Avant-Garde  •  Modern Composition

Tape Music

Tape Music consists of the fragments, loops, and samples and speed manipulation of pre-recorded sounds, their alteration, and use in modern composition. Tape music is an integral part of musique concrète.

Tape Music Song Highlights

A Rainbow in Curved Air, for electric piano, dumbak & tambourines (partially improvised) Terry Riley
Terry Riley
Clapping Music, for 2 performers Steve Reich
Russ Hartenberger / Steve Reich
Eight Cut Scars [For Robert Turman]
Aaron Dilloway
Electric Guitar Phase, for 4 electric guitars (arr. of Violin Phase) Steve Reich
Steve Reich
Lumpy Gravy, Pt. 1: The Way I See It, Barry/Duodenum/Oh No/Bit of ... Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Tender Cuts
Lucrecia Dalt / Aaron Dilloway
Fontana Mix with Aria John Cage
Music Promenade Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrari
This Land Is Your Land Woody Guthrie
Time Perspectives
Pauline Oliveros
I Am Sitting in a Room, for speaker & electronics Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier
Same Temple Paul Dresher
Paul Dresher
On the Reach of Explanations
Karaoke with Cal
Aaron Dilloway
Dlp 1.1
William Basinski
Schlum Rooli
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
A Single Hope Ian William Craig
Ian William Craig
Viking Blood
Double Leopards
Ecstasy Musical Mind Yoga Ariel Kalma
Ariel Kalma
Wireless Fantasy for tape
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Act One: Prelude/Trecentocinquantatre.../Torino - Ritardo/Capocapo ... Herbert Distel
Herbert Distel
Broken Replicator
Sean McCann
On the Reach of Explanations Ian William Craig
Ian William Craig
Joyce Ian William Craig / Daniel Lentz
Ian William Craig / Daniel Lentz
O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow
William Basinski
Weight Ian William Craig
Ian William Craig
While Pacing a Garden, I Paused for to Hear (I Listened a Moment, Then
Brian Harnetty
1390 Glower Conf. II 20
Akira Rabelais
Senderos abismales
Beatriz Ferreyra