Gottfried Michael Koenig+Pongracz+Riehn early electronic computer DG Avant Garde

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Gottfried Michael Koenig: Terminus II (1967 for electronic tape); Funktion Grun (1967 for electronic tape) / Zoltan Pongracz: Phonothese (1966 for electronic tape) / Rainer Riehn: Chants de Maldoror (1965-69 for electronic tape) label & cat. no.:Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft Avant Garde 137 011 pressed in:Germany date:1970 format:LP Vinyl: ex (couple faint scuffs, looks barely used)
Cover: vg+ (sticker residue on front, cutout notch)

description:
Fantastic album of early electronic works, one of the greatest in DG's venerable Avant Garde series. These beautiful and stunning experiments in organized electronic noise were realized under the creative direction of Koenig at the Instituut Voor Sonologie van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht Studio Voor Elektronische Muziek in the Netherlands (which developed out of the Philips early electronic music studio where Henk Badings, Dick Raaijmakers, and Tom Dissevelt worked in the 1950s). The most significant tracks are by Koenig, who made early use of computers, writing his own software to calculate systems for his compositions which he called "automated production forms". Highly recommended.

artist info from album notes etc.:
Koenig was born in Germany and composed at the WDR Cologne early electronic music studios in the 50s and 60s alongside Karlheinz Stockhausen, Herbert Eimert, Henri Pousseur, Anestis Logothetis, Gyorgi Ligeti, Franco Evangelisti, Mauricio Kagel, Robert Beyer, and Herbert Brun; he was the creative director of the Institute for Sonology in Utrecht from 1964-1986, and as a computer programmer he pioneered music composition and synthesis software. • Pongracz studied under Zoltan Kodaly and Koenig and is regarded as the first Hungarian electronic composer. • Riehn studied under Koenig and later formed, with Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Ensemble Musica Negativa, which specialized in performing the works of radical composers like John Cage, Schnebel, Morton Feldman, and Earle Brown. • This lp should be of interest to fans of Bernard Parmegiani, Pierre Schaeffer, Rune Lindblad, Francois Bayle, Luc Ferrari, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Jean-Claude Risset, James Tenney, Max Mathews, Lejaren Hiller, Tod Dockstader, and Ilhan Mimaroglu.

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