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Artist:	MINARD, ROBIN
Title:	Silent Music
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	RZ 10007CD

Features: "Music For Quiet Spaces" (For vibraphone and delay) and "Neptune" (electronic music). RE: "Music for Quiet Space": "Conceived to condition space through the creation of an absolutely homogeneous, slowly-changed field of sound colour. Within the performance of the work, original sounds picked up from the vibraphone are continuously recorded and reproduced over and over again at 12-second intervals. The delayed sounds are adjusted to slowly fade away over a period of approximately three minutes. This treatment of the original sounds creates the work's characteristically static clouds of sound colour and enhances the music's slow changes in register and dynamics."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Inventionen '98: 50 Jahre Musique Concréte
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	RZ 10009/10CD

A documentary of pieces performed at the Inventionen Festival in Berlin, 1998. Features: Unsuk Chin, Patrick Kosk, Werner Cee, Francois Donato, Robin Minard, Wolfgang Mitterer, Francis Dhomont, Erik Mikael Karlsson, Trevor Wishart. "Not as much as a bringer-up to speed (or yet another history lesson at that) as a fine cache of current keepers of the crop. New ('93-98), complete pieces from Trevor Wishart (northern-UK composer/programmer known and loved these days for his mid-70's works such as Menagerie and Beach Singularity ALMOST as much as for his pioneering spectral synthesis software method CDP), Francis Dhomont (INA-GRM stalwart, recent CD Frankenstein on Asphodel rocks...), Patrick Kosk (as seen on the RZ 3004 LP of Finnish Musique Concrete), François Donato (INA ditto), Robin Minard, Erik Michael Karlsson (Swedish EMS agent), Werner Cee, Unsuk Chin, and Wolfgang Mitterer. The perfect mix of analogue tape and computer-medium concerns, very strong efforts from all involved." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RZ 1010CD

Beautiful collection, primarily made up of Feldman's earliest, shorter piano works from the early 50s, going through the late 70s. A much needed compendium to all the essential documentation of his later, intensely long works that have been coming out (mainly on Hat Art). Performances here by Feldman himself, David Tudor, Cornelius Cardew, John Tilbury and others. "In his compositions for piano, which make up a central part of his oeuvre and in which all of his experience is accumulated, it is the play of Feldman's hand whose touch is intended precisely for the 'untouchableness' of sound. The clear character of the 'attack' thus displays the paradox of such playing: it is just as much about concealing the idiosyncrasy of the piano sound, the precise point of attack while, at the same time, the structure and tension of those sounds are formed by the hand." --Stefan Schadler. Typically nice RZ packaging. Includes the following works: "Piano Three Hands" (1957, performed by Feldman & Tilbury); "Intermission 5" (1952, performed by Feldman); "Vertical Thoughts 2" (1963, performed by Janos Negyesy: violin & Cardew: piano), "Extensions 3" (1952, performed by Feldman); "Four Instruments, 1975" (1979); "Intermission 5" (1952, performed by Tudor), "Piano Piece 1956 A" (1956, performed by Tudor); "Piano Piece 1956 B" (1959, performed by Tudor); "Intersection 3" (1953, performed by Tudor); "Instruments 1, 1974" (1975, 24 minute piece performed by Eberhard Blum: flute, Nora Post: oboe, Garrett List: Posaune, Joseph Kubera: celesta, Jan Williams: drums).

Artist:	SCELSI, GIACINTO
Title:
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RZ 1014CD

Features 6 works, dating from 1961-1990. "Pranam I En souvenir de la perte tragique de Jani et Sia Christou" (für Stimme, 12 Instrumentalisten und Tonband, 1972); "Anagamin Celui qui choisit de revenir ou pas" (für 12 Streicher, 1965); "Quattro pezzi su una nota sola" (für Kammerorchester, 1959); "Quartetto n. 4", 1964); "Okanagon doit être considéré comme un rite et, si l'on veut, comme le battement de c?ur de la Terre für Harfe" (Tam Tam und Kontrabaß, 1968); "Quartetto n. 2" (1961). "For Giacinto Scelsi, music was above all a manifestation of the energy of sound in the making. Since the early 1950's, at the latest, the idea of sound as a cosmic force, rooted in the Indian notion of music, had become fundamental to his thinking -- from then on, tones and sounds were for him phenomena whose 'depth' had yet to be experienced. Rooted in these assumptions as well is Scelsi's belief that he as subject must completely withdraw, surrendering himself to that which endeavors to free itself through him."

