CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
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CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINEveranstaltet von Salon des Amateurs in Düsseldorf Datum: 17.09.2006 Uhrzeit: 21:00 Uhr Eintritt: 8.00 Euro |
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Beschreibung: Charlemagne Palestine (Charles Martin, 1945) is a New York-based composer and multimedia performance artist. The rediscovery of Palestine is well under way, with the release of recent recordings and several reissues. The "Golden" series brings back to light his earliest compositions. In-Mid-Air (Alga Marghen, 2003), the third installment in the series, collects five works from the 1960s that show a maturing composer, clearly educated at the school of the electronic pioneers (with plenty of references to the Darmstadt circle) although not particularly knowledgeable about the new techniques. Unfortunately, they share little with his "strumming" piano masterpieces. Instead, they hark back to an era when the like of Morton Subotnick and Jon Appleton shocked the classical audiences with clumsy electronic machines. The two shorter pieces (from 1965) are not any more interesting than thousands of studies recorded by students of Edgar Varese or (at Darmstadt) of Karlheinz Stockhausen during those years, although the seductive cicada-like buzzing of 7 Organism Study (1968) proves that Palestine was an original even within the ranks of the droning composers. Negative Sound Study (1969) is a cinematic piece that straddles the line between static minimalism and Subotnick's dadaism. The most emotional composition on the CD is probably the threatening Tymbral for Pran Nath (1970), a salvo of piercing drones that create a tragic atmosphere of suspense and grief. Nothing on this CD compares with the surprisingly quiet Piano Drone (1972) or the marvelous Duo Strumming for Three Harpsichord (1978), that appeared on volume 2 of the "golden series", or with volume 1's Alloy (1969), a piece for "alumonium" (an instrument invented by Palestine himself), "long string drone" (an instrument invented and played by violinist Tony Conrad), conch (played by saxophonist Bob Feldman), percussion and voices (Deborah Glaser and Palestine) The pieces on volume 3 are merely pages of a diary that show the composer still searching for a path to enlightenment. |
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