BATTISTELLI experimental mundi LP 1983 fluxus library
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Giorgio Battistelli "Experimentum Mundi" LP issued by Fonia Records (Fonia 503) in Italy, 1983. ****** Rec:ex / Cov:vg+++ ****** Ultra rare library LP of experimental, musique concrete, action music by Giorgio Battistelli, a disciple of Walter Marchetti. The works of Giorgio Battistelli are often linked to the theater, and even his instrumental works are highly dramatic, with various instruments and elements considered as ‘characters’ in a drama. In 1974 he was a founding member of a leading avant-garde group in Rome and soon made his name as one of the most interesting composers of his generation. For the past 20 years "Experimentum Mundi" has been one of the most-performed works of musique concrète, (i.e., music made with everyday objects instead of conventional instruments). In this work, 16 everyday tools are lined up on stage along with 16 workmen in aprons, and an actor in evening dress. The actor begins reading from the eighteenth-century "Encyclopedia" of Diderot and d’Alembert while the workmen make astonishing music with their tools and materials. Giorgio Battistelli is demonstrating the rhythm of a conventional piece of classical music. ‘Peak-peak-peak-peak’, he counts out. By contrast, he says, the beat of a shoemaker’s hammer is altogether less regular: ‘Tic-tic-tack, tic-tic’. That was the discovery he made 28 years ago listening to the cobblers, masons and pastry cooks at work in his home village of Albano, 12 miles south of Rome. Being involved in the avant-garde, he was delighted to have struck upon their naturally occurring asymmetric rhythms. Gathering the craftsmen together, he built the immaginistic "Experimentum Mundi" from their everyday hammering and watched as they became as exacting as professionals. Very rare record, impossible to get even here in Italy! ****** Some cover wear near the spine (please notice that the spine has no splitting and is solid) and some yellowing on back cover (see photo). ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered up to 1 Kilo (generally 3 LPs): to Europe and Japan is USD 16,50 / to America and Oceania is USD 22,50. Postage costs registered up to 2 Kilos: to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.
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