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BOUCOURECHLIEV, ANDRE - Threne

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: INA GRM INA C 2025 Release Year: 2004 Note: w. 32 p. booklet Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Nr. 25 in der regulären Reihe des “Institut National de l’Audiovisuell” beschert uns wieder einen neuen Namen, den bereits verstorbenen bulgarischen Komponisten ANDRE BOUCOURECHLIEV. TRHENE ist eine prächtige CD mit viel Sprachanteil, Chorälen, fragmentierten & verhallten & hochkomplexen Kaskaden-Geräuschen & Collagensounds, absolut visionär....konkrete DOOM-Musik!... unglaublich, das die Stücke teilweise fast schon 50 Jahre alt sind ! (Tape-Aufnahmen von 1958 / 1959 / live-Aufnahme von 1977). 4 Stücke, insgesamt fast 66 Minuten Spielzeit, dickes Booklet. “First full CD release by this Bulgarian-born composer (1925-1997). Includes the first issue of a 1973 doom-concrete classic, "Threne", plus other early works. An important INA GRM document. "The work 'Threne' is a creation inspired from fragments of an unfinished poem Mallarme had attempted to write following the death of his son when aged 8, in 1879. The musical composition recorded on magnetic tape features the exclusive use of voice: a mixed choir and two narrators. Following recording production, these voices were subsequently processed using electro-acoustic techniques, being purposely restrained in many cases. On the other hand, a more radical electro-acoustic and systematic approach governs the relationships and cross-linking arising between work and song, a process involving actual dynamic modulation. Through the latter, it becomes possible to provide a given 'model' of created sound -- chorus harmony, polyphonic sung vocal structures, whispers, etc. -- with intensity, dynamic pulsation derived from another material, in this case, from the spoken word. In this way, the subtleness of words becomes embedded in song, with the latter receiving rhythmical and dynamic inflection from the words. Between the 'word thus deepened out' appearing in song, and the real word itself found here and there throughout the work, an unlimited array of states of existence come into being, intermediate levels where song and word appear to merge to a point where they exchange identities, sound becoming the word in spirit and the word becomes pure music." Also features: "Text I" (1958, for magnetic tape (2 tracks); "Text II" (1959, for two magnetic tapes); "Concerto Pour Piano et Orchestre" (performed by Claude Helffer, piano; Orchestre National de France, Conducted by Ivo Malec).” [press release]