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edition rz (germany) #rz 20003-04 cd

john mcguireworks for instruments” double compact disc set

  • cadence music (27:58) 1982-1985
  • exchanges (16:33) 1998-2002

  • decay (21:04) 1967-1970
  • frieze (24:31) 1969-1974
  • music for horns, pianos and cymbals (13:09) 1981
2008 release ; ... a double-disc collection of american composer john mcguire’s extended, tonal polyrhythmic works ...
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ed. rz 20003/4 2-cd
john mcguire: works for instruments

instrumental compositions by "post-minimalist" john mcguire who took classes with karlheinz stockhausen and gottfried michael koenig, among others.

cover design: ott + stein, berlin;
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each of the compositions of american composer john mcguire describes, in its own way, a multi-dimensional sonic space which the listener can take in from various vantage points and, in so doing, experience the very same sound in different guises.

cd1 44:33 · cd2 58:46 · total time: 103:20

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edition rz (germany) #rz 10021-22 cd

michael reudenbachszenen, standbilder • werke 1991-2009” double compact disc set

  • trio. studie for piano, violin and violoncello (10:49)
  • choral for voice and for instruments (7:49)
  • und aber. musik for string quartet (16:24)
  • kommen - berschreibungen for 5 voices (11:36)
  • trio 3 for bassetthorn, bass clarinet and piano (10:08)
  • mirlitonnades pour petite flute (2:45)

  • zhlergesang for ensemble (10:47)
  • schnitt & fortsetzung for flute, harp, guitar, piano and pauke (10:26)
  • duo pianism for two pianos (8:12)
  • ahto. music for 8 instruments (12:30)
  • stratton for ensemble (11:34)
  • szenen, standbilder for 4 instruments (9:24)
march 2013 release ; ... career-overview of the german composer michael reudenbach, a student of lachenmann & spahlinger’s who shares the former’s affinity for extended techniques & whose work hints at the viscerality of the latter’s ...
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ed. rz 10021-22 2cd

michael reudenbach: szenen, standbilder. works 1991-2009

it has become taken for granted that nothing concerned with art is self-evident any more, neither in it nor in its relationship with the whole - not even its right to exist." it is with these words that adorno begins his "aesthetic theory”.

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edition rz (germany) #rz 10020 cd

giuliano d’angiolinisimmetrie di ritorno” compact disc

  • simmetrie di ritorno (8:27) 2000
  • ita vita zita rita (12:55) 1997
  • orizzonte fisso
  • bordoni mobili (18:03) 2007
  • und'ho d'andà (8:50) 1995
  • ho visto un incidente (5:42) 1991-1992
  • notturno in progressione (10:13) 2004
november 2010 release ; ... beguiling chamber work from italian composer giuliano d’angiolini ...
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ed. rz 10020 cd
giuliano d’angiolini: simmetrie di ritorno

six compositions for chamber ensembles.

giuliano d'angiolini is a positively unique figure in contemporary music. his profound, well-conceived and stubborn take on music has led him to what he calls "impersonal" music — music that has fully abandoned the idea of development or form.

through successive states of presentation, which aim to elucidate, d'angiolini wanted to "leave place in sound so that music could become less voluntary". this led him to favour the surface and present, an approach that was by no means superficial: the surface as the immediacy in the propositional content of sound and the present as the very surface of the criterion of time.

in his work, musical process and material are but one and are completely laid bare. what we are to hear is non-discursive, deliberately lacking formal organization. we are even free to turn away and come back of our own will — as if the composer wanted to make positive use of the negative metamorphosis of today's urban listeners, listeners who are constantly assailed with stimuli.

- gérard pesson

cover design: ott + stein, berlin;
scan: christine berkenhoff

total time: 64' 11''

performers:
ensemble 2e2m,
franck ollu,
pierre roullier,
monique bouvet,
barbara morihien,

quatuor parisii:
arnaud vallin,
jean-michel berrette,
dominique lobet,
jean-philippe martignoni

studios:
auditorium du conservatoire de gennevilliers,
auditorium antonin artaud in ivry-sur-seine

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edition rz (germany) #rz 10017 cd

clara maïdain corpore vili” compact disc

  • mutatis mutandis for twelve strings (12:59) 2008
  • psyché-cité/tranversales : 1. fluctuat o (in)animi (13:47) 2005-2006
  • psyché-cité/tranversales : 2. ipso facto (9:39) 2005-2006
  • psyché-cité/tranversales : 3. via rupta (9:06) 2005-2006
  • ... who holds the strings ... (8:17) 2003
  • doppelklänger (13:39) 2008
january 2010 release ; ... contemporary repertoire from composer clara maïda, including her “zyklus für instrumente und elektronik(cycle for instruments and electronics)psyché-cité/tranversales(an excerpt of the purely electronic section can be heard via the sound-sample) ...
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ed. rz 10017 cd
clara maïda: in corpore vili

a co-produktion of berliner künstler programm of daad, edition-rz, and deutschlandradio kultur

during the first years of my compositional research, my goal was to mark out, in my music, the flux of the psychic energy at work in the unconscious and its underlying structure. at the time, i was going through an analytical process favouring access to this unconscious activity, and my readings in the field of psychoanalysis were helping me in the effort to elaborate a musical thinking likely to account for this psychic complexity, which only appears through unintentional acts and words, or in fantasies and dreams.

a whole structural and formal model for a potential music was emerging then, since only the plasticity of the world of sound seemed to be able to suggest this mobility and instability, which endlessly alter the configurations of the components of the unconscious.

ensemble resonanz,
kammerensemble neue musik berlin,
ensemble orchestral contemporain,
arditti string quartet,
heather o'donnel

elektronisches studio der technischen universität berlin
studio für elektroakustische musik der akademie der künste, berlin

format: audio cd, digisleeve, booklet german/english
total time: 67:28

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edition rz (germany) #rz 10016 cd

20 jahre inventionen vi” compact disc

  • edgar barroso - odd (10:36) 2006
  • mario verandi - comme un jeu des images (13:03) 2006
  • paul wilson - through the rain (11:59) 2006
  • ricardo climent - wallwoodpeckers (9:07) 2005
  • vladimir djambazov - the secret life of a snare drum (10:59) 2005
  • ludger brümmer - glasharfe (19:02) 2006
2007 release ; ... documentation of the 2005 & 2006 inventionen festival(s), represented by contemporary electro-acoustic work from edgar barroso, mario verandi, paul wilson, ricardo climent, vladimir djambazov & ludger brümmer ...
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ed. rz 10016 cd
inventionen vi: electroacoustical music

inventionen festivals 2005 and 2006 featured compositions by edgar barroso, mario verandi, paul wilson, ricardo climent, vladimir djambazov and ludger brümmer

[ berliner künstlerprogramm des daad ]
[ daad artists-i8n-berlin programm ]

gesamtspielzeit: 74:48

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edition rz (germany) #rz 10015 cd

agostino di scipiohörbare ökosysteme • live elektronic compositions 1993-2005” compact disc

  • texture/multiple (12:36) 1993
  • craquelure 2 pezze silenziosi, a guiliano i (5:00) 2002
  • craquelure 2 pezze silenziosi, a guiliano ii (5:12) 2002
  • interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili i (1:38) 1997-1998
  • interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili ii (2:21) 1997-1998
  • interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili iii (2:13) 1997-1998
  • interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili iv (2:18) 1997-1998
  • interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili v (3:11) 1997-1998
  • hörbare ökosysteme nr. 1 (8:19) 2002-2005
  • hörbare ökosysteme nr. 2a (5:50) 2002-2005
  • hörbare ökosysteme nr. 2b (4:42) 2002-2005
  • hörbare ökosysteme nr. 3a (6:55) 2002-2005
  • hörbare ökosysteme nr. 3b (8:42) 2002-2005
2007 release ; ... fascinating set of pieces from italian composer agostino di scipio, centered around a series of patches built in the kyma / capybara platform which “listen” to assorted instrumental performances, deriving key control information which is then used to synthesize and/or augment the palette further ...
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ed. rz 10015 cd
agostino di scipio: hörbare ökosysteme

live elektronic compositions 1993-2005

agostino di scipio teaches his sounds to listen to themselves. the digital sound processing algorithms associated with the pieces listen to their own results, and then modify themselves accordingly, during the course of the piece.

through complicated cybernetic procedures inside the black box the software adjusts to the heard in order to create the unheard.

