Elsewhere, there's two highly entertaining 'plunderphonic' works from US artists bookending this compilation, one mashing up Erik Satie and the other Jerry Lee Lewis. And don't miss the much more dark-hued Aide Memoire, composed in East Germany by Georg Katzer in 1983. The subtitle is "Seven nightmares from the thousand year night...with sound documents from 1933-1945". Even though some of the most infamous voices are tape-manipulated into dalek/chipmunk grotesques that (presumably intentionally) negate much of their power, the piece still carries an unsettling weight of history that neatly expands on Luigi Nono's Ermittlung from two decades previous.
cover art for first issue, 1991 (2004 cover at top) |
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Alan, do you have an email? I think I have something(s) that might interest you.
sgtgblog79 at gmail dot com.
DeleteGood old Continuo! I used to get tons of stuff there. Wouldn't have thought there would still be active links, very impressive.