[spectre] New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kees Tazelaar. Part II

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New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kees Tazelaar. Part
II. Music selected by Kees Tazelaar*

This mix, clocking in at over two hours, is a retrospective snapshot of the
musical legacy of the Institute of Sonology. It alternates classic pieces,
recent works and unreleased gems from the Sonology archive.

Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kees_tazelaar_collection/capsula

Playlist:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130313/Memorabilia_kees_tazeelar_partII_eng.pdf

The first electronic music studio in the Netherlands was founded in 1956 at
Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. This studio moved to the
Utrecht University in November 1960, and was then called STEM (Studio voor
elektronische muziek, but 'stem' also means 'voice'). Gottfried Michael
Koenig became artistic director of STEM in 1964. Instead of just a studio,
STEM became a large institution for production, research, education and
preservation of electronic music that had a pioneering role in the
development of voltage control techniques, algorithmic composition, digital
sound synthesis and electronic composition theory. In 1967, STEM was named
Institute of Sonology.

Frits Weiland, who was a staff member at STEM practically from the
beginning, immediately understood the importance of setting up an archive.
This analogue tape archive now is one of the main archives of electronic
music, and contains master tapes from compositions produced at Philips
starting in 1956, until the late eighties, when analogue recording
techniques gradually disappeared.

Since I started to teach analogue studio techniques at the Institute of
Sonology in 1993, I have felt a great responsibility for this archive. An
important aspect of that responsibility is to have and maintain a set of
top quality tape recorders that are capable to play back the material from
the archive.

Digital transfers and reconstructions of early electronic music
compositions have led to remarkable CD-releases with works by composers
such as Henk Badings, Dick Raaijmakers, Tom Dissevelt, Edgard Varèse,
Gottfried Michael Koenig, Luctor Ponse, Ton de Leeuw and Jan Boerman.
However, the music selection for contains many unreleased treasures from
the archive too. Kees Tazelaar, February 2013


If you enjoy this mix, you may also be interested in our interview with
Kees Tazeelar: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kees Tazelaar. Part I
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kees_tazeelar/capsula

You can find other installments of our series on sound collecting here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/memorabilia_tag/

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