Theatre of Sound

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The Vancouver Soundscape

A double album and accompanying book released by the Project – The Vancouver Soundscape – includes recordings of air horns and steam whistles, mournfully blasting and hooting across cold landscapes.

Köner, Thomas

Permafrost

… wrote in The Wire magazine about Köner’s fugitive music: “Recently listening to Thomas Köner’s Permafrost …

Sun Ra

Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy

Even the book jacket illustration is almost identical in its blue colour and swirling forms to Richard Pedreguera’s cover art for Sun Ra’s Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy album, released on Ra’s El Saturn label at around the same time.

Oswald, John

Plunderphonic

Representatives for Michael Jackson and Sony Records were incensed by Oswald’s reassembly of Jackson’s “Bad” and his use of Jackson’s image (collaged on to a naked female body) for the cover of Plunderphonic …

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Environments: The Magic of Psychoactive Sound

Programme music was the precursor of synthetic electronic ambience – the Environments series of albums, for example, which were designed to insinuate tranquil rural moods into the stress zones of indoor urban life.

Schütze, Paul

Apart

“It’s something I do”, admits Paul Schütze, once an Australian-based soundtrack composer for cinema, now the London-based creator of albums such as Apart, The Surgery of Touch, The Rapture of Metals and New Maps of Hell.

Schütze, Paul

The Surgery of Touch

“It’s something I do”, admits Paul Schütze, once an Australian-based soundtrack composer for cinema, now the London-based creator of albums such as Apart, The Surgery of Touch, The Rapture of Metals and New Maps of Hell.

Schütze, Paul

New Maps of Hell

“It’s something I do”, admits Paul Schütze, once an Australian-based soundtrack composer for cinema, now the London-based creator of albums such as Apart, The Surgery of Touch, The Rapture of Metals and New Maps of Hell.