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ipem - institute for psychoacoustics and electronic music - 50 years of electronic and electroacoustic music at the ghent university - metaphon - books

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock - Experimental / Avant garde

1. Louis de Meester : Incantations (6:36)
2. Lucien Goethals : Studie 1 (5:26)
3. Didier Gazelle : Studie 1 (3:12)
4. Louis de Meester : Cadenza (from Dialogos) (4:59)
5. David Van De Woestijne : Les Céphalopode (5:41)
6. Stefan Beyst : Ekreksis (4:44)
7. Helmut Lachenmann : Scenario (12:33)
8. Boudewijn Buckinx : Simparolo (3:41)
9. Karel Goeyvaerts : Nachklänge aus dem Theater (part 1) (5:09)
10. Emmanuel Van Weerst : Monochroom (6:25)
11. Peter Beyls : Prints (9:27)
12. Raoul de Smet : Torso (tape part) (7:09)
13. Ricardo Mandolini : El Cuaderno del Alquimista (9:29)
14. Frank Nuyts : Chile (Part1) (7:52)
15. Peter Schuback : L'ombre négatif de Monsieur Sandomir (9:13)
16. Stephen Montague : Slow dance on a burial ground (24:34)
17. Yves Knockaert : Foto II (from Portraits) (12:01)
18. Lucien Goethals : Dendrofonies (11:20)

**2CD + lavishly illustrated 88-page book (text: Dutch/English). CDs contain unreleased recordings made at Belgium's Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music, mastered from original tapes** Tip!!

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 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...

Vinyl version comes out late may in an edition of 300 copies and contains 3LP's (same material as the CD version) in a hardboard linen box + 2CD + book.