Electronic Music

This is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ ground-breaking Deutsche Elektronische Musik series, ‘A near-definitive guide to some of the world's most extraordinary music’ (The Guardian).

In the course of a conference held at Darmstadt in 1957, Maderna spoke of his compositional experiences in the field of electronic music in the following terms: "My Introduction to electronic music totally upset my relationship with musical materials. (…) Whereas instrumental composition is preceded In most cases Py a linear development of thought (…), the fact that in electronic music one can try out directly various possible sound structures, and manipulate these ad infinitum to obtain new musical Images, and lastly, the fact that the composer can store away a vast amount of unfinished material, puts the composer in a completely novel position.
Bruno Maderna
All the pieces In this CD were restored and digitally remastered In the winter of 1993 in Milan by AGON - acustica informatica musica, using the original tapes preserved in the archives of the Studio di Fonologia of the RAI in Milan.

from the attached booklet