(frank gertich)
performers:
ensemble mosaik,
prometeo string quartet,
natalia pschenitschnikova.

booklet german/english

total time:68:58

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edition rz (germany) #rz 10009-10 cd

inventionen ‘98 • 50 jahre musique concrète” double compact disc set

  • unsuk chin - allegro ma non troppo (13:32)
  • patrick kosk - icebice (11:10)
  • werner cee - berlin indoors (slow motion) (10:17)
  • françois donanto - sept jours (10:38)
  • robin minard - 4 räume (14:58)
  • wolfgang mitterer - ululu 1 (14:05)

  • francis dhomont - phonurgie (cycle du son, 4) (12:32)
  • erik mikael karlsson - intensities and interludes (12:26)
  • trevor wishart - two women - four voiceprints: siren (3:23)
  • trevor wishart - two women - four voiceprints: facets (2:34)
  • trevor wishart - two women - four voiceprints: stentor (2:22)
  • trevor wishart - two women - four voiceprints: angelus (5:55)
1999 release ; ... cd companion to the “inventionen ‘98symposium, featuring contemporaneous work from trevor wishart (an extended, four-part “voiceprint” piece), robin minard (a subtle, windswept masterpiece), francis dhomont (a classic, high-drama workout), patrick kosk (colossal, spectral transforms of crackling ice), and others ...
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ed. rz 10009/10 2cd (parallele 9/10)
inventionen '98: 50 jahre musique concrete

compositions by chin, kosk, cee, donato, minard, mitterer, dhomont, karlsson, wishart

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edition rz (germany) #rz 09006-07 lp

john cage / terry foxhigh fidelity • artists' records in the marzona collection” double long playing record set

  • john cage - mureau part 1 (14:07)
  • john cage - mureau part 2 (16:54)

  • john cage - mureau part 3 (19:10)
  • john cage - mureau part 4 (17:24)

  • terry fox - culvert part 1 (20:04)
  • terry fox - culvert part 2 (8:12)

  • terry fox - culvert part 3 (27:08)
january 2009 release ; just an awesome package from robert zank & company, containing ::

(1) a reissue of the 1972 s-press cassette of john cage reading “mureau(on the first lp - the entire thing surprisingly, in something of a record-mastering feat)

(2) the first issue of a 1977 terry fox piece, recorded at the clark fork river in missoula, montana ; just about the most mysterious / intriguing piece i’ve heard from terry, involving some wobbly tape-recorder action (listen to the sound-sample) and what sounds like a glass armonica being dipped in water ...

(3) a 36-page 12” x 12 book(let) acting as the exhibition-catalogue for the “high fidelity” showing of artists’ records from the egidio marzona collection at the national museums in berlin, containing writings (in both german and english) by wolfgang brauneis, moritz wullen, peter-klaus schuster, and michael lailach, plus the “mureau” score, photos from the staging of the terry fox piece, and a mini “digest” version of a “broken music” style discography ...

... all trapped inside a triple-gatefold lp sleeve. needless to say this comes highly recommended !!!
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ed. rz 9006/9007 2lp
highfidelityartists' records in the marzona collection:

"john cage speaks mureau"
terry fox, culvert performance (24 hours)

lp 1:
john cage speaks mureau
by john cage edition s press, hattingen 1972
(s press tape no. 14)
duration: 68:07

lp 2:
terry fox, culvert performance (24 hours)
with bootz hubbard and bill gilbert (1st two hours)
clark fork river, missoula, montana, usa, 1977
duration: 55:39


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 best of 2007 !!! 
edition rz (germany) #rz 09003-05 lp

ferdinand kriwethörtexte • radiotexts” triple picture disc long playing record boxed set

  • apollo amerika • hörtext vi (1969)

  • campaign • hörtext ix (1973)

  • radioball • hörtext xi (1975)

  • ball • hörtext x (1974)

  • voice of america • hörtext vii (1970)

  • radio • hörtext xvi (1983)
july 2007 release ; ... staggeringly deluxe set of electro-acoustic “hörtexte(radio plays) assembled primarily in the 60’s & 70’s by the german composer ferdinand kriwet (a name you should recognize from the “siemens-studio für elektronische musik” disc) ; comes as a boxed-set with three picture-disc lp’s and a full-size book / booklet containing reprints of several of kriwet’s dizzying graphic scores ...

these are dense plunderphonic collages using television & radio broadcast footage as source material ... recasting era voices & audio footage into meticulously edited bursts of sound the presage oswald’s “plunderphonics”, negativland, and the like by a good decade or two ... highly recommended !!!
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ed. rz 9003-5 3lp picture discs
ferdinand kriwet: hörtexte / radiotexts

six radio texts by ferdinand kriwet (*1942) in a beautifully designed 3 lp picture discs luxury box.


ferdinand kriwet (*1942)
ferdinand kriwet (born in duesseldorf in 1942) is a multimedia artist and poet who has produced many seminal films and sound works for radio and television, in particular throughout the 1960's and 1970's. his works 'apollo amerika' 1969 and 'campaign' 1973, rank today as outstanding artistic documents of these spectacular events in the history of mankind. kriwet created the work 'apollo amerika' whilst in america at the time of the moon launch, his aim being to compose a work of perception derived from all information he gathered on radio and television about the apollo 11 launch. he describes these as "hörtexts, radio texts" - radio pieces composed of noise and sound bite and samples. kriwet's works are an attempt at communicating an idea of listening to something that constantly surrounds us on short, medium and long wave frequencies. his politically engaged and avant-garde approach was influenced by aesthetic and conceptual currents in constructivism, new music, beat generation and pop.

six of kriwets legendary 'sehtexts' (visual texts) reproduced on six picture disc lps combined with six of his legendary hörspiel works / sound collages originally broadcast on german radio and previously unreleased: 'apollo america' (1969), 'voice of america' (1970), 'campaign' (1973), snapshots of american media at the beginning of the 1970s; 'radioball' (1975) and 'ball' (1974), reflecting soccer sports in germany in the 1970s; and 'radio' (1983).


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edition rz (germany) #rz 09002 lp

emmett williamspoems • 1950-2003” picture disc long playing record

  • the end of the world (0:17)
  • once upon a time (0:24)
  • good evening, herr goethe… (0:16)
  • good evening, dear friedrich… (0:16)
  • for marilyn monroe (0:23)
  • ach bun was (0:24)
  • the moon is green / der mond ist grün (0:44)
  • oracle (1:34)
  • the last french-fried potato (0:17)
  • i think therefore i am (1:42)
  • a book about eggs (0:47)
  • litany and response for alison knowles i (1:41)
  • litany and response for alison knowles ii (0:48)
  • a selection from 5,000 new ways (2:16)
  • duet (1:32)
  • do you remember? (2:20)
  • triadic landscapes (1:31)

  • rotapoems, six variations on a poem by dieter roth from his lyrical collection "scheisse" (3:29)
  • for diter rot (0:34)
  • a fragment (3:23)
  • souvenir portraits from the passing parade in dreamland (1:16)
  • portraits of the artist with holes in his head (0:47)
  • portraits of the artist as primitive man (0:30)
  • portraits of the artist as dowager empresses (0:34)
  • portrait-studies of wholesale meat distributors (1:10)
  • a portrait gallery of snoopers and snuffers (0:50)
  • performance art (0:36)
  • in vino veritats (0:15)
  • vergissmeinnichte (0:28)
  • aphrodisiacal applesauce (3:46)
  • a broken alphabet (1:33)
2004 release ; ... gorgeous & highly entertaining set, with fluxus artist emmett williams reading a selection of short poems that dig deep into five decades of archival work...
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ed. rz 9002 / n+s
emmett williams: poems 1950 - 2003

vinyl picture disc lp, spoken by emmett williams.

recorded from 2000-2003.

mastering: schalloran tonstudio christian feldgen

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edition rz (germany) #rz 04008-09 cd

harley gaberthe winds rise in the north” double compact disc set

  • the winds rise in the north (part 1) (27:19)
  • the winds rise in the north (part 2) (25:19)

  • the winds rise in the north (part 3) (26:33)
  • the winds rise in the north (part 4) (24:19)
2007 release ; cd issue of the 1976 titanic-label double-lp of harley gaber’s epicthe winds rise in the north” ...

recorded “in keene valley(i.e. “in the summer home of miss henrietta gibson”) during june 21-27 , 1976 & performed there by a group of string players including malcolm goldstein, stephen reynolds, linda cummiskey, kathy seplow, & david gibson, this 100+ minute piece works an endless reconfiguring of sliding, micro-tonal string glissandi into one of the finest capturing(s) of claustrophobic, inner-cranial movement on record, made all the more powerful by gaber’s retirement from composition months after this piece’s completion (after which he “played tennis” for a few decades, returning briefly to writing in 2003, only to end his own life this past june) ...

... to many, this is one of the holy grails of minimalism in music in the 20th century ; it’s certainly a piece that should be talked about a hell of a lot more than it is (perhaps its rigorous adherence to a largely a-tonal / temporal / morphous form keeps it locked far away from the “palatable minimalism of glass / reich / riley et.al) ... either way, it’s a heavy piece that’s powerfully trance-inducing ; one’s emergence from which always shapes everyday realities in an unsettling way ...
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edition rz reissues the winds rise in the north by american composer harley gaber, originally released on titanic records in 1976.

interpreters:
linda cummiskey (violin)
malcolm goldstein (violin)
kathy seplow (violin)
stephen reynolds (viola)
david gibson (violoncello)

questions:

how endlessly the heavens turn.

and yet the earth remains at rest.

do the sun and the moon quarrel as to their positions?

who rules over and orders all these things?

by whom are they in harmony?

who effortlessly causes and maintains them?

is there, perhaps, some hidden tension

that prevents them from being other than as they are?

must the heavenly bodies move as they do, powerless to do otherwise?

look how the clouds drop the rain!

and how the rain rises again to form the clouds!

who moves them to this abundance?

who effortlessly produces the primary orb and stimulates it?

the winds rise in the north and blow to the east and west.

others move upward uncertainly.

whose breath moves them?

who effortlessly causes them to blow?

what is the cause?

