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Otto MUEHL
“Musik 1982-90”
76 minutes collection of recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990.
Performed by Otto Muehl and members of the commune.
Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
16,00€
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SELTEN GEHÖRTE MUSIK
“Sehr Selten Gehörte Tanzmusik”
Previously unpublished performance of the internationally renowned dance band Selten Gehörte Musik (on this occasion: Christian Attersee, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener) at the closing event of the "Literanover" Festival at the Kunstmuseum Hannover, on November 16th, 1980. Close to two hours of very rarely heard dance music, indeed.
22,00€
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Artur ZMIJEWSKI
“Singing Lesson”
First published as a Vinyl-LP in 2011 (Tochnit Aleph TA099) this extraordinary work by Polish conceptual artist Artur Żmijewski is finally available again!
"In 2001 ARTUR ŻMIJEWSKI created the first part of the project "SINGING LESSON" in the Augsburg Evangelical Holy Trinity church in Warsaw. Accompanied by an organ a choir of 'deaf-mute' children sang the "Kyrie" from the "Polish Mass" by Jan Maklakiewicz (1899-1954). Among the cacophony of sounds uttered by them you can hear the words of the confession of faith: "In this holy place, in this holiest place, our voice rises to you and erupts as the sea roars from the deep abyss. O Christ, hear us! O Christ, listen to us!". The second part of the project ("Deaf Bach") was realized in 2002 in St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, in which Johann Sebastian Bach for many years was a cantor and where he was buried. 'Deaf-mute' or severely hearing-impaired children sang Bach's cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" (Heart and Lips and Deed and Life)." (from the liner-notes)
"Along with admiration for the efforts of the deaf we feel an uneasiness caused by our deeply hidden aversion towards that which – like cripplehood – was removed from our consciousness: fear of ourselves, which is an inner mold of repulsion projected onto outside phenomena. Żmijewski's works convince us that neither suffering nor different kinds of physical dysfunction or social norms are able to kill the joy of life. The children singing Bach every so often snort with laughter as if they were trying to accustom themselves to the situation in which they found themselves, thus making it "normal". They whoop it up, forgetting the fact that the lesson in which they participate is beyond the social role ascribed to them, that it is an anomaly, a freaky idea. It is also a musical hybrid, a mix of the sounds uttered by the deaf children and the voice of a professional singer, a negation of all the rules, a mixture of the evenly-tempered baroque system and elements of modal and atonal music." (Violetta Sajkiewicz)
Polish artist Artur Żmijewski (born 1966 in Warsaw) is one of the most consistently challenging, provocative and profoundly thoughtful artists working today. He is an author of short video movies and photography exhibitions, which were shown all over the world. Żmijewski does not shy away from putting the generally accepted rules of Political Correctness into question. His works on the mentally and physically handicapped has drawn significant public attention. He appears to be an artist always in constant search of the next modality of artistic expression, ever striving to amplify the impact of his art on its subjects, enlarging its territory beyond its conventional borders. During the 1990s, Żmijewski was a leading force in the realm of critical art, his point of departure being the problems of body and The Other. In 2005 he represented Poland at the 51st Venice Biennale. He exhibited at Documenta 12 (2007), Manifesta 4 (2002), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2005), Kunsthalle, Basel (2005), National Gallery of Art Zacheta, Warsaw (2005), Kunstwerke, Berlin (2004), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009), Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009) and many more. He was the curator of the Berlin Biennale 2012.
CD in 8-panel digipak. Edition of 300 copies.
14,00€
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Asger JORN & Jean DUBUFFET
“Musique Phénoménale”
Musique Phénomenale was recorded by Asger Jorn & Jean Dubuffet between December 1960 and March 1961 in Paris, and first published in 1961 as a box containing four 10" records in an edition of 50 copies (+ 6 copies H.C.) by Galleria del Cavallino, Venice. 61 years after its original release this first ever reissue was produced in an edition of 600 copies by Daniel Löwenbrück / Edition Hans Pumpestok, København, in cooperation with Fondation Dubuffet, Paris.
