PHILIP CORNER gamelan LP 1983 radiotaxi ltd50 avant
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Philip Corner "2 Works for Gamelan Ensemble" LP issued by Edizioni Lotta Poetica & Studio Morra (0724) for the Radiotaxi series (Vibrazioni del sonoro 8) in Italy, 1983. Private edition with original photos glued on cover, limited to 50 copies. ****** Rec:m (never played) Cov:ex ****** As you might know Radiotaxi LPs are almost impossible to get nowadays... Not only this is one of the best titles of the series, but the copy offered here is the private edition with artist handmade intervention on cover. This is the only title of the series to have a kind of artist edition. It happened because when Philip Corner saw the printed cover he did not like the photos. He decided to glued black and white original photos directly over the images he refused. He did it for the 50 copies he received from the publishers, so only 50 copies were ever made! Gamelan means for Philip Corner more than the name for Indonesian orchestras. The composer uses the word the way, apart from Europe, someone might say 'symphony'. A basis of making music, adding a few wonderful ideas from the Orient: a precise relation between the scale of time and that of musical space; a simple formal concept, expressed directly through sensual attractiveness; some freedom, or mystery, added to the precision. "Gamelan" is the name of the piece on Side A. In 1975 at Livingston College where Barbara Banary, who had just constructed the earliest instruments for Son Of Lion, invited Philip Corner to compose a piece. Its opening gong stroke and long resonance has gone through several revivals over the years since, and has come to seem like a 'classic'. This piece is the link to the composer's earlier works, particularly those of struck resonant instruments, like Metal Meditations, which are intensely focused on the immediate presence of the sounds. What is added here is counting, although counting so long a length dissolves again into the intuitive. Side B includes the track titled "The Barcelona Cathedral". The composer Tom Johnson wrote about it in 1978: "A few weeks ago I attended a rehearsal of New York's own gamelan ensemble, Son Of Lion. One of the works I heard that evening was a new composition by Philip Corner. Corner was conducting in big slow beats that fell heavily once every few seconds. With each beat about ten mallets fell onto the metallic percussion instruments with a tremendous clang. A variety of pitches resulted, and the general effect was much like a big church bell. The piece went on for nearly half an hour, always with that same relentless beat, but with slightly different effects". Your chance to get this obscure and great edition now or never! ****** Some very minimal cover wear. Spine and seams perfect! ****** (references: avant, experimental, fluxus, gamelan, Broken Musik, John Cage, Joe Jones, Jackson Mac Low, Milan Knizak, Allan Kaprow, Takihisa Kosugi, Ay-O, Emmett Williams, Yasunao Tone, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, Walter Marchetti) ****** unregistered priority mail is about 12 US dollars to europe and 14 US dollars to the rest of the world (except for oceania to which it is 17 US dollars), registered airmail is about 15 US dollars to europe and 18 US dollars to the rest of the world (except for oceania to which it is 22 US dollars). please note that winning multiple items can make you save on postage. preferred payment is paypal, although other options may be available. please wait for my invoice before sending any payment. thank you.
