Stockhausen+Michel Portal+Globokar electronic free jazz Kommunion New Phonic Art

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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Aus Den Sieben Tagen-- Kommunion (1968 for electronically processed improvising ensemble); Intensitat (1968 for electronically processed improvising ensemble) label & cat. no.:
Deutsche Grammophon 2530 256 pressed in:
Germany date:
1972 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: nm (looks unplayed)
Cover: ex- (minor wear) description:
Beautiful copy of this scarce album of fantastic free improvisation directed by Stockhausen and electronically processed by him in realtime. For this recording of works drawn from his Aus den Sieben Tagen cycle of "intuitive music" (in which players are required to fast for three days prior to performing!), Stockhausen assembled a stellar group of european avant-jazz and new music luminaries including the entire lineup of improv group New Phonic Art, with Michel Portal (sax, flute, piano), Vinko Globokar (trombone), Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion), Carlos Roque Alsina (piano, hammond organ), Johannes G. Fritsch (contact-miked viola), Alfred Alings (tamtam with microphone), Rolf Gehlhaar (tamtam with microphone), and Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark (contrabass). Stockhausen himself performs on short-wave receiver, glass with stones, filters, volume controls, nails, hammer, timber, sand-paper, file, rasp, car-horns, siren whistle, sound-direction, and voice. To get an idea of the ecstatic experimental improvising contained herein, the composer's directions for performing these pieces are, respectively: "Play a vibration in the rhythm of the limbs of a fellow player"; "Play single sounds with such dedication until you feel the warmth that radiates from you." Each was recorded in a single take, "without previous rehearsal or discussion." An interesting side note about this record-- Globokar is actually credited in these sessions as "anonym" in the notes; apparently he found Stockhausen's "sound-direction" stifling to his own improvisation and requested that his name not appear in the credits because he felt he was not allowed complete freedom. Nevertheless, the resulting recording is stunning and highly recommended. 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, Hugh Davies, 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, Vinko Globokar, Michel Portal, and New Phonic Art. Stockhausen's electronic free jazz compositions from this period would influence and draw influences from live electronic and improv artists like John Zorn, Sun-Ra, Derek Bailey, Borbetomagus, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV), AMM, Il Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuovo Consonanza, Otomo Yoshihide, Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, Sonic Arts Union, Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Instant Composers Pool, Jim O'Rourke, Miles Davis, and Nurse With Wound (NWW). • Globokar is a French-Yugoslavian avant garde trombonist, composer, and conductor who studied under Andre Hodeir, Rene Leibowitz, Luciano Berio, and Andre Lafosse, worked with Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Mauricio Kagel, Toru Takemitsu, and Louis Andriessen, is associated with Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann, served as a department head at IRCAM, conducted the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Westdeutscher Symphonie, and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and formed the New Phonic Art improv group with Michel Portal, Carlos Roque Alsina, and Jean-Pierre Drouet. • Portal worked with Pierre Boulez, John Surman, Pierre Favre, Dave Liebman, Martial Solal, Mino Cinelu, Jack DeJohnette, Francois Tusques, Bernard Vitet, and Sunny Murray. Check out my other items for more early electronic/synth/concrete/electroacoustic, avant garde/experimental/noise, free jazz/improv, psych, sound art, soundtracks, audiophile, and 20th century classical vinyl. US Shipping - Media Mail with tracking is $5.00 for up to 2 12" records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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