Mauricio Kagel Acustica 2LP DGG electronic avant garde

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Deutsche Grammophon Records catalog # 2530 227, stereo, copyright 1971, pressed in Germany.

A very clean copy of avant-garde / electronic music composer Mauricio Kagel's four part work, "Acustica (for experimental sound-producers and loud-speakers)", as performed by The Kolner Ensemble fur Neue Musik. This piece uses taped electronics in conjunction with acoustic instruments created by the composer.

 From the liner notes, " The work consists of two - almost separate - plains; one constitutes the playback of a 4 track tape recorder with a fixed sequence, whereas the second derives from the playing of 2 to 5 musicians which can be varied from perfomance to performance in the construction of acoustic material and in the manner of interreaction....

.....The point of departure for this tape-composition was to compound as homogeneously as possible, two categories of sounds, dissimilar in the nature of their production....The similarity berween the procedure in the composition of the electrornic material and the way in which I set instruments and their playing-function, made a mechanical transformation - mechanical since electrical, but worked by hand - of the recording unnecessary.

.....The instrumental part of the work was written on approx. 200 filing cards, in the top right hand corner of which the relevant main instrument is indicated by a symbol. Neither the order of the cards nor the manner of ensemble are specified..The performers alway decide the point of their entries...Thus the performers achieve more than a mere reproduction of their parts, as they incorporate influences from one another in their playing as if they were audience of themselves."

Vinyl is in excellent condition. Play surfaces are very clean, quiet, and free of marks or imperfections. I grade the record near-mint. gatefold sleeve with 4 page insert is VG, with no writing or split seams. There is light ringwear and edgewear, a hole drilled through the upper right corner, and a few places where the lamination is separating or slightly torn.

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