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| | | die schachtel (italy) #ds23 cd grupo nps “nuove proposte sonore 1965-1972” compact disc - ricerca 4 (5:48) 1965/1968
- funzione 4 (2:48) 1965/1968
- modulo 4 (3:53) 1965/1968
- interferenze 2 (4:36) 1965/1968
- masse 1 (3:15) 1965/1968
- masse 2 (2:39) 1965/1968
- freq mod 2 (6:31) 1968/1972
- insiemi (7:40) 1968/1972
- filtro 1 (6:36) 1968/1972
- hardlag ii (5:33) 1968/1972
| august 2011 release ; cd version of the grupo nps lp, comes in a gorgeous foil-stamped silver box with a 36-page booklet in italian & english ...
... needless to say, but its great to be back on track with die schachtel, who are here picking up their silver series of lps after a good few-years break ...
this edition issues some of the earliest electronic music from italy, composed at two different facilities (in padova & varsavia) by a changing cast of composers & artisans revolving around teresa rampazzi ... utilizing an array of crude laboratory test equipment & recording devices, this music is anything but a series of stuffy, academic affairs, largely concerned with raw analogue tone-clustering & audio-rate fm / am-type processes, issued under clinical / technical names that absolutely drip with machine-shop chic ...
absolutely eye-opening stuff & easily one of my favorite reissues of the year of any stripe / style ; the production spec & attention to detail is everything youd expect from a ca. 2011 die schachtel vinyl edition ... highly recommended !!! |
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gruppo nps
nuove proposte sonore 1965 - 1972
ds 23 cdbox 2011
the nps - nuove proposte sonore (new sound proposals) group was founded in padua (italy) in 1964 by the composer teresa rampazzi together with the visual artist ennio chiggio. working with analogical devices they produced some of the most compelling electronic music of the period, and they soon became one of the most reputed electronic music centers in italy, together with the s 2 fm by pietro grossi in florence and the smet by enore zaffiri in turin.
with the departure of chiggio, the years 1969-1970 tranformed it in a female-only collective (teresa rampazzi, serenella marega and patrizia gracis). the two periods were characterized by different instrumentation, and it is surprising how they were able to achieve great results with some simple means. at least in the beginning.
in the first period they used a couple of two-tracks tape recorders (sony 777 and sony 521), an eico low frequency generator, a radio station to produce long wavelengths frequencies, a mixer, an oscillator, a revox, and a self-built loudspeaker. they had to use the stairwell as an echo chamber.
in the second one, when the studio was more established, they had six manually-controlled oscillators as well as six modulated ones, a white noise generator, an octave-band filter and a variable one, an amplitude modulator, a noteswitch, a reverb, a 10-channels mixer, a unit for audio signal routing, four tape recorders, a stereo sound system and a frequency meter (during the last years they also bought a 2500 arp synthesizer).
deluxe silver cd-box, silver-foil design, complete with a 36-pages booklet in italian and english.
edition of 500 copies |
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