"It's a curious feeling to implement and test a spontaneous form of orchestration with an artist who has such an extremely independent background. It really felt like we were experiencing an event of singular importance and significance. I can't say if this importance was greater than our own personal joy. But I do know that this music illuminated many ideas for me that had previously remained obscure. For me it remains a kind of phenomenal music, in the sense that in our productions the music became it's own specific phenomenon, and yet one that was still connected to all the other sensorial phenomena. (…)"
Asger Jorn (from the liner notes)
Double CD in 6-panel digipak in slipcase, with 12-page illustrated booklet and linernotes by Asger Jorn in French & English.
Founding member of CoBrA and Situationist International movements, Danish painter, sculptor, and ceramic artist Asger Jorn (1914-1973) is one of the major figures of the post-war avant-garde, whose work can be characterized by its artistic and political radicalism.
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was a French painter, sculptor, lithographer and writer. He was one of the main protagonists of “Art Brut” (a term he invented in 1945).
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Hermann NITSCH
“Musik der 155. Aktion”
Large-scale symphony composed for the 155. Action of Hermann Nitsch’s Orgien-Mysterien-Theater
Performed and recorded 1. September 2018 at the Nitsch Museum, in Mistelbach, Austria.
Directed by Hermann Nitsch and Leonhard Kopp
Conducted by Andrea Cusumano
Performed by Klangvereinigung Wien, Stadtkapelle Mistelbach, and Chor con cor & Musik- und Gesangsverein Asparn a.d. Zaya.
Photography: Reinhard Ehn, Wolfgang Kober
Recording: Daniel Löwenbrück, Patrick Quick
Mastering: Giuseppe Ielasi
21,00€
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Antoine CHESSEX
“Echo/cide / The Experience of Limit”
ECHO/CIDE (2018) - for 4 hammered dulcimers and cimbalum
Composed by Antoine Chessex. Performed by Ekleto ensemble.
Recorded by Thierry Simonot at l’Alhambra, Geneva, October 2018
THE EXPERIENCE OF LIMIT (2019) - for grand piano
Composed by Antoine Chessex. Performed by Tamriko Kordzaia.
Recorded by Nicolas Buzzi at Theater Rigiblick, Zurich, March 2019.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
21,00€
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Christina KUBISCH
“Italienische Stücke”
Release of conceptual and perfomative pieces by Christina Kubisch composed & realised between 1974 and 1984, during Kubisch's years in Italy.
Christina Kubisch (born 1948 in Bremen, lives and works in Hoppegarten, Germany) studied painting, music and electronics in Hamburg, Graz, Zürich and Milano, where she graduated. Performances, concerts and works with video in the seventies, subsequently sound installations, sound sculptures and work with ultraviolet light. Her compositions are mostly electroacoustic, but she has written for ensembles as well. Since 2003 she works again as a perfomer and collaborates with various musicians and dancers.
Christina Kubisch has been a visiting professor in Maastricht, Paris and Berlin. She has been a professor for sound art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken, Germany, from 1994 to 2013. She is a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin since 1997.
Six panel DVD-sized digipak, illustrated with archival photos of CK and extensive programme, notes in English. Edition of 300 copies.
14,50€
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15 KINDER & BRÖTZMANN – VAN HOVE – BENNINK
“Free Jazz und Kinder”
12" vinyl reissue of the rare & infamous double-7" originally published by FMP in 1973.
Recordings from a workshop at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, April 1972, featuring 15 children (aged 8-11) and Peter Brötzmann, Fred van Hove, Han Bennink.
19,00€
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Hermann NITSCH
“Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel”
Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published 48 years ago by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Produced and recorded at the WDR Radio in Cologne, Germany, the Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel (Aktion 38b) is "neither a radioplay nor a work of music. it merely portrays the acoustic part of an "abreaktionsspiel" (a play of abreaction). the special and specific usage of the acoustic possibilities are in the foreground, while the visual part of the play is communicated by a narrator." A prime example of the intense & noisy wildness of Nitsch's early actions employing scream-choirs, beating, whistles, chaotic austrian folklore juxtapositions, rough brass sections and dissonant strings. Edition of 400 copies on vinyl and 200 copies on CD.
