OSKAR SALA & HARALD GENZMER - Musique Spatiale EARLY ELECTRONIC LP NM SIGNED
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Artist: Oskar Sala & Harald genzmer
Album: Electronique et Stereophonie - Musique Spatiale
Label + #: Erato STU 70633
Description:
Original very rare record from 1972 of material that was recorded in 1969. The inner gatefold sleeve is dedicated and signed by Genzmer.
amazing early electronic instrument/tape work from these two composer/performers, with sala perhaps the better known of the two due to his innumerable contributions to film-sound design; he did all of the bird-sounds in hitchcock’s “the birds.” via the “trautonium”, dr. friedrich trautwein’s 1929 electronic instrument and sala’s “axe” (sala == trautonium / clara rockmore == theremin.)
several facets of the trautonium’s design lend to an otherworldly timbral pallette; equal/pythagorean temperaments can be disabled, allowing the performer to experiment with sliding scales and modified overtone series... plus the envelope of each individual note can be altered quite drastically in a method not even comparable to contemporary synthesizer design.
the five-part piece on the a-side is composed by sala; all sounds come via the trautonium whereas the b-side pieces feature some annoying cathy berberian-style diva-aktion and orchestration... luckily these are offset by confounding blasts of super-intricate white noise percussion and some of sala’s most timbrally dense playing.
an amazing record, certainly the best example of the trautonium’s possibilites...
Cover: NM
Vinyl: NM
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