Label: Sub Rosa - SR361

ジョン・ケージの激ヤバサイドだけを纏めた電子音楽ファン待望の音源集！！[Fontana Mix]、[Imaginary Landscape No.5]、[WBAI]、[Cartridge Music]、[0'00']、[Variations I]という50〜60年代初期までの作品をリアライズした近年の録音。当時とほぼ同じ機材を使用している為「ゴリッ」とした素晴らしい感触に仕上がっています。







although john cage occasionally worked in large, sophisticated studios -- for example, when he composed 'fontana mix' in 1958 -- his approach to electronic and tape music was often uncomplicated, makeshift, and pragmatic, employing simple tabletop devices: tape machines, phonograph cartridges, contact microphones, record players, portable radios, etc. he developed a soundworld that was utterly new, radical and demanding. it heralded the age of the loudspeaker, mass communication and marshall mcluhan's 'global village.' the hiss, crackle and hum of electronic circuits, and the disembodied sounds, snatched by radio from the ether, spoke of the 20th century. langham research centre works within the tradition firmly established by cage, using resources that would have been available to him. for the realization of cartridge music, moving iron phonograph pickups were sourced and restored. these have a knurled screw designed to hold a steel phonograph needle and, in the piece, other objects are inserted and amplified: pieces of wire, toothpicks, paperclips, etc. the realization of 'fontana mix' includes the individual mono tracks from cage's original tapes created in 1958. these are played using open-reel tape machines. these practices ensure we work within the limitations that cage experienced and enable us to get close to the soundworld he inhabited.