Stockhausen:Hymnen electronic musique concrete 1969 2lp

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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Hymnen (1966 for electronic and concrete sounds)



label & cat. no.:
Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft 139 421/22 pressed in:
Germany date:
1969 format:
2xLP condition:
Vinyl: both vg+ (few light unfeelable marks, plays great)
Cover: vg+ (light wear, slight yellowing) description:
Rare and essential gatefold double album containing Stockhausen's epic early electronic masterwork "fur elektronische und konkrete klange." In Hymnen, the composer set out to combine and derive new universes of sound from the national anthems of various nations, which he saw as "the most well known music that one can imagine"; he mixes occasionally recognizable snippets of common songs with an array of very tightly composed tape-manipulated noises. Anthems are abstractly intertwined and juxtaposed ("for example, the rhythm of one anthem is modulated with the harmony of another"). There are stabs and droning washes of electronic tones, short-wave radio sounds, various field recordings (crowds, conversations, public events/demonstrations, a diplomatic reception, bird calls), and cut-up pieces of anthems and other patriotic songs, all brilliantly mixed together and spread out over a recording lasting about 113 minutes with a huge dynamic and tonal range. It may be impossible to find such a successfully coherent and visionary epic-length electronic work by any other artist. Hymnen was realized at WDR Koln, the same studio at which Stockhausen made Kontakte and Gesang Der Junglinge (and also where Herbert Eimert, Henri Pousseur, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Gyorgi Ligeti, Franco Evangelisti, and Herbert Brun pioneered the medium). With extensive multilingual notes by the composer expressing an interesting post-WWII German sentiment on the nature of nationalism and the music to which it gives birth.

artist info from album notes etc.:
Stockhausen was a German experimental composer who was a student of Olivier Messiaen and a contemporary of John Cage and Iannis Xenakis; he pioneered musique concrete at the INA-GRM, WDR Koln, and NHK Tokyo early electronic music studios, explored improvisation and live electronics with David Tudor, Vinko Globokar, and Michel Portal, and has worked with Pierre Schaeffer, Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Werner Meyer-Eppler, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Cornelius Cardew, Hugh Davies, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karel Goeyvaerts, Mauricio Kagel, Franco Evangelisti, Bruno Maderna, New Phonic Art, and Henri Pousseur. Stockhausen's technique in this piece draws from the musique concrete of Pierre Henry, Bernard Parmegiani, Francois Bayle, Luc Ferrari, Rune Lindblad, Pauline Oliveros, Vittorio Gelmetti, Todd Dockstader, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Dick Raaijmakers, and Henk Badings. Check out my other items for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/electroacoustic, audiophile, 20th century classical, free jazz, soundtracks, poetry/spoken word, space age pop, microtonal, and sound art vintage vinyl. US Shipping - Media Mail is $5.00 for 1-2 single records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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