Acousmatrix

[cul-baisser@t-online.de (Martin Tauchen)]

    Acousmatrix is labeled synonym series of recordings about the earliest
works of electronic music.

You can find this series in the catalog of the "BVHAAST" company.

Fortunately there is a new generation working with some
old,forgotten,electronic stuff.
Call it Ondes Martenot,call it Trautonium,call it Theremin and so on......

The Turangallia Suite of Olivier Messiaen is a perfect example,how to
integrate an
electronic Instrument to standard Orchestra.

Anyway,the Acousmatrix Series is a wonderful documentary of early
electronic music work.
It is nostalgia.
But fortunately,we have this signs of realism,wich we have not for the
works of
Guilaume de Machaut.

Where is the loop ? Where we stutter ?

Marty

David Trenkel schrieb:

> On Tuesday, December 28, 2004, at 01:29 AM, samba - wrote:
>
> >   Reichel's Daschophone is very much an acoustic instrument. He has
> > one of my favorite websites for visuals and fun navigation,the other
> > being Reed Ghazala's .He apparently also designs typographic fonts.
> > Once  in the mid 80s  I was playing African music with a ten peice
> > marimba group and Epaht Mujuru  ( I don't recall if Dave Trenkel was
> > in the group yet  I think he was),at a festival at Reed college in
> > Portland.
>
> Yeah, I was in the band by then. Amazing show, I felt pretty
> intimidated to be following Frith and Reichel. I think that you and I
> were the only members of the band who even knew who Fred Frith was.
> That show was my first exposure to Reichel, and I was astounded at the
> range of sounds he got, and also at how beautiful his instruments were.
>
> > Reichel and Fred Frith had played earlier.I had a failry sculptural
> > multi percussion setup with  timbales and rototoms with fur attached
> > to the sides and car springs and bells and triangles and a
> > washboard,wierdly bent or curved stands and a pedal attached to a tank
> > of compressed air I would use in place of a crash cymbal Reichel and
> > Frith stood opposite me with their faces 2 feet  away from my set up
> > staring ,unblinking at me,to see what I would do I guess.They were
> > interested in the setup too ,but they seemed to be trying to unnerve
> > me.So I was saying stuff like 'I know who you are ,you don't scare me'
> > insane second-fingerboard-behind-the-bridge guitar sounds absolutely
> > extraterrestrial... oh, wait, that was electric, but sans effects it
> > still
> > sounded like no guitar anyone had ever heard. What is the Wizard of
> > Wuppertal up to these days, anyone know?
> >
> >