Roland Kayn

oh y'know we're well into listen-once territory already, which is kind of the point. Counter the ill effects of mistaking recordings for music by never listening to it twice, or in Kayn's case, if you're going to listen to some of your own music, cue it up on several varispeed decks and maybe hit record

now that we've got a host of his post-retirement 2003 pieces up we get a sense of self-remixing & Ilse even used the term 'plunderphonia' herself in the bandcamp notes for 'Sound-Hydra' (whole lot of Stockhausen's 'Microphonie II' and Xenakis 'Legende d'eer' in part 3, and... well, sounds an awful lot like he's recording himself listening to 'Tektra' again. Which, if Neu! 2 is the most infuential Neu! for you, is emotional)

In other words, even if I've been a little underwhelmed by the 2003 stuff so far I still love it all. And it illuminates the connections between sampling & feedback music that tie together Schaeffer & the Barrons / all the earliest roots of electronic music

good answer! truth is, I still haven't listened to the entirety of scanning or milky way of sound more than two or three times each but I do like dipping into jump off points in those sets semi-randomly from time-to-time and just letting it wash over me for an hour or two. embrace the mystery!

"This CD edition offers Tektra digitally for the first time in consistent channel order with Etoral and Rhenit in their original positions and uncut, revealing almost five additional minutes of music that was not available in digital format until now."

https://kayn.nl/shop/cds/tektra-2021/

Infra is finally getting a CD reissue + O'Rourke remaster! This is the one I've been anticipating the most; the vinyl rip I have sounds awe-inspiring as usual for him, but it's sill a surface-noisy vinyl rip.

https://kayn.nl/shop/cds/infra-2022-remaster/

Nice - thanks for the update! And I totally missed that "Tektra" was re-issued, too! TAKE MY MONEY, KAYN FAMILY!!!

Bandcamp did a nice spotlight on his work today