Label: Edition Wandelweiser Records -EWR0406

タイトルからも分かる様にレコードプレイヤーのカートリッジを経由して物音を拾い増幅／加工したケージの1960年名作「Cartridge Music」。カサカサ、コツコツと静寂かつ小気味良い内容に油断していると突如始まる爆裂音の放射。多く取れられた絶妙な間／空白部が、より一層の緊張感と暴力的要素を引立てています。ゴツゴツとした物音の感触が凄いですが、是非、電子音楽ファンにも聴いて頂きたい名盤。

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Program: John Cage : Cartridge Music. Performer: Ensemble daswirdas. “Cartridge Music is for amplified "small sounds"; any number of players and loudspeakers; parts to be prepared from score by performers. Readings are taken which are useful in performance, enabling one to go about his business of making sounds. A cartridge is an ordinary phonograph pick-up in which customarily a playing needle is inserted. This is a composition indeterminate of its performance, and the performance is of actions which are often indeterminate of themselves. The sounds which result are noises, some complex, others extremely simple. All sounds, even those ordinarily thought to be undesirable, are accepted in this music.”