The Squid's Ear Magazine


Von Biel, Michael: S/T (Edition Rz)

German composer, cellist and fluxus artist Michael von Biel in 5 works, two performed by the Pellegrini-Quartett in 2003, a string quartet from '67, and two electronic works from '64 & '68.
 

Price: $14.95



Quantity:

In Stock

Quantity in Basket: None

Log In to use our Wish List
Shipping Weight: 3.00 units

Sample The Album:





product information:

Personnel:



See track listings


Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist.




Label: Edition Rz
Catalog ID: 2002
Squidco Product Code: 14140

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2004
Country: Germany
Packaging: Cardstock foldover

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

German composer, cellist and fluxus artist Michael von Biel in 5 works, two performed by the Pellegrini-Quartett in 2003, a string quartet from '67, and two electronic works from '64 & '68.

"Michael von Biel (born 30 June 1937 in Hamburg) is a German composer, cellist, and graphic artist.

Von Biel studied piano, theory, and composition in Toronto (1956Ð57), Vienna (1958Ð60), New York (1960, with Morton Feldman, amongst others), London (1960, with Cornelius Cardew), and Cologne (with Karlheinz Stockhausen). From 1961 to 1963 he attended the Darmstadt International Vacation/Holiday Courses for New Music. In 1964 he received a commission from the WDR for the electronic piece Fassung. From 1965Ð66 he was Composer in Residence at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Since 1966 Michael von Biel has lived in Cologne, where he came into contact with artists of the Fluxus movement. From 1968Ð69 he studied with Joseph Beuys at the DŸsseldorf Kunstakademie. In the following years he created works in the visual realm especially. His JagdstŸck (1966) for brass, contrabass, tape, and amplified barbecues was probably partly inspired by his contact to artists from the Fluxus movement."-Wikipedia


Artist Biographies

Track Listing:



1. Streichquartett Nr. 1 (1962; WDR 2003)
[Pellegrini-Quartett: Antonio Pellegrini, 1. Violine; Thomas Hofer, 2. Violine; Fabio Maarano, Viola; Helmut Menzler, Violoncello]

2. Streichquartett Nr. 2 (Urfassung, 1963; WDR 2003)
[Pellegrini-Quartett]

3. Fassung (elektronische Tonbandmusik, 1964; WDR 1964)
13:34 [Studio für elektronische Musik des WDR]

4. Quartett mit Begleitung (Quartett Nr. 3, 1965; WDR 1967)
12:05 [Egon Mayer, Violine; Dagmar Apel, Violine; Johannes Fritsch, Viola; Magdalene Bröckel, Violoncello; Michael von Biel, Violoncello]

5. Jagdstück für Bläserinstrumentalisten und Live-Elektronik (1966; WDR 1968)
28:05 [Franz-Willy Neugebauer, Trompete; Kurt Schmidt, Trompete; Gerhard Burdack, Horn und Tenortuba; Konrad Alfing, Horn und Tenortuba; Willy Walther, Posaune; Josef Feck, Posaune; Emil Morneweg, Kontrabaß; Wilhelm Bruck und Michael von Biel, Begleitung; Ltg. Bernhard Kontarsky]

Related Categories of Interest:


Compositional Forms
Avant-Garde
Electro-Acoustic
Organized Sound and Sample Based Music
Electronic Forms
Electroacoustic Composition

Search for other titles on the label:
Edition Rz.


Recommended & Related Releases:
Other Recommended Releases:
Iannotta, Clara
A Failed Entertainment. Works 2009-2014
(Edition Rz)
Works from Italian composer Clare Iannotta recorded from 2012 - 2014, including a work for string quartet composed for the DAAD artist-in-Berlin program titled "A Failed Entertainment" commissioned by Quaturo Diotima; plus 6 works for contemporary ensembles.



Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought:
Zakrocki / Garbowski / Gradziuk
Ballads And Blues [2 CDs]
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
A series of electroacoustic improv "Ballads" and "Blues", beautiful and chimerical works at the intersection of strings and a miscellany of percussion, patiently and unhurriedly unfolding under the deep listening ears from the Polish trio of Patryk Zakrocki on prepared electric guitar & granular delay, Maciej Garbowski on double bass and Krzysztof Gradziuk on multipercussion, objects & toys.
Kuchen, Martin / Sophie Agnel
Detour Tunnels of Light
(thanatosis produktion)
Delicately caustic interactions of reeds, piano and percussion using the natural resonance of the Borlunda Church in Eslöv, Sweden, from the freely improvising duo of Martin Küchen and Sophie Agnel, Küchen adding electronics and Agnel performing inside and out of the piano while supplementing her palette with objects, both using space and patience as their allies.
Taylor, Cecil (w/ Lyons / Dixon / Grimes / Silva / Cyrille)
With (Exit) To Student Studies, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Changing approaches to his music with new quartet of Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, Alan Silva on double bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums, pianist Cecil Taylor's incredible 1966 concert in Paris presented four extended compositions, here remastered and reissued with a track from a compilation LP--"With (Exit)"--extending his quartet with Bill Dixon on trumpet and Henry Grimes on double bass.
Taylor, Cecil Mixed To Unit
Structures Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Bringing together two essential and impeccably remastered 1960's Cecil Taylor albums — Cecil Taylor Unit Structures and Cecil Taylor Unit Mixed — presenting both traditional influences and Taylor's unique approaches to modern jazz, featuring two septets with musicians including Jimmy Lyons, Henry Grimes, Archies Shepp, Ted Curson, Andrew Cyrille, Roswell Rudd, Sunny Murray, &c.
Polwechsel / Klaus Lang
Unseen
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
The innovative acoustic free improvising ensemble Polwechsel, bridging contemporary music and free improvisation in ways that sound deceptively electroacoustic and comprised of Michael Moser on cello, Werner Dafeldecker on double bass, and Martin Brandlmayr & Burkhard Beins on cymbals & percussion, are joined by Klaus Lang performing on the church organ of St. Lambrecht's Abbey.
Parker, Evan / RGG
Live@Alchemia
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
As part of the Polish website Jazzarium.pl's 5th anniversary celebration, UK tenor saxophonist Evan Parker joined the Polish RGG free-improvising piano trio of Lukasz Ojdana on piano, Maciej Garbowski on bass, and Krzysztof Gradziuk on drums, for this four-part sophisticated collective improvisation recorded at the legendary Alchemia club in Krakow.
Ercetin, Turgut (Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Apparat, Ensemble Adapter, Sonar Quartett)
Panopticon Specularities
(Edition Rz)
Istanbul composer Turgut Ercetin (Daad artists-in-Berlin 2016 award winner) completed his doctorate studies at Stanford University, developing works engaged with issues of sound as sonic entities dealing with time and space, here in a string quartet performed by Arditti Quartet, and a work for voice and live electronics performed by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgar.
Ullmann, Jakob
Femde Zeit Addendum 5
(Edition Rz)
Jakob Ullman's 5th solo work for piano is atypical for a piano performance, using electronic playback and requiring three assistants sustaining a soundscape to realize a concept of "gravity" that Ullman applies as laws in a conceptual soundscape modified by a series of abstract images, resulting in unexpected sonic environments, tones, timbres and momentum.
Harris, Beaver / Don Pullen 360-degree Experience
A Well-Kept Secret
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
Released in 1984 on Hal Wilner's Shemp records, this is the 1st reissue for late drummer Beaver Harris' 360-degree Experience with pianist Don Pullen on piano, in a stellar band with saxophonists Ricky Ford, Hamiet Bluiett, bassist Buster Williams, percussion from Candido & steel drummer Francis Haynes, and four french horn players, a truly forward-thinking jazz album.
Frey, Jurg
Collection Gustave Roud [2 CDs]
(Another Timbre)
