Re: koenig, tudor &c.

[dieter scheyhing <scheyhing@xxxxxxxx>]

>> another essential release from an early microsound
>> pioneer which doesn't get mentioned enough is Gottfried Michael Koenig's
>> double disc on BVHaast. highly recommended.
> 
> where can i get this? any hints? please?
> 
> (multipara / peter / berlin, germany (still) / 34.5 yrs / 190 cm /
> beer drinker / favourite colour: green / ...)

peter, since you are based in berlin (as i am too), you should check "gelbe
musik" for the koenig cds (and for a lot of other stuff too, of you like ;-)

gelbe musik
schaperstr. 11
10719 berlin
fon +49-30-211 39 62
fax +49-30-217 64 32

no email, no website



> What about what a.o. John Cage and David Tudor did in the sixties? There's
> this yellow CD with music of that period by David Tudor which is largely, I
> think,  improvised (the music, not the CD). I don't remember its title nor
> the label it's on

don't know about the yellow one, but there are two cds of live electronic
works by tudor, both on lovely records - a green one and a red double cd ;-)
these are works from the 70s resp. the 90s.
of interest also the "indetermination" double cd, a reissue of a cage/tudor
collaboration from 1959 (on folkways). tudor is using some cage scores for
his contribution, but of course a great deal of improvisation is involved.

am i right, when i guess that there remains a big difference between analog
and digital electronics with regards to the possible role of and approach
towards improvisation?

just two "early" examples of intriguing anolog improvised electronics from
different areas, both kind of micro-sound imo:
- eliane radigues wonderful works, who never improvises in a public live
set, but always records her long (60-80 minutes) works in one continous
improvised take;
- alan ravenstines idiosyncratic synthesizer play for pere ubu, which i
always found to be the most particular and faszinating thing about pere ubu
besides of david thomas voice. btw ravenstine wrote an interesting article
(somewhere in a recommened records quarterly) concerning the problems of
analog synth improvisation in a context of a live rock act, which a.o.
reasons led him to quit the job finally.

- dieter