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MOORMAN, CHARLOTTE / NAM JUNE PAIK - TV Cello

Format: do-LP
Label & Cat.Number: Alga Marghen alga19
Release Year: 2006
Note: lim. 200 gatefold cover / live-recording Galeria Bonino, NYC, Nov 1971 !! / not on CD version !
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SoundArt-Platte mit einem Mitschnitt einer Performance aus New York City, vom Nov. 23, 1971: die Cellistin CHARLOTTE MOORMAN (die noch 1967 verhaftet wurde weil sie sich bei einer Performance “oben ohne” präsentierte) und die Videokunst-Legende NAM JUNE PAIK sind bei der Durchführung von “TV CELLO” zu hören: TV-Geräte werden übereinander gestapelt bis sie die Form eines Cellos annehmen, welche dann von MOORMAN mit einem Bogen “bespielt” wird, woraufhin auf den Bildschirmen Bilder von ihr und anderen Cello-spielenden Musikern erscheinen. Bei dieser Performance waren so illustre Gäste wie YOKO ONO und JOHN LENNON zugegen, man hört rumpelnde Sounds, sprechende / performende Leute und typische Galerie-background-noises.

“A documentation of Charlotte Moorman activities as a performer is generally available only on the iconographic level in various catalogues which documents the crucial intersection with the work of nam june paik or the association with events connected to the Fluxus movement. One of Charlotte Moorman's more substantial merits is having consciously reversed the traditional role of the virtuoso performer on her own instrument, uncovering by this overturning one of the most authentic keys for comprehending the aesthetics of experimental music. It was properly the natural spontaneity in this attitude to fascinate Paik and to have decreed her indispesable capacity as a performer, thus giving rise to the reasons animating their fecund and symbiotic collaboration. Cello Anthology is a collection of documents (sonic and photographic) as well as original texts and testimonies, made available for the first time in a unitary form by Alga Marghen. One of the CDs included in the edition, currently in a final process of realisation, will offer an in situ recording of the famous TV Cello, realised in September 1982 during the three days inaugurating the Paik retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The 2LP edition presented here introduces to a different version of the same piece, conceived by Paik for Moorman as a living sculpture: the Concerto for TV Cello and Video Tapes historical World Premiere, recorded at Galeria Bonino, New York City, 1971. More rough and primitive than the masterpiece recorded in 1982 in Chicago, these uncompromisingly obscure original recordings will not be included in the forthcoming 4CD anthology.' 2LP set in gatefold cover reproducing photos of Charlotte Moorman with John Lennon and Yoko Ono playing the TV Cello at Galeria Bonino 1971 vernissage. Private edition limited to 200 copies.“ [label info]