Electronic Music from 1972-2022

by Carl Stone

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Michael Hix This man is a genius. To hear the consistency and development of his craft over decades in this volume is very inspiring. And many thanks to Unseen Worlds for continuing to expand the available catalogue of his music. Superb! Favorite track: Walt's (2022).

Val Clipp I'm stuck at Flint's, somebody send help.

vertuila I have needed Noor Mahal for 30+ Years. The archival recording from WNYC went ka-poof and life was incomplete.

Balance has now been restored. Thank you. Favorite track: Noor Mahal (1987).

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1.	Three Confusongs (1972) 07:52	buy track
2.	Ryouund Thygizunz (1972) 14:38	buy track
3.	Vim (1987) 10:26	buy track
4.	Noor Mahal (1987) 12:16	buy track
5.	Flint's (1999) 08:43	buy track
6.	Morangak (2005) 06:29	buy track
7.	Ngoc Suong (2003) 22:32	buy track
8.	L'Os à Moelle (2007) 23:17	buy track
9.	Walt's (2022) 04:33	buy track
10.	Kustaa (2022) 03:17	buy track
11.	Merkato (2022) 04:45	buy track

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Electronic Music from 1972-2022 seeks to frame fifty years of Carl Stone's compositional activity, starting with Stone's earliest professionally presented compositions from 1972 ("Three Confusongs" and "Ryound Thygyzunz", featuring the voice and poetry of Stefan Weiser – later known as Z'EV) up to the present. This collection is not meant as a definitive history but rather as a supplement to be used alongside the previous two archival releases. It is simultaneously an archival release marking Carl Stone’s evergreen 70th birthday and a document of archival art. In the spirit of disorienting repetition and layering, call it an archive of archiving.

Stone’s practice emerged from the repetitive archival process of his graduate job at CalArts preserving vinyl recordings by dubbing them to tape. With perhaps 10,000 albums ranging from Renaissance and electronic works to music from across the globe, he had to re-record multiple discs concurrently, creating chance collisions and coincidences.

In the decades since, he’s explored various ways to compose this process, creating temporal envelopes in which found sounds – existing tracks or field recordings – can take form. Whilst the technologies he’s used have changed and samples have varied beyond categorization, what’s remained consistent is his concern for organizing temporal experience using fragments of pre-existing sounding events.

Stone's impish collage-like constructions of times cut from time suggest that archival records are neither wholly in documents preserved from change nor in living memories and use, but in their interaction.

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released August 4, 2023

Liner notes by Ed McKeon, Jace Clayton and Carl Stone
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu

“Al-Noor and “L'os a la Moelle” originally issued on the Intone label. Special thanks to Rick Frystak
“Morangak" originally issued on Sonore and Nu NuLAX NuLAN label. Special thanks to Franck Stofer and Ugh.

Thank You: Dinah Bird, Rick Frystak, Jonathan Gold, Hae Kyung Lee, Jean-Philippe Renoult, Joy SIlverman / LACE, Franck Stofer, Morton Subotnick, Barry Schrader, John Payne @ Cal Arts, Ugh, Christian Zanési, Z'EV, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

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Carl Stone Tokyo, Japan

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” and “one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.” He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between Los Angeles and Japan. ... more

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