21,00€
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Hermann NITSCH
“Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel”
Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published 48 years ago by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Produced and recorded at the WDR Radio in Cologne, Germany, the Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel (Aktion 38b) is "neither a radioplay nor a work of music. it merely portrays the acoustic part of an "abreaktionsspiel" (a play of abreaction). the special and specific usage of the acoustic possibilities are in the foreground, while the visual part of the play is communicated by a narrator." A prime example of the intense & noisy wildness of Nitsch's early actions employing scream-choirs, beating, whistles, chaotic austrian folklore juxtapositions, rough brass sections and dissonant strings. Edition of 400 copies on vinyl and 200 copies on CD.
12,00€
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Marcus SCHMICKLER
“Richters Patterns”
Double-CD collecting five of Schmicklers key-works composed & recorded between 2006 and 2016.
Edition of 400 copies in fullcolour digipak with 8-page booklet.Edition of 400 copies in fullcolour digipak with 8-page booklet.
"Richters Patterns (2016) is a collaboration among Marcus Schmickler, artist Gerhard Richter, director Corinna Belz and the Ensemble Musikfabrik. In 2011, Richter took an image of his work Abstract Painting (CR: 7244) and divided it vertically into strips and gave them to Belz who utilized specially developed software operations involving cuts, mirroring and reproduction to create a movie from these images. Schmickler and Belz worked in parallel, with the film and composition following their own independent logic. Schmickler’s idea was to extend Richter’s method to divide, mirror, repeat into sound and time. Richters Patterns was commissioned by Koeln Musik and had its premiere on September 9, 2016 at Cologne Philharmonic Hall. Marco Blaauw (Trumpet), Helen Bledsoe (Flute), Christine Chapman (Horn), Bruce Collings (Trombone), Diamanda Dramm (Violin), Florentin Ginot (Double Bass), Benjamin Kobler (Piano, Synthesizer), Ulrich Löffler (Piano), Heidi Mockert (Bassoon), Melvyn Poore (Tuba), Axel Porath (Viola), Carl Rosman (Clarinet), Dirk Rothbrust (Percussion), Marieke Schoenmakers (Harp), Peter Veale (Oboe), Hannah Weirich (Violin), Dirk Wietheger (Violoncello), Marcus Schmickler (Computer), Paul Jeukendrupp (Soundprojection).
"Kemp Echoes" (2013) refers to a physical phenomenon in the ear discovered by physicist David Kemp in 1978. Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) are signals in the ear (that can be detected with high quality small microphones) that are emitted by the cochlea, either spontaneously or in response to stimuli (frequently clicks). I have strived to create a piece that can seem ‘electronic’ to the ear without actually utilizing electronics. With Helen Bledsoe (Flute), Peter Veale (Oboe), Carl Rosman (Clarinet), Heidi Mockert (Bassoon), Christine Chapman (Horn), Ales Klancar (Trumpet), Bruce Collings (Trombone), Melvyn Poore (Tuba), Ulrich Löffler (Synthesizer), Benjamin Kobler (Piano/Sampler), Dirk Rothbrust (Percussion), Thomas Meixner (Percussion), Juditha Haeberlin (Violin), Hannah Weirich (Violin), Axel Porath (Viola), Dirk Wietheger (Violoncello), Benedict Ziervogel (Bass), Marcus Schmickler (Computer), Paul Jeukendrup (Soundprojection). Conducted by Enno Poppe.
"Fokker Bifurcations" (2014) marks a departure into microtonal works for keyboards and mallets and maintains the composer’s penchant for juxtaposed fixed pitches with pitch continua. Recorded live at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn on Nov 7 2014. The recording has been edited for this publication. With Laura Barger (piano), Ning Yu (piano), Ian Antonio (percussion), Russell Greenberg (percussion).
"E-UROPAS / Plurality of Centers" (2006). Shall we say goodbye to modernism? I dare to confront the myths of new music in this music theater creation. Layers containing the manifestos of Cornelius Cardew, Guy Debord and sound materials from six decades of the avant-garde create a collage that utilizes some of the formal principles guiding John Cage’s Europera V. With Hayden Chisholm (Voice), Juditha Haeberlin (Violin), Axel Porath (Viola), Dirk Wietheger (Violoncello), Ulrich Löffler (Piano), Dirk Rothbrust (Percussion), Marcus Schmickler (Voice, Computer, Radios), Carsten Goertz (scenography).
