ANTON BRUHIN adolf wölfli LP 1979 avant fluxus dubuffet

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Anton Bruhin "Adolf Wölfli. Gelsen und Vertonot" LP issued by the Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Bern (LP 30-624) in Switzerland, 1979. Gatefold sleeve with 4 pages insert. ****** Rec:m- Cov:m- ****** Very rare third LP by Anton Bruhin in top conditions! Issued after "Vom Goldabfischer" LP and "Rotomotor" LP, this record is totally devoted to Swiss Art Brut master Adolf Wölfli. Naturally enough, the question whether Wölfli´s music can be played is asked again and again. The answer is yes, with some difficulty. Parts of the musical manuscripts of 1913 were analyzed in 1976 by Kjell Keller and Peter Streif and were performed. These are dances, as Wölfli indicates, waltzes, mazurkas, and polkas similar in their melody to folk music. How Wölfli acquired his knowledge of music and its signs and terms is not clear. He heard singing in the village church. Perhaps he himself sang along. There he could see song books from the eighteenth century with six-line staffs (explaining, perhaps, his continuous use of six lines in his musical notations). At festivities he heard dance music, and on military occasions he heard the marches he loved so well. Wölfli lacked any kind of musical training. That didn't prevent him from writing a body of extraordinary musical scores. Notations with common and mysterious signs appear in his numerous drawings and texts. The canonical view has been that Wölfli's musical notes mainly serve symbolic and decorative purposes but are musically illegible - "tending toward, but not quite attaining, full musical sense" as one commentator puts it. More recent studies show, however, that at least some of Wölfli's scores make musical sense. More important than the concrete evaluation of his music notations is Wölfli´s concept of viewing and designing his whole oeuvre as a big musical composition. The basic element underlying his compositions and his whole oeuvre is rhythm. Rhythm pervades not only his music but his poems and prose, and there is also a distinctive rhythmic flow in his handwriting. In 1978, "Adolf Wölfli: Gelesen Und Vertont" (i.e. Adolf Wölfli: Recited and set to music), the first recording of Wölfli's work ever to be published, was released by the Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern. Performers are Anton Bruhin (texts) (Gedichte und Lieder), Fred Singeisen (Prosatexte). Music by Trio Aarebögeler (Tinu Bauer, Klarinette; Aschi Frei, Handorgel; Kjell Keller, Geige). Recorded by Anton Bruhin and Andreas Züst in Zürich, Switzerland at Bruno Spoerri's Studio für elektronische Musik. Only a few purely instrumental pieces have been included in the LP, the rest being more like song poems. This doesn't matter, however, as in Wölfli's poetry words were chosen not primarily for their meaning but rather their rhythmic and sonorous effects. Words are split into syllables and letters and then combined into often senseless neologisms. Rhythm and repetition are essential to Wölfli's music, as well as art in general. You will understand by listening to this record why Jean Dubuffet was so strongly influenced by this outsider artist! ****** (references: avant, experimental, musique brut, Anton Bruhin, Adolf Woelfli, Jean Dubuffet, Bruno Spoerri) ****** unregistered priority mail is about 9 US dollars to europe and 13 US dollars to the rest of the world (except for oceania to which it is 17 US dollars), registered airmail is about 17 US dollars to europe and 19 US dollars to the rest of the world (except for oceania to which it is 22 US dollars). please note that winning multiple items can make you save on postage. preferred payment is paypal, although other options may be available. please wait for my invoice before sending any payment. thank you.