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G*PARK - GOUR LP
Tochnit Aleph TA119
New works by Swiss Musique Concrete composer and visual artist Marc Zeier / G*Park. Active since the early 80's Zeier was a founding member of the Schimpfluch-Gruppe. He lives and works in Zürich as a composer, installation- and video-artist and plankton fisherman. Gour presents one long composition of his highly fascinating and unique crypto electro-acoustics based solely of micro field-recordings and natural phenomena. "Musique concrete seems eternally old-fashioned and eternally modern. Marc Zeier makes you fall in love with the form all over again". Thanks Are Due To: The Etang of Gour and its Creatures, A Singing and Cracking Chimney, Wild Bees and Wasps from Piemonte, Limnodromus griseus, Unidentified Voices from the Gemauge House, The Uwaga Squad, The Flies (Sarcophagidae), The Crows and Pigs of Chants, The People of Tiananmen, The Frozen Lakes, The Wolves. Edition of 350 copies.
SELTEN GEHÖRTE MUSIK - 3. BERLINER DICHTERWORKSHOP CD
Tochnit Aleph TA130
First part in the reissue series of the legendary Selten Gehörte Musik artist-records. CD in printed sleeve packaged in fullcolour 12" LP sleeve (reproduction of the original artwork) with printed 12" innersleeve featuring rare photos and an english text on Selten gehörte Musik by Gerhard Rühm. This is the reissue of the first LP from 1973. Recordings of the 3rd Berliner Poetsworkshop (First Berliner Musicworkshop) with Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener, Berlin 12th & 13th July 1973. Edition of 500 copies.
SELTEN GEHÖRTE MUSIK - NOVEMBERSYMPHONIE (DOPPELSYMPHONIE) 2CD
Tochnit Aleph TA131
Second part in the reissue series of the legendary Selten Gehörte Musik artist-records. Two CD's in printed sleeves packaged in fullcolour 12" LP gatefold sleeve (reproduction of the original artwork) with printed 12" innersleeve featuring rare photos and an english text on Selten gehörte Musik by Gerhard Rühm. This is the reissue of the Double-LP from 1974. Recordings of the second Berliner Musicworkshop with Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener, Berlin 15th - 26th November 1973. Also included are the two bonus pieces from the 7" which came only with the first 100 copies of the original edition. Edition of 500 copies.
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HERMANN NITSCH - 6. SINFONIE 2CD
Tochnit Aleph TA135
Hermann Nitsch's Sixth Symphony for large orchestra performed and recorded November 1, 1980 at Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna. Edition of 500 copies in big 2CD jewel-case with 12 page booklet.
STEFAN ROIGK - THE RISING OF MATTEO CD
Tochnit Aleph TA110
New composition by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk. "The Rising Of Matteo" is a highly dynamic and eclectic ride between directed feature, audio-art and faked diary. Out of field-recordings made during an artist-residency in Milano and the audio material of his recent installations, Roigk molds spatially complex and overlapping plattforms for tedious noises playing sonic protagonists in an exclusively acoustic audible theatre piece. The hypnotic swarms of organic chants, cascades of rustles, rattles and drones, short cracklings, scratches and moments of exhausting compressions or restfully silence generate a rousing maelstrom of fragmentated narrations with expressive gestures. From density to decay and from intimacy to vast - Roigk creates a dense and highly differentiated composition of intense associations and dramatic film-like atmospheres. Edition of 300 copies.
