Winfried Mühlum-Pyrápheros
Musica Nova Contemplativa (LP)
FormatLPLabelEditions Du Berger, EtoileGenreExperimental
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Winfried Mühlum-Pyrápheros was studying philosophy and psychology in the early sixties when he began painting with phosphorescent pigments, works that give off light of their own. Musica Nova Contemplativa, written in 1964 as a graphic score, was conceived as a sonic extension of those paintings, and recorded in 1967 in a Franciscan church in Bensheim, with the artist on violin and Johann Georg Ickler on organ.
The pieces are short, focused duos: long notes that diffract slowly, repeated pizzicati, string sounds that resemble wet glass. It was published in 1970 by the French book publisher Editions du Berger and has become one of the rarest artist records of the period, close in spirit to Tony Conrad and Giacinto Scelsi. Blume reissued it in 2019; this is the original 1970 edition.
