Automatic Writing

Product Description
Ataxia is the brainchild of John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Josh Klinghoffer of Bicycle Thief, and Joe Lally of Fugazi. This record is part of the Frusciante solo record series that'll continue to be released each month on vinyl and CD.

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Automatic Writing

Average customer rating: excellent but uncomplete To call it music may be a bit limiting. A worthwhile collection OhMyGodHowDreadful Kid Stockhausen

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Tracks:

1. Valse Sentimentale - Clara Rockmore
2. Oraison - Ens D'Ondes De Montreal
3. Etude Aux Chemins De Fer - Pierre Schaeffer
4. Williams Mix - John Cage
5. Klangstudie II - Herbert Eimert/Robert Beyer
6. Low Speed - Otto Luening
7. Dripsody - Hugh Le Caine
8. Forbidden Planet: Main Title - Louis Barron/Bebe Barron
9. Elektronische Tanzste: Concertando Rubato - Oskar Sala
10. Poem Electronique - Edgard Varese
11. Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean) - Richard Maxfield
12. Apocalypse-Part 2 - Tod Dockstader
13. Kontakte - James Tenney/William Winant
14. Wireless Fant - Vladimir Ussachevsky
15. Philomel - Milton Babbitt
16. Spacecraft - MEV

Tracks:

1. Cindy Electronium - Raymond Scott
2. Pendulum Music - Sonic Youth
3. Bye Bye Butterfly - Pauline Oliveros
4. Projection Esemplastic For White Noise - Joji Yuasa
5. Silver Apples Of The Moon, Part 1 - Morton Subotnick
6. Rainforest Version 1 - David Tudor
7. Poppy Nogood - Terry Riley
8. Boat-Woman-Song - Holger Czukay
9. Music Promenade - Luc Ferrari
10. Vibrations Composees: Rosace 3 - Francois Bayle
11. Mutations - Jean-Claude Risset
12. Hibiki-Hana-Ma - Iannis Xenakis
13. Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals: Drift Study '31/69 c.... - La Monte Young

Tracks:

1. He Destroyed Her Image - Charles Dodge
2. Six Fants On A Poem By Thomas Campion: Her Song - Paul Lansky
3. Appalachian Grove - Laurie Spiegel
4. En Phase/Hors Phase - Bernard Parmegiani
5. On The Other Ocean - David Behrman
6. Stria - John Chowning
7. Living Sound, Patent Pending Music For Sound-Joined Rooms Series - Maryanne Amacher
8. Automatic Writing - Robert Ashley
9. Canti Illuminati - Alvin Curran
10. Music On A Long Thin Wire - Alvin Lucier
11. Melange - Klaus Schulze
12. Before And After Charm (La Notte) - Jon Hassell
13. Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) - Brian Eno

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Opening with Clara Rockmore's reworking of Tchaikovsky with the theremin, and finishing with one of Brian Eno's ambient soundscapes, OHM artfully succeeds in its goal of giving a representative (as opposed to the impossible, comprehensive) overview of the first several decades of electronic music. Over 3 discs, 42 compositions, and 96 pages of notes and photos, OHM clearly illustrates the producers' and contributing writers' point that early electronic music is much of the foundation of contemporary music. Herein lies the connective tissue bridging musique concrète, 20th-century classical, electronic experimentation, and the theoretical avant-garde to psychedelia, ambient, dub, techno, electro, and synthpop and the globalization of sound. The groundbreaking uses of loops, sampling, drones, remixes, and cut-and-paste technology are put fully into context. The diversity of music included makes any sort of summation impossible, but that is also the point: electronic music is not really a genre, but an open field of endless possibility. From John Cage's famous "William's Mix" of tape snippets to Karkheinz Stockhausen's electronic orchestral compositions, from David Tudor and Holger Czukay's experiments in unrelated blendings of audio elements to David Behrman's supremely peaceful duet between computers and musicians, the aural renegades on OHM tread where none (save a few of their contemporaries) had gone before. The liner notes convey the incredible amount of hard work and experimentation it took to stitch together many of these pieces in the predigital era. Putting aside the inevitable quibbles about what's missing (much of it due to legal and/or logistical issues), a more complete collection of musical eggheads, eccentrics, and visionaries is hard to imagine. --Carl Hanni

Customer Reviews:

excellent but uncomplete.......2006-11-12

Althought most of the music here is an excellent collection of electronic music history, this 3 CDs lack of the important contribution given by the RAI phonology studios of Milan, Italy in the 50s
(which was bigger than Koln's WDR studios) with Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio and Luigi Nono.
This is a big mistake. Milans studios were the biggest of europe and produced many important electroacoustic pieces.
If the collection aim to describe faithfully electronic music history, it should include this artists too.

