Electronic Experimental and Microtonal (1953-1999)

by Henri Pousseur

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1.	Prospection (1953) 04:59	buy track
2.	Racine dix-neuvième de huit-quarts (1975) 18:51	buy track
3.	At moonlight, Downland's shadow passes along Ginkaku-Ji (1989) 12:38	buy track
4.	Ex dei in machinam memoria (1972) 20:35	buy track
5.	Figures enlacées (1999) 05:23	buy track

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Electronic experimental and microtonal (1953-1999)

Five rare pieces that come from 5 decades and performed by Rohan de Saram (Quatuor Arditti), Evert van Tright (who played mainly Stockhausen), Brigitte Foccroulle, Danielle Dubosch, Isabelle Schmit (three great belgian pianists), Sumila Goto, Mikoto Jakahata, Shuzan Morita (from the Japanse Yonin No Kai Trio) and last but not least and for the only time: Henri Pousseur himself...

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released April 20, 2017

Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris. He encountered Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio and thereafter devoted himself to avant-garde research. Beginning around 1960, he collaborated with Michel Butor on a number of projects, most notably the opera Votre Faust (1961-68). Pousseur has taught in Cologne, Basel, and in 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.

Generally regarded as a member of the Darmstadt School in the 1950s, Pousseur's music employs serialism, mobile forms, and aleatory, often mediating between or among seemingly irreconcilable styles, such as those of Schubert and Webern (Votre Faust), or Pousseur's own serial style and the protest song "We shall overcome" (Couleurs croisées). His electronic composition Scambi (Exchanges), realized at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan in 1957, is unusual in the tape-music medium because it is explicitly meant to be assembled in different ways before listening. When first created, several different versions were realized, two by Luciano Berio, one by Marc Wilkinson, and two by the composer himself (Sabbe 1977, 175, n. 86). Since 2004, the Scambi Project, directed by John Dack at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University, has focussed on this work and its multiple possibilities for realization.

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