henri pousseur “parabolique d'enfer • paraboles-mix avec leçons d'enfer” compact disc

• parabolique d'enfer (1) (6:02)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (2) (8:08)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (3) (8:10)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (4) (5:55)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (5) (5:45)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (6) (4:10)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (7) (4:52)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (8) (4:22)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (9) (5:02)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (10) (5:38)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (11) (8:20)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (12) (5:50)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (13) (5:48)

sub rosa press release...

henri pousseur parabolique d'enfer / paraboles-mix avec leçons d'enfer cd digipack sr318 this recording will be our first posthumous recording of henri pousseur. it is the sixth release (out of eight) in our catalog devoted to this composer's experimental and electronic works. it also marks the end of the trilogy on the parabolic works (following the 1972 unreleased recordings and the 2001 collective performance). this time around, we have a piece built through another major pousseur work: leçon d'enfer (composed in 1990-1991 around arthur rimbaud). this previously unreleased version was realized by henri pousseur in cologne in 1992. paraboles-mix avec leçons d'enfer - this release was important to henri pousseur, as it concludes, in a sense, the paraboles trilogy, after 1972's 8 etudes paraboliques (released as a 4-cd box set sr174 comprised of all the etudes to be used as the basis for all current and future mixes) and 4 parabolic mixes (sr199, 2001, on which four composers - robert hampson, philip jeck, markus popp, and pousseur himself) tackled those source tapes. this suite of works was gradually pushing composition further into the territory of destruction and abstraction. this final installment, a mix made from the 1972 etudes, as should be, integrates a major external element (something already planned in the initial design): another work by pousseur, leçons d'enfer, a complex piece of musical theatre dedicated to the memory of arthur rimbaud and composed in 1991 for the centennial of the poet's death. this work, over 100 minutes long, was written for two actors, three singers, seven musicians (clarinet, alto saxophone, tuba, harp, piano, and two percussions), tapes (including traditional ethiopian music and field recordings from that area), and electroacoustic devices. with this version, henri pousseur shows how the deep impression left by a work in constant mutation can take different guises. the rimbaud pictured in this flux is neither the promising teenager, nor the striking genius, nor even the desperate man struggling in vain in an empty landscape ; it is an appeased hybrid breathing the ebullient air of the final times.

henri pousseur “mixed music 1966-1970” compact disc

• crosses of crossed colors (1970)
  
• jeux de miroirs de votre faust (1977-67)

guy marc hinant / dominique lohlé “hommage au sauvage • a portrait of henri pousseur” digital versatile disc

• hommage au sauvage (52:08)

sub rosa press release...

sub rosa re-releases the 2005 documentary of belgian theoretician and experimental/avant-garde composer, henri pousseur. over 15 years ago, the basel-based fondation paul sacher, which preserves archives related to 20th century music, sent its best expert, musicologist dr. albi rosenthal, to henri pousseur's home. upon finding out the scope of documents pousseur had kept, the musical antiquarian's eyes widened. now, pousseur's past, present and future archives can be found at the foundation: magnetic tapes, scores, correspondence, etc., along with his most complex research work, his most obscure sound materials, and his most random memos. this documentary film is part of that archival body, in the form of a "road movie," if you will. henri leads a convoy en route to basel. for hours on end, the footage conjures up far-away and ancient places, but we know nothing of the moment, the location, or the context of their emergence. the enclosed and moving space of the car is the only thing you can hold on to or believe in. on the way back, after sitting in the car for hours, the setting sun illuminates pousseur's face. he remembers his first glimpse of mount fuji and carefully shows the viewer where he was sitting on the tokyo-kyoto train, years ago: "right there, like that. my wife was there and i was there." through the window, he shows us where mount fuji stood. and suddenly, we can see it too, silhouetted on the horizon. thanks to what happens off-camera, the filmed reminiscence turns into presence. as we capture the tale of this vision, we can see what pousseur sees. and yet, beyond that, and that light: nothing. this is a powerful documentary, which manages to change sensations simply by recording a living, direct, and unpredictable narration. it is also henri's last voyage. directed by dominique lohlé and guy marc hinant. 52 minutes; double-sided dvd in both ntsc & pal formats, region-free; in french with english subtitles.

“an anthology of noise & electronic music • first a-chronology 1921-2001” triple long playing record set

• luigi and antonio russolo - corale (1:57) 1921
  
• walter ruttman - wochende (11:17) 1930
  
• pierre schaeffer - cinq etudes de bruits: etude violette (3:18) 1948
  
• henri pousseur - scambi (6:27) 1957
  
  
• gordon mumma - the dresden interleaf 13 february 1945 (12:43) 1965
  
• angus maclise tony conrad and john cale - trance #2 (5:07) 1965
  
• philip jeck otomo yoshihide and martin tetreault - untitled #1 (6:06) 2000
  
  
• konrad boehmer - aspekt (15:13) 1966
  
• einsturzende neubauten - ragout: küchen rezpt von einsturzende neubauten (4:08) 1998
  
  
• nam june paik - hommage a john cage (4:13) 1958-59
  
• john cage - rozart mix (7:18) 1965
  
• sonic youth - audience (6:00) 1983
  
• survival research laboratories - october 24 1992 graz austria (6:11) 1992
  
  
• edgard varèse - poeme electronique (4:40) 1957-58
  
• iannis xenakis - concret ph (2:44) 1958
  
• ryoji ikeda - one minute (1:00) 1997
  
• paul d. miller aka dj spooky that subliminal kid - ftp > bundle / conduit 23 (8:07) 2001
  
  
• pauline oliveros - a little noise in the system (moog system) (30:16) 1966

sub rosa press release...

an anthology of noise & electronic music #1 first a-chronology 1921-2001 srv190 3xlp the first volume of seven published from 2001 to 2011, curated, noted and edited by guy marc hinant. an unpublished history this is the great beginning of a vast anthology of "noise and electronic music" that we plan for the following years in 7 double volumes. this volume begins in the 1920s, with the russolo brothers, and looks at each decade in turn - varèse, cage, schaeffer, xenakis, the great pioneers - the first traces of a music that was necessarily revolutionary: electronic music, created from nothing (and hence to be entirely invented). some pieces on these cds are certainly classics, but there are others, which, though old, were distributed informally or never even released. our more contemporary pieces are, wherever possible, previously unreleased. in fact, more than the half of what we listen here is unreleased and unpublished. ... the gathering of eclectic noise makers whereas composers like stockhausen, berio or pousseur had come from serialism and began making electronic music as a continuation of their work with traditional instruments, others such as boehmer or oliveros composed right away on electronic bases; there were those who invented new methods, like schaeffer and concrete music, others were outsiders, revolutionaries or visionaries like xenakis or cage, without forgetting the branch of sound derived from dada, the complex forms of free jazz, john coltrane, the acoustic and electronic improvisation scene, rock of the alternative, psychedelic and industrial varieties, the german wave of the 1970s, the last generation of electronic musicians from the beginning or middle of the 1990s, dj, reinventors of drones, painters or sculptors using sound, and process or software creators. the noise goes on ...