Label: Canto Crudo

プライベート・レーベル作品を一挙入荷!!1953年オーストリアの都市リンツ出身、ジャズ及びアヴァン・ベーシストながら70年代中頃から多くの電子音楽の作曲を行っていた孤高のコンポーザーGunther Rabl。それら音源は統一されたジャケットデザインにて自主レーベルCanto Crudoより出版されており、本作はその第九弾となる89年~95年までの音源を纏めた[Werke 9]。1989年に始動した長期プロジェクトを4つのスケッチ的録音として残した電子音楽作品[Skizzen]や、スピーカー、アンプ、演奏装置を備えた4台の自転車が奏でるジャンクの現場を捉えた[Imps]など、風変わりな作風も収録した全9曲のアルバム。

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miscellanous tape music and computer music (1989-95)

4 SKIZZEN (4 sketches)
Schwellungen / Gestade / Kaskaden / Schlauch und Rohr
(swellings / surge / cascades / hose and tube)
source: analog tape 1/2" 15ips mono (1990)
basic material: speedups of various recordings [1-3], recordings of iron tubes and a garden hose [4]
methods: analog transformation, tape-editing
tools: analog devices designed by Georg Danczul

When one finishes a larger work, there is always something left over: material, attempts, splinters …
In my way of working it was tape reels full of sounds, motifs, developments of motifs, series of transformations and all kinds of in-between material. There is a lot that didn’t find its way in this form into the actual composition. Many fragments recall possible side lines, stand for the lost part of decisions, are reminders of a ‘lost music.’
In 1989 I began a long-term project in which I not only go back to such material, but also to the ideas and an attitude to life that is connected to them that is repeatedly awakened when I listen to the old tapes: ‘memories of a lost music.’
Four sketches have been created since then, all of them put on tape with simple but fundamentally analogous means, and, corresponding to the spirit of the music, that create their own space: mono!

SCHWELLUNGEN (SWELLINGS)
A dull, unlocatable sound swells up and down four times, and is dissolved in the intermittent phases into pattering – an archaic signal.
GESTADE (SHORE)
Inexorably rolling waves. In the middle they suddenly open a ‘view’ into an inclusion: the transformation of an instrumental improvisation in eight-fold speed. Like from great heights one listens to the distant goings on.
KASKADEN (CASCADES)
Aggressive, organ-like sounds, which continually rushing cascades plunge downward from, soon fill the whole sound space. In the middle again an inclusion, this time, a street scene in multiple speed.
SCHLAUCH UND ROHR (HOSE AND PIPE)
A rhythmic motif drummed on a garden hose in different overlays (odd-numbered polyrhythmic proportions) creates a furious atmosphere right from the beginning. Heavy beats from the sound of iron pipes banged together shift the rhythmic pattern until only a unison of the rhythm with its inverted time remains.