Teresa Rampazzi (1914-2001) studied at the Milan conservatory where she got to know Bruno Maderna and began to receive friends in her living room, people who would become important in the contemporary music scene. In 1952 and 1954, Teresa Rampazzi attended the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik in Darmstadt and listened to electronic experiments made by Eimert. She had understood that that was the only way to completely reject tonal music. In 1956 Teresa began to play with the Bartok Trio, and decided to promote the Avant-Garde music by Anton Webern and Alban Berg.
Very rare box set in an edition of 36 (!) copies only on Die Schachtel collecting 6 LP's previously released by the label documenting the stunning Italian electronic music of the 1960's and 70's. Absolutely essential.
Small repress available. The long and mesmerizing single piece of analogue electronic music that develops over the two sides of the latest Die Schachtel "silver series" LP is a soundscape composed by Teresa Rampazzi for the artist Diana Baylon's 1972 exhibition at the modern art gallery "Il Fiore" in Florence (Italy). Diana Baylon (1920-2013) was a cross-disciplinary artist active in abstract and programmatic art. In the summer of 1969 she appeared – along with with Alberto Burri, Pablo Picasso…
In its constant pursue of the lost treasures of the Italian avant-garde music, Die Schachtel in collaboration with the University of Padua has recovered from the ashes one of the lost and truly shining diamond of the early electronic/digital scene of the 60s and 70s. After more than two years of painstaking research and audio restoration, Die Schachtel is proud to present a new release dedicated to Teresa Rampazzi, a seminal yet very little known female Italian composer/musician, Founder of …