-- chuang tzu

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edition rz (germany) #rz 04007 cd

klaus langeinfalt.stille.” compact disc

  • einfalt.stille. (50:09) 2007
2007 release ; ... trance-inducing work by klaus lang, scored for viola, flute, voice, and percussion ...
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ed. rz 4007 cd
klaus lang: einfalt.stille

chamber music by the austrian composer klaus lang

flow. state.

through concentration on listening or concentration on what we are listening to we can enter a state of simplicity of mind which is a state of the highest inner clarity or inner silence. in other words: when concentrating on the flow of music we can reach an inner state: the inner silence which is the simultaneity of stasis and flow. this paradoxical situation poses the question: is the flow of music passing us, is music flowing through us thus evoking this inner stasis or is it not a state at all what we experience: should we not most seriously take into consideration the possibility that it is us who are flowing through the sound?

total time: 50:00 min

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edition rz (germany) #rz 04006 cd

luigi nono20 jahre inventionen v” compact disc

  • quando stanno morendo (diario polacco n. 2) (37:46) 1982
  • canciones a guiomar (10:00) 1962-1963
  • omaggio a emilio vedova (4:54) 1960
2006 release ; ... two performances of keylive electronic” works by luigi nono recorded at the 1991 inventionen festival, plus a transcription of the seminal 1960 tape pieceomaggio a emilio vedova” ...
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ed. rz 4006 cd
20 jahre inventionen v: luigi nono

audio cd with three compositions by luigi nono, recorded at the berlin festival "inventionen".

the live electronics that nono worked with for the first time in the early 1980’s at the freiburg experimental studio also serves the musical displacement: the music moves away from clear spatial and timbral assignations. due to electronic processing, the sonic characteristics of both instruments, bass flute and cello, can hardly be recognized. tones and gestures are lengthened into seeming infinity and move in space.

musicians:
ingrid ade
monika bair-ivenz
bernadette manca di nissa
halina nieckarz
roberto fabbriciani
frances-marie uitti
arturo tamayo
experimentalstudio der heinrich-strobel-stiftung des swf
ars nova ensemble berlin
edelgard neubert-imm
peter schwarz

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edition rz (germany) #rz 04005 cd

klaus lang20 jahre inventionen iii • sei-jaku für streichquartett” compact disc

  • sei-jaku für streichquartett (39:55)
2003 release ; ... klaus lang’s gravelly, whisper-quiet, col legno-heavy string quartet, as performed by the arditti during inventionen 2002 ...
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ed. rz 4005
klaus lang: sei-jaku

string quartet

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documentation "20 years inventionen", cd iii

the string quartet sei-jaku by german composer klaus lang, documented on this cd, was performed on 6/30/2002 in the großer sendesaal of the sfb berlin by the arditti string quartet during the festival inventionen 2002.

gesamtzeit 39:57

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20 jahre inventionen ii” compact disc

  • hildegard westerkamp - whisper study for two-channel tape (10:44) 1975-79
  • salvatore sciarrino - codex purpureus for string trio (5:53) 1968-83
  • john cage - music for piano 55-63 (6:32) 1956
  • sainkho namtchylak - roots and vibrations (8:06) 1994
  • joe jones - solar orchestra (7:33) 1982/90
  • john cage - music for piano 78-84 (5:37) 1956
  • giacinto scelsi - from 20 canti del capricorno (no. 1, no. 4) for voice (and additional instruments) (5:00) 1962-72
  • masanori fujita - from jü-jü-shin for 15 buddhist monks (23:05) 1986
  • john driscoll - a hall is all (5:29) 1985
2003 release ; ... excellent collection of various works exhibited (several sound-installations, including an early 80’s staging of joe jones’ “solar orchestra” & john driscoll’s “a hall is all”) - spatialized (i.e. hildegard westerkamp’s “whisper study for two-channel tape”) - or performed (the rest) during the inventionen festival between 1986 & 1992 ...
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ed. rz 4004
20 years inventionen vol.2

volume 2 of the cd documentation of the berlin festival "inventionen" (volume 1 containing horatiu radulescu's string quartet no. 4)

a various artists retrospective sampler including recordings of works by the following composers: hildegard westerkamp, salvatore sciarrino, john cage, sainkho namtchylak, joe jones, giacinto scelsi, masanori fujita, john driscoll.

hildegard westerkamp: whisper study (1975-79, tape work, inventionen 1986)

salvatore sciarrino: codex purpureus, trio per archi (1968-1983, members of the arditti string quartet, inventionen 1994, a wdr production)

john cage: music for piano #78-84 (1952-56, herbert henck (klavier), inventionen 1992, a kunstkopf concert recording)

sainkho namtchylak: roots and vibrations (1994, sainkho namtchylak (voice), heinz lieb und john preininger (percussion), inventionen 1994, a kunstkopf concert recording)

joe jones: solar orchestra (inventionen 1990, a kunstkopf concert recording)

john cage: music for piano #55-63 (1952-56, herbert henck (klavier), inventionen 1992, a kunstkopf concert recording)

giacinto scelsi: 2 parts of 20 canti del capricorni (1962-72, michiko hirayama (voice), inventionen 1992, a kunstkopf concert recording)

masanori fujita: ju-ju-shin (1986, karyobinga sho-myo-group (tokyo, shingon sekte, buzan school, buddhist monks choir), leiter: maki ishii, inventionen 1986, a kunstkopf concert recording)

john driscoll: a hall is all (1985, installation, inventionen 1986, a kunstkopf concert recording)

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klaus langtrauermusiken” compact disc

  • der wind das meer, trauermusic für bratsche solo (4:53) 1995
  • the sea of despair, trauermusik für streichquartett (69:10) 1995
2002 release ; ... edition rz reissue of klaus lang’s 1995 self-release (orig ; his lambeart edition) containing a pair of pieces for string(s) ; the viola solo “der wind das meer” & the quartet “the sea of despair,” both verging on the faint edges of audibility ...
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ed. rz 4003
klaus lang (*1971), trauermusiken

two compositions by the young austrian composer / organist who currently lives in berlin / germany

der wind und das meer for viola (barbara konrad, viola)

the sea of despair for string quartet (amras streichquartett)

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horatiu radulescu20 jahre inventionen i • streichquartett nr. 4 opus 33” compact disc

  • string quartet no. 4 opus 33 (49:06) 1976-1987
2001 release ; ... radulescu’s sublime, endlessly writhing 4th string quartet, performed here by the arditti in all its microtonal glory, in the “ one string quartet surrounded by an imaginary viola da gamba with 128 stringsconfiguration ...
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ed. rz 4002 cd
horatiu radulescu (1942-2008): string quartet 4

string quartet no 4, opus 33 (1976-87)

arditti string quartet:
irvine arditti
graeme jennings
garth knox
rohan de saram

"infinite to be cannot be infinite, infinite anti-be could be infinite" for nine string quartets or one string quartet surrounded by an imaginary viola da gamba with 128 strings

49:00 min

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edition rz (germany) #rz 04001 cd
x-tract (germany) #x-t 2001 cd

rolf julius(halb) schwarz ” compact disc

  • für die erde (6:36) 1998
  • fast schwarz (9:03) 1992
  • vier schwarze rechtecke pt. 1 (10:29) 1989-1994
  • vier schwarze rechtecke pt. 2 (11:45) 1989-1994
  • seestück (6:23) 1994
  • musik für den blick nach oben (14:39) 1997
  • tanz auf takashima island 1 (9:42) 1998
2001 release ; ... “six electronic compositions” dating from the late 80’s through the late 90’s ...

exactly as sublime & stasis-feeling (despite this, there is of course a veritable festival of micro-detail happening at any given second - witness the ludicrously animated, chiming interference field of “seestück” via the sound-sample to your left) ...
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ed. rz 4001 cd / x-tract

rolf julius (*1939), (halb) schwarz

six electronic compositions

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edition rz (germany) #rz 03006-8 cd

30 jahre inventionen vii” digital versatile disc and double compact disc set

  • jonty harrison - beastory 2010 (8:09)
  • daniel teruggi - sounding landscapes 2007 (18:06)
  • hans tutschku - firmament - schlaflos 2010 (20:23)
  • hans tutschku - zwei räume 2008 (21:04)
  • francis dhomont - le travail du rêve 2008/09, 2010, 2011 (17:12)
  • gilles gobeil - castalie 2008 (10:41)
  • gilles gobeil - les lointains noirs et rouges 2009 (10:46)
  • scott wilson - böse 2010 (9:06)
  • kotoka suzuk - i automata - mechanical garden 2010 (8:34)
  • hanna hartman - measures of control 2008 (8:01)
  • richard barrett - simorgh 2010 (11:05)
  • pei-yu shi - movements 2010 (3:55)
  • kees tazelaar - zeitraum-ort-zeichen-sterne 2007 (19:41)
  • trevor wishart - encounters in the republic of heaven, akt 1-4 2011 (75:00)
  • iannis xenakis - bohor 1962 (21:31)
  • sukhi kang - inventio - musicae clavichordii et sonorum artificiosorum 1984 (23:34)
  • rolf enström - fractal (videofassung) 1984 (24:02)

