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Greta Monach

Zwevingen with Charles Stein (Tape)

Label: Counter Culture Chronicles

Format: Tape

Genre: Sound Art

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An edition of 26 copies, archivala releases from different recording sessions, mostly in collaboration with Charlie Morrow (from 1980 to 2010. Greta Monach (1928-2018), an early proponent of computer generated concrete poetry. Greta spent her childhood in indonesia and curaçao. In 1946 she returned to the hague, where she saw abstract painting for the first time, and started to think about abstract (non-semantic) poetry. For decades she experimented without success. from 1946 to 1948 monach studied literature at leiden university, then switched to music. She studied the flute for seven years at the royal conservatory in the hague. From 1955 to 1961 she worked in classical music, including chamber and symphonic music, opera, and oratorio.

In 1961 she attended the Darmstadt summer course for the first time, exploring contemporary classical music. "contemporary music" opened a new world to monach, and in the years that followed she gathered experience in this field, living in munich at the time. in 1965 she was back in holland, where she studied electronic music. From 1966 to 1986 she held a job at the institute of sonology in utrecht and got familiar with computer music. From 1970 on she used the computer to generate concrete poetry (letter-drawings called "automaterga").

Greta Monach is perhaps best known for her series of "fonerga", notated sound poems for one to four voices. each comes with a detaled set of instructions for the speakers regarding pronunciation, tempo, dynamics, and rhythm. she was explicit that they not be considered as music, and not performed in any musical context.

 

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Cat. number: CCC 172
Year: 2024