zeitkratzer [old school] Alvin Lucier
Release Date: November 26, 2010

zeitkratzer old school Alvin Lucier cover zkr 0011

performed by zeitkratzer
all music by Alvin Lucier

BROKEN SILENCE 10868
distributed worldwide by Broken Silence [UK: Shellshock, F: Metamkine]
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1| Alvin Lucier Fideliotrio [1987] 12:10
for viola, cello and piano
2| Alvin Lucier Music For Piano With Magnetic Strings [1995] 13:21
for grand piano and as many as five e-bows
3| Alvin Lucier Silver Streetcar For The Orchestra [1988] 10:03
for amplified triangle
4| Alvin Lucier Violynn [2001] 09:38
for violin and tape
5| Alvin Lucier Opera With Objects [1997] 10:59
for performers with resonant objects

zeitkratzer
directed by Reinhold Friedl
|| Burkhard Schlothauer < violin, viola, objects || Anton Lukoszevieze < violoncello, objects || Uli Phillipp < objects || Reinhold Friedl < piano, objects || Maurice de Martin < triangle, objects || Frank Gratkowski < objects || Hayden Chisholm < objects|| Matt Davis < objects || Hilary Jeffery < objects || Ralf Meinz < sound ||

[1-5] recorded live at Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxembourg, October 3, 2009
[4] recorded at GreenHouseStudios Schwielowsee, Germany, June 4, 2010
recorded and mixed by Ralf Meinz and Reinhold Friedl, produced by Reinhold Friedl
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“zeitkratzer are creating a New Music, worthy of the name!”
[Rob Young, The Wire Magazine]

The internationally acclaimed “hilarious releases” [vital weekly] of zeitkratzer records go on. This is the third release in the new series [old school]. The first two CDs, dedicated to the music of John Cage [zkr0009] and James Tenney [zkr0010] have been highly acclaimed. London’s Wire Magazine wrote: “The rigour and discipline they collectively bring to this compositions make both discs utterly enthralling, from start to finish.” The new release is dedicated to the music of Alvin Lucier.
In 2011, the [old school] series will continue with two more releases, dedicated to the music of Morton Feldman [zkr0012] and Karlheinz Stockhausen [zkr0014] respectively.
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Alvin Lucier is one of the most outstanding American minimalists. He could be called a sound physician and his compositions regarded as acoustic research settings. Often his pieces turn inside-out the inner properties of the room they are played in and the instrument that they are played on. zeitkratzer had the chance to work with the composer in Dijon, France in 2008, and continued to work on and to program his music in different places. The Philharmonie in Luxembourg turned out to be the ideal space for recording.
On this CD you can hear how Lucier enables zeitkratzer to create sounds, most people have never heard before. Ringing overtones, a singing piano, a thrilling concert triangle, pencils on little objects, and how irritating a violoncello, a viola and a piano can sound together creating sonic interferences. This music is not only a physical phenomenology, but becomes inherently a sensual listening experience.

Alvin Lucier ist einer der herausragenden amerikanischen Minimalisten. Man könnte ihn als Klangphysiker bezeichnen und seine Kompositionen als akustische Forschungsanordnungen betrachten. Häufig legen seine Stücke die charakteristischen akustischen Eigenschaften von Aufführungsraum und Instrument bloß. zeitkratzer hatte das Glück mit dem Komponisten 2008 in Frankreich arbeiten zu können, und führte die Auseinandersetzung mit seiner Musik an verschiedenen Orten fort. Die Philharmonie Luxemburg entpuppte sich als der ideale Ort, sie aufzunehmen.
Auf dieser CD ist zu hören, wie Lucier zeitkratzer in die Lage versetzt, Klänge zu spielen, die die meisten Menschen nie vorher gehört haben. Flirrende Obertöne, ein singendes Klavier, eine schwirrende Konzerttriangel, Bleistifte auf kleinen Objekten, oder wie irritierend ein Violoncello, eine Viola und ein Klavier zusammen klingen können, die akustische Interferenzen erzeugen. So ist diese Musik ist nicht nur physikalische Phänomenologie, sondern eine beeindruckende sinnliche Hörerfahrung.

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More information, pictures, discography, compositions, MP3’s etc.:
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