Music as the subject of its physical production Radio broadcast by Uli Aumüller
Synopsis
The body is first and foremost an approximately perfect (mortal) machine made of water, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus. It has spirit, a belly, reproductive organs, a unity, has proportions and regularities, differences and is something like the measure of all human beauty. In some cultures there is only one term for the movement of the body, dancing, and music, singing, poetry. The Western tradition has differentiated this - yet the idea of the physical remains. A good string quartet merges, unites into a body of sound. This virtual, idealistic idea appealed to many composers of the 20th century to confront the real body, its physical presence and immediate nature. What does a brain sound like that thinks of nothing, what does an orgasm curve sound like, the heartbeat of the unborn, and isn't the roughness of the breath, the voice, the skin, the sweating just as much a part of the sound of music. All music requires a physical act for its production - and this can be the subject of music.
1 Luigi Ceccarelli Exsultet Text from the Holy Christian Lithurgy for voices on 8-track tape Performers: Cantores 98 under the direction of Giacomo Baroffio Edison Studio (c/o www.axnat.it/edison) Time: 6.54
2 Jean Lhéritier Nigra sum The Tallis Scholars conducted by Peter Phillips Gimell CDGIM 003 (LC ????) Time 5.00
3rd Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 14 in D minor "Death and the Maiden Melos String Quartet harmonia mundi France HMC 90140809 LC 7045 Time: 6.10
4th Franz Schubert "Death and the Maiden" - Piano Song Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone - Gerald Moore EMI CDM 7 69503 2 LC 0110 Time: 2.31
5. Franz Schubert The Erlking - orch. Hector Berlioz Charles Pnazéra, Baritone
EMI 7243 5 66155 2 6 LC 6646 Time 3.47
6. music of the Tuareg Flute Tazammart Le Chant du Monde LDX 274 974 LC 0609 Time 2.06
7. Michel Moglia Thermal Chants REMIX 1998 (own recordings from Herne) Time: 4.59
8. Vinko Globokar Dialogue on Air for accordion Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion Own recording from Panicale/Italy Time: 5.20
9. Dieter Schnebel Atemzüge for several vocal organs and reproducers Carla Henius, Gisela Saur-Kontarsky, William Pearson, voices WERGO WER 6287-2 LC 0846 Time: 7.18
10 David Rosenboom On being invisible Music Galery Editions 1977 Canada Time: 2.46
11. stelarc remote: amplified body & third hand Studio Melbourne Anckarström R/6 1991 Time: 4.26
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