Obtained during a period in the 90's when tracking down obscure gallery edition albums (the sort of thing covered in the book Broken Music) seemed like a worthwhile pursuit, before one too many albums of guys rolling ballbearings around on gallery floors drove me toward more fruitful sonic pastures. This was one of the few keepers from that period, though. This live recording of deeply odd surrealist atmospheres is conjured from some pretty humble ingredients (spare detuned piano chords, open oxygen tank valves hissing and birds singing in contact miked cages, for starters) and realized by Christiansen, legendary fluxus artist Nam June Paik and (via telephone link) even more legendary visual/performance artist Joseph Beuys. Enigmatic and highly compelling work that is as difficult to parse as it is to deny. - mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/ A composer who uses normal instruments and noises, and a maker of art objects in the Fluxus tradition --like his Betrayal, Op. 144, a carton filled with various small objects and an EP, signed and numbered (available from Gelbe Musik). The Farewell Symphony was composed for the opening of the Friedensbiennale (Freedom Biennale) in Hamburg 1985, and is played by artists Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik and Christansen. For further listening try the LPs Fluxid: Hoehlenmonat (A month in a hole), concerto for flute and noises; Fressmonat (A month of devouring), concerto for sax, cello and noises and Fluxyl: Koenig Frost (King Frost), concerto for oboe and noises; Maskenmonat (A month of disquises), concerto for trumpet, tuba and noises (both available from Gelbe Musik). - "Blue" Gene Tyranny
Kreuzmusik FLUXID BEHANDLUNG OP 189 (1990)
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Penultimate Press is proud to present in association with Kye the fully
authorized reissue of Henning Christiansen's 'Kreuzmusik FLUXID
BEHANDLUNG OP 189'. Kreuzmusik was commissioned by the Bonner
Kunstverein Gallery, Kunstfond, Germany in August 1989, for inclusion in
their 'Taking Fluxus Around for a Drive' happening, (also featuring
performances by Dieter Daniels, George Maciunas, Allan Kaprow, Al
Hansen, Joe Jones and others) and originally issued on cassette in 1990
by Neue Bildende Kunst in an edition of 100 copies.
"In 1967 Joseph Beuys and I travelled to Darmstadt for a performance of
HAUPTSTROM FLUXUS from 1:00 -11:00pm (10 hours) on the 20th March.
HAUPTSTROM was basically a new ritual, which is how a lot of people saw
it at the time, and later on too. Beuys used his own body as a deeply
primal human language, and I made 10 hours of ritual music using a
number of tape recorders. And obviously we wanted to make a completely
new space for HAUPTSTROM. The space at Franz Dahlem's at 7 AHA street
was small and there was even less space for the rather large audience
because Beuys made a roughly 7cm high rampart of margarine around his
own performance space; and my main motif was a knocking sound, like the
sound of a heart beating, which I used to create peace in the space,
separate from the other more energetic sound-music passages. When I got
the invitation for 'Taking Fluxus Around for a Drive' I immediately
remembered that Darmstadt exhibition in 1967. It's not all that far from
Denmark, 150 km to Bonn-Darmstadt, but a timespan of 22 years. I
thought of Jörg Immendorf's LIDL-Bundestag, which you could say landed
in the roses outside the real Bundestag. This poetic, political act
impressed me at the time, because it showed that our world could
basically be quite different. I decided straight away that I wanted to
make Kreuzmusik, and I was also sure that no other Fluxus people would
come up with the same idea. Most of my Fluxus friends go for Homo Ludens
and that's fine, but I wanted to feel the intimacy again in a small
space, I wanted to make a Scandinavian ritual in FLUXID BEHANDLUNG. I
took my Stone Age Gramophone (which really does play stones) called my
friend Ernst Ludwig Kretzer from Hamburg and arranged with him that he
would operate a time delay on my tapes and voice so that I could
ritualise freely.
In Kunstfond I didn't make a mound of margarine - of course not -
instead I made one from flour (bread), in the middle of this was the
Stone Age Gramophone and hanging on the wall there were strange crosses,
made out of socks and clothes hangers; as well as this there was a
headless figure of Christ and a toy Cessna plane in a little canary
cage.
I began with my piece Io Am En Vogel as a 'starter' (about 20 minutes),
then I performed Zum Preis des Fluxus, which had been my contribution to
the Wiesbaden Fluxus 82 catalogue, then I threw green stones into a
bucket of water, then to the accompaniment of the EURASIENSTAB -fluxorum
organum music I played a green cutting sheet that was hanging on my
chest, then to EUROPEAN ZEN I played 3 glass bowls with red sticks, the
bells and knocking für Das alte Russland (for Old Russia). Then
everything went dark and I lit candles while my deep GROUNDNOTE played.
After 5 minutes played the lights came on again and my GROUNDNOTE led
into the sheep composition (sheep instead of fiddles); I used my green
fat-fiddle to make little twittering sounds; for me, sheep mean peace
and insight. This soundworld then lead into the composition with 180
hammer blows against war monkeys. I hammered very sharply and
powerfully. Beuys once wrote a piece with the title: Der dumme Hammer
tritt auf (The Stupid Hammer Performs), that's how it should be -
against the war monkeys, logical. This sequence then finally lead into
peaceful bird twitterings in a piece that I call Die Freiheit ist um die
Ecke (Freedom is Around the Corner). During this I slowly immersed the
Cesna plane inside the canary cage in a tub of water , after I had flown
around in my own space for a while. And that was the end of the whole
seance. It lasted over an hour." Henning Christiansen, 1990. - penultimate-press.blogspot.com/
Henning Christiansen & Joseph Beuys, Op.50: Requiem of Art (1973)
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