OSKAR SALA, Genzmer, Musique Spatiale, electronic, 1972

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TITLE:  Électronique Et Stéréophonie: Musique Spatiale

ARTIST:  Oskar Sala /  Harald Genzmer

LABEL / YEAR: Erato STEREO STU 70633 / 1972 (recorded 1969)

REMARKS: I’m selling off my soundtracks, electronic, weird and other good vinyl over the next several months. I don’t have room for records anymore. I hope these go to a good home.

From Mimaroglu Music Sales site:

• oskar sala: musique stéréo pour orchestre électronique en cinq parties
• harald genzmer: cantata pour soprano et sons électroniques (1969)
• harald genzmer: suite de danses pour instruments électroniques

amazing early electronic instrument/tape work from these two composer/performers, with sala perhaps the better known of the two due to his innumerable contributions to film-sound design; he did all of the bird-sounds in hitchcock’s “the birds.” via the “trautonium”, dr. friedrich trautwein’s 1929 electronic instrument and sala’s “axe” (sala == trautonium / clara rockmore == theremin.)

several facets of the trautonium’s design lend to an otherworldly timbral pallette; equal/pythagorean temperaments can be disabled, allowing the performer to experiment with sliding scales and modified overtone series... plus the envelope of each individual note can be altered quite drastically in a method not even comparable to contemporary synthesizer design.

the five-part piece on the a-side is composed by sala; all sounds come via the trautonium whereas the b-side pieces feature some annoying cathy berberian-style diva-aktion and orchestration... luckily these are offset by confounding blasts of super-intricate white noise percussion and some of sala’s most timbrally dense playing.

an amazing record, certainly the best example of the trautonium’s possibilites...

GRADE: VINYL: NM, deep sheen, beautiful,  plays excellently.

GRADE: COVER: 9/10, some very minor wear.

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                        U.S.A.                         CANADA                  OVERSEAS

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     2-3 LP.....   $ 13.95 ................... $ 12.95 ...........................$30.50.......................
     4-6 LP.....   $ 22.25 ................... $ 14.75 ...........................$47.95.......................

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