  • bogus aw schaeffer - berlin 80 ii (tonbandfassung) 1980 (13:18)
  • ricardo mandolini - fabulas ii 1980 (10:25)
  • takehito shimazu - zytoplasma 1980 (10:46)
  • bogus aw schaeffer - maa'ts 1981 (9:49)
  • rolf enström - fractal (tonbandfassung) 1984 (22:54)

  • ricardo mandolini - estallido breve (tonbandfassung) 1980 (8:37)
  • ricardo mandolini - juego de marionetas 1979/1980 (9:43)
  • ricardo mandolini - el cuaderno del alquimista 1979 (9:27)
  • ricardo mandolini - canción de madera y agua 1981 (8:27)
  • ricardo mandolini - poema reiterado 1983 (10:51)
  • ricardo mandolini - elogio de lo efímero 2004 (12:06)
  • ricardo mandolini - el silencio de un trueno (ausschnitt) 2010 (11:49)
july 2012 release ; ... mammoth (actually, it’s quite small - 5” x 5” x 2” - same size as the jakob ullmann set) box collecting both of the mid-80’s rz 3000” series “inventionenlp’s (the sukhi kang piece is missing from the audio-disc, appearing only on the dvd) plus the ricardo mandolinielektro akustische-musik” lp (with 3 later pieces by him) then a smorgas’ bord of recent long-form work by a who’s who of contemporary electro-acoustic music - trevor wishart, gilles gobeil, jonty harrison, rolf enström, francis dhomont, xenakis - on a quite extended-play audio-dvd (can’t tell you if it’s multi-channel or not unfort. - pieces sound complete in stereo, which is the only way i have to currently prototype it ; great fidelity though - minimal menu structure, lots of audio content) ...
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ed. rz 3006-8 2cd + dvd
inventionen vii: 30 jahre inventionen 1982 - 2012

five hours of electroacoustical compositions, recorded during the first thirty years of the berlin festival "inventionen".

box set with two audio cds and a dvd.

total running time approx. 310 minutes

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patrick koskmondweiß” compact disc

  • mondweiß (13:36) 2007-2008
  • das kästchen und tripitaka (9:56) 2005
  • angklung & ice (12:41) 2004-2005
  • distrak - sillalla (11:37) 1992
  • la boîte (9:06) 2005
  • transmissions in a (system of coordinates) (18:23) 1981
april 2008 release ; ... a series of sparse tape pieces from finnish composer patrick kosk, dating back to the early 80’s ...

those blown away by his 1981transmissions in a (system of coordinates)(as heard on the 1989electro-acoustic music from finland” lp) will be thrilled to find that his successive music retains the gorgeous slow builds into reckless bat-shit abandon ; incredible stuff & some of only finnish electronic music on record from those pre-sähkö days ...
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this is an assemblage of works by finnish electroacoustic composer patrick kosk. recordings from the elektronic studio at the tu berlin, the studio of the institut international de musique electroacoustique de bourges, and the artist's studio.

from 1976-1981, kosk studied composition at the electronic music studio at helsinki university. from 1981-1991, he was mainly active as a freelance composer and a sound designer at the experimental studio of the finnish radio. since 1978, kosk has composed electroacoustic music in various forms for theater, performance, dance, radio broadcasting, films and visual arts.

the sounds that open a work do not prescribe a determined form for the composer. every sound is conceivable in different contexts. indeed, the "logic" of the sound material comes up repeatedly in kosk's notes on his works, of the "coherence" and "stringency" of musical forms. but this suggests neither the teleological form of redemptive classical provenance, nor is he concerned with the aesthetics of consistency and integrity of the early avant-garde. instead, kosk looks for relationships of tension that do not resolve; he creates antitheses that refuse a synthesis.

kosk's logic is one of fragmentation and unpredictability.

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edition rz (germany) #rz 03003 lp

takehito shimazu / boguslaw schaeffer / rolf enströminventionen ii” long playing record

  • takehito shimazu - zytoplasma (10:43) 1980
  • boguslaw schaeffer - maa'ts (9:45) 1981

  • rolf enström - fractal (23;00) 1984
1985 release (original copies) ; ... three classic examples of 80’sacademicelectronic music from takehito shimazu (ultra minimal, zappy synthesizer filigree w/ some nice “spectralgrowth), boguslaw schaeffer (nice, resonant synth padding ala alvin curran, ditto on the spectral moss), and rolf enström (the pick of the lot ; 23 minutes of crispy, low-bit digital junk flying around the stereo field) ...
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ed. rz 3003 lp
inventionen ii

kompositionen von skimazu, schaeffer und enströmcover design: ott + stein, berlin;
scan: christine berkenhoff

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edition rz (germany) #rz 03002 lp

boguslaw schaeffer / ricardo mandolini / sukhi kanginventionen i” long playing record

  • boguslaw schaeffer: berlin 80 ii (13:25) 1980
  • ricardo mandolini: fabulas ii (11:20) 1980

  • sukhi kang: inventio (23:30) 1984
1985 release (original copies) ; ... a trilogy of early-mid-80’s electro-acoustic bits from boguslaw schaeffer (spare, digital concrète with a nice blowout in the middle), ricardo mandolini (rising low-bit smear with digitalharmonizer” antics - listen to the sound-sample), and sukhi kang (23 minutes of spare piano ruminations, cut with occasional low-frequency ring modular fizz) ...
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ed. rz 3002 lp
inventionen i

compositions by kang, schaeffer, and mandolini

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jakob ullmannvoice, books and fire 3” compact disc

  • voice, books and fire 3 (70:20) 2004-2005
july 2006 release ; ... a single, 70-minute piece from composer jakob ulmann, scored for 8 vocalists (largely uttering textural, wordless sound) & a (very) small chamber group, recorded in performance in a quite lively, reverberant space ...
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ed. rz 2005 cd
jakob ullmann: voice, books and fire 3

cover design: ott + stein, berlin;
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voice, books and fire is the result of my reflections about the relationships between music and language: language as sound and language as text, the numerous relationships between texts of different cultural and religious traditions, between the work of the human spirit in the present and in the past and the questions arising from the problem of understanding these different traditions, languages and texts and representing them in a present, which has lost knowledge about substantial parts, even of its own tradition and history.

ensemble für experimentelle musik 2006

stimmen:
susanne friedrich,
judith geier-leisch,
daniela hornung,
ida maria kastner,
anja kienborn,
annegret kornmann,
christina reis,
corinna schmid

instrumente:
leif bergerhoff (saxophon),
isabelle fontius (querflöte),
tobias keck (viola),
philipp thimm (violoncello)

einstudierung:
hans-peter schulz

aufnahme, mischung und schnitt:
hans lorenzen

mastering:
timour klouche

aufnahme vom 1. juli 2006 in der abteikirche neresheim

gesamtzeit: 70:21

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edition rz (germany) #rz 02003-04 cd

gottfried michael koeniggottfried michael koenig (*1926)” double compact disc set

  • zwei klavierstücke • i. klavierstück 1 (8:18) 1957
  • zwei klavierstücke • ii. klavierstück 2 (5:55) 1957
  • suite »materialien zu einem ballett« (20:48) 1961
  • streichquartett (10:04) 1959
  • »terminus x« (11:46) 1967
  • »funktion grün« (8:25) 1967
  • »funktion gelb« (12:42) 1968

  • blatt 1 (0:42)
  • blatt 2 (0:42)
  • blatt 3 (0:21)
  • blatt 4 (0:45)
  • blatt 5 (0:36)
  • blatt 6 (0:36)
  • blatt 7 (0:37)
  • blatt 8 (0:32)
  • blatt 9 (0:36)
  • blatt 10 (0:21)
  • blatt 11 (0:38)
  • blatt 12 (0:31)
  • blatt 13 (0:35)
  • blatt 14 (0:31)
  • blatt 15 (0:44)
  • blatt 16 (0:34)
  • blatt 17 (0:36)
  • blatt 18 (0:37)
  • blatt 19 (0:44)
  • blatt 20 (0:46)
  • blatt 21 (0:35)
  • blatt 22 (0:34)
  • blatt 23 (0:40)
  • blatt 24 (0:39)
  • blatt 25 (0:29)
  • blatt 26 (0:38)
  • blatt 27 (0:30)
  • blatt 28 (0:27)
  • blatt 29 (0:41)
  • blatt 30 (0:47)
  • blatt 31 (0:26)
  • blatt 32 (0:44)
  • blatt 33 (0:41)
  • blatt 34 (0:49)
  • blatt 35 (0:43)
  • blatt 36 (0:36)
  • blatt 37 (0:33)
  • blatt 38 (1:00)
  • blatt 39 (0:37)
  • blatt 40 (0:56)
  • blatt 41 (0:46)
  • blatt 42 (0:48)
  • blatt 43 (0:19)
  • blatt 44 (0:43)
  • blatt 45 (0:46)
  • blatt 46 (0:39)
  • blatt 47 (0:52)
  • blatt 48 (0:24)
  • blatt 49 (0:26)
  • blatt 50 (0:38)
  • blatt 51 (0:40)
  • blatt 52 (0:45)
  • blatt 53 (0:52)
  • blatt 54 (0:34)
  • blatt 55 (0:27)
  • blatt 56 (0:49)
  • blatt 57 (0:46)
  • blatt 58 (0:38)
  • blatt 59 (0:53)
  • blatt 60 (0:51)
2006 release ; ... while the second disc of conciseblatts” for string trio is all well & good, the first disc here collects pretty much the core of koenig’s 60’s electronic work at the wdr, starting with the 1961suite »materialien zu einem ballett«(with it’s helicopter-blade oscillations & rich plate-reverb thwack coalescing into a honey of a bleep-out) & continuing through “»terminus x«” & both “»funktion grün«” & “»funktion gelb«” (listen to the sound-sample for the mile-a-minute, coruscating throb of the latter, done with utmost precision in arguably the era’s most high-tech institution, presaging just so much of the timbral palette of both “abstractanalog & digital electronic music of the following four decades) ...
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ed. rz 2003/4 double cd
gottfried michael koenig

