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David TUDOR
“The art of David Tudor (1963-1992)”
David Tudor’s (1926-1996) identity morphed seamlessly from interpreter of mainly acoustic music to composer-performer of predominately electronic music over a period of about ten years, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. This set of seven CDs, the first truly comprehensive survey of Tudor’s work as a composer, goes beyond any previous attempt to document that process of transformation. It captures his touch and sensitivity and offers an expansive, previously unavailable view onto more than three decades of Tudor’s astonishingly original work as an electronic musician. It neatly describes the arc of his career, from his first composition, Bandoneon ! (A Combine), through the fully-realized works of his long collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Six works that were issued in excerpted form in Music for Merce (1952-2009) are issued here complete. Other highlights include the live soundscapes for the Pepsi Pavilion at the 1970 Osaka World Expo, the marvelous simultaneous performance with John Cage of Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham/Untitled, and two extended binaural recordings of Rainforest IV with Composers Inside Electronics, the best recorded documents of this signature work. While Cage has finally more or less received his due, Tudor’s own accomplishments have been somewhat overshadowed and are ripe for a proper re-evaluation. It is our hope that the release of this set will prompt a thorough reconsideration of his seminal achievements.
David Tudor : Anima Pepsi, Bandoneon ! (A Combine), Neural Network Plus, Pepscillator, Pepsibird, Phonemes, Rainforest IV [Berlin, 1980], Rainforest IV [Stockholm, 1980], Virtual Focus, Weatherings, Webwork
John Cage / David Tudor [simultaneous performance]: Mesostics re Merce Cunningham / Untitled.
John Cage : Variations II.
Christian Wolff : For 1, 2, or 3 People.
David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, live electronics. John Cage, voice. Composers Inside Electronics : John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Ralph Jones, Martin Kalve, David Tudor, Bill Viola, live electronics.
David Tudor : Anima Pepsi, Bandoneon ! (A Combine), Neural Network Plus, Pepscillator, Pepsibird, Phonemes, Rainforest IV [Berlin, 1980], Rainforest IV [Stockholm, 1980], Virtual Focus, Weatherings, Webwork
John Cage / David Tudor [simultaneous performance]: Mesostics re Merce Cunningham / Untitled.
John Cage : Variations II.
Christian Wolff : For 1, 2, or 3 People.
David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, live electronics. John Cage, voice. Composers Inside Electronics : John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Ralph Jones, Martin Kalve, David Tudor, Bill Viola, live electronics.
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FTARRI COLLECTION
This 7-CD set contains 19 selected performances from the Ftarri Festival, held in April 2008 (Kyoto / Tokyo), and the Ftarri doubtmusic Festival, held in September 2010. The 7 CDs, together with a sequentially numbered Ftarri Collection card, come in a special handmade felt bag about 18 cm high and 17 cm wide. Each bag has a different design.
Ftarri Collection 1 with Opera Southern Cross (Taku Sugimoto: composition, images. Katsuaki Iida: words, reading. Toshimaru Nakamura: no-input mixing board. Taku Unami: computer). John Butcher / Toshimaru Nakamura / Tetuzi Akiyama. Otomo Yoshihide / Toshimaru Nakamura / Ryu Hankil.
Ftarri Collection 2 with Noid / Kai Fagaschinski / Axel Dörner / Taku Unami. Eddie Prévost / Sachiko M.
Ftarri Collection 3 with gnu (Masahiko Okura: compositions, bass clarinet, alto saxophone. Shinichi Tsukamoto: keyboards. Yukiya Taneishi: electric bass. Tadashi Kumada: drums. Itoken: drums). Ami Yoshida. Tim Olive / Anthony Guerra / Makoto Oshiro.
Ftarri Collection 4 with Los Glissandinos (Klaus Filip: lloopp + Kai Fagaschinski: clarinet). Bunsho Nishikawa / Tim Olive / Haco. Katsura Yamauchi / Ko Ishikawa / Tetsu Saitoh.
Ftarri Collection 5 with Naoaki Miyamoto. Chie Mukai / Tetragrammaton.
Ftarri Collection 6 with Chihei Hatakeyama / Kiyoshi Mizutani. Hello (Takahiro Kawaguchi: composition, bass guitar. Shinjiro Yamaguchi: guitar. Satoshi Kanda: bass guitar).
Ftarri Collection 7 with Seiichi Yamamoto / Umeda Tetsuya, VOIMA (Yasufumi Suzuki: computer. Tetsuro Yasunaga: computer). Tetuzi Akiyama / Utah Kawasaki / Katsura Yamauchi.
Numbered limited edition of 300
69,00€
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Luigi ARCHETTI
“Null I – VII”
Epic in scale, static, timbre and stillness, “Null” is a vast and profound music project that Luigi Archetti has been pursuing over a longer period. His musical research is not about Null (the German word for zero) as a mathematical object, as a real number. Instead, the term Null (zero) is used here as a metaphor in order to describe a state of pausing and anticipatory waiting. The music in project Null is characterised by static sounds, by drones and their overlapping and layering. The sound surfaces turn into acoustic sluggish material which flows slowly through time and gradually transforms itself. It is a constant gliding, a constant mutation of sound structures. Attempts to discover clearly defined melodies, rhythmically ordered structures or even beats are to no avail. A universe of sound particles diffuse in the foreground of the musical atmosphere, whereby the sounds do not provide any reference whatsoever to a possible location.
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All the sounds in the Null project are sourced from e-guitars, which are in part extensively defamiliarized through digitalization and thereby redefined. The e-guitars (frequently in scordatura tuning) are used to this end as suppliers of sound. The acoustic sedimentation of the diverse sounds and sound structures results in a dense and filigree sound fabric which develops a pull effect on the listeners. It is an invitation to travel in uncharted regions, a hypnotically captivating journey through timeless and minimal acoustic events.
detail
All the sounds in the Null project are sourced from e-guitars, which are in part extensively defamiliarized through digitalization and thereby redefined. The e-guitars (frequently in scordatura tuning) are used to this end as suppliers of sound. The acoustic sedimentation of the diverse sounds and sound structures results in a dense and filigree sound fabric which develops a pull effect on the listeners. It is an invitation to travel in uncharted regions, a hypnotically captivating journey through timeless and minimal acoustic events.
45,00€