30 Jahre Inventionen VII 1982-2012 (DVD-Video + 2 × CD Surround) Track listing detail
BEASTory
Jonty Harrison
- Year of composition: 2010
- Duration: 8:09
- Instrumentation: multichannel fixed medium
Surround 5.1
BEASTory is a short étude based on sound recordings of the component elements of the BEAST system (stands, metalwork, cables, plugs, switches, flight-cases, trolleys…) when it is not actually performing, but being stored, transported, set up, taken down and loaded into trucks.
In the first performance, different sound materials were spatialised in different ways under the real-time control of the the BEASTmulch software, largely written by my friend and colleague Scott Wilson as a performance controller, but also offering the compositional option that the spatial deployment of material remains open until each unique performance, rather than being fixed in a specific number of channels in the studio.
BEASTory was conceived as an ‘n-channel’ piece and thus attempts to explore the fuzzy boundary between composition and performance made possible when flexible and sophisticated software (BEASTmulch) is used to control large loudspeaker system (BEAST).
The recordings were made on BEAST gigs and, with the assistance of Julien Guillamat, in the ‘BEAST store’ (hence the awful title — sorry!).
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Premiere
- July 29, 2010, Inventionen 2010: BEASTory 1, St Elisabeth-Kirche, Berlin (Germany)
Sounding Landscapes
Daniel Teruggi
- Year of composition: 2007
- Duration: 18:06
Surround 5.0
Firmament-schlaflos
Hans Tutschku
- Year of composition: 2010
- Duration: 20:23
- Instrumentation: 16-channel fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISWC: T8028817224
Surround 5.1
A universe of sound is surrounding us ‘from within.’ It’s composed of our dreams, fears and longings. It only exists within our body, our own imagination. We want to share it; but there are no words, no possible descriptions. We are sitting on a meadow on a warm night, alone, watching the stars. Nobody is disturbing our thoughts. Nobody is limiting our space. We don’t have to rush anywhere; we have time to let go and to follow these sounding creatures… It’s not a nightmare; it’s just the interplay of our imagination.
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Firmament — schlaflos [Firmament — sleepless] was realized in 2010 at Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC) (Cambridge, MA, USA) and premiered on July 29, 2010 during the festival Inventionen in St Elisabeth-Kirche in Berlin (Germany). Thanks to Sarah Sun (recorded voice).
Premiere
- July 29, 2010, Inventionen 2010: BEASTory 2, St Elisabeth-Kirche, Berlin (Germany)
Zwei Räume
Hans Tutschku
- Year of composition: 2008
- Duration: 21:03
- Instrumentation: 24-channel fixed medium
- ISWC: T8026661224
Surround 5.1
Premiere
- August 3, 2008, Inventionen 2008: GRM & Friends, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
Le travail du rêve
Francis Dhomont
- Year of composition: 2008-09, 10, 11
- Duration: 17:11
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Commission: Ina-GRM
- ISWC: T7024107619
Stereo
Le travail du rêve (The Work of Dreams) is the fourth autonomous preliminary work for Le cri du Choucas, a long work in progress about Franz Kafka’s world, works, and character.
In psychoanalytical terms, the work of dreams describes the development process of the images populating our sleep and their tricks: associations, distortions, displacements, condensations…, a dreamworld syntax that shares commonalities with Kafka’s style: “My talent for portraying my dreamlike inner life has thrust all other matters into the background […]” (Diaries 1910-1923: August 6, 1914, Kafka). Here, my music writing draws inspiration from the unexpected figures, associations, and metamorphoses of these rhetorics, hiding under illusory incoherence the disguised discourse of the being’s depths.
[English translation: François Couture, vi-09]
Le travail du rêve was realized in 2009 at the composer’s studio in Avignon (France) and premiered on July 30, 2009 during the 25th Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon at the Salle Pasteur of Le Corum in Montpellier (France). A new (2010) version was premiered on July 30, 2010 during the Inventionen 2010 festival at the St Elisabeth-Kirche in Berlin (Germany). It was commissioned by the Ina-GRM.
Premiere
- July 30, 2009, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon: Rendez-vous de 18h, Salle Pasteur — Le Corum, Montpellier (Hérault, France)
- July 30, 2010, Premiere of 210 version: Inventionen 2010: BEASTory 3, St Elisabeth-Kirche, Berlin (Germany)
- January 22, 2011, Premiere of the final version: Multiphonies 2010-11: Akousma, Auditorium Saint-Germain — MPAA, Paris (France)
Castalie
Gilles Gobeil
- Year of composition: 2008
- Duration: 10:41
- Instrumentation: 32-channel fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Yul média
- Commission: DAAD
- ISWC: T9167476382
Surround 5.0
Inspired freely by The Glass Bead Game, a novel by Hermann Hesse (1887-1962).
To celebrate the 60th birthday of musique concrète, I decided to stick closely to the spirit of the origins, so I opted to use concrete sources almost exclusively, and to apply very light treatments — if any — to them.
This piece was realized in 32 tracks and designed to tap into the possibilities offered by a triple playback system consisting of the Wave Field Synthesis (WFS), the GRM’s Acousmonium (Paris, France), and a mini-dome similar to the one found at the ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany).
[English translation: François Couture, v-15]
Castalie [Castalia] was realized in 2008 in the studios of Technische Universität (TU) in Berlin (Germany). It premiered on July 31, 2008 during SMC08. This work was commissioned by DAAD. Thanks to Folkmar Hein, and Ingrid Beirer. Castalie was awarded the First prize at the 2009 Black & White Audiovisual Festival in Porto (Portugal), and a Mention at the 36th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art Competition (France, 2009).