2cd set with electronical and software-generated compositions by pioneer g.m. koenig

cover design: ott + stein, berlin; scan: christine berkenhoff

performers: jan marc reichow, lasalle quartet, trio recherche

two piano pieces 1957 (wdr 1995) 14:13 [ jan marc reichow, piano ]

suite "materialien zu einem ballett" 1961 (wdr 1961) 20:48

streichquartett 1959 (wdr 1961) 10:04 [ lasalle quartet: walter levin, 1. violin; henry meyer, 2. violin; peter kamnitzer, viola; jack kirstein, violoncello ]

terminus x 1967 (institut for sonology in utrecht 1967) 11:46

funktion grün 1967 (institute for sonology in utrecht 1967) 8:25

funktion gelb 1968 (institute for sonology in utrecht 1968) 12:43

60 blätter for string trio 1992 (wdr 1996) [ trio recherche: melise mellinger, violin; barbara maurer, viola; lucas fels, violoncello ]

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michael von bielmichael von biel” compact disc

  • quartett nr.1 (6:27) 1962
  • quartett nr.2 (urfassung) (9:53) 1963
  • fassung (elektronische tonbandmusik) (13:55) 1964
  • quartett mit begleitung (quartett nr.3) (12:25) 1965
  • jagdsütck (28:13) 1966
2004 release ; ... a collection of german composer michael von biel’s 1960’s work...

... whereas the first two pieces here are represented by contemporary-era recordings (done in 2003 in baden-baden at hans rosbaud’s studio) the final three all appear in their contemporaneous realizations ; namely the extended tape-piecefassung(composed in 1964 at the wdr & absolutely, gorgeously gnarly :: one of the most impressively transgressive pieces to come out of the studio !!! listen to the sound-sample for a long excerpt) & the exceedingly noisy, claustrophobic group-improv / “live-elektronik” masterpiece “jagdstück(from 1966, no less) featuring the tag-team guitarists wilhelm brück & theodor ross (known for their legendary playing on kagel’s “exotica,” “staatstheater,” & “tactil”, lachenmann’s “salut für caldwell”, and stockhausen’s “der jahreslauf” & “dienstag aus licht”) on loud electric guitars (kind of unbelievable, really) ...
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ed. rz 2002 cd
michael von biel

five compositions

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1. streichquartett nr. 1 (1962; wdr 2003)

[pellegrini-quartett: antonio pellegrini, 1. violine; thomas hofer, 2. violine; fabio maarano, viola; helmut menzler, violoncello]

2. streichquartett nr. 2 (urfassung, 1963; wdr 2003)

[pellegrini-quartett]

3. quartett mit begleitung (quartett nr. 3, 1965; wdr 1967)

12:05 [egon mayer, violine; dagmar apel, violine; johannes fritsch, viola; magdalene bröckel, violoncello; michael von biel, violoncello]

4. jagdstück für bläserinstrumentalisten und live-elektronik (1966; wdr 1968)

28:05 [franz-willy neugebauer, trompete; kurt schmidt, trompete; gerhard burdack, horn und tenortuba; konrad alfing, horn und tenortuba; willy walther, posaune; josef feck, posaune; emil morneweg, kontrabaß; wilhelm bruck und michael von biel, begleitung; ltg. bernhard kontarsky]

5. fassung (elektronische tonbandmusik, 1964; wdr 1964)

13:34 [studio für elektronische musik des wdr]

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01029 cd

jakob ullmannfremde zeit addendum 4 • solo iii für orgel” compact disc

  • solo iii for organ 1992/1993; 2012
march 2013 release ; ... a furtheraddendum” to the “fremde zeit • addendum” cycle (with minimal fuss, the package on offer here should fit neatly inside the 3-disc “1-3box of last year) containing a single, 76-minute piece for solo organ ...
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ed. rz 1029
jakob ullmann: fremde zeit addendum 4 · solo iii für orgel

solo iii for organ, 1992/1993; 2012

cover design: ott + stein, berlin
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hans-peter schulz at the big organ in abteikirche neresheim,
assisted by alexandra stashenko, barbara wieland and katrin kanzler.
aufnahme, mischung and schnitt: hans lorenzen

1 audio-cd in cardboard sleeve with flap with friedrich nietzsche; text in german
(as addition to fremde zeit addendum box - cds 1-3 - with booklet german/english)

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volker heynsirènes” compact disc

  • k'ten (4:46) 2005
  • sirènes (14:54) 1983
  • préludes zu ferro canto #1 (3:23) 1989
  • blues in b-flat (8:49) 1981
  • blah 2 (4:49) 1985
  • préludes zu ferro canto #2 (3:39) 1989
  • resurrection #1 (6:33) 2000
  • préludes zu ferro canto #3 (2:02) 1989
  • les visages des enfants (21:47) 2002-2004
  • graffiti risse (7:47) 1998-1999
september 2011 release ; ... excellent overview of this germanoutsider” ’s life’s work...

... contains a trilogy of harsh, bruitiste tape-pieces composed in the late 80’s that worth the price of admission alone (listen to the sound-sample for the first two) ...
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ed. rz 1025 cdvolker heyn: sirènesnew release of september 2011

cover design: ott + stein, berlin;
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born in 1938, volker heyn is an "outsider", or perhaps an "unloved insider", an avant-gardist when it comes to experimental music, reaching beyond the trends of his generation of new simplicity, neo-romanticism, new complexity and so forth. in 1960 he left europe to spend more than ten years in australia where he joined a travelling theatre company, made ends meet by singing in nightclubs and working the night shift in a metal works.

heyn's music is the mise en scène of an acoustic condition, whose manifold reflections perpetually interlock and shatter, like a box of mirrors. it investigates a process, which in itself is inaccessible and cannot be reproduced on paper. volker heyn is not interested in sound per se - in the positive acoustic gesture - but, and especially, in the negative form, in the responding tone gesture, in the duplicating of friction and in discontinuous movements.

his composition patterns follow the resonance - the overhang - that we are able to perceive only by restricting our sensors almost to zero, in order not to succumb to its violence. and this must be enough, more would be too much. then these remnants of sound will be drained and exhausted right up to the merest subversive unit. this is the soundscape that we are given: an intricate, though ultimately innocent structure of endless macro and micro sounding reactions.

- martha agostini

ausführende: kammerensemble neue musik berlin · steffen tast
pellegrini-quartett: antonio pellegrini, thomas hofer, fabio marani, helmut menzler

koproduktionen: hans rosbaud studio des südwestrundfunks baden-baden und mit dem rundfunk brandenburg-berlin
konzertaufnahme vom westdeutschen rundfunk, klaus-von-bismarck-saal, köln

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christian wolffkompositionen • 1950-1972” double compact disc set

  • duo for violinist and pianist (15:54) 1961
  • for prepared piano (6:01) 1951
  • for pianist (10:43) 1959
  • edges (13:05) 1968
  • duo for violins (6:25) 1950
  • for piano i (7:57) 1952
  • stones (5:45) 1968
  • lines (7:04) 1972
  • for pianist (5:24) 1959 version 2

  • suite (i) (7:00) 1954
  • for 1, 2, or 3 people (14:15) 1964
  • for pianist i (10:11) 1959
  • for 1, 2, or 3 people (9:43) 1964
  • for piano i (5:53) 1952
  • suite (i) (7:27) 1954
  • edges (9:20) 1968
  • drinks (7:46) 1969
september 2011 release ; ... superb overview of christian wolff’s early compositions ; features performances by keith rowe, david tudor, frederic rzewski, the “gentle fire” ensemble (hugh davies, graham hearn, michael robinson, richard benas, stuart jones) & many others ...
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ed. rz 1023-24 2cdchristian wolff: kompositionen 1950 - 1972

fresh release in september 2011: 2cd-set of compositions by christian wolff. most of the pieces collected for this portrait of christian wolff document the composer’s early activity and were mainly recorded around the time of their composition. each recording exemplifies the sound gestures from their time.

