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PHILIPS Records prospective 21° siēcle 836.897 DSY
Original 1967 issue • Stereo 'Universal Gravure' LP
1st PRESS • 1Y / 2Y stampers • SILVER FOIL (Front and Back) Cover

XENAKIS Orient-Occident
BERIO Momenti / Omaggio á Joyce
MADERNA Continuo
KAGEL Transition 1
RÉALISATION:
Pierre Henry
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VINYL is EX/EX+
High grade, full gloss vinyl is super clean with small, faint sleeve mark one side and one surface scuff on the other - both 100% inaudible. LP plays beautiful high EX+ to NM throughout. Labels are immaculate both sides.
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COVER is VG+ (Strong)
Fragile SILVER FOIL cover is clean, bright and very solid with no major marks. a few scattered small scuffs, mostly on back and some small, mild edge/corner creases. Actually the best condition I've ever seen for this normally very easily damaged cover. Straight edges and sharp corners all around. BEAUTIFUL smooth, wear-free seams and spine with no splits.

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NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

Groundbreaking early Electronic and Musique Concreté Tour de Force

MATRIX NUMBERS
Side One: PHI AA 836897 1Y 380 836897 DSY
Side Two: PHI AA 836897 2Y 380 836897 DSY

Rare 1967 release on the legendary Philips Prospective 21 Siecle series
(that also released other records from Pierre Henry, Bernard Parmegiani, Luc Ferrari, Pierre Schaeffer, Francois Bayle, Ivo Malec, Dubravko Detoni, Makoto Moroi, Arne Nordheim, Wlodzimierz Kotonski, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Minao Shibata, Gottfried Michael Koenig...)

A very important LP in its time. It preserves superb performances from these leading exponents - the cutting edge of avant garde at the time, when this was expertly recorded in 1967.
Groundbreaking early electronic and Musique Concreté music pieces from pioneers Iannis Xenakis (his legendary Orient-Occident), Mauricio Kagel, Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna.

"Avec la participation de la R.A.I., de l'O.R.T.F., de la W.D.R. et du Studio Apsome" and "Réalisation: PIERRE HENRY" printed on back cover, left side.
"Cet enregistrement doit être écouté à fort volume et dans l'obscurité" (this recording should be listened to loudly and in the dark) printed on back, u.l.,
below prospective 21° siecle logo.

"Réalisation: PIERRE HENRY" also printed on the labels both sides.
"Made in France" is printed to right side of spindle hole on both labels.

"Omaggio A Joyce" misspelt as "Amaggio A Joyce" on B-side label.
"Momenti" misspelt as "Moment 1" on A-side label.
(these would be corrected on Later Pressings)

TRACK LISTING
A1
Luciano Berio   -
Momenti 7:00 A2 Luciano Berio   -
Omaggio A Joyce 6:22 A3 Bruno Maderna -
Continuo 8:00 B1 Iannis Xenakis  -
Orient-Occident 11:00 B2 Mauricio Kagel  -
Transition 1 13:13
a MUST HAVE for any serious collector of Musique Concréte and early Electronic music!
...very difficult to find in any condition, this one is very nice indeed.

Disc inside anti-static poly inner sleeve
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve

Please see my other Auctions for more XENAKIS, AVANT GARDE and other
RARE Audiophile and Vintage Classical LPs

Iannis Xenakis (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) Greek composer, music theorist and architect. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models such as applications of set theory, varied use of stochastic processes, game theory, etc., in music, and was also an important influence on the development of electronic music.
Among his most important works are this Occident-Occident, Metastaseis (1953–4) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as Psappha (1975) and Pléïades (1979); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh (1966); electronic works created using Xenakis' UPIC system; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes. Among the numerous theoretical writings he authored, the book Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (1971) is regarded as one of his most important. As an architect, Xenakis is primarily known for his early work under Le Corbusier: the Sainte Marie de La Tourette, on which the two architects collaborated, and the Philips Pavilion at Expo 58, which Xenakis designed alone.
Xenakis pioneered electronic, computer music, the application of mathematics, statistics, and physics to music and music theory, and the integration of sound and architecture. He used techniques related to probability theory, stochastic processes, statistics, statistical mechanics, group theory, game theory, set theory, and other branches of mathematics and physics in his compositions. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances. He integrated both with political commentary. He viewed compositions as reification and formal structures of abstract ideas, not as ends, to be later incorporated into families of compositions, "a form of composition which is not the object in itself, but an idea in itself, that is to say, the beginnings of a family of compositions." Specific examples of mathematics, statistics, and physics applied to music composition are the use of the statistical mechanics of gases in Pithoprakta, statistical distribution of points on a plane in Diamorphoses, minimal constraints in Achorripsis, the normal distribution in ST/10 and Atrées, Markov chains in Analogiques, game theory in Duel and Stratégie, group theory in Nomos Alpha, set theory in Herma and Eonta, and Brownian motion in N'Shima.

Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia for voices and orchestra and his series of numbered solo pieces titled Sequenza) and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.  Berio made a living at this time accompanying singing classes, and it was in doing this that he met American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian, whom he married shortly after graduating (they divorced in 1964). Berio would write many pieces exploiting her voice. In 1951, Berio went to the United States to study with Luigi Dallapiccola at Tanglewood, from whom he gained an interest in serialism. He later attended the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik at Darmstadt, meeting Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel there. He became interested in electronic music, co-founding the Studio di Fonologia, an electronic music studio in Milan, with Bruno Maderna in 1955. He invited a number of significant composers to work there, among them Henri Pousseur and John Cage. He also produced an electronic music periodical, Incontri Musicali. In 1960, Berio returned to Tanglewood, this time as Composer in Residence, and in 1962, on an invitation from Darius Milhaud, took a teaching post at Mills College in Oaklan, California. In 1965 he began to teach at the Juilliard School and there he founded the Juilliard Ensemble, a group dedicated to performances of contemporary music. In 1966, he again married, this time to the noted philosopher of science Susan Oyama (they divorced in 1972). His students include Louis Andriessen, Steven Gellman, Steve Reich, Luca Francesconi and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead.

According to the Hugh Davies catalog (Repertoire international des musiques electroacoustiques), Mauricio Kagel composed 8 electroacoustic pieces in the period from 1951-1953, tried to set up an electronic music studio in Argentina, but after failure there he came to Europe. He has composed numerous pieces for tape, electronic and public sounds, electronic and handmade instruments, loudspeakers, sound generators, amplifiers, 22 or 33 or 44 silent performers or chairs. You can find him listed in Unesco's cultural heritage assets.

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