"ATA OTO" (2017) for Robot instruments TEMBLO, TINTI, TROMS, XY by Logos Foundation & computer.
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Hermann NITSCH
“Traubenfleisch”
Double LP. Edition of 300 copies in fullcolour gatefold sleeve. First recording of the grand scale "Traubenfleisch 2007-2017" symphony by Hermann Nitsch. Performed at the Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, September 2, 2017, by Orchestra "Klangvereinigung Wien" and a new choir formed for the occasion. Directed by Andrea Cusumano.
30,00€
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Max E. KELLER
“Vier politische Kompositionen für Tonband”
Edition of 500 copies. 20 page illustrated booklet with liner-notes in German and English. Four political tape compositions 1976-1979 by Swiss composer Max E. Keller (b.1947). A rare case of left-wing / socialist electroacoustic music. The CD includes Keller’s piece from the long out-of-print and sort of legendary Split-LP with Martin Schwarzenlander from 1977 plus 3 previously unreleased tape compositions. Max E. Keller originally started out as one of the first Swiss Free-Jazz musicians in the mid 1960’s and studied composition with Hans Ulrich Lehmann and Helmut Lachenmann, and electronic music with Nicolaus A. Huber und Dirk Reith. In 1972 he was expelled from the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music because of his political stances. Since the early 1970’s Keller wrote more than 150 pieces for various forces which are performed internationally. Since 2007 he is chairman of the Swiss Society for Contemporary Music. Tracklist: “Sicher sein” (1976, for voice and tape, 24’06 min). “Grundgesetze” (1977, for four voices and tape, 13’32 min). “Sie” (1978, for voice and tape, 15’08 min). “Hymnen” (1979, for two voices and tape, 14’26 min).
Original price was: 14,00€.7,00€Current price is: 7,00€.
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Gérard BROUTIN
“Ère isouienne an 52 : un musicien lettriste”
First ever release of the text-sound pieces by French lettrist artists Gérard-Philippe Broutin (b. 1948). Broutin studied Art History at the University of Paris and the École du Louvre. Alongside other artists such as Maurice Lemaître, Roland Sabatier, Alain Satié, François Poyet or Jean-Pierre Gillard in particular, Broutin meets Isidore Isou in 1968 and from then on participates in most of the events and literary exhibitions of the lettrist movement.
The remarkable lettrist text-sound pieces contained on this CD were written during the early 1970’s and recorded and broadcasted at Radio France in September 1976, with introductory texts by Jean-Pierre Gillard.
“Stances à Jean-Paul Curtay”. “Étude no.1”. “3 brèves improvisations”. “Étude no.2”. “Un fameux chapeau”. “Polyphonie”.
Edition of 300 copies in six-panel digipak.
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Michael BARTHEL
“Halber Pogo”
Edition of 300 copies in six-panel digipak.
Second full-lenght release by German sound-poet and writer Michael Barthel on Tochnit Aleph. Recorded April 2018 straight to tape without overdubs. Raw, unsettling, and poetically incorrect!
“Halber Pogo (half a pogo) is a 60 minute recording in which scripted text-pieces are recited from memory. The selection of the pieces is left up to the moment, as much as how much content of each piece is remembered; along with their actually determined pronounciation - that often buggers off. This inaccuracy, the resulting pauses, the sensuality that arises from these circumstances, is what is of interest to Halber Pogo.”
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Hermann NITSCH
“Traubenfleisch”
Double CD. Edition of 300 copies in six-panel digipak.
First recording of the grand scale “Traubenfleisch 2007-2017” symphony by Hermann Nitsch. Performed at the Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, September 2, 2017, by Orchestra “Klangvereinigung Wien” and a new choir formed for the occasion. Directed by Andrea Cusumano.
21,00€
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Rudolf EB.ER
“Meditation on a broomstick”
First proper studio album by Rudolf Eb.Er / R&G since “23 Brutal-Humouroid Dramas” (TA052) from 2005. Psycho-active Audio-Art composed and mixed 2010-2011 by Rudolf Eb.er in Osaka. CD in 6-panel fullcolour digipak. Edition of 500 copies.
