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SCHNITTKE/EDISON DENISOV/SOFIA GUBAIDULINA/OLEG BULOSHKIN/EDWARD ARTEMIEV, ALFRED
TITLE
Musical Offering
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
MODERN SILENCE
CATALOG #
OI 016LP
OI 016LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
12/9/2016
Reduced prices, last copies. Modern Silence present a reissue of
Musical Offering
, originally released in 1990. Features works by
Oleg Buloshkin
,
Sofia Gubaidulina
,
Edward Artemiev
,
Edison Denisov
and
Alfred Schnittke
. From the original liner notes: "(...) Please, try to imagine a score sounding by itself without a conductor, an orchestra even without musical instruments. This magic is possible by using the musical synthesizer, ANS. ANS is an instrument with which a composer can not only create but even draw his music without notes and orchestra. A Soviet scientist
Evgeny Murzin
spent about 20 years creating this apparatus which can join together three processes: music creation, recording and performing. All these processes are rather complicated. You can see the twinkling of different lamps, the rotation of grooved discs made of glass - notes are cut on a glass disc covered with a special layer; The drawings on the glass are 'sounding notes'. To listen to the drawn picture you should press the button and a wonderful transformation will begin. Murzin dedicated his apparatus to
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin
, that's why he called it ANS. Scriabin, the creator of the 'Poem of Ecstasy', used in his works a highly chromatic, new type of harmonic style designed to express his beliefs, views and wishes. Soviet music lovers already know some recordings made on ANS from the films
Into Space
,
Solaris
(1972),
Mirror
(1975),
Siberiade
(1979) and others. Works of well-known Soviet composers E. Artemiev, O. Buloshkin, E. Denisov, S. Gubaidulina, A. Schnittke featured on this LP were recorded at the Electronic Music Studio (...)"
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