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01. HENRI POUSSEUR - Séismogrammes I 1954
02. HENRI POUSSEUR - Séismogrammes II 1958
03. HENRI POUSSEUR - Scambi 1957
04. HENRI POUSSEUR - Rimes [1-2] 1958 (version Boulez)
05. HENRI POUSSEUR - Rimes [1-2-3] 1957 (version Maderna)
06. HENRI POUSSEUR - L'air et l'eau
07. HENRI POUSSEUR - Voix de la ville
08. HENRI POUSSEUR - Forges
09. HENRI POUSSEUR - Eléments de Trois visages de Liège 1961-2005
ARTIST
TITLE
Early Experimental Electronic Music 1954-61
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SR 415CD SR 415CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/18/2016

Henri Pousseur was 25 when he composed his first piece of electronic music in 1954, in the Cologne radio studios where Karlheinz Stockhausen (with whom Pousseur had a close relationship) had created most of his famous pieces. Early Experimental Electronic Music 1954-61, the seventh and penultimate installment in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic Series, features Pousseur's earliest works -- his first steps. Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liège, Belgium, and in Brussels, from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris. He encountered Pierre Boulez, Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio and thereafter devoted himself to avant-garde research. Pousseur taught in Cologne, Germany, and Basel, Switzerland, and the United States at SUNY Buffalo, as well as in his native Belgium. From 1970 until his retirement in 1988 he taught at the University and Conservatory of Liège, where he also founded the Centre de recherches et de formation musicales de Wallonie. Sub Rosa has released Pousseur's work before, but it has never released any of the pieces included here. CD in six-panel digipak with 12-page booklet; includes CD-only track "Séismogrammes II" (1958).