KlangSpektrum – Klangexperimenten Unser Zeitgenossen (1916–2013)
https://laurentfairon.bandcamp.com/album/klangspektrum-klangexperimenten-unser-zeitgenossenThis is a collection of little known musics from various epochs of the 20th century, all featuring sound experiments of one kind or another. Stylistically varied, their common denominator is a will to experiment with whatever technology was available at the time, forming a wonderful tapestry of noises representative of a noisy century. They've been gathered in this collection as examples of a particular spirit of discovery and some of these recordings are quite rough, being documents and explorations rather than fully polished pieces of music. Admittedly, the flavor of analog overcomes the sheen of computer music. Most of the tracks compiled here are hard to come by. Some come from library archives (Carl Stumpf, Francis Mazière), some come from specialist blogs or YouTube videos, some from artists' websites. Some have never been available on the web before and were culled from the compiler's own record collection (Wilhelm Keller, Halim El Dabh, Manolo Diaz, Otto Bernstein, John Herbert Leach). The choice is entrirely personal and doesn't reflect main musical trends of the 20th century like jazz, electronic-, tape- and computer music, etc, which have been documented elsewhere. Rather, this compilation examines the quiet revolutions taking place during the 20th century, while individuals started thinking out of the box, when sound experiments flourished in places where innovation was least expected: children's musical education, anthroposophic circles, tropical jungles, stage music, film soundtrack, commercial ads, etc. Similarly, musical notes started emanating from unusual objects or apparatus like phonograph cylinders or flexi discs ; architecture was sonified ; numbers eventually became sound carriers. In the past centuries, music innovators have always been curious and adventurous, but their number was limited. During the 20th century, however, statistics exploded and the sheer number of sound innovators rocketed, leading to a myriad of experiments inside or outside traditional music circles. KlangSpektrum seeks to reflect this multiplicity. credits Duration: 73mn Researched, produced and designed by L. Fairon Paris, France, April–May 2018
https://laurentfairon.bandcamp.com/album/klangspektrum-klangexperimenten-unser-zeitgenossenThis is a collection of little known musics from various epochs of the 20th century, all featuring sound experiments of one kind or another. Stylistically varied, their common denominator is a will to experiment with whatever technology was available at the time, forming a wonderful tapestry of noises representative of a noisy century. They've been gathered in this collection as examples of a particular spirit of discovery and some of these recordings are quite rough, being documents and explorations rather than fully polished pieces of music. Admittedly, the flavor of analog overcomes the sheen of computer music.
Most of the tracks compiled here are hard to come by. Some come from library archives (Carl Stumpf, Francis Mazière), some come from specialist blogs or YouTube videos, some from artists' websites. Some have never been available on the web before and were culled from the compiler's own record collection (Wilhelm Keller, Halim El Dabh, Manolo Diaz, Otto Bernstein, John Herbert Leach).
The choice is entrirely personal and doesn't reflect main musical trends of the 20th century like jazz, electronic-, tape- and computer music, etc, which have been documented elsewhere. Rather, this compilation examines the quiet revolutions taking place during the 20th century, while individuals started thinking out of the box, when sound experiments flourished in places where innovation was least expected: children's musical education, anthroposophic circles, tropical jungles, stage music, film soundtrack, commercial ads, etc. Similarly, musical notes started emanating from unusual objects or apparatus like phonograph cylinders or flexi discs ; architecture was sonified ; numbers eventually became sound carriers.
In the past centuries, music innovators have always been curious and adventurous, but their number was limited. During the 20th century, however, statistics exploded and the sheer number of sound innovators rocketed, leading to a myriad of experiments inside or outside traditional music circles. KlangSpektrum seeks to reflect this multiplicity.
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Duration: 73mn
Researched, produced and designed by L. Fairon
Paris, France, April–May 2018
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Track n°22<br />
NIKO MIHALJEVIĆ<br />
(born 1985)<br />
References<br />
01 Carl Stumpf <strong>–</strong> Vowel experiments, phonograph cylinder, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin SPK, Phonogramm-Archiv, 1914<strong>–</strong>16. Virtual Library of the Max Planck Institute for<br />
the History of Science, Berlin. http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/library/data/lit8526/index_html?pn=2&ws=1.5<br />
02 Ernst Toch <strong>–</strong> Die chinesische Flöte op.29, chamber symphony for 14 instruments and soprano singer, after poems by Hans Bethge, 1921<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhH6Mlh4jg<br />
03 Rudolf Steiner <strong>–</strong> 4 Mysteriendramen, 1928, from a performance at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, 2010.<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jBdT9HGMNA https://anthrowiki.at/Die_Mysteriendramen_Rudolf_Steiners<br />
