Takehito Shimazu, Bogusław Schaeffer, Rolf Enström

condition (record/cover): NM / NM 

The third and final volume of Edition RZ's Inventionen series present in this collection, and the document that closes Batch 190 with an appropriate sense of the electroacoustic music world's genuinely global reach by the early 1980s. Takehito Shimazu (born 1949), the Japanese composer whose work occupied the intersection of computer music, electroacoustic composition, and traditional Japanese musical thinking, contributes Zytoplasma ("Cytoplasm") - a work whose biological title suggests an interest in organic process as a compositional model, the electronic material developing through states of growth, division, and mutation. Bogusław Schaeffer returns with Maa'ts, extending the investigation of sound organization that had preoccupied his entire career. Rolf Enström, the Swedish composer, completes the programme with Fractal - a title that places the work firmly in the mathematical discourse of the early 1980s, the self-similar structures of fractal geometry offering new models for musical form at precisely the moment when such models were becoming available.

Three composers, three works, and a document of the Inventionen festival's commitment to bringing together voices from across the world of experimental and electroacoustic music without regard for national or aesthetic boundary. A fitting close. Edition RZ, ERZ 3.