LC12/c
- ELECTRONIC PANORAMA (WARSAW)
Around
1970 Philips had its own recordlabel (as well as its own electronic
studio, btw) and it released a series of records with state of the art
electronic and electro-acoustic music which were all encased in a shiny
silver sleeve. The series was called: Prospective 21e Siecle.
Currently these releases are well sought by collectors of ancient electronic
music.
One of these release was a box with 4 records, each presenting the latest
or the best of 4 electronic music studios: Utrecht, Warsaw, Paris and
Tokyo.
Because this box is very hard to find - it is for sale on the web for $ 1,000!! - and I think it really presents the best of the electronic music from that time I present it here. This is the third release: Warsaw.
From
the booklet:
The
studio of Experimental Music of the Polish Radio was founded in 1957
by composer and musicologist Josef Patkowsky, who has been its diretor
ever since (in 1970, JS) His foundation was one of the signs of the
dramatic revival in the arts that manifested itself at that time in
Polish life. Apart from "pure" musical works, of which a very
representative collection is to be found here, the studio's production
has always aimed at "applied" music, intended for such media
as radio and television.
I have recorded these albums with an Ortofon stylus and a Technics SL1200. The recordings have been input into a computer. I have declicked the recording and applied very mild noise reduction. As a result it is still audibly a vinyl recording. However I prefer this over the scraping away of frequencies that are part of the composition. All files are converted to 192 kb/s VBR mp3 files. JS
(the texts below are from the booklet)
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Title |
Duration |
File size |
| Krzysztof Penderecki - Psalmus | 5.11 | 2.6 mb |
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Krysztof Penderecki was born in 1933 and studied at the Cracow School of Music. His Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima won the UNESCO prize of the Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs in 1961 and attracted the attention of the musical world. A wide variety of compositions, among which his great choral-orchestral work, the "st. Luke Passion" stands out from the rest, have since assured Penderecki of an important place among the great musical creators of our time. PSALMUS
(1961) which was realised in coladboration with the sound engineer
Eugeniusz Rudnick, is to dat the only electro-acoustic work by Penderecki.
His basic material stems solely from a recording of two voices (soprano
and baritone) so treated that the provide long holding-notes developing
in pitch, dynamics, and color, altenating with short impulses which
display to advantage the great variety of infleciton proper to the
Polish language. |
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| Andrzej
Dobrowolski - Music for magnetic tape and oboe solo |
9.05 |
10.8 mb
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Born in 1922, studied composition as well as singing and several instruments at the Warsaw and Cracow Academies of Music. He was closely associated with the work of the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio from its beginning and his works include "Passacaglia" (1960) and "Music for Tape no. 1" (1962). MUSIC
FOR MAGNETC TAPE AND OBOE SOLO dates from 1965. The tape was made
using solely transformed oboe sounds with the addition of a solo
part for oboe. The accent is more often place on the contrast than
on the manipulated sounds from the same instrument. To this end
the manipulations of the tape aim at making the original sounds
unrecognizable, particularly by harmoni multiplication. there is
also frquent use of percussive sounds obtained on the keys of the
instrument. |
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| Arne Nordheim - Solitaire | 11.16 |
11.6 mb
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Arne Nordheim, born in Norway in 1931, studied music at the Oslo Academy of Music. He is the author of many works, both instrumental and electro-acoustic ("Catharsis"), and isopn e of a number of foreign composers invited to work at the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio. SOLITAIRE
is Nordheim's second composition. It was realised in 1969 for the
opening of a Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo and was originally
intened to be accompanied by light projection. AThe sound material
- very varied at the outset - forms a genereal atmosphere that is
at once mysterious and brilliant adn in wich the impression of spatial
depth plays an important role. The open construction makes use of
alternations and returns of elements that are contrasted dynamically,
in tessitura and above all in quality. |
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| Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Microstructures | 15.25 |
14.2 mb
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born in 1925, studied compositionand the piano at the Warsaw Aacademy of Music. ASsociated with the work of the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio since its foundatioj he has realised, among many works for cinemaand theathre, some pure musical works, one of which is "study for a clash of the cymbals" (1960). MICROSTRUCTURES dates from 1963. the title refers to the process of micro-montage used in the compostiion. The sound elements, which include some brief percussion on wood and glass, haven been built up from short segments according to related characteristics of the types of material, particularly granular qualities. |
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| Bugoslaw Schäffer - Symphonie | 7.20 |
7.2 mb
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Schäffer was born in 1929 and studied composition and musicology in Cracow. He is the author of various instrumental and electro-acoustic works and has also made a name for himself with musicological works on contemporary music. SYMPHONIE
(1966) is the first work of any considerable length realised by
the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio; its composition was
spread out over more than a year. |
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