Bogusław Schaeffer, Ricardo Mandolini, Sukhi Kang

condition (record/cover): NM / NM 

The second volume in Edition RZ's Inventionen series - the catalogue of the Berlin Inventionen festival, the annual contemporary music event that had established itself as one of the most important platforms for electroacoustic and experimental music in Germany. Three composers, three works, three entirely different relationships to the festival's brief of documenting the outer limits of contemporary compositional practice. Bogusław Schaeffer (1929-2019), the Polish composer and playwright whose place in the European avant-garde was secured early by works that pushed beyond the serial inheritance toward graphic notation and total sound organization, contributes Berlin 80 II. Ricardo Mandolini - the Argentine composer whose electroacoustic work at EMS Stockholm and IPEM Ghent opened this same batch with its ERZ 1 release - returns here with Fabulas II.

Sukhi Kang, the Korean composer, brings a third cultural perspective to a gathering that reflects the genuinely international character of the Inventionen festival's vision - a Berlin event that saw the city's geographical position, at the intersection of East and West, as an argument for music that similarly refused to settle on one side of a dividing line. Edition RZ, ERZ 2.