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AVM-31 0797.2

AVM-31 0797.2
 
Format:
MP3
Sample Rate:
48000Hz
Channels:
STEREO
Length:
00:32:56
 

AVM-31 0797.2

Makers:
Gerhard Steinke, Dieter Boeck

Date of Publishing:
September 07, 1967

Publisher:
Radio DDR 2

 

This piece is part of the program Die Musikwerkstatt and was transmitted on the 7th of November 1967 by the GDR’s radio station Radio DDR 2. The program contains a dialogue between Dieter Boeck and Gerhard Steinke, the latter being the director of the Labor für Akustisch-Musikalische Grenzprobleme and sound engineer inside the Funkhaus in Nalepastrasse, the central broadcasting house of the GDR. The episode is contained in three different tapes. Part 1 begins with a discussion about the difference in terminology between “electronic music” (elektronische Musik) and “electronic sound art” (elektronische Klangkunst). One senses the political tension underlying the idea of electronic instruments influencing the concept of music. This part presents, among other things, music for film created with electronic instruments by Hans Hendrik Wedding in the GDR’s electroacoustic laboratory. Part 2 presents the piece Orient-Occident by Iannis Xenakis, recorded in the studio in Paris, another by Karlheinz Stockhausen recorded in Cologne, and vocoder experiments developed in the Siemens Studio in Munich. These examples are followed by Luigi Nono’s Fabrica Illuminata, another piece developed in the studio in Toronto, and music produced with computers in the studio in Stockholm. All the pieces proudly highlight that, by that year, the GDR could make stereo transmissions to their listeners. Part 3 is focused on experiments done in the studio in the GDR, including Studie für Elektronische Klänge und eine Altstimme by Bernd Wefelmeyer.

 

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