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finally i realized that the kind of sound made in an indeterminate situation includes what could result in no other way; for example, the sound of a player making up his mind, or having to change it. in fact, the indeterminate notation i've used is, as far as i know, the only possible one for the kind of sound i should like. and don't forget, we also like to be surprised.

... and the rhythm produced by that situation is like no other rhythm.

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harley gaberindra’s net” compact disc

  • sovereign of the center (23:53)
  • the realm of indra's net (27:26)
2010 release ; a pair of “acoustic-tape pieces“ meant as “bookends” for “the winds rise in the north”, composed & recorded in the early 70’s by a quartet of individually-recorded violinists ...

... impeccable sliding microtonal string-scrape ; if you were taken by the recent tashi wada lp, you owe it to yourself to trace that particular sound back to this earlier form ...
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edition rz releases works circa 1972-1974 from american composer harley gaber.

performed by
linda cummiskey (violin)
steve reynolds (viola)
barbara riccardi (violin)
john dexter (violin).

both works on this cd form, in a manner of speaking, bookends for another piece of mine, the winds rise in the north. the first of the two, 'sovereign of the center,' was my initial attempt at putting a new musical way of thinking into an ensemble rather than solo form. the second, 'the realm of indra's net,' builds on musical 'discoveries' i made in the course of revising the winds rise in the north. it is a hybrid work in as much as it is an 'acoustic-tape piece' (not musique concrète). there are four tracks of solo violin mixed down in different track combinations (the one heard on this cd is a full-track mono version of the work). both of these pieces reflect a general shift in my musical thinking, which occurred in 1968 with 'chimyaku' (japanese for 'barely moving') scored for solo alto flute. it was with that work that i began to compose 'slowed-down' music, like slow-motion images in film, not merely slow music such as that of feldman.

-- harley gaber, july 2009

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01020-21 cd

josef anton riedlklangregionen • 1951-2007” double compact disc set

  • paper music i (1961/70) (4:38)
  • studie 59 i (1959) (2:48)
  • zeichnen - klatschen/zeichnen - zeichnen (1979/81) (4:13)
  • landschaftsbeschreibung i (1973) (5:09)
  • mix fontana mix (1974/76/79) (5:05)
  • silphium (1969/70) (4:16)
  • lautgedichtfolge g) (1977/79/98) (5:00)
  • ausfluss, niederschlag, spur, nachhall i (2000/02/07) (4:28)
  • douce-amère (1972/74/81) (3:13)
  • komposition nr. 2 (1963/65) (10:30)
  • polygonum (1968/70) (1:35)
  • leonce und lena (1963/64) (1:51)
  • vielleicht - duo (1963/68/70) (3:27)
  • musique concrète - studie ii (1951/59) (2:34)
  • musique concrète - studie i (1951/59) (3:05)
  • leonce und lena b) (1963) (3:46)
  • studie 62 i (1962) (2:17)
  • studie 62 ii (1962) (5:46)

  • klangsynchronie i studie 59 (1981) (6:28)
  • studie 61 i (1961) (2:17)
  • komposition nr. 3 (1965/67) (7:01)
  • ideir notna fesoj (1993) (51:02)
  • elektronische musik - studie ii (1959) (5:04)
  • elektronische musik - studie i (1958) (2:17)
november 2009 release ; ... herein lies some of my all-time favorite electro-acoustic music, sound poetry, and anti-music, all composed by josef anton riedl, (largely) at the wdr & the ina-grm between the early 50’s & now & initially readied via wergo in the 70’s (hence the creel pone edition, now o/p) ...

... aside from being one of the few composers to work both in “pure elektronische sound” at the wdr & “concrète” at the grm, riedl’s technically superior stabs at tape music rival only the dutch in their precisely measured & impeccably assembled forms ... in addition, pieces such as “paper music i” & “zeichnen - klatschen/zeichnen - zeichnen” presage later fluxus-lineage experiments in composing for non-musical instrumentation & should be treated with due reverence ... highly recommended !!!
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josef anton riedl: klangregionen 1951 - 2007

siemens-studio für elektronische musik, studio für konkrete musik (j. a. riedl)

cover design: ott + stein, berlin; scan: christine berkenhoff

bild: josef anton riedl, bonn 1983. stadtarchiv und stadthistorische bibliothek bonn, bestand camillo fischer

edition rz presents a 2cd collection of work from german electronic and multimedia composer josef anton riedl. spanning the diverse breadth of his musical output from 1951-2007, riedl has left an indelible mark on music history in the federal republic of germany with his many works and cultural activities. a pioneer in early concrète and electronics, riedl joined pierre shaeffer's groupe de recherches musicales from 1953-1955. he worked at various music studios including the nwdr (northwest german broadcasting) studio in cologne, and was the artistic director of the siemens studio for electronic music from 1959-1966. during the same period he founded the neue musik münchen/klang-aktionen concert series, and established the musik/film/dia/licht-galerie, which has presented multimedia compositions ("sound/light/scent-games"), audiovisual environments, events, exhibitions ("paper music i," "optische," "akustische lautgedichte") and installations at important national and international festivals. this collection samples some of riedl's most compelling work, including his "paper music" and musique concrète experiments.

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david tudormusic for piano” double compact disc set

  • john cage - music for piano 27 (7:50)
  • john cage - music for piano 22, 21, 32, 36 (8:47)
  • john cage - music for piano 27, 21, 32, 36 (10:18)
  • john cage - variations i (2:21)
  • christian wolff - duo for pianists i (4:13)
  • christian wolff - duo for pianists i, version 1957 ii (4:35)
  • sylvano bussotti - piano piece for david tudor iii (7:25)
  • john cage - winter music (5:10)
  • morton feldman - piece for four pianos (7:31)

  • john cage - variations ii 1961 (26:53)
  • john cage - music for piano 27, 21, 32, 35, 36  1955 (hr 1959) (12:27)
  • john cage - music for piano 21, 22, 26, 29, 34, 36  1955 (wdr 1959) (13:19)
  • christian wolff - duo for pianists i  1957, version 2 (dr 1963) (10:26)
  • david tudor - o-ton (dr 1963) (1:50)
2007 release ; ... well-organized collection of tudor’s realizations of solo piano repertoire by cage, bussotti, feldman, and wolff (including his gratifyingly gnarly, feedback-oriented performance of cage’s “variations ii” from 1961 - listen to the sound-sample) ...
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david tudor: music for piano

2-cd set with recordings by the legendary 20th century avantgarde pianist. with compositions by sylvano bussotti, john cage, morton feldman, christian wolff.

david tudor, pianist - a profession, a vocation, a life. from 1950 until around 1965, david tudor was the epitome of the pianist who could simply play anything. in fact, david tudor was no longer a name, but an indication for instrumentation as dozens of pieces were written "for david tudor".

as early as 1960, after having conquered all of the challenges posed by serial piano music, tudor began to differentiate between composers who filled him with life and those who left him cold - the focus of his repertory became crystallized. the main criterion for his choices were shaped by the part he would play as interpreter in the composition. he distinguished carefully between having a free choice among prefabricated parts - generally called aleatoric, as for example, stockhausen's klavierstück xi (dedicated, as his klavierstücke v-viii, to tudor) - and indeterminate actions. in the first case, they have a tendency to "put me to sleep", whereby pieces that are less limiting led him to say, "i feel that i'm alive in every part of my consciousness".

the program of these cds portrays these distinctions.

[ frank hilberg ]

john cage: music for piano 27...  1955 (dr 1958) [ john cage / david tudor · pianos, 7'49'' ]

john cage: music for piano 22, 21, 26, 36  1955 (ndr 1956) [ david tudor · piano, 8'46'' ]

john cage: music for piano 27, 21, 32, 36  1955 (rb 1959) [ david tudor · piano, 10'17'' ]

john cage: variations i  1958 (dr 1958) [ john cage / david tudor · pianos, 2'20'' ]

christian wolff: duo for pianists i  1957, version 1 (rb 1960) [ john cage, david tudor · klaviere, 4'12'' ]

christian wolff: duo for pianists i  1957, version 2 (rb 1960) [ john cage, david tudor · klaviere, 4'35'' ]

sylvano bussotti: piano piece for david tudor iii 1959 (rb 1959) [ david tudor · klavier, 7'25'' ]

john cage: winter music  1957 (wdr 1957) [ john cage / david tudor · klaviere, 5'10'']

morton feldman: piece for four pianos  1957 (columbia 1959) [ david tudor, russell sherman, edwin hymovitz, morton feldman · klaviere, 7'36'' ]

john cage: varitations ii  1961 (sony music 1967) [ david tudor · klavier, 26'52'' ]

john cage: music for piano 27, 21, 32, 35, 36  1955 (hr 1959) [ david tudor · klavier, 12'26'' ]

john cage: music for piano 21, 22, 26, 29, 34, 36  1955 (wdr 1959) [ david tudor · klavier, 13'18'' ]

christian wolff: duo for pianists i  1957, version 2 (dr 1963) [ john cage, david tudor · klaviere, 10'26'' ]

david tudor o-ton  (dr 1963, 1'50'')

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jakob ullmanna catalogue of sounds (1995-1997)” compact disc

  • a catalogue of sounds (73:13)
2005 release ; ... jakob ullman’s very quiet, very complex 1997 composition for chamber ensemble ...
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ed. rz 1017 cd
jakob ullmann: a catalogue of sounds 1995-1997

ensemble oriol berlin, m.m. kasper, s. renshaw, f. ritts-kirby

coverdesign: ott+stein, berlin; christine berkenhoff
total time: 73:13

ullmann's music realises an infinite variety of gradations in all areas of musical formation. that the music of the "catalogue" is nearly always played very softly leads to the ear noticing the smallest differentiations; the listener is put into a state of constant, acute attentiveness.