6,00€
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Oswald WIENER
“Dominik Steiger als Kind”
A Film by Oswald Wiener, Vienna 1965. Austrian artist Domink Steiger (born 1940) as ’a child’. Dressed up in a sailor suit, playing with himself and toys on a roof-top and out in the streets and at a playground with other children under the suspicious eyes of mid 1960’s Vienna inhabitants. This work could be seen as some sort of an (unintended) Steiger-esque version of the "Wiener Spaziergang" action by Günter Brus which coincidently happened the same year in the same city. But this film is not just a documentation of a happening but an experimental film by Oswald Wiener (b.1935), one of the founding members of the ’Wiener Gruppe’. Filmed with a Super 8 camera and edited by hand, with fast cut’s and short bursts of over-exposure. Edition of 100 numbered copies of which 50 copies are available to distributors.
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RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK
“Asshole – Snail dilemma”
10 years after the first Edition on CD the most horrifying piece of music available again on Vinyl. Featuring the infamous recording ’For Stringquintet and Asstrumpet’ on one side, and a collage of studio-recordings and various live-actions in Rudolf Eb.er’s unique style on side b. Mastered & cut by Lupo at D&M, Berlin. Edition of 500 copies, 320g fullcolour cover true to the original CD, black 180g vinyl, black polylined innersleeve.
16,00€
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G*PARK
“Gour”
New works by Swiss musique concrete composer and visual artist Marc Zeier / G*Park. Active since the early 80’s Zeier was a founding member of the Schimpfluch-Gruppe. He lives and works in Zürich as a composer, installation- and video-artist and plankton fisherman. Gour presents one long composition of his highly fascinating and unique crypto electro-acoustics based solely of micro field-recordings and natural phenomena. “Musique concrete seems eternally old-fashioned and eternally modern. Marc Zeier makes you fall in love with the form all over again”. Thanks Are Due To: The Etang of Gour and its Creatures, A Singing and Cracking Chimney, Wild Bees and Wasps from Piemonte, Limnodromus griseus, Unidentified Voices from the Gemauge House, The Uwaga Squad, The Flies (Sarcophagidae), The Crows and Pigs of Chants, The People of Tiananmen, The Frozen Lakes, The Wolves. Edition of 350 copies.
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Rolf JULIUS
“Lullaby for the Fishes”
Edition of 500 copies. Reissue of Rolf Julius’ first and only (and almost impossible to find) LP from 1985.
“Rolf Julius was the archetypal “sound artist”. He painted with sound, he colored with pitch, and his work demands the attention and open-mindedness of those who embrace modern art. He collected found sounds, and mixed them with prerecorded single tone notes which were then, electronically modified and filtered through tiny loudspeakers, transformed into music. Depending on the surface texture where the loudspeaker has been placed - wall, floor or outdoors - these objects resonate and “breathe” sound. His music is a mixture of all these sounds; a carefully calculated and conceived creation. He sculpted sound to define space, creating a musical environment where subtle changes occur.
Julius was born in Wilhelmshaven, West Germany, in 1939 and died in Berlin in 2011. He studied visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin where his first installations involved the use of photographs. Later, after being inspired by the work of John Cage, and more directly European contemporary music (eg: classical, electronic and jazz), Julius became increasingly interested in environmental acoustics and sound textures. He attempted to fuse space with sound by combining pulsating textures with the room’s acoustics, similar to the work of David Behrman, Alvin Lucier and David Tudor. Julius’ environments also contain a visual element, where the observer / participant is able to enter and leave the musical environment as one chooses.