To call it music may be a bit limiting. .......2006-10-24

Some of the tracks on here are "music". That is that they contain all the bits we're trained to experience as music -- melody, etc. Some are not, and the composers would be the first people to tell you that. A lot of these works are reactions to ingrained rules, so they're bound to be jarring.

A more successful way to approach such a broad and varied collection of audio experimentation is to think of it as curated sound. This isn't something to wash the dishes to, or to seduce someone to (although if you did manage to seduce someone with the recordings on this anthology, HOLD ON TO THAT PERSON, because they've got to be a keeper). These are unique sound textures that deserve a close, probably solitary listen, and I think if you're in the right frame of mind, it can be a very rewarding listen.

My main complaint is sequencing: each dicrete piece follows it's own internal logic, so there are more than a couple rough gear changes. However, since each piece is so different, and the collection is so varied, I'm not sure that you could totally escape that.

A worthwhile collection.......2006-01-11

The OHM collection contains some of those ground breaking electronic compositions that have shaped today's styles, from the early electronic instruments of Theremin and Martenot, through Pierre Schaeffer's Music Concrete tape music and the electronic music of Stockhausen and Subotnick, to the mainframe computer output of Risset and Chowning.

It is unfair to mark this collection down due to the production quality and 'musicality' of its contents, to do so would be to staggeringly miss the point of the development of electronic music through the 20th Century. What this collection shows is the ideas behind those at the cutting edge of the genre before many could even conceive of such output. That said it is hard going at points, as experimental music can be.

Highlights for me are no doubt Olivier Messiaen's 'Oraison' on CD 1, David Tudor's 'Rainforest Version 1' on CD 2 and on CD 3 David Behrman's 'On the Other Ocean' and Maryanne Amacher's 'Living sound Patent Pending'.

OhMyGodHowDreadful.......2005-08-15

Ok, this collection is supposed to be early works and, thus not expected to be very sophisticated or polished. But the OHM collection sounds like the first attempt of a spastic cat turned-loose on a Moog keyboard. When it is not boreing, this collection of random and dissonant sounds (I can't call it music) is without any redeeming qualities to make it worth while. Don't get me wrong, I am a long-time fan of Wendy (nie Walter) Carlos and some other real pioneers of electronic music. However, I find that the Ohm collection has no similar qualities and is a major disappointment.

Kid Stockhausen.......2003-01-17

This is required listening for anybody interested in the history of electronic music. Although implicitly aiming for the techno music audience, this audio history is overwhelmingly focused on the classical avant-garde of electro-acoustic composers. The closest you'll get to pop electronica is the Brian Eno track at the end of the third disc. No Kraftwerk, no Moroder, etc. Instead "OHM" manages to point to the continuities between, say, John Cage and artists currently working at the experimental edges of electronica (so-called IDM). It seems to be saying, "You think Kid 606 is visionary? Well check out this Stockhausen track from '59!"

Admittedly, some of the songs are much more interesting to think about than they are to listen to. Some of the early pieces that were made through thosuands of hours of pains-taking tape-splicing could be made today in an afternoon with a digital audio editor and a few effects plug-ins.

It is a beautiful package, containing a 90 page booklet of essays, quotations from the featured artists, and photographs. What all music should be: an education in daring.

Average customer rating: Haunting, Imaginative & Creative 1+1=3 Ataxia Awareness a great album and an amazing project yet another side of Fru...

Automatic Writing Ataxia Manufacturer: Record Collection ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Shadows Collide with People To Record Only Water for Ten Days Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt Smile From the Streets You Hold E Desecration Smile ASIN: B0002IQM98 Release Date: 2004-08-10

Tracks:

1. Dust
2. Another
3. Sides, The
4. Addition
5. Montreal

Album Description

Ataxia is the brainchild of John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Josh Klinghoffer of Bicycle Thief, and Joe Lally of Fugazi. This record is part of the Frusciante solo record series that'll continue to be released each month on vinyl and CD.

