Stockhausen: Kontakte+Refrain electronic avant Candide '68 Vasarely art cover EX

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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kontakte (1960 for electronic sounds, piano, percussion); Refrain (1959 for 3 instrumentalists) label & cat. no.:Candide CE 31022 pressed in:USA date:1968 format:LP Vinyl: ex (couple faint unfeelable scuffs, looks barely used)
Cover: vg+ (in shrink, light wear, back has light stain spotting and small date stamp under shrink)

description:
Excellent lp with 2 avant garde classics and an Op-Art cover featuring the work of Victor Vasarely, Hugo Demarco, and Jesus Raphael Soto. Kontakte creates a unique sonic environment by combining 2 live soloists with an early electronic tape (made at the WDR Koln studios from purely electronic sound sources including an impulse generator, a tunable indicator filter, an adjustable band filter, and square and sine wave generators); it was one of the earliest attempts at mixing live players with prerecorded electronics. Stockhausen sees the composition as contrasting new and alien sounds with "known sounds" which provide "perspective to hearing; they function as traffic signs in the unlimited space of the newly discovered electronic sound world." The performers are Aloys Kontarsky (piano and percussion) and Christoph Caskel (percussion) under the supervision of the composer. Refrain features Kontarsky (piano and wood blocks), Caskel (vibraphone and cow bells), and Stockhausen (celesta and cymbales antiques) performing; Stockhausen made some alterations to the score for this particular recording, making it unique. I believe these performances were recorded exclusively for Candide as they are different from the Wergo release, and Stockhausen indicates in the notes that they are new recordings from 1968. Includes insert.

artist info from album notes etc.:
Stockhausen was a German experimental composer who was a student of Olivier Messiaen and Werner Meyer-Eppler, a contemporary of John Cage and Iannis Xenakis, and worked with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karel Goeyvaerts, Cornelius Cardew, Bruno Maderna, and Mauricio Kagel; he pioneered electronic music at the INA-GRM musique concrete studios of Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Luc Ferrari, Francois Bayle, and Bernard Parmegiani, at NHK Tokyo where Yori-Aki Matsudaira, Minao Shibata, Toshiro Mayuzumi, and Jon Appleton also composed, and at WDR Koln along with Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Henri Pousseur, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Gyorgi Ligeti, Franco Evangelisti, Konrad Boehmer, Anestis Logothetis, and Herbert Brun, and he explored improvisation and live electronics with David Tudor, Hugh Davies, Vinko Globokar, Michel Portal, and New Phonic Art.

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