Julius exhibited his pieces throughout Europe and the United States. Paradoxically he is internationally recognized as a visual artist, but considered himself a musician. His work embodies the truest elements of “sound art”, having the ability to create images with sound.” (Brooke Wentz)
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Franz MON
“Stimmen Lauter Stimmen”
(Lauttexte 1962-64 + Hörspiel 1971). Franz Mon (born 1926) is a pioneer in the field of concrete, visual and phonetic poetry. He once licked the new radio play into shape like no other german-speaking playwright before him. As a sound poet and with his ’articulations’ or phonetic pieces, he conceptually renewed sound poetry in the postwar years. This LP collects some of Mon’s earliest concrete phonetic poems recorded 1962-64 as well as the radioplay ’Ich bin der ich bin die’ from 1971. Edition of 400 copies. 320g picture sleeve and 280g printed inner-sleeve, including linernotes and artist biography in english.
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Dominik STEIGER
“Ad Hoc Musi 1980-84”
Dominik Steiger, born in Vienna 1940. Universty drop out. Joins the french foreign legion 1959 but was dismissed a year later for psychiatric reasons. 1961 first poems and beginning of a bohemian life. 1961-64 vagabondage through europe and asia. Published several books of poetry and prose since 1961. First drawings published 1972 by Günther Brus in his periodical ’Schastrommel’. Exhibitions of graphic works since 1975 in galleries throughout Europe. Ad hoc musician. First LP of songs ’Wiener Lieder und Gemischte Waisen’ published 1979 in Dieter Roth’s Verlag. He cooperated repeatedly with more or less renowned artists in concerts graphic team works, literary events etc. In 2004 he received the honorary literature prize of the Republic of Austria and in 2008 the fine arts prize of the City of Vienna. This LP is a collection of 29 pieces recorded 1980-84. Outsider art home-recordings using voice, acoustic guitar, accordion and bontempi organ. Edition of 400 copies. 320g picture sleeve and 280g printed inner-sleeve with linernotes and artist biography in english and german.
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ZEITKRATZER
“Grand orchestra”
Grand Orchestra, for mixed orchestra and bagpipes. Composed and directed by Reinhold Friedl. Performed by zeitkratzer & guest at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, August 21, 2011. “The score for Grand Orchestra has been developed for musicians, laymen, old people, children, adolescents, for anyone who likes to join in. Grand Orchestra is not for education. It’s not about explaining, intellectual understanding or the training of cultural values; rather it’s about having faith in the abilities and intuition of the players and their performance. The musicians of zeitkratzer and additional guests took over the voice-leading of the instrumental groups, distributed in the space and enabling their amplification. In this way it was possible to create not only pure intensity but also dense and complex sound aggregates, through the blurring of playing techniques inside the different instrumental groups. Which orchestra is capable of playing such complex sounds as this group of forty wind players, chorally building a simultaneous crescendo of breaths? Who can play more ecstatically and wilder than a group of sixty musicians, playing against and doing their best to keep up with a Scottish bagpipe ensemble? It’s precisely due to unclearly played single sounds, unfolding from an orchestra dominated by amateurs. Unique sounds with a complex character that no professional orchestra could reproduce.” - Reinhold Friedl, from the liner notes. zeitkratzer is sound made visible, tangible, bodily - a truly unforgettable corporal experience of live music. The physicality of sound is celebrated through extended instrumental techniques, mutual understanding and amplification of traditional instruments. A midpoint between instrumental and electronic music turns out to be more bizarre and surprising than either of these. It will make you expect more from music than you did before! zeitkratzer is a soloist ensemble. Its strength comes from its members. Founded in 1999, it gathers nine musicians, light and sound engineers living in different European cities from Amsterdam to London to Oslo meeting for working phases in Berlin. zeitkratzer have performed critically acclaimed versions of classical music by composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann and James Tenney, as well as orchestral versions of electronic/noise music by Whitehouse, Merzbow, John Duncan, Dror Feiler and Lou Reed’s ’Metal Machine Music’.
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SELTEN GEHÖRTE MUSIK
“3. Berliner Dichterworkshop”
First part in the reissue series of all Selten Gehörte Musik records. CD in printed CD sleeve packaged in fullcolour 12” LP sleeve (reproduction of the original artwork) and printed 12” innersleeve featuring rare photos and an English text on “Selten gehörte Musik” by Gerhard Rühm. This is the reissue of the first SGM release from 1973. Recordings of the 3rd Berliner Poetsworkshop (First Berliner Musicworkshop) with Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener, Berlin 12th & 13th July 1973. Edition of 500 copies.
