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PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE - Sound I

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Alga Marghen plana-P alga026 Release Year: 2009 Note: one sided LP, lim. 500, released in collaboration with the New Media Dept. of Centre Pompidou in Paris, for the first "Oeuvres Sonores" event, December 15th 2008 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €22.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Letzte Exemplare einer einseitig bespielten LP, die Dezember 2008 anlässlich des "Oeuvres Sonores" in Paris erschienen ist, von ALGA MARGHEN in Kooperation mit dem dortigen Museum für Moderne Kunst herausgegeben. "SOUND I " ist ein knapp 19minütiges Stück welches in den 70er Jahren entstanden zu sein scheint, eine schwingend-vibrierende elektronische Drone-Skulptur, die ständig ihre Gestalt, Gewicht & Klangfarbe ändert. Laut hören & sich dabei im Raum bewegen führt zu erstaunlichen Effekten. Irgendwie 3-dimensionaler, flüssiger, morphender Klang! Fantastisch! "As the title well underlines, 'Sound 1' electronic sonority is a starting point in Charlemagne Palestine researches for the Golden Sonority. Previously unpublished, this radical and fundamental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris for the first œuvres Sonores event, December 15th, 2008. Charlemagne Palestine started to dream of an expressive continuous evermoving everchanging Sound form; an enormous sonorous 3-dimensional sculptural canvas in mid-air, using electronically produced Sounds. At first he began experiments with simple sine tone generators emitting the purest Sound waves without any overtones. Then, gradually, with access to moog and arps, he constructed Sounds using the sine - sawtooth - square wave oscillators in a fluid everchanging mix of adding or filtering overtones and white noise to create sonorities constantly changing timbres and weight. Palestine experimented in this way from 1964 till 74 in NYC and then, in California, finally he assembled his own drone machine of 16 ultra stable oscillators designed by Serge Tcherepnin and 4 band pass filters designed by Donald Buchla. He would build up a Sound, oscillator by oscillator, then add ever so slightly to the oscillator imput, tiny increments of white noise that would gradually make the Sounds thicker and thicker until they were immense sacred machines humming like gargantuan tibetan bees. Charlemagne played them very very loud, making all the room and objects in it resonate while outside all was quiet and sleeping. He worked like a painter with a palette and a canvas and he mixed and added and mixed and added over, entire nights, mixing adding and then lying on the mattress and listening and fine tuning. Finally, at a certain point, after several nights, the sonority seemed ready to record. He'd put on the tape, prepare the tape machine with the proper level as not to overload it and record the texture. This 1-sided LP was issued in an edition limited to 500 copies, and about 350 of those copies were offered to the audience participating to the first Œuvres Sonores event at Centre Pompidou." [label info]