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01. Włodzimierz Kotoński - Study for One Cymbal Stroke (1951)
02. Bohdan Mazurek - Symphony. Electronic music, part I (1966)
03. Elżbieta Sikora - Letters to M. (1980)
04. Bernadetta Matuszczak - Libera me (1991)
05. Elżbieta Sikora - View from the Window (1978)
06. Magdalena Długosz - Mictlan I (1987)
07. Barbara Zawadzka - Greya part V (1991)
08. Krzysztof Knittel - Poko (1986)
ARTIST
TITLE
Would It Sound Just As Bad, If You Played It Backwards, Vol. 2
FORMAT
2LP

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CATALOG #
OP 059LP OP 059LP
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RELEASE DATE
5/13/2022

A collection of sounds from the Studio Eksperymentalne Polskiego Radia (1959-2001). Would It Sound Just As Bad If You Played It Backwards assembles a collection of audio experiments created at the Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES) from 1959 to the beginning of the millennium. These exceptional works are presented alongside images from the Polish artist Zofia Kulik, whose career reached its apogee between the late 1960s and early '70s. While PRES and Kulik remain important artifacts in the recent history of the Polish avant-garde, presenting them together in one release may not seem like an obvious choice. There are, of course, some historical intersections -- he most notable being a shared interest in Polish artist and architect Oskar Hansen's Open Form theory. Open Form promoted a modular theory of architecture that became a tool adapted by its users and inhabitants to... Hansen's ideas influenced Kulik's early works and also manifested in the PRES's iconic "black room", a music studio designed by Hansen, himself, which was equipped with moveable sound panels that absorbed or reflected sounds to promote a greater, creative freedom from its users. And yet, as it usually goes, the most obvious connections are usually the most deceitful. Whereas Kulik initially followed Open Form, she later turned away from it. And as for the black room -- it mostly worked in theory but not in practice. What is it then that makes the two work together? Features Włodzimierz Kotoński, Bohdan Mazurek, Elżbieta Sikora, Bernadetta Matuszczak, Magdalena Długosz, Barbara Zawadzka, and Krzysztof Knittel.