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SELTEN GEHÖRTE MUSIK
“Tote rennen – Lieder”
Fifth part in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series. Recorded by Dieter Roth and Oswald Wiener at Mosfellssveit, Iceland, May 28 - 30, 1976. Packaged in fullcolour LP cover (reproduction of the original), with printed innersleeve featuring a new text about “Tote Rennen Lieder” by Michel Roth (with the English translation as an insert), as well as a rare drawing / “liner notes” by Dieter Roth. Edition of 500 copies.
“The tense relationship between Wiener and Roth, borne by great mutual admiration and argumentative rivalry, left a major mark on the Rarely Heard Music. In 1974 they had a fierce argument in Iceland that almost led to Roth pulling out of his part in the Munich Concert and Berlin Concert. The record that they made together in Iceland some two years later, with their “conversations as songs” (Roth) is thus all the more remarkable. (…) They intentionally recorded it during a hangover. Roth took particular pleasure, he said, in the vacillating nature of the conversation, with music in the background that had been recorded subsequently, when they were both sober again. (…) In the context of their rivalry, however, it is significant that they both struggle to formulate their ideas precisely, and – even when the conversation partner has already understood what was said – they often subsequently offer a yet more succinct version of it. (…)”
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Wolf VOSTELL
“Dé-coll-age musik”
“CD-Reissue of the Vinyl-LP originally released 1983 by Fondazione Mudima (Multhipla M20137). Comes in high-gloss fullcolour 6-panel Digipak with 16 page illustrated booklet. Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) was a German painter, sculptor, noise music maker and happening artist. He is one of the pioneers of video art, environment-sculptures, happenings and the Fluxus Movement. Together with Nam June Paik and George Maciunas he organised the Festival ’Festum Fluxorum’ in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1962. This festival is considered to be the birth of the Fluxus movement. Vostell was the first artist in history to integrate a television set into a work of art (’Deutscher Ausblick’ from 1958).”
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Mario DE VEGA
“Smells like Teen Spirit”
This latest addition to the Tochnit Aleph catalogue is premised in a haptic interrogation of each of the label’s previous editions (TA001-147). Berlin-based, and Mexico City-born, multi-disciplinary artist Mario de Vega occupied the gallery space of Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik) for three consecutive days in October 2016 with a hitherto complete Tochnit Aleph catalogue, sanding machines, hammer, and recording equipment. Conflating acts of 'playing' with destruction, de Vega took to the recorded works and assorted medias with his spartan toolset, producing a discordant document of his repurposing of the complete archive. Reducing the material to a collection of detritus for exhibition, the sound object is presented as both a conceptual remainder of the site-specific process, and an agitated extension to the label.
Edition of 300 copies.
14,00€
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Antoine CHESSEX
“Selected chamber music works 2009-2013”
Edition of 300 copies. Four chamber music pieces by Swiss composer Antoine Chessex. Including: Angst Miniature (2009, for strings and tape), Metakatharsis (2010, for ensemble, live-electronics and tape), Ritournelle Fulgurante (2013, for ensemble), Schichten (2011, for ensemble). Comes with 12 page booklet.
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SELTEN GEHÖRTE MUSIK
“Novembersymphonie (Doppelsymphonie)”
Second part in the reissue series of all Selten Gehörte Musik records. Two CD's in printed CD sleeves packaged in fullcolour 12” LP gatefold sleeve (reproduction of the original artwork) and printed 12” innersleeve featuring rare photos and an english text on Selten gehörte Musik by Gerhard Rühm. This is the reissue of the second SGM release from 1974. Recordings of the second Berliner Musicworkshop with Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener, Berlin 15th - 26th November 1973. Also included are the two bonus pieces from the 7’ which came only with the first 100 copies of the original edition. Edition of 500 copies.
26,00€
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2 CD
Hermann NITSCH
“6. Sinfonie”
Hermann Nitsch’s Sixth Symphony for large orchestra performed and recorded November 1, 1980 at Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna. Edition of 500 copies in big 2CD jewel-case with 12 page booklet with a text by Günter Brus (German only).
14,00€