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SEARCH All Artist Album Label Book The on-line catalog contains 2455 references BROWSE BY - Artists - Labels - Formats - Styles - Mid prices - Last items - LP - 10in - 7in - Mandaï Gift Vouchers NEWSLETTER - Subscribe LOGIN Sign in or Register. CONCERTS 16/04/2026 Zu @ Wilde Western 16/04/2026 Dalek @ Wilde Western 22/04/2026 It It Anita @ Trix 25/04/2026 Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat @ 4AD 25/04/2026 Hyper Gal @ Out of the Crowd 25/04/2026 Secte @ Belvédère More concerts ... NEWS 31/03/2026 Forthcoming album by La Jungle is now up for pre-orders ! 24/03/2026 Website updated. 18/03/2026 New releases by Sub Rosa (BE) will be updated soon. 11/03/2026 Last days for pre-ordering Aymeric Lerçoy's book ogver the Canterburry scene. More news ... FEEDBACKS d... (Belgium) All excellent... S... (Sweden) Superfast delivery, all in great conditi... d... (Belgium) Excellent... More feedbacks ...	DESCRIPTION PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Strumming Music for piano, harpsichord and strings ensemble Label : Sub Rosa Year : 2010 Format : 3xCD Style : Electronic / Experimental Availability : Out of stock Description : All of the Strumming Music manifestations seem to have originated from Charlemagne's physical relationship with the colossal carillon bells in the tower of St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York. I met Charlemagne Palestine in 1968. The intensity of his listening impressed me as the intensity of his playing would later, when I heard him play on the carillon and the bells to 'his church'. I realized later, when Charlemagne had started to develop his series of piano pieces called Strumming, that he was assaulting that concrete ceiling and literally pushing through its three feet to release the sonic energy in the piano, much as he had with the carillon. Charlemagne's interest and work in electronic music increased in the late 60's and in 1970 he decamped to southern California where he became a graduate student working with Morton Subotnick. It was during this year at CalArts (1970-71) that Charlemagne developed an approach to the piano that was not only extremely repetitive and physical but predicated on the theory that, given the right stimulus, the instrument had a voice of its own and could produce a whole array of high overtones that seem to jump out on their own as if by magic. Over the next few years he developed and polished the music that came to be known simply as 'Strumming.' The rapid alternation between single notes and chords and different registers became a technique that he seemed to own, and it really only worked with this magic piano. 'Strumming' was the physical technique; the melodies and harmonies that resulted made the music breathe and feel alive. After a while, the ear doesn't distinguish between notes that are sounded by hammers and those which are harmonics, generated by the natural resonance of the piano and just appear because of the acoustical situation.	FROM THE SAME ARTIST PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE - From etudes to cataclysms Label : Sub Rosa Format : 2xCD - Price : 18.10 € BEST SELLING UNIVERS ZERO Uzed (CD) - 14.50 € Sub Rosa YOWIE Taking Umbrage (LP) - 29.90 € Skin Graft Records JOHNSON, MIKE The Gardens of Loss (CD) - 14.70 € Cuneiform Records U.S. MAPLE Long Hair In Three Stages (CD) - 14.40 € Skin Graft Records NEW RELEASES TRINARY SYSTEM The Hard Machine (CD) - 14.70 € Cuneiform Records LEROY, AYMERIC Legends in their Own Lunchtime : An Exploration of the Canterburry Scene (Book) - 84.00 € Cuneiform Records BEINHAUER, MIROSLAV Pieces for Broken Piano (CD) - 14.50 € Sub Rosa SNAKE DE Alla Sorrentina (Cassette) - 14.50 € Kythibong Records LATIMIER, ERELL Stay Still (LP) - 31.00 € Kythibong Records SPELTERINI Hyomon-Dako / Magnésie (LP) - 28.90 € Kythibong Records MONOLITHE NOIR La Foi Gelée (LP) - 22.70 € Humpty Dumpty V/A ErikM & Pierre Bastien : Observations (LP) - 20.00 € Sub Rosa -MORE NEW RELEASE-