Berlin based electronic producer DJ Phillip Sollmann recently took a break from his techno project Efdemin to work on Monophonie, a new release that explores the custom built instruments pioneered by Hermann von Helmholtz, Harry Partch and Harry Bertoia. In support of this, Sollmann has recorded a mix, uniting a host of other minimal composers that helped inspire his latest work.

Martin Smolka “8 Pieces (4 Guitars)”
Ellen Fullman “Langzaam”
David Toop “The Chairs Story”
Maggi Payne “Gamelan”
Adrian Verdejo featuring James Tenney “Septet (For Six Electric Guitars And Bass)”
Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada & Friends “Niagara”
Angus MacLise “Dreamweapon III”
Phill Niblock “Second Two Octaves And A Fifth”
Phill Niblock “A Third Trombone”
Ellen Fullman “Work For Four Players And 90 Strings”
Ellen Arkbro “Chords For Organ”
Phillip Sollmann & Konrad Sprenger “Modular Organ System (Live, Nürnberg 2019)”
Ellen Arkbro “Chords For Guitar”
Mark Fell “Intra-3”
Georg Friedrich Haas “Open Spaces – In Memory Of James Tenney For 12 String Instruments And Percussion”
Carl Michael Von Hausswolff “Operation Of Spirit Recordings”
The Deontic Miracle featuring Catherine Christer Hennix “Music Of Auspicious Clouds”
James Tenney “Glissade, For Viola Cello, Doublebass And Tape Delay System: Array”
Yuri Landman “Bwong”
Will Guthrie “Catlike”
Karlheinz Stockhausen “Stimmung, Mod 43 (Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier)”
Martin Smolka “8 Pieces (4 Guitars)”
Henry Jacobs “Microtonal”
David Behrman “Touch Tones”
Duane Pitre “Music For Microtonal Guitar And Mallets”
Remko Scha “French Recitatif”
Remko Scha “Slam”
Henry Flynt “Violin Strobe”
Robin Hayward “States Of Rushing” (45 rpm)
Tony Conrad “Four Violins”
Arnold Dreyblatt “Choice”
Syzygys “DPO”
Kyle Gann “Andromeda Memories”
FUJI-TA “nNami”

Monophonie is released via A-TON. Read a review of the album in The Wire 436.