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I've just stumbled across this site and it's ace- www.avantgardeproject.org
they've digitised over 50 deleted recordings in FLAC format and stuck them up on the site for the general public to consume as they wish. And with sleeve notes.
There's some pieces in there I've been wanting to hear for ages now- Kagel's Acustica, Morton Subotnick's 'Ghost Electronics' pieces, works by Dieter Schnebel, Sylvano Bussotti... and some composers I haven't heard of.
However, this is technically copyright infringement, although- as the record companies aren't producing the records anymore (would probably run to a loss anyway) they're not going to be complaining- in fact, it should work to their advantage if they have works by the same composers/performers in their catalogues now, they might *gasp* get some publicity.
Also if you'd like to hear some groundbreaking pieces of post 1950's classical music, you can do a hell of a lot worse than here (although some of this is really pretty hardcore).
And in case you didn't know about it there's also the incredible www.ubu.com which works on a similar premise, bringing unobtainable crazy material to the general internet public. |
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