CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
veranstaltet vonSalon des Amateurs
in Düsseldorf
Datum: 17.09.2006
Uhrzeit: 21:00 Uhr
Eintritt: 8.00 Euro
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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