I've been a bit stymied on musical posts. I found a clip I want to include, but it's in flac format, and I've been having trouble converting it to an mp3.
In the meantime, this is what it is:
New Phonic Art.
In Europe during the late 60s, there was no historical precedent for free jazz, but improvisation was seen by composers as a way to escape the dead end of serial music, with composers like Penderecki, Stockhausen, Morricone and Bernd Alois Zimmermann employing free musicians to various ends. Argentinian-born, Cologne-based composer Mauricio Kagel even went so far as to bring homemade and non-Western instruments (and improvisation) to his situationist excursions. The Paris-based group New Phonic Art, formed in 1969 by trombonist/composer Vinko Globokar, jazz/classical reedman Michel Portal, percussionist Jean-Pierre Drouet and Argentine composer/keyboardist Carlos Roqué Alsina, had connections to the very different music of Kagel and Stockhausen. Though initially New Phonic Art performed compositions, by the early 1970s their meetings became wholly improvised.
- from a review by Clifford Allen in Paris TransAtlantic Magazine
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