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Artist:	NITSCH, HERMANN
Title:	Requiem für meine Frau Beate: Musik der 5.6.Aktion
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$42.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 062CD

"Alga Marghen proudly present the documentation of Requiem für meine Frau Beate, which took place in the Chiesa di Santa Lucia in Bologna, Italy, in 1977 shortly after Beate Nitsch's death. This was not only one of the strongest and most powerful aktionen by Hermann Nitsch but also a crucial point in the development of his art. Beginning in 1977, Beate Nitsch was travelling in Schwarzwald. She has been inaugurating a nursery-school and wanted to meet some relatives in Stuttgart when, near Ulm, she had a terrible car accident. Beate had supported her husband's art not only sharing the sentimental part of their life but also actively collaborating to the organization of his work. She organized the purchase of a castle in Prinzendorf, the central place where Nitsch would develop his Orgien Mysterien Theater. For Hermann Nitsch, this loss was a complete collapse. He suddenly felt to be on the opposite side of life, alone and full of despair. In those days, he reached the deepest point of black unhappiness. Nitsch decided then to go Naples where he organized a Lehraktion at Morra Gallery. His friend Kubelka joined him from the USA. During the Lehraktion, he was told about a big Performance Festival that would have taken place in Bologna. Nitsch was invited to participate with an aktion to be performed in a big old church. It was clear to Nitsch that he would have conceived an aktion dedicated to the memory of Beate. A requiem, even. Before the aktion in Bologna, Hermann Nitsch's music was basically released as a wall of noise. The musicians could play what they wanted and the only instruction was to play as loud as possible. Only the duration, the starting point and the noise level of each instrument was fixed. For the first time with the Requiem, Nitsch started to conceive longer tone clusters, specially for the wind instruments. The perfect acoustics of the church with its wonderful organ, which shocked Nitsch with its intensity and power, suggested him a new direction in music. Among the lucky audience were many friends coming from all over the world to witness the event. For everyone the Requiem was an important and ecstatic experience. The big success of the aktion gave Nitsch the strength to continue his work. Shortly after Bologna he was invited to create new aktionen in Canada and Los Angeles. First time 2CD edition, in tri-folded digipack, reproducing the impossible-to-find 3LP art gallery edition issued in Naples in 1977 for the Radiotaxi series. Including a 12-page folded insert with drawings and directions from the LP boxset original graphics. This edition also includes a 32-page shocking full color photo documentation of the aktion, for the first time available now. Edition of 1000 copies."

Artist:	NITSCH, HERMANN
Title:	Day 3: Day of Dionysus 6-Tage-Spiel O.M. Theater
Label:	CORTICAL FOUNDATION
Format:	3CD
Price:	$32.00
Catalog #:	CORTI 018.1CD

Packaged in the same elaborate LP-jacket as it's companion volume (CORTI 18.2), this features 2 exclusive CDs of music from Day 3 of the 6-Tage-Spiel des Orgies Mystries Theater; the 2 releases are stickered to differentiate. The third disc is the same CD-ROM as found in 18.1. "Packaged in 12" deluxe gatefold sleeve with 12" full-color printed inner-sleeves. Limited Edition: 500 copies. Day 3 of Vienna Aktionist Hermann Nitch's magnum opus total experience in a 6 Day excess, a Baccanalian rite that is sub-titled the Orgies Mysteries Theater. Two separate editions exist for Day 3 in a 12" Gatefold Jacket. Part one of this edition, includes one CD with music from 10am-11:15am. The second CD features music from three different intervals in the day; the third CD is a CD-ROM Cinepak movie compatible with the Windows media player and Quicktime."

Artist:	NITSCH, HERMANN
Title:	Day 3 6-Tage-Spiel O.M. Theater
Label:	CORTICAL FOUNDATION
Format:	LP/CD-ROM
Price:	$32.00
Catalog #:	CORTI 018.2LP

Companion piece to the CORTI 18.1 release (soon forthcoming), with different music on the LP (CD-Rom material is the same on both volumes). "Packaged in 12" deluxe gatefold sleeve with 12" full-color printed inner-sleeves. Day 3 of Vienna Aktionist Hermann Nitsch's magnum opus total experience in a 6 Day excess, a Baccanalian rite that is sub-titled the Orgies Mysteries Theater. Two separate editions exist for Day 3 in a 12" Gatefold Jacket. Part two of this edition includes a 220 Gram Vinyl pressing of the Finale of Day 3. The second CD is a CD-ROM Cinepak movie compatible with the Windows media player and Quicktime: 220 Gram Vinyl. DMM Quality Pressing. Limited Edition 500 copies."