04 Lucie Bigelow Rosen <strong>–</strong> Mortimer Browning: Concerto in F for theremin and orchestra, 1939. Dutch East Indies Radio Company broadcast, ca.1940. Source: Thorwald<br />
Jørgensen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjKUXn3WI2E<br />
05 Francis Mazière <strong>–</strong> Tumuc Humac - Musique de la Haute Forêt Amazonienne, 10inch LP published by BAM (Boîte A Musique), Paris, France, 1952. Sound excerpts on<br />
BNF-Gallica: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k88149554/f2.media<br />
06 José Val del Omar <strong>–</strong> Aguaespejo Granadino, soundtrack excerpts, 1955. Source: https://soundcloud.com/val_del_omar<br />
07 Jocy de Oliveira <strong>–</strong> Um Assalto No Morumbi, from A Música Século XX de Jocy, LP, Copacabana, Brazil, 1959<br />
https://woodstocksound.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/jocy-de-oliveira-a-musica-do-seculo-xx-1961/<br />
08 Halim El Dabh <strong>–</strong> Two Egyptian Themes, from Georges Delerue: Ici A Commencé L'histoire - Pyramides Et Sphinx, LP, Ministry Of Culture And Information, Cairos, Egypt, 1961<br />
Magneticae Taeniae - Tape Loop 01<br />
(2012)<br />
1:37<br />
Croatian graphic designer Niko Mihaljević<br />
studied in the Netherlands before returning<br />
to Zagreb to work as a freelance and<br />
educator, and to launch the Alluvial Gold<br />
cassette label in 2012 with the release of his<br />
own Magneticae taeniae de Carpe Diem (Tape<br />
Loops 01<strong>–</strong>12), a compilation of tape loops<br />
from cassettes found in a thrift store in<br />
Arnhem named Carpe Diem. The excerpt<br />
included here is the openning track, Tape<br />
Loop 01, and is a perfect, dreamy conclusion<br />
to this compilation.<br />
09 Jean Françaix <strong>–</strong> Insectarium I - La scolopendre, Marga Scheurich: harpsichord, from 7inch single released by Da Camera, Germany, 1963<br />
https://continuo.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/jean-francaix-linsectarium/<br />
10 John Herbert Leach <strong>–</strong> The Plague, from The Muzik Makers: Prehistoric, Ancient And Period, LP, Music De Wolfe, UK, 1970<br />
https://www.discogs.com/Muzik-Makers-Prehistoric-Ancient-And-Period/release/2982016<br />
https://continuo.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/john-leach-prehistoric-ancient-and-period/<br />
11 Wilhelm Keller <strong>–</strong> Ludi Musici 2 - Schallspiele, 10" LP, Fidula Fon , Germany, 1971<br />
https://www.discogs.com/Wilhelm-Keller-Ludi-Musici-2-Schallspiele/release/3033471 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Keller_(Komponist)<br />
12 Lodewijk de Boer <strong>–</strong> Spectator OST, 1970<br />
http://continuo-docs.tumblr.com/post/68241400930/frans-zwartjes-spectator-1970-starring-moniek https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=64ARnFi3DuQ<br />
13 Kelly Gates <strong>–</strong> Cafe in The Sky, from postcard record, published by Bolmin Publ. Co., USA, 1962.<br />
Also on “Kelly Gates with Dez And Larry”, 7inch disc, Nolta Records, USA, 1962.<br />
https://www.discogs.com/Kelly-Gates-with-Dez-And-Larry-Cafe-In-The-Sky/release/10520891<br />
http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.fr/2011/08/i-want-to-play-on-that-gayway-postcard.html<br />
14 Manolo Diaz & Aguaviva <strong>–</strong> Robot, from Cada Vez Más Cerca, LP, Acción, Spain, 1970. https://www.discogs.com/Aguaviva-Aguaviva/release/5210034<br />
15 Roger Luther <strong>–</strong> Soundtrack to Ed Mellnik's film Sleeper, 1980. Included in I . E . M . A. Group Tape #3 by Anvil Creations (Ken Moore):<br />
https://anvilcreations.bandcamp.com/album/i-e-m-a-group-tape-3 http://ihatethisfilm.tumblr.com/post/172643878212/sleeper-ed-mellnik-1980-music-by-roger-luther<br />
16 Otto Bernstein <strong>–</strong> Rosenthal Glasmusik Toncollage, b/w Anmerkungen mit them Glas, 7inch published by Rosenthal Studio Line, Germany, ca1980<br />
17 Ingrid Wiener & Chor <strong>–</strong> Moritat Von Der Eisenbahn b/w Vermutlich, 7in single released by Exil-Schallplatte, Germany, 1985<br />
Choir <strong>–</strong> Bruno Brunnet, Helmut Middendorf, Oswald Wiener, Reinald Nohal, Stephan Landwehr, Thomas Hornemann, Tom Re, Werner Többen, Wolf Fuchs.<br />
https://www.discogs.com/Ingrid-Wiener-Chor-Moritat-Von-Der-Eisenbahn-Vermutlich/release/722082<br />
18 ATON ® cables by Nokia Kaapeli, flexi disc published by Nokia Kaapeli, Finland, ca1980-85<br />
Source: http://phinnweb.blogspot.fr/2008/10/aton-flexi-disc.html https://www.kaapelitehdas.fi/en/info/history<br />
19 Klaus Ager <strong>–</strong> Bibyké für Tonband, op. 61, texts by Friedrich Hölderlin, voice: Katharina Boehme, Salzburg 1991. Source: artist webiste at http://www.klausager.at/audio.htm<br />
20 The Beetham Tower Howling Sounds (2006). SimpsonHaugh and Partners, Ian Simpson, architect. Located on 301-303 Deansgate, Manchester, UK. Montage of various<br />
YouTube videos.<br />
21 Voiceover (Marc Matter) <strong>–</strong> L'oeil Ecclatante, from s/t CD-R, released by Chocolate Monk UK, 2013<br />
https://www.discogs.com/Marc-Matter-Voiceover-L-oeil-Ecclatante/release/5773703<br />
22 Niko Mihaljevic <strong>–</strong> Magneticae taeniae de Carpe Diem (Tape Loops 01<strong>–</strong>12), cassette, Alluvial Gold, Croatia, 2012<br />
https://www.discogs.com/Niko-Mihaljevi%C4%87-Magneticae-taeniae-de-Carpe-Diem-Tape-Loops-0112/release/6615602<br />
https://soundcloud.com/alluvialgold/tape-loops-01-12-excerpt-a1-a9<br />
http://www.alluvialgold.net/<br />
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