. Let's not forget that this man was able to analyze, BY HEART, the whole score of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande"...
Thanks again, and "Bon Courage" for all the following uploads!

Posted By: d'Avignon Date: 08 Dec 2009 15:32:19

I still believe I saw it around somewhere couple of years ago, or parts of it. The black&white photos are so familiar, and even the tracklist of the first cd. Perhaps it's another case of the memory fooling me? I don't know.
I understand the GRM society has a vast web of connections and is likely to have organized some kind of worldwide archiving of materials. Academies elsewhere added what they had themselves. Or what's Cage's "Imaginary Landscape no. 1" doing on the compilation, for example? It wasn't recorded in Paris. It must have come from an American institute.
Well, we'll have to wait for other posts to get a better idea.

Posted By: pdiddy Date: 08 Dec 2009 18:46:44

well done!!! ..this is great, i too am studying in uni in ireland and often wondered about some 'ups' from our huge archives
but we dont have an electronic section per say so this is fabulous, these dl's will be passing through many peoples here...

thank you

Posted By: saratogo Date: 08 Dec 2009 18:53:32

muito obrigado caiobarros!!! :). Por la mùsica y las referencias tambièn .

Posted By: paulree Date: 08 Dec 2009 20:44:54

Muchas gracias, me interesa mucho

Posted By: spinin Date: 10 Dec 2009 16:25:28

yo caiobarros, links for cds 1 to 4 are dead... would u reup?

Posted By: caiobarros Date: 15 Dec 2009 04:15:24

spinin: The CD 4 looks ok here. The other 3 are now re-uploaded!

Posted By: Akousmath Date: 16 Dec 2009 18:06:09

WHAOOOOO !!! Fantastic !
Thnak you very very much.

Posted By: tbavax Date: 23 Dec 2009 09:35:22

many thanks

Posted By: rei57 Date: 18 Mar 2010 22:59:38

caiobarros for president! this is an amazing collection and thank you for all your effort. many old favourites and quite a lot of new works (to me) that I'm really looking forward to hearing. BTW I notice that so far (up to CD 32) you don't have any of Tristram Cary's works (of Doctor Who fame but more notably as a pioneer of em/cm from the late 40s)? I was a student of his in the 80s and perhaps I can make a contribution if anybody's interested. I also have some other australian em/cm on disc/tapes if anyone's interested (UK composers Peter Tahourdin and Tristram Cary emigrated from the UK to Australia in the 70s and subsequently electronic music studios were established at conservatoria/universities around the country). Again many thanks for this wonderful treasure-trove

Posted By: đorđe Date: 19 Oct 2011 11:27:45

Thank you very much!

Posted By: phatifaf Date: 07 Feb 2012 03:28:43

Thanks a lot for sharing this precious collection, Caio!
Sabe, há uma década atrás também era possível dispor desse tipo de coleções informais audio e vídeo nas universidades portuguesas... Entretanto isso se tornou virtualmente impossível hoje em dia, devido às fiscalizações anti-pirataria. Fico muito contente por saber que esse sistema de arquivo e partilha pública persiste no seu país.
Graças a pessoas como você, essa generosidade pode se estender a territórios que, como se vê, descuram a dimensão humana do conhecimento.
Muito obrigado, mesmo!

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