Sounds Of New Music / Various Sounds Of New Music / Various CD

Sounds of New Music is a collection of 18 compositions from the 1920s to the mid-1950s representing attempts at a new means of musical expression. Some use familiar instruments in new ways, while others experiment with new instruments; the formats of the compositions range from structured musical scores written for orchestra to electronically altered music using tape-recording devices. Composers include Edgard Varese, Henry Cowell, and John Cage, whose Dance is played on a transformed Steinway piano that gives the music an almost primitive quality. Liner notes describing the new music feature a substantial article on Concrete Music.

1. Bahnfahrt 2. Symphony of Machines 3. Dnieprostrot 4. Dance 5. Ionization 6. Aeolian Harp 7. Banshee 8. Sonic Contours 9. Fantasy in Space 10. Symphonies in Sonic Vibration-Spectrum No. 1 11. Transposition 12. Reverberation 13. Compositionion 14. Underwater Waltz 15. Natural Pipes 16. Natural Pipes 17. Natural Pipes 18. Sonata for Loudspeakers