Premiere
- July 31, 2008, SMC 2008: Concert, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
Awards
Les lointains noirs et rouges
Gilles Gobeil
- Year of composition: 2008-09
- Duration: 10:46
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Yul média
- Commission: Folkmar Hein
- ISWC: T9167476348
Surround 5.0
Part of the sound materials of this piece comes from recordings made in the apartment of Folkmar Hein, the sponsor of this work. These many and various materials (grandfather clock, sliding doors, dish noises, thumps on various pieces of furniture, coffee machine, ancient scales, food processor, heating system, gas stove, range hoods, shawm, zither, refrigerator, birds heard from the balcony, as well as the bells of the Rathaus Schöneberg) can be perceived with a very special color for the dedicatee of this piece. I completed this list by integrating to it a multitude of concrete sounds, and I also tried to breathe poetry into this everyday universe to carry it to far-away imaginary worlds of blacks and reds.
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Les lointains noirs et rouges [The Distant Blacks and Reds] was realized in 2008-09 in the studios of the Technische Universität (TU) in Berlin (Germany) and at the composer’s studio in Montréal. The work premiered on January 25, 2009 during the Ultraschall festival at the Haus des Rundfunks (Berlin, Germany). It was commissioned by Folkmar Hein. Thanks to Folkmar Hein, and Ingrid Beirer. The work was awarded the Special mention Musiques & Recherches at the 4th Destellos Electroacoustic Composition Competition (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2011).
Premiere
- January 25, 2009, Ultraschall 2009: Das Elektronische Studio der TU Berlin, Großer Sendesaal des rbb — Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin (Germany)
Awards
- Special Mention Musiques & Recherches, Fixed medium, 4th Destellos Competition 2011, Mar del Plata (Argentina)
Böse
Scott Wilson
- Year of composition: 2010
- Duration: 9:06
- Instrumentation: 8-channel fixed medium
Surround 5.1
Automata — Mechanical Garden
Kotoka Suzuki
- Year of composition: 2010
- Duration: 8:34
- Instrumentation: fixed medium
Surround 5.1
Awards
- Honorable Mention, Acousmatic, Sound Spaces 2020, Malmö (Sweden)
Measures of Control
Hanna Hartman
- Year of composition: 2008
- Duration: 8:00
- Instrumentation: fixed medium
Stereo
Awards
Simorgh
Richard Barrett
- Year of composition: 2010
- Duration: 11:05
Surround 5.0
Movements
Pei-Yu Shi
- Year of composition: 2010
- Duration: 3:55
Stereo
Zeitraum — Ort — Zeichen — Sterne
Kees Tazelaar
- Year of composition: 2007
- Duration: 20:30
Surround 5.0
Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
Trevor Wishart
- Year of composition: 2010-11
- Duration: 75:00
- Instrumentation: 8-channel fixed medium
Surround 5.0
Premiere
- May 4, 2011, Concert, Sage Gateshead, Gateshead (England, UK)
Bohor
Iannis Xenakis
- Year of composition: 1962
- Duration: 21:36
- Instrumentation: 8-channel fixed medium
Surround 5.0
Inventio — Musicae clavichordii et sonorum artificiosorum
Sukhi Kang
- Year of composition: 1984
- Duration: 23:30
- Instrumentation: piano and fixed medium
Stereo
Fractal
Rolf Enström / Thomas Hellsing
- Year of composition: 1984
- Original work: Fractal
- Version: Arr. Rolf Enström, 1984
- Duration: 24:02
- Form: videomusic
- Instrumentation: video
Stereo
Premiere
- February 14, 1984, Inventionen ’84: 6. Konzert: EMS Stockholm, Ackerstraße, Berlin (Germany)
Berlin 80 / II
Bogusław Schaeffer
- Year of composition: 1980
- Duration: 13:25
- Instrumentation: piano, synthetizer and 4-channel fixed medium
Stereo
Fabulas II
Ricardo Mandolini
- Year of composition: 1980
- Duration: 11:20
- Instrumentation: 4-channel fixed medium
Stereo
Awards
Zytoplasma
Takehito Shimazu
- Year of composition: 1980
- Duration: 10:43
- Instrumentation: 8-channel fixed medium
Stereo
Maa’ts
Bogusław Schaeffer
- Year of composition: 1981
- Duration: 9:45
- Instrumentation: chorus and fixed medium
Stereo
Fractal
Rolf Enström
- Year of composition: 1984
- Duration: 22:54
- Instrumentation: fixed medium and 10 projectors (slides)
Stereo
Estallido breve
Ricardo Mandolini
- Year of composition: 1980
- Duration: 8:37
Stereo
Juego de marionetas
Ricardo Mandolini
- Year of composition: 1979-80
- Duration: 9:43
Stereo
El cuaderno del alquimista
Ricardo Mandolini
- Year of composition: 1979
- Duration: 9:24
Stereo
El Cuarderno Del Alquimista was selected at the 1st International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (IREM) in Bourges (1984).
Awards
Canción de madera y agua
Ricardo Mandolini
- Year of composition: 1981
- Duration: 8:26
Stereo
Awards
Poema reiterado
Ricardo Mandolini
- Year of composition: 1983
- Duration: 10:51
Stereo
Elogio de lo efímero
Ricardo Mandolini
- Year of composition: 2004
- Duration: 12:04
Stereo
El silencio de un trueno
Ricardo Mandolini
- Year of composition: 2010
- Duration: 11:49
- Instrumentation: fixed medium
Stereo