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Music By Louis Applebaum Dialogue by Richard Holback and Hans Richter “Dreams That Money Can Buy” is a 1947 experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter. The film was produced by Kenneth Macpherson and Peggy Guggenheim. Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Léger. The …
Tag Archives: Avanguardia
Dicembre, 2015
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12 Dicembre
The Theatre of Eternal Music – Dream House 78’17”
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s the Theatre of Eternal Music in their minimalistic drone composition “Dream House 78’17””. Made back in 1974, it was for its time extremely long and extremely avant-garde. It was also, however, one of the very first examples of drone music. Since it wasn’t yet uploaded in its entirety on YouTube, I do that as …
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8 Dicembre
Hans Richter – Dadascope
Hans Richter’s “Dadascope” is a comprehensive portrait of the Dada movement featuring original poems and prose spoken by their creators: Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Kurt Schwitters. Filmed and completed in 1957. by softmod
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8 Dicembre
Hans Krüsi – Side 2 of Ex Hk
Private recordings on cassette by Hans Krusi (from the Anton Bruhin collection). “While preparing a new edition of Anton Bruhin works, Alga Marghen discovered some mysterious tapes by Hans Krüsi. Fascinated by the raw and brute contents of those sounds, mixing field recordings of insects, sheep and distant bells with primitive chanting, percussive noises and distorted radio folk songs, Alga …
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8 Dicembre
Halim El-Dabh – Wire Recorder Piece
This is possibly the earliest piece of electronic music ever composed, or more specifically, the first piece of electronic tape music, also known as “musique concrete” or “electroacoustic” music. Halim El-Dabh, then a student at Cairo, Egypt, produced this music piece using samples taken from an ancient Egyptian “Zar” ceremony. He edited, manipulated and arranged these sounds to create the …
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8 Dicembre
Günter Maas – Audio-Visual Painting
German subtitles provided. Use yt translation tool for your target language, please. by MonoThyratron GERMAN [English further below] Der deutsche Maler und Bildhauer Günter Maas (* 1923 in Jünkerath/Eifel † 22. März 2010 Köln-Müngersdorf) gilt als Pionier der von ihm benannten “audio-visuellen Malerei”. In den 1960er Jahren erprobte der Synästhet auf Anraten des Komponisten Karlheinz Stockhausen zum ersten Mal die Umsetzung …
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7 Dicembre
Gruppo Nuova Consonanza
Un documentario in tedesco dedicato al Gruppo di improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, per la regia di Theo Gallehr. Con: Mario Bertoncini, Walter Branchi, Franco Evangelisti, John Heineman, Roland Kayn, Ennio Morricone, Ivan Vandor e Frederic Rzewski. 1967-1969 by jonas evangelisti
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7 Dicembre
Freedom (1970)
Directed by: Yoko Ono Sound by: John Lennon Camera by: Steve Gebhardt by meatcityusa
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7 Dicembre
Elektronisches Monochord
Das elektronische Monochord von Dr. Friedrich Trautwein stand nach seiner (nicht ganz vollendeten) Herstellung im Jahre 1954 im “Studio für elektronische Musik” des NWDR in Köln. Seiner intendierten Nutzung wurde es allerdings nicht zugeführt. Sei es, dass dieses trautonium-gleiche Musikinstrument einen zu großen Übungsaufwand erforderte oder einfach nur nicht den Erfordernissen der aufkeimenden deutschen Elektronikmusik entsprach (Stockhausen bevorzugte in jener …
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7 Dicembre
Swedish electronic music and sound poetry
Music for TAPE/BAND – Musik from Sweden / aus Schweden / från Sverige Caprice Records Sweden, 1973 by MonoThyratron An anthology of Swedish electronic music and sound poetry (text-sound compositions) from around the 1970’s. Taken from vinyl-record (12 inch / 30 cm). Jump directly to: 00:14 Sten Hanson – L’inferno de Strindberg (1971) 10:07 Leo Nilson – Viaro I (1971) 18:45 Arne …