Customer Reviews:

Haunting, Imaginative & Creative.......2006-09-26

You always know anything featuring John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer is going to be excellent. This is no exception.
This record sounds like 3 guys jamming with a bit of reverb added later. From what I understand, 'Automatic Writing' is only half of what Ataxia recorded during these sessions, and plan to release the rest at a later date. We Can only hope.
The record runs at 45mins, with only 5 songs each song is pretty long, but captivating. It is experimental and even sounds improvised. The lyrics don't mean much at all but John delivers through his guitar playing which will blow you away. Josh shows his talent once again, delivering a solid platform with his drums along with Joe Lally on bass.
Josh even sings through most of track 2 'Another'. And when John joins in toward the end, the result is just pure musical bliss. This is definitely my favourite track on the record, along with 'Addition', the darkest song on the album.
The whole album is dark actually, but groovy at the same time. Its not an album that you will listen to as often as Johns others, but after a few listens, it will definitely be stuck in your head, and possibly even haunt your dreams.

These guys know how to jam and I look forward to any further releases.

1+1=3.......2006-08-21

Wow, this is one of the greates cds of the year!! It's the kind of situation where 1+1=3, the sum of the skills of each musician exceeds the individuals!! Every single song it's over 6 or 7 min but are so hypnotic that you can hardly notice the lenght. John's guitar playing is awsome, probably the best so far. Joe Lallys and Josh work is remarkable as well.
Hope they keep doing such an interesting music, although i heard this was only a one time project!! =(

Ataxia Awareness.......2006-06-30

Wow, I really wonder what was the driving force behind the chosen name of this band?? Ataxia is a medical term. In a standard medical dictionary, the definition refers to failure of muscular coordination; irregularity of muscular action...Most laymen think of a drunkard when their gait is ataxic; yet sadly, there are a number of people that suffer from a rare type of this progressive, neurologic disease known as something-something-ataxia, be it hereditary or sporadic.
Anyway, back to the music review -- hats off to the threesome for appropriately titling their experimental effort. The music is quite "without order" as is the Greek definition of the word...definitely for the eclectic and adventurous musician wanna-be's out there.

a great album and an amazing project.......2006-06-16

first of all i'm really 17 not 13. but this album shows that john is capable of giving the unexpected side of him a good ear to the public. the next half of ataxia should come this year. this record is why i started to play bass .i can play the bass for the whole album.

Dust-cool bass intro and great solos, some of the best john has ever produced.
Another-took a while for this song to grow on me, but its simple without being boring and the vocals give the song real spirit.
The Sides-the first song i heard from the album and its the best along with dust. i love all solos and those intro drums sound catchy.
Addition-i wondedred if theres a guitar in this song.but anayway its very dramatic but also has a good output of synth. the outro drums are the same for 'a loop" on will to death.
Montreal-listen to it for 4 minnutes, because its the most boring song i heard from john. and what was he thinking with those lyrics? it doesn't make sense.

this album is a must have for any fru fan. my best advice is download it its hard to find in stores. great work guys and i hope the next ataxia record to be the same. i know it will.

yet another side of Fru..........2006-04-12

John Frusciante never ceases to amaze me...
This is a good addition to an existing collection of John's releases. However, it's very different from his other releases. There's more a rockin' jam-band feel throughout, but it's still got plenty of John's amazing vocals (although I'll admit that I'm not a big fan of excessive reverb on vocal tracks)

Average customer rating: Intimate theater A masterwork Automatic writing

Automatic Writing Manufacturer: Lovely Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: I Am Sitting in a Room Music on a Long Thin Wire Robert Ashley: Improvement Robert Ashley: Private Parts (the record) Deep Listening ASIN: B000003Y7Z Release Date: 1996-06-15

Tracks:

1. Automatic Writing (1979) (46:00)
2. Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon (1968) (10:14)
3. She Was A Visitor (1967) (5:54)

Album Description

Three of Ashley's landmark recordings, Automatic Writing (1979), Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon (1971) and She Was A Visitor (1967).

Composed in recorded form over a period of five years, Automatic Writing is the result of Robert Ashley's fascination with involuntary speech. He has recorded and analyzed the repeated lines of his own mantra and extracted four musical characters. The result is quiet, mysterious, melancholy and an early form of ambient music.

Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon, and She Was a Visitor are excerpts from an opera entitled That Morning Thing that was composed in 1966-67.

Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon is Ashley's attempt to demonstrate the dichotomy between the rational--whatever can be explained in words--and its opposite--which is not irrational or a-rational, but which cannot be explained in words. A woman describes a sexual encounter in matter-of-fact detail. The rhythm of the woman's voice, the processed back-up chorus, the recurring bell tone, and the pervading tape hiss, are at once unsettling and soothing.

She Was a Visitor is another form of description, it is intended to be understood as a form of rumor. The chorus is divided into groups, each headed by a leader. A lone speaker repeats the title sentence throughout the entire performance. The separate phonemes of this sentence are picked up freely by the group leaders and are relayed to the group members, who sustain them softly and for the duration of one natural breath. The time lag between the group leaders' phoneme choices and those phonemes being picked up by members of the group produces a staggered, chant-like effect, with the sounds moving outward from the nearest performer to the farthest.

Booklet notes by Robert Ashley.

Customer Reviews:

Intimate theater.......2006-03-05

I've heard a lot of unusual music. This is one of those rare albums that sounds like absolutely nothing else out there. The other reviewers didn't describe it, so I'll try:

1 - tape hiss
2 - tiny electronic clanking sounds
3 - a man (distressed) mumbling nonsense syllables in your ear
4 - thin organ in the background
5 - a woman whispering in French
6 - muted R&B through the wall

These things come and go for 46 minutes. What's going on here? The booklet is vague, almost evasive; Ashley talks about a personal crisis but doesn't explain how he actually made this. It sounds like he took a private tape of his own "involuntary speech", ran it through electronic processing, then added organ and a French "translation". Ashley's voice is close, tense, and impossible to ignore -- this is NOT ambient music. The piece feels more like a document of something (or a catharsis) than a musical composition. It invites and rewards close listening. Every time I play it (two or three times a year) I hear new things. Cryptic and personal, but fascinating. Try?

A masterwork.......2001-09-01

Besides technically this being a contemporary composition, the result is an inner moving piece that makes you being ecstatic, trying to manage the sublimity and surreal setting the passages in this piece delivers. But I am being inexact in my description, maybe I could be more precise with lesser moving works, but with this one it is impossible.

Automatic writing.......1999-10-03

I first heard this piece, on vinyl, whilst studying music at Sussex Uni. I remember listening to it and half nodding off, as the vocals are like pillow talk. There was a moment when I thought I was listening to a bass melody in the music that actually wasn't there. I have never experienced such an intense rush of realisation from a piece of music since then. Very cool.

Average customer rating:

Automatic Writing by the Moon Steven Wray Lobdell Manufacturer: Holy Mountain Records/Revolver ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000PHW1D2 Release Date: 1996-05-01

Average customer rating: An Introspective `Faust' album ? !!

Automatic Writing by the Moon Steven Wray Lobdell Manufacturer: Holy Mountain ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004SH9Q Release Date: 2000-05-16

Tracks:

1. Automatic Writing By The Moon #1
2. Astral Projection
3. Carnival Of The Dark Moon
4. Lids Of Pot
5. Astride The Waning Moon
6. 14 degree Cancer
7. Automatic Writing By The Moon #2
8. All Mystics Are Numbered
9. Pluto In Retrograde
10. The Departure
11. Uranian Wind
12. Aries In 3rd Decanate
13. Automatic Writing By The Mon #3

Customer Reviews:

An Introspective `Faust' album ? !!.......2001-08-18

`Automatic Writing By The Moon' is the first Steven Wray Lobdell`s solo album.

Lobdell ( guitar ) is a current member of the German band Faust. This Cd not sound like Faust agressive stuff. This is an introspective album with cinematic melodies ( Spaghetti Western ) played with acoustic guitars, and modulators.

The final result is a mixture of improvisational folk and studio experimentations almost psychedelic. Some territories between Jim O`Rourke ( Bad Timming album ) and Rafael Toral`s guitars experimentations.

`Astral Projection' and `Uranian Wind' are stratospheric songs with Faust`s elements.

Great and interesting first album. I`m waiting for the second !!

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