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01015-16 cd

iannis xenakisiannis xenakis (1922-2001)” double compact disc set

  • st/48 (st/48-1,240162) (8:43) 1959-1962
  • polytope de montréal (6:37) 1967
  • nomos gamma (15:40) 1967-1968
  • terretektorh (15:08) 1965-1966
  • syrmos (11:58) 1959
  • achorripsis (5:20) 1956-1957

  • persépolis (50:57) 1971
  • polytope de cluny (24:26) 1972
2003 release ; ... double-disc compendium offering a selection of harder-to-hear 50’s / 60’s chamber works by xenakis(the first disc) along with the both the full-length 1971persepolis(daniel teige’s 2003 remaster here) & the 1972polytope de cluny” on the second ...
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iannis xenakis (1922 - 2001)syrmos, le polytope de montreal, terretektorh, nomos gamma, st/48-1,240162, achorripsis, persepolis, polytope de cluny

iannis xenakis collection of historical recordings of essential works

st/48-1,240162 for 48 instruments, 1959-62 (8:22, wdr sinfonieorchester köln; ltg. michel tabachnik)

le polytope de montreal for four orchestras, 1967 (6:18, ensemble ars nova de l'o.r.t.f., ltg. marius constant)

nomos gamma for large orchestra scattered among the audience 98 instruments, 1967-68 (15:17, orchestre philharmonique de l'o.r.t.f., ltg. charles bruck)

terretektorh for large orchestra scattered among the audience 88 instruments, 1965-66 (14:48, orchestre philharmonique de l'o.r.t.f., ltg. charles bruck)

syrmos for 18 strings, 1959 (11:38, ensemble ars nova de l'o.r.t.f., ltg. marius constant)

achorripsis for 21 instruments, 1956-57 (5:19, ensemble instrumental de musique contemporaine de paris, ltg. konstantin simonovic)

persepolis version "avec mouvement", 1971 (ca. 50:49) [sound design: daniel teige]

polytope de cluny, 1972 (ca. 24:25)

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01014 cd

giacinto scelsigiacinto scelsi (1905-1988)” compact disc

  • pranam 1 en souvenir de la perte tragique de jani et sia christou (7:14)
  • anagamin celui qui choisit de revenir ou pas (7:35)
  • quattro pezzi (su una nota sola) • part i (2:44)
  • quattro pezzi (su una nota sola) • part i part ii (4:33)
  • quattro pezzi (su una nota sola) • part i part iii (3:56)
  • quattro pezzi (su una nota sola) • part i part iv (4:22)
  • quartetto n. 4 (11:35)
  • okanagon doit être considéré comme un rite et, si l'on veut
  • comme le battement de cœur de la terre (9:48)
  • quartetto n. 2 • part i (3:30)
  • quartetto n. 2 • part ii (4:39)
  • quartetto n. 2 • part iii (3:18)
  • quartetto n. 2 • part iv (3:40)
  • quartetto n. 2 • part v (5:25)
2002 release ; ... lovely disc, largely of scelsi’s small-group writing, but containing his not oft-heard 1972 tape piece “pranam(written in dedication to composer jani christou & his wife sia ; some quite harsh / jarring interruptions of concrète klang & direct string interference ... listen to the sound-sample for a taste) ...
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giacinto scelsi (1905 - 1988)
anagamin celui qui choisit de revenir ou pas, pranam i en souvenir de la perte tragique de jani et sia christou, string quartet nr. 4, quattro pezzi su una nota sola, okanagon doit être considéré comme un rite et, si l'on veut, comme le battement de coeur de la terre, string quartet nr. 2

anagamin celui qui choisit de revenir ou pas for 12 strings (1965 (sfb 1990), ensemble oriol berlin, ltg. sebastian gottschick)

pranam i en souvenir de la perte tragique de jani et sia christou for voice, 12 instrumentalists and tape, 1972 fondazione isabella scelsi, rom 1972) michiko hirayama, stimme, ad hoc ensemble, ltg. vieri tosatti

string quartet nr. 4 1964 (rb 1994) pellegrini-quartett: antonio pellegrini, 1. violine; thomas hofer, 2. violine; charlotte geselbracht, viola; helmut menzler, violoncello

quattro pezzi su una nota sola for chamber orchestra, 1959 (les disques solstice 1982) ensemble 2e2m, ltg. luca pfaff

okanagon doit être considéré comme un rite et, si l'on veut, comme le battement de coeur de la terre for harp, tam tam and bass (1968 (les disques solstice 1982) ensemble 2e2m, ltg. luca pfaff)

string quartet nr. 2 1961 (wdr 1979) berner streichquartett: alexander van wijnkoop, 1. violine; eva zurbrügg, 2. violine; henrik crafoord, viola; walter grimmer, violoncello

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01013 cd

jani christoujani christou (1926-70)” compact disc

  • enantiodromia für orchester (12:11) 1965-1968
  • praxis für streichorchester und klavier (9:42) 1966-1969
  • epicycle (tape version) (9:41) 1968
  • anaparastasis iii "the pianist" for ensemble, tapes and one actor (11:17) 1969
  • mysterion (prolog und sprechertext, zuspielbänder) (5:10) 1965-1968
  • anaparastasis i "the baritone" für bariton, kammerensemble und kleinen chor (10:55) 1968
  • praxis for 12 für 11 streichinstrumente und 1 pianisten (9:03) 1966
2001 release ; ... superb collection of greek composer jani christou’s late 60’s work, including the tape-pieceepicycle(a proto-aktionist / schimpfluch touchstone ala logothetis’ “fantasmata 1960” ... listen to the clip in the sound-sample) ...
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ed. rz 1013 cd
jani christou (1926 - 70)
enantiodromia, praxis, epicycle, anaparastasis iii "the pianist", mysterion, anaparastasis i "the baritone", praxis for 12

enantiodromia for orchestra (oakland s.o.; ltg. gerhard samuel)

praxis for string orchestra and piano (rundfunkorchester hannover, ndr; piano: georges pludermacher; ltg. michel tabachnik)

epicycle (tape version, jani christou)

anaparastasis iii "the pianist" for ensemble, tapes and one actor (actor: grigoris semitekolo; ensemble "musik unserer zeit", ltg. theodore antoniou)

mysterion (prolog und sprechertext, zuspielbänder)

anaparastasis i "the baritone" for baritone and chamber ensemble and small choir (baritone: spyros sakkas; ensemble "musik unserer zeit", sinnhofer quartett, chor des bayerischen rundfunks, ltg. jaroslav opela)

praxis for 12 for 11 string instruments and 1 pianist (orchestra da camera dell'academia, klavier und ltg. piero guarino)

the christou release was also available on lp (ed. rz 1006) which did not contain the last two recordings (praxis for 12 and anaparastasis i). the lp is out of print, only the cd (ed. rz 1013) is currently available.

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01011-12 cd

franco evangelistifranco evangelisti (1926-80)” double compact disc set

  • proieziono sonore, strutte per pioano solo (3:40) 1955-56
  • inconti di fasce sonore, composizione elettronica (3:27) 1956-57
  • aleatorio, per quartetto per flauto solo, 1958 (2:50) 1959
  • spazio a 5, per quattro di percussioni, voci e accorgimenti elettronici (13:07) 1959-61
  • random or not random, per orchestra (8:18) 1957-62
  • cinque strutture, per piccola orchestra e nastro magnetico dalla >>die schachtel<< (16:59) 1962-63
  • proporzioni, strutture per flauto solo (4:35) 1958

  • proiezioni sonore, strutture per piano solo (4:46) 1954-55
  • proporzioni, strutture per flauto solo (5:51) 1958
  • aleatorio, per quartetto d'archi (3:50) 1959
  • quattro fattoriale (4!), piccoli pezzi per pianoforte e violino (3:53) 1954
  • ordini, strutture variate per sedici strumenti (6:59) 1959
  • campi integrati n.2, giuoco per nove strumenti (6:41) 1959-79
  • die schachtel, azione mimoscenica per mimi, proiezioni, orchestera da camera su soggetto di franco nonnis (31:39) 1962-63
1998 release ; ... extensive double-disc overview of il gruppo member franco evangelisti’s compositions, including the 50’s tape pieceinconti di fasce sonore”, “cinque strutture (for orchestra & a rather bleepy tape), & “spazio(for 4 groups of percussionists & “electronic devices”) ...
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franco evangelisti (1926-80)

proiezioni sonore, incontri di fasce sonore, aleatorio, spazio a 5, random or not random, cinque strutture, proiezioni sonore, proporzioni, aleatorio, 4!, ordini, campi integrati n. 2, die schachtel

proiezioni sonore, strutture per piano solo (aloys kontarsky)

incontri di fasce sonore, composizione elettronica

aleatorio per quartetto d'archi (società cameristica italiana)

spazio a 5 per quattro gruppi di percussioni, voci e accorgimenti elettronici (unknown artists)

random or not random per orchestra (orchestra sinfonica siciliana)

cinque strutture per piccola orchestra e nastro magnetico dalla "die schachtel" (orchestra della vi settimana di palermo, ltg. giampiero taverna)

proiezioni sonore, strutture per piano solo (david tudor)

proporzioni, strutture per flauto solo (eberhard blum)

aleatorio per quartetto d'archi (lasalle quartet)

