KOSUGI / TUDOR music for merce cunningham LP 1998 200ex avant fluxus john cage

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Takehisa Kosugi & David Tudor "Music for Merce Cunningham / Dialectics / Untitled" LP issued by Rotating Arts Press (AE 19291) in Netherlands, 1998. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies in back generic sleeve with obi and insert. This copy No. 22/200. ****** Rec:m / Cov:m- ****** Rare artist's record, with an amazing versions of Tudors electronic environment masterpiece, performed by David Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Obscure edition limited to only 200 numbered copies, more and more rare and the days go by. Your chance to get a copy now. David Tudor was a brilliant pianist and conceptualist, without whom many important scores of the 50s and 60s would neither have been composed nor realized. But he gave up the piano in order to concentrate on his own electronic compositions, most of which used sound systems devised or modified by himself . "Dialects" is produced through the process of electronically transforming both vowel-like and fricative sound sources into each other, in two interactive streams. The first source is the beating of insects' wings; the second, alpha waves, modulated in both frequency and amplitude. Both sources were produced originally in laboratories, and subsequently subjected to various transformations by the composer. The principal devices used to produce the transformations are a percussively triggered vocoder and a percussion generator with pitch-modulation capability. The performance of "Dialects" combines groups of these sounds, previously prepared, rotating at rapid speeds with live electronic-percussive elements, similarly rotating. Two percussion generators are used, each triggered by bunches of vibrating wire flowers, made for this work by the artist, Jackie Monnier. The combined rotations are deployed and presented through an eight-channel sound system. Kosugi Takehisa is possibly the most important and influential figure of the Japanese avant-garde. Beginning in 1958 while studying musicology at the Tokyo University of Arts Kosugi co-founded Group Ongaku, claimed to be the first collective improvisational music group in Japan. Rejecting the European concept of music where compositions are regulated and fixed by written scores, Group Ongaku instead focused on the simultaneous creation and performance of sounds across time. For the group, changes of sound across time and space, chance actions and spontaneous responses to musical and non-musical events determined their "anti-music", a philosophy Kosugi developed throughout his career. Although Group Ongaku only lasted into 1962, Kosugi worked with several of the other members throughout the 1960s staging live performances and event pieces. During this time he became part of the Fluxus Movement. In 1969 Kosugi co-founded Taj Mahal Travellers, the legendary collective improvisation intermedia unit. As well as recording two sought-after LPs and contributing one side to the "Oz Days Live" double LP, the Taj Mahal Travellers performed extensively throughout Asia and Europe playing everywhere from beaches and at outdoor concerts to TV appearances. ****** Original insert also included. ****** The record looks like it has never been played. Top conditions! ****** 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.