ANA.Bod - echo's two cents
I'm chiming in regarding Helmut Lachenmann. Guero via Beck (for piano, 1970) and Gran Torso (string quartet, 1971) have to make this list. These pieces marked the period of Lachenmann's work which reflected his interest in a truly "instrumental" and physical music.
Gran Torso uses the instrument bodies themselves as material; (more) scraping, rubbing, scratching, knocking.
Guero employs the performance technique of the guero, a rhythm instrument of Cuban origin, scraping and sliding along the corrugated surface. Guero-like surfaces on the piano: black keys, tuning pegs, strings.
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Gran Torso uses the instrument bodies themselves as material; (more) scraping, rubbing, scratching, knocking.
Guero employs the performance technique of the guero, a rhythm instrument of Cuban origin, scraping and sliding along the corrugated surface. Guero-like surfaces on the piano: black keys, tuning pegs, strings.
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posted by Johnny Chang at 07:22
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I like both pieces but the Lachenmann I put on repeat the most has to be 'NUN' for ensemble. Nearly 40 mins of a kind of atomized music that is closer, more faithful to the instrumnets, producing particles that somehow get together to produce a 'big bang' in sound.
- ah damn, i think i have to make a trip to amoeba music again.....
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