Ivo Malec, "Triola"

Face A
TRIOLA
1. Turpituda 9'30" + long silence
2. Ombra 12'03" + long silence

Face B
TRIOLA
3. Nuda 12'30" + long silence
BIZARRA 7'30"

Ivo Malec, "Dahovi" (2nd Version)

Continued Notes From Candide CE 31025:

In its original form, Malec's Dahovi is music composed for Piotr Kamler's film, Structures, consisting of abstract images which determined the piece's fundamental architecture. In order to better circumscribe the musical content of the work, its architecture was later slightly modified in a way to make it free from its symbiotic role. The Serbo-Croatian word Dahovi means respiration, breathing. What is involved in the new condition of the work is to set into play, into counterpoint, into movement, small square surfaces (shaped in such a way that they remain within breathings that are almost white), then to color them either by changing their own rhythms, dimensions and intensities, or by bursts and scintillations of foreign sound objects which, now and then, project upon them different lights.

Ivo Malec (b. Zagreb, 1925), after having received a First Prize in composition in his native city, made several trips to Paris where he has resided since 1959, while remaining very much attached to the musical life of Yugoslavia. He collaborated with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in the course of the past decade, and he is in charge of the group's musical manifestations. On his own behalf as a composer he has participated in several international festivals of contemporary music. His principal works include Sigma (for orchestra) , Oral (for orchestra and speaker), Tutti (for orchestra and tape), Miniatures for Lewis Carroll, Echos (for instrumental ensembles). Reflets, Mavena (for tape).

Ivo Malec, "Dahovi II"

Dahovi II dates from 1961. Sounds akin to "breaths" (which translates the Serbo-Croatian word dahovi) furnish the deliberately restricted basic material of this composition. The purpose, in fact, is less to bring out individual sound effects than to emphasise the play of volumes and densities which they form among themselves and which are barely underscored by a few designs of line and shading.

Ivo Malec, "Spot"

Notes From Philips 6740 001:

Paris

The musical research group (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) of the O.R.T.F. is a studio for the production of electronic music and at the same time a centre for research and musical instruction. As a studio, it carries on the work of the old musique concrète group, founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948; as a research unit, it has since 1959 been integrated into a vast working body, the Service de la Recherche of the O.R.T.F. whose explorations are not confined to music, but include all aspects of communication in general. In the musical research group, a team of composers and researchers with a wide range of special interests ensures a programme of studies and realisations related to both the educational and public spheres.

IVO MALEC was born in 1925 in Zagreb, where he studied music and won several composition prizes. He continued his studies in Paris under Olivier Messiaen, and later Pierre Schaeffer, and while maintaining close connections with musical life in Yugoslavia, settled definitely in France in 1959, becoming a permanent member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. His works, which have earned two Grands Prix du Disque are sometimes for orchestra ("Sigma," "Miniatures pour Lewis Carroll," "Oral"), sometimes for magnetic tape ("Reflets," "Dahovi I et II"), and sometimes for performer and tape ("Cantate pour elle," "Lumina").

Spot signifies here a "blob of light projected on a screen," and the effect by analogy of a "blob of sound projected on the ear drum" is obtained by a montage of sounds drawn from the electro-acoustic work "Reflets."