Musica elettronica
An amazing CD that compiles most of the Maderna electronic music production on magnetic tape from 1956 to 1962, all tapes created at the Studio di Fonologia Musicale della RAI Radio televisione Italiana in Milan. Bruno Maderna is yet regarded as one of the giants of post-war modernism, becoming one of the first Italians to produce electronic works. But it was not in technical progress that he saw music's future. Like his contemporaries, he also adopted 12-tone writing in the 1950s, yet Maderna r…
Hungarian Electroacoustic Music
The spread of electro-acoustic music in Hungary was hindered for a long time by the lack of a studio of adequate technical standard. At first Zoltán Pongrácz has his own studio, then a few years later, in 1972, a modestly equipped workshop was established with the guidance of Iván Patachich. After two years' experimental work, the Hungarian Radio electro-acoustic music studio came into being in 1975 as part of the Hungarian Film Producing Company. During the 1970s the circle of composers began t…
Labyrinthe!
First performance commissioned by Radio France in March 2003. ’For the first time during my journey and ventures into the world of creation, I dreamt of a breath of fresh air deriving from the electronic realm. ‘Labyrinthe’ emerged as the result. All in all, a collaborative work achieved, overcoming the distance between its sources. The sound cuts from GRM reached me as set of reflections, like ‘cadavre exquis’. Fragments in any order, all on CD, sent by post, 7 composers, 7 colleagues sent me …
Appel D'Air
Desert sounds, assembled from concrete recordings in the Mojave. Draws you in - a kind of ultra-radical wallpaper music; sometimes extreme and always somehow on the point, never redundant. Like much of this music, a dark room opens a new ear. Also includes Pacific Tubular Waves.. the LP has this and another piece but not Deserts. And it comes with a 3-D cover and red-green glasses. On 'Appel' MR turns from water to the sounds of air - transformed.
Eloge de la betise ou les peripeties des Ubu
Funambulesqueries en 14 séquences adapted from Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, for voices, saxophones and tape. Jacques Lejeune studied music at the Schola Cantorum and the Paris Conservatory with Daniel-Lesur and Pierre Schaeffer before working with François Bayle at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. He entered the GRM in 1968, taking charge of the “music cell for images”, where he completed various projects for stage and television. It was at his insistence that in 1978 the Ateliers de la Musique Él…
Sonare
One 25 minute piece, from 1996. A State/CIRM commissioned work. A dreamy five-movement suite that deals with the encounter and metamorphosis of natural sounds and synthetic sounds. Bernard Parmegiani wrote about this piece "There is already music... of an Italian an character in this title! Sonare: l love this word because it is Italian and because upon hearing it, music simply springs forth from within it. For each of the 5 movements, I have chosen a pseudo-instrumental or synthesis sound whic…
Violostries
Finally reissued, with new artwork; this has been the most in-demand electroacoustic CD for the past few years. Bernard Parmegiani is one the electroacoustic superstars of the INA GRM universe, and along with various Francois Bayle titles this is a great place to start with the label. This amazing double CD is broken up into 2 parts: the first disc consists of old-style tape-splicing electroacoustic material, dating from 1963 to 1976 ("Violostries," "Pour en Finir avec le Pourvoir d'Orphee" & "D…