Have three of the top ones, from Tony Conrad's label, and a couple of the others. The Jack Smith recordings were done in Tony's Ludlow Street apartment, which which was a hotbed of activity during the mid-sixties. Especially notable after John Cale, feeling the heat move in because of his work for Lamonte Young's thriving drug business, moved in with fellow Lamonte band member Conrad, met Lou Reed and formed The Primitives, the precursor of the Velvet Underground. Tony found the cheap VU paperback on the street and Angus Maclaise, living in the same building, as the first drummer, until their first gig, when he refused to do it because the pay violated his anarchist principles. Luckily someone knew someone whose sister was a girl drummer...
A few years ago I was talking to my friend Jeff Perkins (himself a former roommate of Yoko, who herself also was a paramour of Lamonte) and mentioned the influence on me of a Lamonte Young concert, with Cale and Conrad, in a little theater on 3rd Ave. His remark was So you were the other guy in the audience. I knew, from being sidled up to, that at least Allen Ginsberg was also present, do I went to the Internet and found that there were 3 such concerts on 64, precisely before Cale moved into Ludlow. I had been to other avant garde events but for me this was the start of the sixties. I remember suavely mentioning to the niece twins that I knew a couple of musicians who were involved with the Velvets, not mentioning that they (Conrad and Henry Flynt) were Among the geekiest of Harvard math geeks. On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 17:30 John Davis <0johndav...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK last one for real: > > > https://www.discogs.com/Various-Re-Martin-Arnold-Alone-Life-Wastes-Andy-Hardy/release/196668 > > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 2:02 PM Adam Hyman <a...@lafilmforum.org> wrote: > >> Once upon a time there was a label called Table of the Elements. (Their >> website is defunct) They issued multiple CDs of works by Tony Conrad and >> Jack Smith. Mostly audio only things, but perhaps among them was a >> soundtrack or two to a film of one or the other?… >> >> Actually, it looks like probably not, but some interesting things >> >> >> https://www.discogs.com/Jack-Smith-Les-Evening-Gowns-Damnees-56-Ludlow-Street-1962-1964-Volume-I/release/703373 >> >> >> https://www.discogs.com/Jack-Smith-Silent-Shadows-On-Cinemaroc-Island-56-Ludlow-Street-1962-1964-Volume-II/release/727518 >> >> >> https://www.discogs.com/Tony-Conrad-Early-Minimalism-Volume-One/master/382563 >> >> https://www.discogs.com/Tony-Conrad-Slapping-Pythagoras/release/680717 >> >> Etc >> >> Best, >> >> Adam >> >> From: FrameWorks <frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com> on behalf of >> Christian Gosvig Olesen <christian.gos...@gmail.com> >> Reply-To: "Experimental Film Discussion List < >> frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>" <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> >> Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 1:44 PM >> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>" >> <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> >> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Original soundtrack recordings of Avant-Garde >> films >> >> Hello, >> >> Many (of the amazing) soundtracks to Derek Jarman's films have been >> released on various formats: >> >> Throbbing Gristle "In the Shadow of the Sun": >> https://www.discogs.com/Throbbing-Gristle-In-The-Shadow-Of-The-Sun/master/10294 >> >> Coil "The Angelic Conversation": >> https://www.discogs.com/Coil-The-Angelic-Conversation/master/21410 >> >> Simon Fisher Turner/Derek Jarman "Blue": >> https://www.discogs.com/Derek-Jarman-Blue/master/21552 >> >> Simon Fisher Turner "Caravaggio": >> https://www.discogs.com/Simon-Fisher-Turner-Caravaggio-1610-Sound-Sketches-For-Michele-Of-The-Shadows/master/246163 >> (and several other Jarman/Turner soundtracks are released as well) >> >> Sub Rosa released a boxset of Luc Ferrari's soundtrack works not so long >> ago (among others for Piotr Kamler's "Chronopolis"): >> https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/early-electronic-music/luc-ferrari-complete-music-for-films-1960-1984.html >> >> Peter Tscherkassky's "Outer Space" is featured on a Finnish compilation: >> https://www.discogs.com/Various-Avantometric-Attachments-2002/release/75764 >> >> Angus MacLise's soundtrack to "The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda": >> https://www.discogs.com/Angus-MacLise-The-Invasion-Of-Thunderbolt-Pagoda/release/440194 >> >> And there is an Angus MacLise compilation featuring music from "Chumlum" >> among others: >> https://www.discogs.com/Angus-MacLise-Untitled/release/311090 >> >> There was also a funny, unofficial archival release series of "Musique >> Concrète Soundtracks to Experimental Short Films" some years back: >> >> https://www.discogs.com/label/13172-New-England-Electric-Music-Company >> >> Best, >> >> Christian >> >> >> Den ons. 4. dec. 2019 kl. 19.26 skrev Albert Alcoz <albertal...@gmail.com >> >: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm researching soundtracks of Avant-Garde films that have been >>> published on Vinyl, cassette or CD. It is not easy to find many cases >>> because generally the soundtracks are not original. >>> >>> Does anyone know other cases besides those mentioned here? >>> >>> *Asparagus* (1979) Suzan Pitt. Music: Richard Teitelbaum >>> >>> http://sanitymuffin.bigcartel.com/product/asparagus-original-soundtrack-recording >>> >>> *L'Ange* (1980) Patrick Bokanoski. Music: Michèle Bokanowski >>> https://tracelabel.bandcamp.com/album/lange >>> >>> *Decasia* (2002) Bill Morrison. Music: Michael Gordon >>> https://michaelgordonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/decasia >>> >>> All the best, >>> Albert Alcoz >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >>> >> _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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