Avant

I've been listening to quite a bit of contemporary classical and avant garde music lately. Much of it came to me courtesy of The Avant Garde Project, which provides high-quality digital files of avant garde music that was only issued on vinyl and is now out of print. The list of recordings offered for download (as full-size .flac files) from the site is impressive: composers such as Morton Subotnick, John Cage, Jacob Druckman, Toru Takemitsu, and many others. New recordings are made available on a regular basis, first through bittorrent, and then subsequently archived on the site. If you're interested but don't want to make the harddrive space committment of downloading the .flac files, the Analog Arts Ensemble's ANAblog makes .mp3s available of some of the tracks from these collections.