SYR 4 - Goodbye 20th Century
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Sonic Youth
SYR 4 - Goodbye 20th Century
[ Sonic Youth Records / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 5 May 2008
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As a farewell to a century of musical innovation, Sonic Youth devoted a double album to covering legendary avant-garde recordings such as John Cage's Six, James Tenney's Having Never Written a Note for Percussion, and Christian Wolff's Edges. As a further token of gratitude, Sonic Youth had other avant-garde musicians such as William Winant collaborate with them on these covers. The result is a minimal album of silence occasionally interrupted by strange dissonance that quietly reaps noisy havoc on your mind. The many collaborators make Goodbye 20th Century a curious listen - certainly not your standard Sonic Youth album. Actually, it's not too far removed from the other SYR EPs, especially in terms of production sound. But anyone looking for standard fare here is going to be greatly disappointed. These aren't songs - they're compositions and they're performed as such. Alt-rock this is not. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide
Tracks:
1 Edges, for any number of players, free instrumtation
Composer: Christian Wolff
Length: 16:03
2 Six, for 6 percussionists
Composer: John Cage
Length: 3:03
3 Six for New Time
Composer: Pauline Oliveros
Length: 8:06
4 +-
Composer: Takehisa Kosugi
Length: 7:01
5 Voice Piece for Soprano
Composer: Yoko Ono
Length: 0:17
6 Pendulum Music, for 3 or more microphones, amps & loudspeakers
Composer: Steve Reich
Length: 5:55
7 Koan: Having Never Written a Note for percussion (For John Bergamo) - ([Excerpt])
Composer: James Tenney
Length: 9:09
8 Six, for 6 percussionists
Composer: John Cage
Length: 2:10
9 Burdocks
Composer: Christian Wolff
Length: 13:12
10 Four6, for any way of producing sounds
Composer: John Cage
Length: 30:01
11 Piano Piece No. 13 (Carpenter's Piece)
Composer: George Maciunas
Length: 3:58
12 Pièce Enfantine
Composer: Nicolas Slonimsky
Length: 1:28
13 Treatise, for any number of musicians with any instruments - ([Excerpt])
Composer: Cornelius Cardew
Length: 3:25
