Label: Wergo

CD版、漸く入荷！！ドイツの名門Wergoがレーベル設立50周年を記念し始動した、過去の名作を高音質のCDフォーマットで再発する"Studio Reihe Neuer Musik"シリーズ！！ドイツの音楽理論家にして音楽学者、作曲家Herbert Eimertが1966年に残した初期電子音楽超名盤(かのCreel Poneも手を出した)[Epitaph Für Aikichi Kuboyama]。アメリカの水爆実験の被害に遭ったマグロ漁船員"久保山愛吉"さんの碑銘として知られる一枚。静謐な空間をのたうつかの様に動き暴走するテキスト変調音。只々この音の強度に浸って頂きたい説明不要の歴史的傑作。

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With the legendary “Studio Reihe Neuer Musik” series, Wergo created a trademark of advanced contemporary music in the Sixties of the past century already. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the label now releases these highlights of 20th-century music history in an excellent sound quality on CD for the first time.
"Studio Reihe” now continues withnow continues with works by Herbert Eimert: In view of recent events, especially in Japan, Herbert Eimert's piece “Epitaph für Aikichi Kuboyama” has taken on a sad topicality today: When in 1954 the first hydrogen bomb, the so-called Bikini bomb, was tested in the South Pacific, the Japanese fishing boat Fikuryumara was approximately 130 km from the epicentre. All fishermen on board required months of medical treatment; the fisherman Aikichi Kuboyama died of radiation poisoning after five months and became the first long-distance fatality of the nuclear age.

The poetic epitaph for Kuboyama, or more precisely the sound material drawn from the inscription spoken in German, forms the basis of the present tape composition: “Of all the sound spectra known to us, that of the spoken word is not only the richest and most complex, but also the one most similar to electronically produced sounds.” (Eimert) By using electronic equipment such as loudspeakers, tape recorders, amplifiers, and filters the stream of spoken words is always present under the surface as though the inscription on the gravestone constantly flows past the listener’s ears in ever-shifting transformations of sound.

Eimert’s “Sechs Studien” [Six Studies], composed immediately after “Epitaph”, was created from the same source material. In contrast to “Epitaph” “Sechs Studien” uses only abstract musical sounds: that is, sounds in whose spectrum the spoken word can no longer be recognized. The recordings were originally published on LP in 1966