Mauricio Kagel/Frederic Blondy/DJ Lenar Ludwig Van cd

cd
2012/2011
new
Kagel's piece cut up performances of Beethoven & glued them back together slightly out of tune, sometimes mixing two tunes together & sometimes the same one, as a way of demonstrating Beethoven's perception of music as a deaf guy, or Beethoven's music as it's found in the world at large. It was both a record and a film & in one particularly awesome scene, a room that is supposed to be Beethoven's studio is wallpapered with his scores. The soundtrack plays whichever bar lines are shown on screen, but distorts as they go over corners or around bumps. How do you re-perform that? A French pianist & a Polish dj decided to do it by sampling Werner Herzog soundtracks, Kagel's own record, some Le Quah Ninh percussion, & other such stuff. But Blondy also performs chunks of Beethoven, recuts them alongside himself, and even plays some prepared piano to make sure that the recognizable melodies keep distending as they go along. A project that turned out way, way better than it should've. Tracklisting: The Key a Shattering Story of Otto Tomek and his Companions, The Table Old Exotic and Electric, The Locker Him with Anecdotes, The Wall One Page May, The Treadle Edited Without Sound, The Stand Without Destroying his Property, The Movie Beethoven is Modern, The Chair Not a Rumba, The Needle Whole as Well as Speed, The Window Enhancing Banality or Pedestrian Allusions, The Angel Beethoven House Invented at Liberty, The Chair Not a Rumba, The Frame At Each Blur, The Movie Spectator Beethoven, The Deaf Abolition By No Means, The Wheel Opportunity to Execute, The Board Largo in Di Minor from the Fifth Piano Trio Op 70 No 1 in D Major