4!, poccoli pezzi per pianoforte e violino (aloys kontarsky, wolfgang marschner)

ordini, strutture variate per sedici strumenti (ensemble strumentale da camera)

campi integrati n. 2, giuoco per nove strumenti (gruppo spettro sonoro, ltg. luca pfaff)

die schachtel, azione mimoscenica per mimi, proiezioni, orchestra da camera su soggetto di franco nonnis (anonymous speakers, ensemble of the orchestra of the münchener kammeroper, ltg. eberhard schoener)

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01010 cd

morton feldmanmorton feldman (1926-87)” compact disc

  • piano three hands (8:03) 1957
  • intermission 5 (3:52) 1952
  • vertical thoughts 2 (6:49) 1963
  • extensions (8:05) 1952
  • four instruments (8:12) 1975
  • intermission 5 (2:11) 1952
  • piano piece 1956 a (2:23) 1956
  • piano piece 1956 b (3:07) 1956
  • intersection 3 (3:08) 1953
  • instruments 1 (24:16) 1974
1994 release ; ... an excellent cross-section of morton feldman’s compositional work, cut between early / formative pieces (dating back to the early 50’s) & those from the mid-late 70s ...

includes performances by david tudor, amm’s john tilbury, cornelius cardew, joseph kubera, eberhard blum, jan williams, garrett list, and feldman himself ...
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ed. rz 1010 cd
morton feldman (1926 - 87)
piano three hands, intermission 5, vertical thoughts 2, extensions 3, four instruments, intermission 5, piano piece 1956 a + b, intersection 3, instruments 1
piano three hands (m. feldman + j. tilbury)

intermission 5 (m. feldman)

vertical thoughts 2 (c. cardew, j. négyesy)

extensions 3 (m. feldman)

four instruments (cantilena chamber players)

intermission 5 (d. tudor)

piano piece 1956 a + b (d. tudor)

intersection 3 (d. tudor)

instruments 1 (e. blum, n. post, g. list, j. williams, j. kubera)

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01009 cd

gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanzagruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza (1967-75)” compact disc

  • string quartet (4:13)
  • improvvisazione per cinque (7:06)
  • rkba 1675/i (5:12)
  • percussione per tutti (7:23)
  • mirage (4:44)
  • wenig aber kurz (2:00)
  • nc berlino 1969 (7:40)
  • zum schluß (6:13)
  • eflot (11:15)
  • soup (7:37)
1992 release ; ... a collection of pieces from “the private sea of dreams(rca italiana / victor, 1966/67 - tracks 1-3), “gruppo d'improvvisazione nuova consonanza(general music, 1969/1973, tracks 4-5), “nuova consonanza(cinevox, 1975 - tracks 9-10) along with a couple of excerpts from concerts in germany (tracks 6-7, recorded on december 15th, 1969) & vienna (track 8, 1971) ...
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ed. rz 1009 cd
gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza "1967-75"

improvisations from 1967 to 1975.

cover design: ott + stein

mario bertoncini (percussion + piano)
walter branchi (bass)
franco evangelisti (piano)
john heineman (trombone + cello)
roland kayn (hammond organ + vibes + marimbaphon)
egisto macchi (percussion + celesta)
ennio morricone (trumpet)
giovanni piazza (horn)
jesus villa rojo (clarinet)
frederic rzewski (piano)

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01008 lp

toshi ichiyanagi / maki ishiitoshi ichiyanagi (*1933), maki ishii (*1936)” long playing record

  • toshi ichiyanagi - music for living process (14:30) 1973

  • maki ishii - cho-etsu (17:15) 1973
1991 release ; ... a pair of pieces by two japanese composers, both composed in 1973 & represented here by live recordings of performances at the akademie der künst in berlin that year ...
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ed. rz 1008 lp
toshi ichiyanagi (*1933), maki ishii (*1936)
music for living process, cho-etsu

cover design: ott + stein, berlin; scan: christine berkenhoff

music for living process for flute, shakuhachi, harp, percussion and 2 dancers (tokk ensemble, tokyo)

cho-etsu for shakuhachi, muschelhörner, harp, percussion and electronic sounds (tokk ensemble, tokyo)

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01007 lp

horatiu radulescuhoratiu radulescu (1942-2008)” long playing record

  • clepsydra op. 47 (24:22) 1982

  • astray op. 50 (22:47) 1983
1990 release ; ... just a colossal wail of “sound icon(i.e. grand pianos upturned vertically to allow for direct access to the sound-board & strings, which are struck & bowed by the performers in a manner more befitting the wholesale organ removal of a large beached whale by coyotes) .grappling that rates as one of the finest rz issues ...

16 players on 16 instruments on the a-side (panned in a hard l/r array for maxmium head-scratch ; listen to the sound-sample) then a single sound-icon overdubbed with 16 passes of saxophone glurt by daniel kientzy on the flip ; one of my all-time favorite records, immaculately recorded / presented, miraculously still in print (!!!) & finally in stock ...
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ed. rz 1007 lp
horatiu radulescu (1942-2008)
clepsydra, astray

clepsydra for 16 sound icons (european lucero ensemble, dir.: h. radulescu)

astray for 6 saxophones and sound icon (saxophones: daniel kientzy, sound icon: horatiu radulescu)

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01005 lp

mathias spahlingermathias spahlinger (*1944)” long playing record

  • morendo (für orchester) (6:40) 1974
  • (von hier) (für streichquartett) (11:12) 1982
  • vier stücke (3:30) 1975

  • entlöschend (für grosses tamtam) (14:45) 1974
  • störung (2:40) 1975
  • sotto voce (5:15) 1974
1990 release ; ... have long considered this one of the more under-rated rz lps ; esp. given the second side’s total dominance (the 15-odd minute wash of sublime large gong overtones immediately gives way to the 3 minutes of electronic crackle represented via the sound-sample to your left) ...

impressively high levels of string-scrape throughout the a-side as well ...
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ed. rz 1005 lp
mathias spahlinger (*1944)
morendo, apo do (von hier), vier stücke, entlöschend, störung, sotto voce

cover design: ott + stein, berlin
scan: christine berkenhoff

morendo for orchestra (rso frankfurt, dir.: f. travis)

apo do (von hier) for string quartet (leonardo string quartet)

vier stücke (ens. für neue musik, stuttgart, dir.: e. karkoschka)

entlöschend for tamtam (m. spahlinger)

störung (electronic music)

sotto voce (schola cantorum, stuttgart, dir.: c. gottwald)

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01004 lp

luigi nonoluigi nono (1926-90)” long playing record

  • a carlo scarpa architetto ai suoi infiniti possibili (9:40) 1984
  • a pierre dell'azzurro silenzio, inquietum (8:25) 1985

  • guai ai gelidi mostri (30:38) 1983
1990 release ; ... a trio of mid-80’s works from luigi nono, with the latter two involving some hair-raisinglive electronictreatments (executed at & with the aid of the staff at the experimentalstudio des swf) ...
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ed. rz 1004 lp
luigi nono (1926 - 90)
a carlo scarpa, a pierre, guai ai gelidi mostri

a carlo scarpa for orchestra (sinfonieorchester des swf, m. gielen)

a pierre for bass flute, bass clarinet and live elektronics (r. fabbriciani, c. scarponi, experimentalstudio des swf)

guai ai gelidi mostri for ensemble, voices and live elektronics (e. laurence, s. otto, c. gieselbracht, chr. theus, r. fabbriciani, c. scarponi, st. scodanibbio, ltg. r. cecconi, experimentalstudio des swf, h.p. haller, sound director: l. nono)

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01003 lp

helmut lachenmannhelmut lachenmann (*1935)” long playing record

  • guero (4:00)
  • pression (8:25)
  • pression (9:32)

  • gran torso (urfassung) (26:45)
1990 release ; ... this (along with the radulescu) was the first rz lp i’d personally come across & pretty much single-handedly hipped me to the whole universe of “extended techniques (col legno playing, specifically, fairly well represented in the clip in the sound-sample to your left) ...

classic string / piano crackle & scrape, concerned purely with timbre ...
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ed. rz 1003 lp
helmut lachenmann (*1935)
guero, pression (2 versions), gran torso (original version)

guero for piano (h. lachenmann)

pression for cello solo (w. taube)

pression for cello solo (m. bach)

gran torso (original version) for string quartet (società cameristica italiana)

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