Artist:	RADULESCU, HORATIU
Title:	String Quartet No 4, opus 33
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RZ 4002CD

String Quartet No 4, opus 33 (1976-87). Performed by the Arditti String Quartet. "infinite to be cannot be infinite, infinite anti-be could be infinite." (for nine string quartets or a string quartet surrounded by an imaginary 128 string-"viola da gamba"). "Among contemporary composers, Horatiu Radulescu is one who has something essential to express about the enigma of time: multi-layered lines of events, their structuring, perception and potential for poetic-religious message are ? together with the development of spectral composition ? among his central artistic concerns. "String quartet op. 33" fully demonstrates Radulescu's formal invention and his powerful expressiveness. During the 49 minutes of the work, two macro-forms ? two time-worlds overlap and intersect: that of the central string quartet and that of the eight surrounding quartets. In these surrounding eight quartets, the composer deliberately creates a lively, seemingly unordered series of moments of meditative quietness, of sudden improvised actions and of collective eruptions of primal force."

Artist:	NONO, LUIGI
Title:	20 Jahre Inventionen V
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RZ 4006CD

"The live electronics that Nono worked with for the first time in the early 1980s at the Freiburg Experimental Studio also serves the musical displacement: the music moves away from clear spatial and timbral assignations. Due to electronic processing, the sonic characteristics of both instruments, bass flute and cello, can hardly be recognized. Tones and gestures are lengthened into seeming infinity and move in space." Features the 1960 piece for electronics and tape, "Omaggio A Emiolio Vedova", plus "Canciones a Guimar" (1962-63, for soprano, choir, ensemble; performed by Nova Ensemble) & Quando Stanno Morendo (1982, for Frauenstimmen, flute, cello and live electronics).

Artist:	LANG, KLAUS
Title:	einfalt.stille.
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RZ 4007CD

"Flow. State. Through concentration on listening or concentration on what we are listening to we can enter a state of simplicity of mind which is a state of the highest inner clarity or inner silence. In other words: when concentrating on the flow of music we can reach an inner state: The inner silence which is the simultaneity of stasis and flow. This paradoxical situation poses the question: is the flow of music passing us, is music flowing through us thus evoking this inner stasis or is it not a state at all what we experience: should we not most seriously take into consideration the possibility that it is us who are flowing through the sound?" Interpreters: Bettina Junge (flute), Natalia Pschenitschnikova (voice), Adam Weisman (percussion), Karen Lorenz (viola).

Artist:	ORCHESTRA OF THE NAT'L CENTER FOR KOREAN TRADITIONAL PERFORMING ARTS
Title:	Yomillak: Korean Classical Music
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	RZ 7001CD

"Selection of Korean classical music, performed by the Orc National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts. Cast your mind back to the 15th century. That is, of course, difficult if not impossible to do, but the major piece recorded on these CDs, Yomillak, 'Giving the People Joy', provides something of a sonic reference point: it was first performed in 1447. Y'millak is the most extended piece of orchestral court music surviving in Korea, and it has for many centuries been used for royal processions and at banquets. A performance today in many ways looks like one of old, with the musicians dressed in red cloaks (red is the royal colour) with elaborate embroidered squares of cloth denoting rank stitched to their backs. The musicians are virtually motionless, and respond to signals given by a senior official who strikes the pak wooden clappers at the beginnings and ends of sections. Barely discernable slow and regularly repeating rhythmic cycles form a structural baseline, marked out by formulaic strikes on two drums (the hourglass-shaped changgo and the barrel-shaped chwago), but the effect is of timelessness, the movements flowing seamlessly into each other. The music is totally controlled, the epitome of Confucian order and decorum."

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Artist:	VA
Title:	Inventionen 2000
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD/BOOK
Price:	$32.00
Catalog #:	RZ 10012/3CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	Inventionen VI
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RZ 10016CD

Artist:	SPAHLINGER, MATHIAS
Title:
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	RZ 1005LP

Artist:	VA
Title:	20 Jahre Inentionen II
Label:	EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RZ 4004CD