Artist:	NITSCH, HERMANN
Title:	Harmoniumwerk Volumes 9, 10, 11, 12
Label:	CORTICAL FOUNDATION
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.50
Catalog #:	CORTI 020.3CD

3rd double CD in this series, limited to 500 copies. The music documented on this incredible series is deep, intensely psychedelic; there are also the first cultural artifacts to really seem 100% worthy of the cosmic Hubble space photographs that grace their covers. "Cosmology and empirical science come across the cosmic background noise. The radio telescope still registers the immediate and extreme impact of the big bang today. Black holes represent the abyss without limits. Suns are swallowed, simply sucked up. In the midst of these empty and crowded worlds (anti matter), this sucking silence manifests itself. These harmonic pieces are harmonic meditations, variations of certain colors of sound. Like a kaleidoscope elating, ripe, sweet glowing splendor. Tulip colored silky chasubles transform into notes, sweet must. Fermented sounds mix with strains of hot and cold incense soaking the gorgeous old vestments. This music has ceremonial character. Ceremonial repetitions as if telling ones beads and callings of the cosmos, of infinity and eternity are carried out. The speed of light and the relating (unimaginable) distances are marked off with notes. The depth of the universe is the depth of space withering endlessly. Endlessness. This eternal repetition paints the picture of life into eternity, and the eternal repetition establishes within eternity itself life. If there would be no eternal repetition of time there would be nothing to talk about. The infinite ticking of time, the chain of appearances of life (of beings) puts together what we call being. The happening of the worlds should transform into sounds. The boom, the coming into music of the basic processes of the world of stars should enrich the visual perception of creation." -- Hermann Nitsch, Oct. 1986.

Artist:	NITSCH, HERMANN
Title:	8th Sinfonie
Label:	CORTICAL FOUNDATION
Format:	2LP
Price:	$65.00
Catalog #:	CORTI 030LP

Two LPS in 180 Gram Vinyl High Quality Pressing. "'I have one Sinfonie' professed Hermann Nitsch identifying with Bruckner who made a similar claim of his symphonic output. For comparison, La Monte Young has a similar concept, for example, The Tortoise, His Dreams, and Journey's from 1964 -- eternity, with each realization, the piece never ends; it's a continuation. Professionally recorded in 1990 in Vienna and realized by a professional orchestra, the 8th Sinfonie by Hermann Nitsch is a triumphantly charged live performance by Ensemble 20 Jahrhundert, the Hugo Distler Choir, a Blasorchester (Brass Band), and Noise Orchestra.The 8th Sinfonie was produced to commemorate the 62nd Birthday of the Viennese Actionist founder Hermann Nitsch. A limited Artist's edition of 20 in a foil embossed cloth folio with Hermann Nitsch signed original artwork, including 2-LPs and 2-CDRs. This regular 2-LP edition is limited to 185 copies."

Artist:	NITSCH, HERMANN
Title:	Sinfonia Punta Campanella
Label:	FONDAZIONE MORRA (ITALY)
Format:	CD BOX
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	HNSPC 001CD

"Music plays a fundamental role in the life and work of Hermann Nitsch. It has always been one of the founding elements of his Orgien Misterien Theater (Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries). The initial use of music as purely functional to action was later replaced with a necessity for autonomous composition, in which music finds its own role, independent from the theatrical sphere. Nitsch's poetic is made up of strong contrasts where music represents the syntax of his theatre. Going through the scores it's possible to see how the sound image guides the flow of action. The roots of this music can be traced in the excess, the scream and the uproar. The most extreme excitation is connected to the most extreme manifestation of noise. If at the beginning of his work the casual dimension was necessary in order to discover new forms, this later becomes an integral element of the complexity of the theatrical structure. The events within the O.M. Theater consist of an aesthetic of chance but are strongly structured, and their structure is guided by a musical weave. The Punta Campanella Symphony is a clear example of an expression of the autonomous activity of Nitsch the composer. Here, it is possible to see all the fundamental elements of his poetics. The aesthetic and Dionysian dimension are clearly announced by the continuous play of construction and destruction of musical forms. The highly dramatic dimension is rendered extreme by the extended crescendo and by a play of contrasts which go from chiarissimo to scurissimo. Performed by Orchestra Xenarmonica del Conservatorio di Palermo including more than 40 musicians plus local folk bands, this Symphony in four movements was recorded during the World Premiere on September 22, 2004 at Punta Campanella, Naples, in front of the Capri Island at sunset. Luxury full colour digipack and slipcase, including a 28-page booklet with photos from the event, scores, as well as two essays titled 'The O.M. Theater's Music' and 'Punta Campanella Symphony.' Privately issued by the art gallery that organised the performance in order to document the event."

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