Stockhausen - Mantra | Mirare MIR518

Stockhausen - Mantra

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Label: Mirare

Cat No: MIR518

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 16th April 2021

Contents

Artists

Jean-Frederic Neuburger (piano)
Jean-Francois Heisser (piano)
Serge Lemouton (electronics)

Works

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Mantra

Artists

Jean-Frederic Neuburger (piano)
Jean-Francois Heisser (piano)
Serge Lemouton (electronics)

About

An homage to Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), pioneer of electroacoustic music, who described the genesis of his work, Mantra, accordingly: “I was sitting next to the driver, and I just let my imagination completely loose… I was humming to myself… I heard this melody – it all came very quickly together: I had the idea of one single musical figure or formula that would be expanded over a very long period of time, and by that I mean fifty or sixty minutes. And these notes were the centers around which I’d continually present the same formula in a smaller form… I wrote this melody down on an envelope.”

Created in 1970, Mantra is composed for an ensemble of two pianos, wood block, antique cymbals and a ring modulator – reproduced today by synthesized electronics.

Mantra is an emblematic work of its time, a founding moment of the psychedelic explosion of the 1970s.

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