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| | | die schachtel (italy) #ds09/2 lp teresa rampazzi “musica endoscopica” long playing record - musica endoscopica (25:01) 1972
- environ (6:45) 1970
- with the light pen (8:34) 1976
- metamorfosi (8:30) 1981
| october 2009 release ; after several years of inactivity, die schachtel’s legendary “metallic” vinyl series returns in full force with this luxury edition of the recent teresa rampazzi collection (replete with a bonus track exclusive to the lp edition) ...
re: the music ::
... starting with the sparse “environ,” the sheets of filtered white noise & rising/falling electronic oscillations remind me a bit of a more through-composed take on what louis & bebe barron were doing ca. 1956 ... this is followed by “musica endoscopica,” a series of 12 miniatures (each named after the digestive organ conceivably responsible for each respective noise) realized on modular synth & some extremely sproingy reverb, undoubtedly the centerpiece of the disc, with each 2-minute segment offering up a different patch / sound-combination ...
the latter two pieces are from the early digital era ; the synthesized bell tones of “with the light pen” are straight out of chowning’s book ... |
despite recent / depressing developments in the euro-dollar exchange, this one actually costs a little less than the prior entries ; even with the full die schachtel spec (i.e. embossed, foil-stamped “metallic” jacket, proper printed inner sleeve, full-size 4-panel booklet in italian & english) ... highly recommended !!! |
| | die schachtel press release... |
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ds9 teresa rampazzi musica endoscopica
genre: early electronic music, computer music
format: lp
description: limited 300 copies deluxe silver cover with silver foil design,
custom inner sleeve and 4-page booklet in english and italian.
following the acclaimed cd edition, here's the long-awaited limited "silver" lp edition of the teresa rampazzi incredible early electronic music. it differs from the cd edition for the inclusion of "metamorfosi", a previously unreleased an magnificent drone piece.
teresa rampazzi, a seminal yet very little known female italian composer/musician, founded the "nps - nuove proposte sonore" - an experimental music collective formed in the late 60s, she was also one of the founders and main figures of the "centro di sonologia computazionale" a computer music research center active from the early 70s at the university of padua.
it would be easy to see electronic composer teresa rampazzi as italy's equivalent of daphne oram or delia derbyshire, those long-neglected pioneers behind the bbc radiophonic workshop. but zoomed in closer, though, a more intriguing picture begins to emerge: "musica endoscopica" is in fact an immersive journey into a futuristic / early digital electronic music with dense, long drone pieces made of complex textures explore the computer's capacity to produce endless variations of source material, and at times anticipate some of the electro-feel to emerge in the years to follow.
a welcomed return of die schachtel to their celebrated "metallic" series vinyl lp edition, dedicated to the early electronic italian composers.
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from the liner notes ::
…i encountered the electronic music exactly at its birth, listening to its cries in the large marienhöhe concert hall, in darmstadt. (actually the term ‘arrived’ is not correct; no one ever joins any place; we are always walking).
teresa rampazzi describes in this way her encounter with the electronic synthesis. it was the year 1952, when she first participated to the ferienkurse für neue musik at darmstadt (she went several other times later). at that time teresa rossi (this was her maiden name) was 37. she was a pianist, performer of avant-garde music and chorus singer; she was married with 2 children.
the 1952 edition was one of the most famous edition of the ferienkurse: boulez declares schoenberg’s death, there were the first concerts der jungen generation (teresa was in the chorus of españa en el corazón by luigi nono). nevertheless, a small electronic instrument (a frequency generator) struck her instead. she had understood that that was the only way to completely reject tonal music.
... so in that [marienhöhe] concert hall, for the first time eimert showed to the public a small frequency generator. musicians looked at it suspiciously and did not attach too much importance to it. for me, that little, tricky object could certainly grow, multiply, shock the world, that is the musical world.
teresa comes back in padova changed. but she takes a few years to finally abandon her instrumental activity. meanwhile, in her lounge she meets composers, musicians and theoreticians (niccolò castiglioni, franco donatoni, severino gazzelloni, rené leibowitz, heinz-klaus metzger). in padova, she plays in 1959 during a concert with john cage, metzger and s. bussotti. in 1963 she organizes an electroacoustic music concert. but she completely carries our her plan only in 1964, when she meets ennio chiggio, a visual artist member of the gruppo enne. “from darmstadt she took every time with her just moods, perturbation, never detailed reports; and we tried together to elaborate them”. chiggio worked at that time with a company that produces electronic materials: he obtained a low-frequency generator, a semiprofessional philips recorder, and a mixer. teresa contacted him to borrow a mixer and a tape player for an audition. in 1978 – in a interview with michela mollia from which we propose here several long quotations, teresa describes her first experiments as follows:
“… you cannot ask a newborn baby to make a long speech. i started to babble when i enthusiastically decided to use the [eimert’s generator]. i mixed just short signals for some few minutes. they were not phrases nor words. i shut down and sold the piano, though i’ve almost destroyed it during my performances with john cage. and i bought the same little frequency generator i’ve seen at darmstadt. with it and a mono tape recorder, i tried to make my first electron experiment.”
their first experimental work was a sound collage made together with ennio chiggio, which functioned as musical background for the vernissage of an exposition by the gruppo enne at the biennale in venice. on 22nd may 1965 – together with the arrive of serenella marega and a young engineer, memo alfonsi – the n.p.s. (nuove proposte sonore) group presented itself in a concert with a programmatic manifesto. |
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