A major new museum for electronic music
NewsThe Museum of Modern Electronic Music (Momem) will open in Frankfurt on April 6.
It’s likely to be more DJ tributes and club culture than Boulez Répons, but we thought you’d like to know.
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Well, Moby is on DG now… I didn’t much care for Reprise though. His greatest hits album years ago was better.
This should be something for that museum: ‘Time and Motion Study II’ (1977), or ‘Electric Chair Music’, by Brian Ferneyhough.
A performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-fCBaYzOxg
… and if you got over the performance to the end then you deserve to check a documentary:
https://www.opticnerve.co.uk/music/brian-ferneyhough/electric-chair-music
The work is very deceptive – the performer survives.
BF: one of these fakes dwelling in the desert of progressive ‘new music’.
Such exciting news! Surely this will mean hordes of people lined up outside, clambering to get in. Or having to reserve tickets months in advance.
The Sal-Mar Construction, a musical synthesis instrument invented by composer Salvatore Martirano, deserves a room in such a museum, partly because it really needs to be experienced in-person, the inherent limitations of the medium of recordings not coming close to doing justice in this instance. My recollection is that the Sal-Mar Construction had dozens of small speakers spread across the ceiling of the space or room, magically emitting sound like so many birds in a forest, and the audio quality itself was pristine, illuminating beautiful and powerful potentialities of new musical instruments, including anticipating the computer, a tool like the clarinet or organ, every musical instrument possessing its own virtues and limitations. I will always be indebted to composer Marshall Bialosky for arranging a meeting between myself and Martirano at CalArts where he listened to music from my Fire Monkey and Robinson Gardens albums. Marshall told me how Sal had at one time driven all the way from Illinois to California, transporting the Sal-Mar Construction himself in order to give a presentation. That type of extreme physical effort recalls how Conlon Nancarrow, a precursor of computer music, would create his own piano rolls to realize his compositions!
http://azuremilesrecords.com/relatedlinkskylegann.html
http://azuremilesrecords.com/firemonkey/index.html
http://azuremilesrecords.com/robinsongardens/index.html
https://prabook.com/web/marshall_howard.bialosky/239365