Top Back to Overview
Member-Login
Show only Direct Results
Show All Related Results
Back to Category-Overview
Back to Category-Search

Kurzwellen

Artist: Karlheinz Stockhausen

Year: 1970
Country: Germany
Label:
Catalog No: Deutsche Grammophon 2707 045, Deutsche Grammophon 139 451
Format: Vinyl-Lp-2
Specification: vg+/vg+
0
(1 of 1 images)
InfoComments
Tracklist
 
A Aufnahme Durch Radio Bremen, Fassung Vom 4. Mai 1968  
B Aufnahme Durch Radio Bremen, Fassung Vom 4. Mai 1968 (Fortsetzung)  
C Aufnahme Durch WDR Köln, Fassung Vom 8./9. April 1969  
D Aufnahme Durch WDR Köln, Fassung Vom 8./9. April 1969 (Fortsetzung)  
Companies, etc.
  • Manufactured By – Deutsche Grammophon
  • Printed By – Carl v. d. Linnepe
  • Recorded At – Radio Bremen
  • Recorded At – Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Credits
  • Composed By, Mixed By, Electronics [Filters, Potentiometers] – Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Illustration [Rückseite: Silent Waves] – Mary Bauermeister
  • Keyboards [Electronium] – Harald Bojé
  • Percussion [Tamtam] – Alfred Alings, Rolf Gehlhaar
  • Photography By [Coverphoto] – Maria Austria
  • Piano – Aloys Kontarsky
  • Sleeve Notes [English Translation] – Rolf Gehlhaar
  • Sleeve Notes [French Translation] – H. Pousseur*, T. Pousseur*
  • Sleeve Notes [German] – Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Viola [Electric Viola] – Johannes G. Fritsch
Notes
This version does not have the interlocking circles logo with "ST" and "33" on front cover to the right of catalog number. Compare to Kurzwellen

Kurzwellen is a piece where the musicians need to improvise and react to signals they receive on randomly tuned shortwave radio's.

Same work recorded twice during two different performances.
Record 1 was recorded in the television studio's of Radio Bremen on the 5th of May 1968, during the festival Pro Musica Nova (47').
Record 2 was recorded in the Rhenus studio in Godorf for the Cologne Radio (WDR, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln) on the 8th and 9th of April 1969 (53'30).

Reissued on CD Kurzwellen by Stockhausen-Verlag in 1992.