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Tom Cora

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Thomas Henry Corra (September 14, 1953 – April 9, 1998), better known as Tom Cora, was an American cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock. [1]

92 relations: Allies (Fred Frith album), AllMusic, Ambiances Magnétiques, Amplifier, Amsterdam, Anarcho-punk, And the Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders, Andrea Centazzo, Art rock, Benefit concert, Bill Laswell, Butch Morris, Catherine Jauniaux, Cuneiform Records, Curlew (band), David Moss (musician), Don Byron, Donna Uchizono, Draguignan, Duck and Cover (German band), Dziga Vertov, East Berlin, Eastern Europe, Electroacoustic music, Electronics, En Avant, Etymology (album), Eugene Chadbourne, Experimental music, Experimental rock, Ferdinand Richard, FMP/Free Music Production, Folk music, Fred Frith, Free improvisation, George Cartwright (musician), Hallelujah, Anyway – Remembering Tom Cora, Hans Reichel, Honky-tonk, House band, ICTUS Records, Jazz, JazzFest Berlin, John Zorn, Karl Berger, Kazutoki Umezu, Knitting Factory, Knitting Factory Records, Le trésor de la langue, Learn to Talk, ..., Learn to Talk / Country of Blinds, Luis García Renart, Marc Ribot, Melanoma, Moers Festival, Moers Music, Museum of the Moving Image, Myra Melford, National Film Board of Canada, New World Records, Nicolas Collins, No Man's Land (record label), One-man band, Pablo Casals, Post-rock, Prepared guitar, Quartet, RēR Quarterly, Recommended Records, RecRec Music, René Lussier, Richard Teitelbaum, Rock and roll, Samm Bennett, Sampling (music), Scrabbling at the Lock, Shockabilly, Skeleton Crew (band), STEIM, Step Across the Border, The Country of Blinds, The Ex (band), The Kitchen, Third Person (band), Toshinori Kondo, Tzadik Records, University of Virginia, Vibraphone, Wayne Horvitz, West Berlin, Yancey Mills, Virginia, Zeena Parkins. Expand index (42 more) »

Allies (Fred Frith album)

Allies (Music for Dance Volume 2) is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Ambiances Magnétiques

Ambiances Magnétiques is a Canadian record company and label started by Jean Derome, René Lussier, and others.

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Amplifier

An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the power of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Anarcho-punk

Anarcho-punk (or anarchist punk) is punk rock that promotes anarchism.

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And the Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders

And the Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders is the second of two albums by Dutch punk band The Ex in collaboration with avant-garde cellist Tom Cora.

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Andrea Centazzo

Andrea Centazzo (born 1948) is an Italian-born American composer, percussionist, multimedia artist and record label founder.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Benefit concert

A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis.

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Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955, Salem, Illinois, and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner.

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Butch Morris

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris (February 10, 1947 - January 29, 2013) was an American cornetist, composer and conductor.

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Catherine Jauniaux

Catherine Jauniaux is a Belgian avant-garde singer.

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Cuneiform Records

Cuneiform Records is a record label in Silver Springs, Maryland.

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Curlew (band)

Curlew is an American experimental free jazz group founded by saxophone player George Cartwright in 1979.

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David Moss (musician)

David Moss (born January 21, 1949 in New York City) is an American composer, percussionist and self-taught vocalist, founder of the David Moss Dense Band; co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice, Antwerp.

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Don Byron

Donald Byron (born November 8, 1958) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Donna Uchizono

Donna Uchizono is an American choreographer.

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Draguignan

Draguignan (Draguinhan) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in southeastern France.

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Duck and Cover (German band)

Duck and Cover were a multinational avant-rock septet founded in Germany in 1983, comprising Chris Cutler (UK), Heiner Goebbels (GER) and Alfred Harth (GER) from Cassiber; Tom Cora (US) and Fred Frith (UK) from Skeleton Crew; Dagmar Krause (GER) from Art Bears; and George Lewis (US) from the ICP Orchestra.

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Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов; born David Abelevich Kaufman, Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман., and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.

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East Berlin

East Berlin existed from 1949 to 1990 and consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin established in 1945.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.

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Electroacoustic music

Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music around the middle of the 20th century, following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice.

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Electronics

Electronics is the discipline dealing with the development and application of devices and systems involving the flow of electrons in a vacuum, in gaseous media, and in semiconductors.

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En Avant

Ferdinand En Avant, Huit Chansons en Huit Langues (Ferdinand Forward, Eight Songs in Eight Languages), often referred to as En Avant, is the second solo album by French avant-rock bass guitarist and composer, Ferdinand Richard.

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Etymology (album)

Etymology is an audio source library recorded in 1995 by Skeleton Crew.

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Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and music critic.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Ferdinand Richard

Hervé Richard (born 25 June 1950), better known as Ferdinand Richard, is a French avant-rock bass guitarist and composer.

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FMP/Free Music Production

Free Music Production (FMP) is a German record company and label specializing in free jazz.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Fred Frith

Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor.

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Free improvisation

Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved.

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George Cartwright (musician)

George Cartwright (born December 10, 1950, in Midnight, Mississippi) is an American musician, best known as the founder of the band Curlew in 1979 in New York City.

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Hallelujah, Anyway – Remembering Tom Cora

Hallelujah, Anyway – Remembering Tom Cora is a 1999 double-CD compilation album by various artists dedicated to United States cellist and composer Tom Cora, who had died on April 9, 1998.

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Hans Reichel

Hans Reichel (May 10, 1949 – November 22, 2011) was a German improvisational guitarist, experimental luthier, inventor, and type designer.

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Honky-tonk

A honky-tonk (also called honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is both a bar that provides country music for the entertainment of its patrons and the style of music played in such establishments.

