koputai Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Folks, I’m after recommendations for longer listening sessions. I love Laurie Anderson’s 4.5 hour work ‘United States ‘, and would like to hear more of these kind of works. I’m not locked in to any particular style or period, and don’t mind experimental stuff. What have you got to recommend? Thanks, Jason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThirdDrawerDown Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Simeon Ten Holt - Canto Ostinato - there's a 4 hour version available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbuzzardstubble Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 (edited) How about this one, Methuselah ? https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt/ Edited June 9, 2019 by mrbuzzardstubble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 The 9 Beet Stretch project from back in the day used software to stretch out a recording of Beethoven's 9th symphony to 24 hours long. There's a 9 Beet Superstretch project to extend this to 24 days. https://9beetsuperstretch.bandcamp.com/ --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bell Ringer Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Morton Feldman’s String Quartet 2. Bliss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Do mixes count? DJ Basilisk - The Colours Of Ektoplazm -- a 5 hour mix described as "explores the incredible diversity of Ektoplazm’s electronic music catalogue, shifting seamlessly between intricate breakbeat patterns and pulsating four-by-four rhythms, touching on all points of the sonic spectrum from deep trance and psy dub to psybreaks, glitch, IDM, and beatless ambient". Free lossless download from Ektoplazm. --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koputai Posted June 10, 2019 Author Share Posted June 10, 2019 1 hour ago, hired goon said: Do mixes count? I don’t see why not. Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll see if I can find it and give it a listen. Slowing down someone else’s work just to make it take longer, to me, is not art. It’s not really anything actually. Writing a slow, or one note per century type of thing, is art, but only the first time it was done. Since then it’s fairly irrelevant, and pretty much me-too-ism. Still after suggestions for something to actually sit down and listen to, whether it be beautiful, thought provoking, mind bending, or just plain weird. Cheers, Jason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 22 minutes ago, koputai said: I don’t see why not. Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll see if I can find it and give it a listen. Just click the link ... there are MP3, FLAC, and WAV downloads. This one is 8 hours: Robert Rich - Perpetual -- was available on blu-ray for a while, could be that only the lossless download is available now. --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 27 minutes ago, koputai said: Still after suggestions for something to actually sit down and listen to, whether it be beautiful, thought provoking, mind bending, or just plain weird. You could do worse than spend US$1 to purchase the entire 300+ album discography of Wings Of An Angel, who releases an album every couple of days, many of which include multiple tracks of over an hour in length (I've seen a couple at 2 hours). Covers all styles: pure ambient, drone, atonal piano wanderings, free jazz,. classical, etc. --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Autohypnosis - Pedestrians - 10 x 1 hour ambient tracks. "Name Yer Price" lossless download from Bandcamp. --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Suit & Tie Guy - Cory and Cathy's Marriage Chords -- this bloke records his synth sets at various venues. Most are a bit lo-fi with crowd noise, but this one sounds good. A 6-hour set of improvised electronic noodling. "Name Yer Price" lossless download from Bandcamp. --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Andy Pickford - Organon -- this bloke creates 3.5 hour electronic albums. You can get either the mixed versions (3 tracks) or the unmixed minute track versions (15 tracks). Not cheap at around 20 quid per album, but it could be worth a punt if that's yer thang. --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 If yer after "longer listening sessions" then perhaps some collections would work? Not a magnum opus per se, but should be a consistent listening experience spanning multiple hours. Examples: Eamonn Watt / The Virtual Conductor - The Complete Collection (2012 - 2018) -- 91 tracks of kinda classical stuff. Tonepoet - Relics -- 51 ambient pieces from multiple albums. --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Brian Green - Tibetan Singing Bowl Meditation -- 100 tracks of Tibetan singing bowl sounds for 37 hours of meditation (I assume). --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Earlyguard - Slowmotion 2011-2016 -- 800 minutes of drones. Some of the other albums available are 3 - 5 hours. --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 The Ambient Drones Of Bill Baxter - The Day Begins -- this bloke regularly releases multi-hour ambient drones. This is just a random example. --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Periskop - 40 -- described as "a forty album release with selected solo music work of the Danish electronic music producer Danny Kreutzfeldt from 1999-2012. In total 32 hrs 20 mins 04 secs of dark ambient, deep techno, melancholic electronica and submarine noise has been recompiled, reworked and remastered out of a larger bulk of previously released and unreleased tracks. The forty albums work as separate albums in different styles and as a coherent whole." --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Estas Tonne - Internal Flight LIVE at Garavasara 2013 -- basically a 4 hour live version of this one hour reverbed spanish guitar piece. --Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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