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大大大推薦！！様々なユニーク作品で知られるハンガリーの大御所作曲家ジェルジュ・リゲティのカバー!!Shelter Press、iDEAL Recordingsといった人気レーベルに諸作を残し、そしてここRoom40が2009年よりサポートを続けているニューヨークの作曲家/サウンドアーティストMarina Rosenfeld。既に20年以上活動しているベテラン女性作家であり、なんと本作はジェルジュ・リゲティの1960年代のオーケストラ名作[TeenageLontano]のカバーをやってしまったというとんでもない録音ブツ！！通常の3分の1の速度でプレイされる蓄音機のサウンドをスピーカーから流し、その下で10代の若者達が合唱し不協和なポリコードを奏でるという怪しさ満載の前衛録音。Marina Rosenfeld監修という事で現代的な構造になっている点も面白い。





Monochrome printed jacket, printed inner sleeve, black vinyl.

Teenage Lontano and roygbiv&b, from 2008 and 2011 respectively, comprise two key works by composer and artist Marina Rosenfeld. Both works are choral compositions imagined for and enacted by teenagers.

Premiered in New York’s immense Park Avenue Armory, Teenage Lontano is Rosenfeld’s groundbreaking "cover version" of Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s 1960s classic for orchestra. Teenage Lontano is reimagined as an immersive sound environment bisected by a column of teenagers in headphones. Beneath a loudspeaker rotating at the phonographic speed of 33 1/3 rpm, the teens' collective voices produce a hauntingly vulnerable account of Ligeti’s dissonant polychords. Teenage Lontano has been performed on three continents, including a French premiere in 2020 as part of Musica Strasbourg.

In roygbiv&b, asynchronous, sometimes raucous incantations of song fragments swell and dissipate, loosely organized around a purposeful mis-hearing of the acronym ROYGBIV: in Rosenfeld’s version, “r” evokes ‘are' (as in, "Are you that somebody...”);, o is 'oh' (“Oh, oh, oh…”); y becomes 'why' (“Why should my heart...); g is 'je (sus)', and so on. The extra 'b' in the work’s title pays homage to the ‘blue(s)’ of r&b.

Rosenfeld’s punning, spectral composition had its debut performance at the Museum of Modern Art in 2011. The recording featured on this edition took place at the South London Gallery in 2014 realised by local south Londoners, the recording highlighting their style and genre affiliations. Both works have remained unpublished until now.