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01. Michael Ranta - The Great Wall
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02. Michael Ranta - Chanta Khat
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ARTIST
RANTA, MICHAEL
TITLE
The Great Wall / Chanta Khat
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ROBOT
CATALOG #
ROBOT 048CD
ROBOT 048CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
4/23/2021
Michael Ranta
has collaborated with
Takehisa Kosugi
,
Toshi Ichiyanagi
,
Jean-Claude Eloy
,
Conny Plank
,
Mike Lewis
, and
Hartmut Geerken
, just to name a few. He was also assistant to
Harry Partch
and performer in the
Gate 5 Ensemble
in the 1960s. Additionally, Ranta performed in
Stockhausen
's ensemble during the 1970 World Expo in Osaka. Ranta's resume also includes recordings by
Helmut Lachenmann
,
Herbert Brün
,
Toru Takemitsu
,
Josef Anton Riedl
,
Mauricio Kagel
, among others. Throughout his extensive recordings and live performances, Ranta has furthered the trajectories of contemporary percussion composition alongside works for tape and electronics. His works are fully immersive which evoke vast spaces, ritual, and create an expansive presence for his accompanying multimedia commissions. For this CD release, two of Ranta's longform pieces are included: "The Great Wall" and "Chanta Khat". Originally scored for the HT Chen Dance Company as a theater production, "The Great Wall" premiered in 1984 at the La MaMa experimental theater in New York. This highly detailed composition for electronics, voice, percussion, and tape offers a massive drone-based accompaniment for Chen's stage presentation of the legend of
Meng Jiangnu
. Yet, Ranta's composition also creates a fully formed soundtrack that stands beautifully on its own. The atmosphere is very much in the spirit of Kosugi's multimedia masterwork
Catch Wave
and Jean Clade Eloy's large-scale production Yo-In which also features Ranta. "Chanta Khat" was completed in 1973. An early version of this piece originally premiered as part of a multimedia installation at the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich. This powerful work for tape and electronics includes Ranta's field recordings documenting his travel in Laos during a lunar eclipse earlier that same year. The piece is a haunting and equally frantic work where the local villagers are heard responding quite emotionally and viscerally to the celestial event of the day. "Chanta Khat" was later reworked and remixed in 1973 at the NHK electronic music studio in Tokyo. This version is featured here in its entirety. Packaged in a six-panel digipak with fully remastered and restored audio. Includes detailed notes by Michael Ranta and features new artwork by
Timo van Luijk
.
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