CD FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) / MP3 320 kbps | Classical, Contemporary, Modern, Experimental | 2h 12 min | 669 / 384 MB
May 2022; long on the C.P. radar/wishlist (all but inaccessible until very recently) has been the replication-production of the original 1962/1971 LP/10" editions of storied German-American Electronic & Computer Music pioneer Herbert Brün's semi-Instructional releases, "Klänge Unterwegs Und Anepigraphe" (1961) & "Über Musik Und Zum Computer" (1971). Fate (and sympathy) have wrested their kind hands and copies of both were semi-permanently loaned to the C.P. P.T.B. with the express interest in seeing their contents reprised and disseminated in the now-familiar spec, and I'm glad to present this late-stage Creel Pone presenting Brün's work across the first three decades of his Compositional career, as it was originally issued during the vinyl era.
Taking up the majority of the first LP, "Klänge Unterwegs - Eine Komposition Und Ihre Herstellung Im Elektronischen Studio" (or "Wayfaring Sounds - a composition and its production in the electronic studio") is an extended meditation on both wanderlust and Composition, featuring narration and intent by Brün himself going over both the technical & aesthetic frameworks at play with tons of entirely fascinating sound-examples & fragments of the work in progress leading into the piece itself. In his words
"Klänge Unterwegs"["Wayfaring Sounds"] is the title of a composition for electronically produced sounds, and the heading of a collection of answers and comments to questions that most frequently arise in discussions about "electronic music". The record offers a brief introduction into the world of electronic sound as well as the compositions "Wayfaring Sounds" and "Anepigraphe". The supplementary text consists of various sections, in which I try to state my point-of-view on some of the questions that are brought...
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