About Starkland

Starkland releases engaging, compelling recordings of experimental, avant-garde, electroacoustic, organized sound, musique concrete, alternative classical, new music.

Starkland's latest recording features Phil Kline's Around the World in a Daze, a major work debuting on a new surround sound DVD. The 65-minute studio composition was commissioned by Starkland specifically for high-resolution surround sound and to premiere on DVD.

All of the music on Starkland's Immersion DVD was also commissioned by Starkland exclusively for high-resolution surround sound. It is now recognized as the first such recording in history. "In this disc, a new genre of music is born," writes Village Voice music critic Kyle Gann, noting that Starkland commissioned "thirteen of the hippest composers around." Immersion has been praised in such major publications as Billboard and Sound & Vision, and at times has been the #1 bestselling DVD-Audio at Amazon.com.

Starkland also offers CDs from other labels, including Paul Dresher's Slow Fire and Steve Mackey's Ravenshead.

Our recordings may be ordered at various online sources such as Amazon.com and CD Baby. Our recordings can be found in savvy stores like Amoeba in California and Downtown Music in New York. All recordings can also be ordered directly from Starkland.

Starkland composers include Charles Amirkhanian, Phillip Bimstein, Jay Cloidt, Tod Dockstader, Paul Dolden, Paul Dresher, William Duckworth, Robert Een, Fred Frith, Ellen Fullman, Lars Hollmer, Aaron Jay Kernis, Jerome Kitzke, Roger Kleier, Phil Kline, Guy Klucevsek, Lukas Ligeti, Ingram Marshall, Merzbow, Meredith Monk, Bruce Odland, Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Somei Satoh, Carl Stone, Lois V Vierk, Pamela Z, and John Zorn.

The Kronos Quartet, Turtle Island String Quartet, Paul Dresher Ensemble, Modern Mandolin Quartet, and Basso Bongo are some of the musicians on Starkland's CDs.

Our CDs have been praised in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Stereophile, Wired, Stereo Review, Village Voice, Alternative Press, Fanfare, England's The Wire, Canada's Musicworks, France's Revue & Corrigée, Germany's Zillo, Japan's inTune, Italy's Rumore, and Spain's Margen.