Day 313: Thank you Prof. Lintz-Maues
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Day
313 — Thank you Prof. Lintz-Maues
10-Jun-1972
(Samstag–Sat.)
TRANSCRIPT
Played through piece for recital. I hope it goes
better, otherwise I’ll be pretty embarrassed.
Spent the rest of the day making two copies of
Fantasy
for Berlin
and Bourges. I made the copies early in the morning.
Later, Roger came. I spent the rest of the day
splicing them [the copies].
REFLECTIONS
1972.
It looks
like I am practicing my horn piece for the class
recital. That’s good that I agreed to play.
Fantasy.
Finally, I
make the copies of Fantasy
for the
electronic music studio. I am leaving these copies
for Prof. Kaufmann and the studio so that they can be
played in contemporary music festivals in Bourges and
in Berlin. I like that. Ironically, these copies have
come to be quite important to me in 2009. As I have
mentioned before, I had lost my personal copies
of Fantasy.
Fantasy
recordings from Vienna. In 2009,
two days after the “world premiere” of
Fantasy
in 1972, I
received a CD from Vienna that contained the
digitized versions of Fantasy
that I
left in the studio in 1972, and future versions that
I subsequently sent Prof. Kaufmann. These recordings
included:
• Fantasie
über zebrochenes Glas (1972)
(22:01). The original.
• Fantasie
über zebrohenes Glas (1974)
(7:09). Revised.
• Fantasy-Examples of sound Manipulation (Vienna
1972) (11:46)
• Untitled
Work (Columbia-Princeton,
1974) (9:04)
What an incredible feeling to hear these works once
again (after 30+ years). It brought back more
explicit memories. Of educational interest, are the
examples of sound manipulation where I take the
original sound of breaking glass and give examples of
musique concrète sound manipulation.
One day, I will try to post some audio-file examples
on this blog of some of these works.
Thanks
to Prof. Igor Lintz-Maues. My
heartfelt thanks goes out to composer and professor
Igor Lintz-Maues, Director of the Institut für
Komposition und Elektroakustik at the Universität für
Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Wien. Prof.
Lintz-Maues recovered and digitized the recordings
of Fantasy
on Broken Glass from the
Vienna studios. The recordings sounded great and it
is an amazing achievement that those tapes were
recovered from that long ago. Thank you, Dr.
Lintz-Maues for your kindness and effort in
recovering these tapes.
Dr. Lintz-Maues, I hope to send you and your class a
Sacher Torte some time in the future.
John
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