A double CD with five beautiful pieces that engage with the work of the extraordinary French-Swiss poet Gustave Roud, with performers including Dante Boon, Stefan Thut, Andrew McIntosh and Jurg Frey himself, 10 compositions that Frey wrote in the manner that Roud would, roaming with a sketchbook and developing the pieces based on impressions of his surroundings.
Malaby, Tony / Mat Maneri / Daniel Levin
New Artifacts
(Clean Feed)
The unique orchestration of this trio, with Tony Malaby on sax, Mat Maneri on viola, and Daniel Levin on cello, givs a distinct character to the highly informed improvisations from these commanding players, who recorded this album at Three's Brewing in Brooklyn in 2015.
Rodrigues / Dorner / Torres / Fragenheim
Nor
(Creative Sources)
The freely improvising quartet of Ernesto Rodrigues, Axel Dorner, Nuno Torres and Alexander Frangenheim recorded this beautiful album of dark sound in Germany in 2014, 3 movements of understated dialog using unexpected techniques in a subtle dialog.
Various Artists
30 Jahre Inventionen 1982-2012 [2 CDs + DVD]
(Edition Rz)
Two re-releases of Edition RZ LPs that are now available in this double CD box with additional tracks, as well as a mainly acousmatic DVD that features electronic tracks by a variety of electroacoustic composers.
Barno, Niklas / Joel Grip / Didier Lasserre
Can't Stop Snusing
(Ayler)
The Snus trio of Niklas Barno (trumpet), Joel Grip (bass) and Didier Lasserre (drums) return for their second album, an addictive mix of free jazz and free improv, subtle to skronking music of great beauty and power.
Maroney, Denman / Dominic Lash
All Strung Out
(Kadima)
Double bass and hyperpiano meet in a transatlantic collaboration between pianist Denman Maroney and bassist Dominc Lash, a combination of exhilarating technique and invention from two remarkable players.
Gonzalez, Dennis Yells at Eels
Resurrection and Life
(Ayler)
Named for the miraculous recovery of drummer and AACM founder Alvin Fielder, who travelled to Dallas in 2010 to record with trumpeter Gonzalez and his sons bassist Aaron and vibraphonist Stefan, with Gaika James on trombone.
Wolff, Christian
Kompositionen 1950-1972 [2 CDs]
(Edition Rz)
A portrait of Christian Wolff, documenting the composer's early activity through recordings made close to the time of their composition from artists including Cornelius Cardew, Frederic Rzewski, David Tudor, &c.
Heyn, Volker
Sirenes
(Edition Rz)
Works from Volker Heyn, an outsider artist interested in acoustic process, tone gestures, friction, discontinuous movements, &c., with recordings by Pellegrini-Quartett, Ausfuhrende: Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, &c.
Lang, Klaus
Trauermusiken
(Edition Rz)
Two compositions by the young Austrian composer/organist Klaus Lang, who currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
Inventionen 2000 - Berliner Festival Neuer Musik
2CD (Parallele 12-13) [BOOK + 2 CDs]
(Edition Rz)
Edition Rz's "Parallele" series in a spiral bound catalog and 2 CDs from the 2000 Berliner Festival Neuer Musik with compositions by Francois Donato, Tom Johnson, Christina Kubisch, Alvin Lucier, &c.
Articles, The (Thomas / Gustafsson / Turner)
Goodbye Silence
(FMR)
The trio of Mats Gustafsson on saxophone and electronics, keyboardist Pat Thomas and percussionist Roger Turner performing live in Derby in 1998, a challenging and fascinating set.
Williams, Emmett
Poems 1950-2003 [VINYL]
(Edition Rz)
Fluxus originator & member of the "Darmstadt Circle" of concrete poetry, Emmett Williams in a beatiful picture disc of poems written from 1950-2003 and recorded from 2000-2003.
Kriwet, Ferdinand
Hortexte - Radiotexts [3 VINYL LP BOX SET]
(Edition Rz)
Six radio texts by multimedia artist and poet Ferdinand Kriwet in a beautifully designed 3 LP picture discs luxury box with a 20 page 12"x12" book of text and images.
Lang, Klaus / Arditti String Quartet
20 Jahre Inventionen III
(Edition Rz)
The string quartet sei-jaku by German composer Klaus Lang, documented on this CD, was performed on June 30, 2002 in the Grober Sendesaal of the SFB Berlin by the Arditti String Quartet during the festival Inventionen 2002.
Various Artists
20 Jahre Inventionen II
(Edition Rz)
Volume 2 documenting the Berlin festival "Inventionen", a retrospective sampler with recordings of works by: Westerkamp, Sciarrino, Cage, Namtchylak, Jones, Scelsi, Fujita, Driscoll.



The Squid's Ear Magazine

The Squid's Ear Magazine

© 2002-, Squidco LLC