[spectre] Olats News n°6 - October 10th 2002

[Annick Bureaud]

OLATS NEWS 006 - E – 09/10/2002

1 – Pioneers & Pathbreakers : New notice on Karlheinz STOCKHAUSEN, by
Bruno Bossis, http://www.olats.org/setF4.html

2 – Pioneers & Pathbreakers : New notice on Oskar SALA, by Pierre
Couprie, http://www.olats.org/setF4.html

3 – Pioneers & Pathbreakers : New notice on John CAGE, by Bruno Bossis &
Pierre Couprie, http://www.olats.org/setF4.html

4 – Pioneers & Pathbreakers : New on the Abraham Palatnik Monography, http://www.olats.org/setF4.html

5 - Repères & Ressources : New Bibliography : Art, Communication, Network
http://www.olats.org/reperes/reperes.shtml

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1 - Karlheinz STOCKHAUSEN, by Bruno Bossis
http://www.olats.org/setF4.html
Karlheinz Stockhausen is, with no doubt, a major composer of the 20th
Century, a "sacred monster" of contemporary music. Every one has heard
about him, everyone thinks to know him and his work. In this notice
Bruno Bossis shows the different, complex creation of Stockhausen in all
its dimensions, some of them will be, for sure, new to many readers. His
works, approaches and evolution are analyzed and commented. Moreover,
this notice is an invaluable resource as it lists the composer's works
and refers to numerous writtings by the master and about him.
Leonardo/Olats would like to thank Karlheinz Stockhausen for having
taken out of his time to proof-read this notice and provided many inputs
and illustrations.


2 - Oskar SALA, by Pierre Couprie
http://www.olats.org/setF4.html
Oskar Sala passed away in 2002. Born in 1910, he was one of those
artists-engineers of the 20th Century, like Theremin, that invented
musical instruments that are still used today. He developped the
Trautonium, invented by Friedrich Trautwein en 1930. Then he created the
Mixturtrautonium, a true concert instrument, one of the few perfect
electronic instrument before the apparition of the analog synthetizers.
He composed music for more than 300 films among which the sound of the
birds for Hitchcock famous 1963 movie The Birds.


3 – John CAGE, by Bruno Bossis & Pierre Couprie
http://www.olats.org/setF4.html
Prolific artist, John Cage, at the crossroads of all major artistic
currents of the second half of the 20th Century, is famous for his
prepaired piano. This notice provides a guidelines to his life, career
and achievements.


4 – Pioneers & Pathbreakers : New on the Abraham Palatnik Monography,
http://www.olats.org/setF4.html
Now in french for the first time : 

- "Abraham Palatnik" By The Art Historian Aracy Amaral.
(Translation from Portuguese by Catherine Tresgot) 
http://www.olats.org/pionniers/pp/palatnik/amaral_fr.shtml

- "Abraham Palatnik : A Pioneer Of Technological Art " By The Art
Historian  Frederico Morais.
(Translation from Portuguese by Catherine Tresgots)
http://www.olats.org/pionniers/pp/palatnik/morais_fr.shtml


5 - Repères & Ressources : New Bibliography : Art, Communication, Network
http://www.olats.org/reperes/reperes.shtml
Leonardo and Leonardo/Olats have a strong tradition to provide general
and specialized bibliographies related to the art, science and
technology field. 
This new bibliography is dedicated to the art practice and theory based
on new means of communication.

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