**Restocked, reduced price** One time limited edition of 300 copies. Amazing art edition in a sturdy plywood box with 3 LP in gatefold-cover (Recorded live at Musik-Akademie Basel, Grosser Saal, 2. February 1977) with a fascimile poster announcing the original Quadrupelkonzert, plus one DVD and six books
The oeuvre of the internationally renowned Swiss artist Dieter Roth reflects the multiplicity of his talents. He was active not just as a visual artist, writer, graphic artist, jewellery and furniture designer, publisher and musician, but also often united different media in works that one cannot assign definitively to any single field. Besides employing unusual materials such as foodstuffs, Roth also worked early on with the possibility of translating language into images, images into language and language into music.
Roth’s first joint project was realised in 1970 together with his children Björn and Vera: the Fernquartett. Besides further assemblages and installations with music instruments, his music projects from 1973 onwards were primarily collaborative in nature. A poetry workshop with friends who were artists, writers and musicians developed in 1973 into a music workshop entitled “Rarely heard music”. There followed roughly a dozen further concerts under the same title, in various constellations. The participants included Christian Ludwig Attersee, Günter Brus, Richard Hamilton, Hermann Nitsch, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Rühm, Dominik Steiger, Oswald Wiener and Emmett Williams. Roth also continued to work with his children Karl, Björn and Vera, as for example in Tibidabo – 24 Hours of Dog Barks and Lorelei – Die Langstreckensonate (1978). Dieter Roth gave solo performances as a musician in his R adiosonate (1976), the Quadruple Concerto (1977) and in the long-term project Harmonica Curse (1981).
One time limited edition of 300 copies.
Quadrupelkonzert was recorded live at Musik-Akademie Basel, Grosser Saal, 2. February 1977.
The box comes with the following publications:
Books:
- Dieter Roth: Und weg mit den Minuten (Edizioni Periferia, Kunsthaus Zug, Hochschule für Musik, Fochhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Musik-Akademie, Basel). 378 pages.
Essays by: Matthias Haldemann, Michel Roth, Gabriele Knapstein, Sven Beckstette, Walter Fähndrich, Isabelle Zürcher.
Catalogue for the exhhibitions in Zug and Berlin
- Dieter Roth: Discography (Edizioni Periferia, Kunsthaus Zug, Hochschule für Musik, Fochhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Musik-Akademie, Basel). 224 pages.
Essays by: Flurina Paravicini, Klaus Renner, Björn Roth, Michel Roth, Guy Schraenen.
A catalogue raisonné of Dieter Roth's work as musician and music publisher
- Dieter Roth: Harmonic Curse (Edizioni Periferia, Kunsthaus Zug, Hochschule für Musik, Fochhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Musik-Akademie, Basel). 312 pages.
Essays by: Peter Kraut, William Furlong, Gianni Paravicini.
This is a long-term diary from the year 1981 comprising words, images and sounds
- Dieter Roth: Selten gehörte Gespräche (Edizioni Periferia, Kunsthaus Zug, Hochschule für Musik, Fochhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Musik-Akademie, Basel).
Edited by Michel Roth and Flurina Paravicini.
This book is a documentation with keywords and time codes for circa 25 hours of recorded convesations with Hansjörg Meier, Oswald Wiener, Arnulf Rainer, Christian Attersee, Dominik Steiger, Günther Brus, Björn Roth, Hermann Nitsch and Gerhard Rühm
- Dieter Roth: Quadrupelkonzert (Edizioni Periferia, Kunsthaus Zug, Hochschule für Musik, Fochhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Musik-Akademie, Basel).
Edited by Michael Kunkel.
This book contains a detailed study and a scholarly commentary of this concert
- Dieter Roth: Splittersonate (Edizioni Periferia, Kunsthaus Zug, Hochschule für Musik, Fochhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Musik-Akademie, Basel).
Edited by Michael Roth and Michael Kunkel.
A new edition of the 126-page score for piano and voice from the years 1980 to 1987
DVD:
- Dieter Roth: Disklavier. A DVD featuring a piano improvisation by Dieter Roth from the year 1992.
The vinyl comes with a fascimile poster announcing the original Quadrupelkonzert, which was performed in 1977 at the Basel Music Academy.
