FINKFARKER
Special link - vicious
confrontation
Fuchs
- Katzer |
Preis
/ Price :
15.08 €
Bestell-Nr.
/ Purchase Order No. : FMP CD 026
|
|
 |
| |
 |
| |
|
| Wolfgang
Fuchs (*1)
|
sopranino
sax, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet |
| Georg
Katzer (*2) |
computer,
live electronics |
| |
|
|
01.
|
Spectral
(*2) |
12:52 |
|
02.
|
Link
(*2) |
23:49 |
|
03.
|
Vicious
(*1) |
09:48 |
|
04.
|
Confrontation
(*1) |
24:32 |
|
|
Total
time: |
71:04 |
|
All
pieces taped as played
Recorded by Jost Gebers on June 24, 1989 at the FMP
Studio Berlin.
Produced by Jost Gebers
Photos: Jost
Gebers and Helma Schleif (Cover)
Liner
notes: Hanno Rempel
|
| |
| First
published in August 1990 |
| |
Excerpt
from the booklet:
"My use of computers in the programming of compositions
led to the development of improvisation models. The result
of my work was a programme in which the computer becomes the
control panel for a synthesizer. In this way all musical parameters
can be influenced. If a certain part of the programme is activated
it plays the tonal sequences I specify. A random selector
ensures constant variation. We can control the range and direction
of variation by giving the computer new instructions. If,
for example, the programme produces repetitions of sound,
instructions can be given for each cycle as far as speed,
tone colour, pitch, etc. The flexibility of the programme
as a whole makes it possible to improvise even when playing
with other improvising musicians. The signals they produce
can be electronically manipulated by special effect equipment
so that they blend with the sound of the synthesizer" (Georg
Katzer). (...)
Compared with electronic music, where only electronically
produced sounds were stored on tape, FUCHS´ and KATZER´s style
leans on tradition - in a creative sense rather than in a
conventional, conservative one. (...) This reverting to traditional
forms does not constitute a step backwards - their eyes are
firmly fixed on the road ahead. Thus new forms are created
- a new kind of music which embraces the imaginative playing
of, and playing with a machine -a new quality of sound is
created by the electronic processing of instrumental sounds
which stands out clarity from a purely electronic as well
as from a purely instrumental one.
This kind of music/historical feedback has many historical
precedents. The Vienna classics Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven were influenced in their later
works by the polyphony of Johann Sebastian Bach and previous
eras. Arnold Schönberg, in turn, was influenced by the polyphony
of the Vienna classics. In each case something new was created
- the historic tradition which influenced Haydn, Mozart and
Beethoven led via Schönberg to Anton Webern. The Free Jazz
of the early sixties was successful partly because it lent
heavily on the Blues tradition. Europe´s Improvised Music
would be inconceivable without the tradition of the E-music
of the twenties.
The secret of encouraging new developments by borrowing from
tradition is really the creative transformation of musical
and spiritual principles in general to the Here and Now. It
does not consist (primarily) of varying or even copying stylistic
patterns.
FUCHS and KATZER invented neither the live electronic structures
and methods nor the alienation of natural instrumental sounds.
They do, however, represent this kind of music at its best.
(...)
WOLFGANG FUCHS´ and GEORG KATZER´s music is not an experiment.
It is a result - even if this result embodies an everchanging
process; and above all it is of extraordinary beauty - a beauty
of a new dimension. |
Hanno
Rempel
Translation: Margaret Neuendorf
|
|