Trente Oiseaux is a

record label "Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of Sound recording and reproduction, music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a Music publisher, ...

founded by

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

ian

Bernhard Günter Bernhard Günter (born 1957 in Neuwied, West Germany) is a German post-Cageian composer associated with microsound and lowercase movements or styles of minimalist composition. He is influenced by Morton Feldman. A former rock and jazz drummer, G� ...

in 1995. Early releases featured musicians such as Francisco López,

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, John Duncan, Jim O'Rourke,

Daniel Menche Daniel Menche (born December 4, 1969) is an American experimental musician and multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. Since 1989 he has recorded many albums that are categorized as electro-acoustic, noise music, dark ambient music, abst ...

and Günter himself. A bout of ill health forced Günter to slow down operations in the late 1990s, however the label made a comeback in 1999 and has continued to be a prolific label in the field of

minimalist music In visual arts, music, and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in the post-war era in western art. The movement is often interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism and modernism; it anticipated contemporary post-m ...

External links

https://trenteoiseaux.de/https://trenteoiseaux.bandcamp.com/
Trente Oiseaux Bandcamp
http://trenteoiseaux.blogspot.com/
Bernhard Günter's blog with some freely downloadable Trente Oiseaux records in Flac format.
www.simonwhetham.co.uk
German record labels Record labels established in 1995 Experimental music record labels {{Germany-record-label-stub

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