Stockhausen rarity:Ensemble electronic Petr Kotik Wergo

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Kompositionsstudio Karlheinz Stockhausen: Ensemble (1967 for amplified instruments and electronics). Wergo 60065

Mega-rare 1968 German lp, one of the hardest to find of all Stockhausen recordings. Ensemble was a collaborative experiment between Stockhausen and 12 student composers which arose out of a class ("Kompositionsstudio") he taught at Darmstadt. Each composer contributed their own musique concrete tape and composition for solo instrument, which were then combined under Stockhausen's direction into a single composition for amplified/filtered instruments, shortwave radios, and tape. The students were Rolf Gehlhaar, Johannes G. Fritsch, Tomas Marco, Avo Somer, Nicolaus A. Huber, Robert Wittinger, John McGuire, Peter R. Farmer, Gregory Biss, Jurgen Beurle, Mesias Maiguashca, and Jorge Peixinho. Performing the piece are Aloys Kontarsky on Hammond organ, electronics operators/"sound controllers" Petr Kotik, Harald Boje, Alden Jenks, and David Johnson, and Ensemble Hudba Dneska (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello, contrabass, percussion).

Stockhausen was a student of Olivier Messiaen and a contemporary of John Cage and Iannis Xenakis, and worked with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karel Goeyvaerts, Mauricio Kagel, Franco Evangelisti, Herbert Eimert, and Henri Pousseur. Kotik is a composer, conductor, and flutist who founded the SEM Ensemble, worked with David Tudor, Lejaren Hiller, and Lucas Foss, adapted the words of R. Buckminster Fuller and Gertrude Stein into experimental compositions, and is known for his pioneering realization of the complete musical work of Marcel Duchamp. This lp will be of interest to listeners of live electronic artists like New Phonic Art, Michel Portal, Derek Bailey, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV), AMM, Il Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuovo Consonanza, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, Sonic Arts Union, Frederic Rzewski, Cornelius Cardew...

Vinyl Condition: nm
Cover Condition: ex (minor wear)

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