Various Artists
Siemens-Studio Für Elektronische Musik (CD)
FormatCDLabelSiemens Kultur ProgrammGenreExperimental
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In 1955 Carl Orff, hired by Siemens to advise on a promotional film, recommended a young composer named Josef Anton Riedl. Out of that came a studio in Munich built to score industrial films. With punched-tape control and analysis-synthesis equipment, it was one of the most advanced electronic rooms in Europe. Riedl ran it from 1959 until it closed in 1966, and the machinery is now in the Deutsches Museum. This 74-minute CD, issued in 1998 by the Siemens Kultur Programm and compiled by Riedl, is the main recorded account of what happened there.
The list of people who passed through is an unlikely one for a corporate lab. Mauricio Kagel made Antithese (1962) here, a piece for performer with electronic and public sounds. Herbert Brün brought Klänge unterwegs, and Kagel also realized one of John Cage's Imaginary Landscape pieces. Henri Pousseur, Dieter Schnebel, Milko Kelemen, David Tudor, the concrete poet Ferdinand Kriwet and the writer Paul Pörtner all worked here as well. Riedl's own studies, salvaged from the offcuts of commissioned work, are Munich's dry answer to Cologne: less doctrine, more grit.
Format
Includes 20-page booklet in German with a foreword by Pierre Boulez (also printed in French), detailed history and description of the technological possibilities of the early "Studio for Electronic Music" built and run by Siemens since 1956 in Munich and Ulm.
Total Time 74:38
Track 2 for six percussionists and electronic sounds, produced by Radio Bremen
Track 3 composition for electronic and public sounds
Track 8 electronic and concrète sounds, coproduction with NDR
Track 9 electronically altered voices
Track 10 electronically altered voices, produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk
Track 11 soundtrack to the silent film "Un chien andalou by Salvator [sic] Dali and Luis Bunuel, excerpts from the study done 1959/I
Track 12 music for VariaVision "Unendliche Fahrt"
Track 13 serenade for projectors and listeners
Track 14 four sounds, produced by CBS television network
Track 15 produced by CBS television network
Track 16 for Friedrich Hebbel, orchestral sounds, electronically altered orchestral sounds and electronics sounds
Track 17 electronically altered speak and instrumental sounds
Track 18 punch card controlled
Track 19 lecture with sound examples, produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk
Edited and mastered at Tonstudio Ulrich Krauss, 1994.
Tracks appear by courtesy of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Radio Bremen, C. F. Peters, Musikverlag B. Schott's Söhne, and Edition Modern.
Release notes
Includes 20-page booklet in German with a foreword by Pierre Boulez (also printed in French), detailed history and description of the technological possibilities of the early "Studio for Electronic Music" built and run by Siemens since 1956 in Munich and Ulm. Total Time 74:38 Track 2 for six percussionists and electronic sounds, produced by Radio Bremen Track 3 composition for electronic and public sounds Track 8 electronic and concrète sounds, coproduction with NDR Track 9…
| 1 | Wayfaring Sounds (Klänge Unterwegs), 1961 | 4:05 | |
| 2 | Imaginary Landscape, 1942 | 3:34 | |
| 3 | Antithese, 1962 | 9:24 | |
| Folge Von 4 Studien | |||
| 4 | Nr. 59 | 2:38 | |
| 5 | Nr. 61 | 2:07 | |
| 6 | Nr. 62/1 | 2:06 | |
| 7 | Nr. 62/2 | 5:43 | |
| 8 | Komposition Nr. 3, 1965/67 | 6:50 | |
| JAJA - Hörtext 2, 1965 | |||
| 9a | Ausschnitt 1 | 2:35 | |
| 9b | Ausschnitt 2 | 2:12 | |
| Schallspielstudie 2, 1965 | |||
| 10a | Ausschnitt 1 | 0:16 | |
| 10b | Ausschnitt 2 | 0:43 | |
| 10c | Ausschnitt 3 | 0:17 | |
| 10d | Ausschnitt 4 | 0:43 | |
| 11 | Un Chien Andalu, 1959/75 | 5:56 | |
| 12 | Komposition Nr. 2, 1963/65 | 7:11 | |
| 13 | Ki-No | 6:28 | |
| Sendezeichen, 1962 | |||
| 14.1 | Klang 1 | ||
| 14.2 | Klang 2 | ||
| 14.3 | Klang 3 | ||
| 14.4 | Klang 4 | ||
| 15 | Titelmusik, 1962 | 0:45 | |
| Judith, 1966 | |||
| 16a | Stück 1 | 2:05 | |
| 16b | Stück 2 | 0:53 | |
| Leonce Und Lena, 1963 | |||
| 17a | Nr. 4 | 1:45 | |
| 17b | Nr. 1 | 0:30 | |
| 18 | Klangexperimente, 1963 | 1:48 | |
| 19 | Ziele Und Aussichten Der Elektronischen Musik | 1:27 | |
- Josef Anton Riedl
- Compiled By, Liner Notes
- Rainer Schmitzberger
- Design [Graphic Design]
- Karsten De Ries
- Photography By
- Stefan Braun
- Photography By
