SKU: UT.LB-13

ISBN 9788881094745. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

Grazie ad un’attenta analisi del catalogo della biblioteca di Elias Canetti è possibile individuare un corpus omogeneo di alcune centinaia di titoli composto da repertori paremiografici, raccolte di miti, leggende, favole, resoconti etnografici, canti e danze popolari. Scopo del libro è la messa a fuoco delle conseguenze prodotte da tale straordinario ‘archivio sull’oralità’. Da Auto da fé a Massa e potere, dalle giovanili pièces teatrali alla trilogia autobiografica e agli ultimi appunti degli anni Novanta, le opere dello studioso risultano tenute assieme da una sofisticata strutturazione acustica del pensiero, una metodologia della comprensione che di quel materiale si nutriva assiduamente, talvolta producendo interventi di autentica ‘archeologia sonora’. Interventi eseguiti in quella particolare officina mobile, avente per base la biblioteca-studio, che non smetteva di operare nelle osterie e nei caffè notturni, sui tram e per le strade, traendone anzi preziosa linfa. Da quei luoghi prediletti, Canetti ascoltava ed osservava il brulicare del popolo, che come nei quadri di Bruegel può essere placido e festoso, ma anche mostrare i denti e colpire al cuore; lì elaborava le nozioni di ‘cristalli di massa’, ‘metamorfosi’, ‘scarica’, sempre e innanzitutto aiutandosi con l’udito, come chi si serva dell’olfatto prima di portare cibo alla bocca. Seguendo questo intricato itinerario acustico è possibile incontrare Karl Kraus, Alban Berg, Hermann Scherchen, Cesare Pavese, James Joyce, Alma e Anna Mahler; e poi la lingua dei Boscimani, arcaica portatrice di miti, le voci degli animali e la danza dei Maori, il rumore prodotto dalle gocce di pioggia e le allucinazioni auditive di uno schizofrenico, la ‘massa statica’ dei concerti e la figura del direttore d’orchestra, incarnazione del potere: il tutto in una fitta trama di oralità, suono e musica che diventa per il lettore, come lo fu per lo scrittore, anche inesauribile e spesso inedita fonte di dati.

SKU: CA.1632700

ISBN 9790007113056. Language: all languages.

The study in synchronicity, << se sont penches dessus >> first achieved its final scoring after many changes. It was first composed as music to a choreography by Gabriel Hernandez: Le (!). eh ? Zovotrimaserovmeravmerouvian (dmzn !) ; se sont penches dessus, which is based on the letters of a fragment translated into French that appears in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. The short, static piece has existed in three versions: 1. - << sspd >>, electronic music (normal version, a glissando from one chord of four sounds to another, employed in the electronics of No. 3) 2. - << sspd >> sature, electronic music (intentionally distorted version of No. 1) 3. - << se sont penches dessus >> for violin, alto flute and electronics, in which the flutist had to sing one tone of a diad It turns out that a version for two equal string instruments can better render the harmony of the piece (a tone sung simultaneously with a tone that is played on the flute yields a ring-modulated mixture of sound which is too indistinct), and thus the duo version for 2 violins was composed. A collaboration with the Kairos Quartet, Berlin, (le second tour du noye, 3rd String Quartet) led me to smuggle a viola and cello into the piece as background, in order to glue the abrupt harmonic changes discretely together. The Duo and the Quartet are definitive and equally valid versions, both of which are available separately: Duo (Carus 16.327/10), Quartet (Carus 16.327). << se sont penches dessus >> is now literally the transposition of the translated quotation from James Joyce, in which the letters of the text se sont penches dessus establish the basic structure of the piece (the rhythmic standstill denotes the vowels of the 4 words), the letters of Zovotrimaserovmeravmerouvian indicate the fine rhythmic structure and the manner of playing (e.g., sul ponticello). Walter Feldmann.

SKU: HL.49046383

ISBN 9790001207454. UPC: 842819106098. 9.0x12.0x0.074 inches.

Chapter 11 of James Joyce's Ulysses is a real treasure trove of existing and invented words and names; each word and name triggers off a whole series of associations, images, stories and sounds - particularly when the reader is a Hungarian composer who comes across the phrase “Liszt's rhapsodies”. I immediately heard music by Franz Liszt in my head and visualised the two protagonists in the novel sitting on a terrace drinking coffee, chatting and dreaming, witty and endearing - which is also a perfect description of this small piano composition for four hands. Peter Eötvös.

SKU: HL.1189851

ISBN 9781705192436. UPC: 196288131564.

“Three Cabaret Songs” were arranged for the United States Coast Guard Band by MUC Ian Frenkel, and presented at the 2009 Midwest Clinic, this deft arrangement may be heard on Mark CD 8543. “George” was orchestrated for wind ensemble by the composer in that same year. In 2014, two more Frenkel arrangements were added to the set at the request of Kansas University for Mezzo-soprano Joyce Castle, and premiered at KU by Ms. Castle under the baton of Paul Popiel on October 6, 2014. Songs included in “Five Cabaret Songs,”arranged by Ian Frenkel: 1. Over the Piano, 2. Radical Sally, 3. Song of Black Max, 4. Waitin, 5. Amor. “George” is available separately from the publisher.