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House band

A house band is a group of musicians, often centrally organized by a band leader, who regularly play at an establishment.

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ICTUS Records

ICTUS Records is an avant-garde jazz record label founded in 1976 by Andrea Centazzo and Carla Lugli.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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JazzFest Berlin

JazzFest Berlin (also known as the Berlin Jazz Festival) is a jazz festival based in Berlin, Germany.

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John Zorn

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres, including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music.

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Karl Berger

Karl Hans Berger (born March 30, 1935 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator.

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Kazutoki Umezu

is a Japanese jazz saxophonist.

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Knitting Factory

The Knitting Factory is a nightclub that was opened in New York City and that featured eclectic music and entertainment.

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Knitting Factory Records

Knitting Factory Records is an independent American music label that is notable for promoting a variety of artists, including the music of deceased Nigerian political activist Fela Kuti.

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Le trésor de la langue

Le trésor de la langue (English: The treasure of language) is an album of music released by the guitarist René Lussier on the Ambiances Magnétiques label in 1989.

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Learn to Talk

Learn to Talk is a studio album by United States experimental rock band Skeleton Crew, recorded at Sunrise Studio, Kirchberg, Switzerland, between Christmas and New Year 1983/1984.

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Learn to Talk / Country of Blinds

Learn to Talk / Country of Blinds is a CD compilation album by United States experimental rock and jazz band Skeleton Crew.

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Luis García Renart

Luis García Renart (Barcelona) is a Spanish-born Mexican cellist.

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Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot (born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.

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Melanoma

Melanoma, also known as malignant melanoma, is a type of cancer that develops from the pigment-containing cells known as melanocytes.

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Moers Festival

The Moers Festival is an international jazz festival in Moers, Germany, happening yearly every Whitsun.

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Moers Music

Moers Music is a German jazz record label based in the city of Moers.

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Museum of the Moving Image

The Museum of the Moving Image is a media museum located in Astoria, Queens in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios (now Kaufman Astoria Studios).

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Myra Melford

Myra Melford is an American avant-garde jazz pianist and composer.

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National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada (or simply National Film Board or NFB) (French: Office national du film du Canada, or ONF) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.

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New World Records

New World Records is a record label that was established in 1975 through a Rockefeller Foundation grant to celebrate America's bicentennial (1976) by producing a 100-LP anthology, with American music from many genres.

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Nicolas Collins

Nicolas Collins (born March 26, 1954 in New York City) is a composer of mostly electronic music and former student of Alvin Lucier.

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No Man's Land (record label)

No Man's Land was a German record label based in Würzburg, Germany.

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One-man band

A one-man band is a musician who plays a number of instruments simultaneously using their hands, feet, limbs, and various mechanical or electronic contraptions.

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Pablo Casals

Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan:; 29 December 187622 October 1973), usually known in English as Pablo Casals,, The New York Times, 1911-04-09, retrieved 2009-08-01 was a cellist, composer, and conductor from Catalonia, Spain.

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Post-rock

Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by use of rock instruments primarily to explore textures and timbre rather than traditional song structure, chords or riffs.

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Prepared guitar

A prepared guitar is a guitar that has had its timbre altered by placing various objects on or between the instrument's strings, including other extended techniques.

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Quartet

In music, a quartet or quartette is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers; or a musical composition for four voices or instruments.

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RēR Quarterly

The RēR Quarterly (also known as Rē Records Quarterly and RēR Records Quarterly) was an English "quarterly" sound-magazine comprising an LP record and a magazine.

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Recommended Records

Recommended Records (RēR) is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978.

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RecRec Music

RecRec Music was a Swiss independent record label created in 1983 by Daniel Waldner.

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René Lussier

René Lussier (born April 15, 1957) is a musician based in Quebec, Canada.

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Richard Teitelbaum

Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (born May 19, 1939) is an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Samm Bennett

Samm Bennett (b. Birmingham, Alabama, 1957), is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Scrabbling at the Lock

Scrabbling at the Lock is the first of two albums by Dutch punk band The Ex in collaboration with avant-garde cellist Tom Cora.

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Shockabilly

Shockabilly was a band which included Eugene Chadbourne on guitar and vocals, Mark Kramer on bass guitar and organ, and David Licht on drums.

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Skeleton Crew (band)

Skeleton Crew was a United States experimental rock and jazz group from 1982 to 1986, comprising core members Fred Frith (guitar) and Tom Cora (cello), with Zeena Parkins (harp) joining later.

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STEIM

STEIM (STudio for Electro Instrumental Music) is a center for research and development of new musical instruments in the electronic performing arts, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Step Across the Border

Step Across the Border is a 1990 avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.

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The Country of Blinds

The Country of Blinds is a studio album by United States experimental rock and jazz band Skeleton Crew, recorded at Sunrise Studio, Kirchberg, Switzerland, December 1985 and January 1986.

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The Ex (band)

The Ex are an underground band from the Netherlands that formed in 1979 at the height of the original punk explosion.

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The Kitchen

The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Third Person (band)

Third Person was an improvising trio formed in 1990 in New York City, led by cellist Tom Cora and drummer Samm Bennett.

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Toshinori Kondo

is an avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter.

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Tzadik Records

Tzadik Records is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Vibraphone

The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.

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Wayne Horvitz

Wayne Horvitz (born 1955) is an American composer, keyboardist and record producer He came to prominence in the Downtown scene of 1980s and '90s New York City, noted for working with John Zorn's Naked City among others.

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West Berlin

West Berlin (Berlin (West) or colloquially West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War.

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Yancey Mills, Virginia

Yancey Mills is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.

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Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins is an American harpist active in free improvisation and jazz.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cora

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