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Advance of the Fungi
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| The music of George Cacioppo (1927-84) is important in the history of 20th century music composition as the missing link between the American "sound based" music of the 1960s with the "sound centered" music of Giacinto Scelsi and his disciples, the French spectral composers, Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey.
Critical of serial music and academicism's failure to take into account the nature of sound itself, Cacioppo was inspired by radical composers such as Varèse, Cage and Feldman, and produced the American equivalent of the "sound centered" compositions of Giacinto Scelsi in Italy.
Cacioppo created a distinctly new "sound based" approach to harmony where there is a continuous transformation of "pure" tones into clusters and then into "noise", or the contrary.
On the other hand, Cacioppo treats time in a very supple manner - the temporal flow is rather slow and unmeasured in order to allow his sounds to breathe as freely as possible, or as Cage said "to let the sounds be themselves".
This marks the first collection on CD of Cacioppo's unique music, in recent recordings by leading French soloists and ensembles; PLUS a rare chance to hear Cacioppo perform one of his own pieces.
Liner notes by Cacioppo's colleague Gordon Mumma and Gerard Pape. |
ARTISTS
Time on Time in Miracles (1965) (7:19)
for soprano, 2 horns, 2 trombones, piano, cello & percussion
Janet Pape, soprano
Ensemble 2e2m
Paul Méfano, conductor
Mod 3 (1963) (5:24)
for flute, percussion & contrabass
Ensemble 2e2m
Holy Ghost Vacuum or America Faints (1966) (25:57)
George Cacioppo, electric organ
Advance of the Fungi (1964) (13:57)
for male choir, 3 clarinets, 3 trombones, 2 horns, & 1 percussion
Nicholas Isherwood, bass voices
Atelier de Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles
Renaud François, conductor
Two Worlds (1962) (7:58)
for soprano, flute, oboe, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello & contrabass
Sevan Manoukian, soprano
Ensemble 2e2m
Paul Méfano, conductor
Bestiary 1: Eingang (1960) (8:12)
for soprano, piano & 5 percussionists
Janet Pape, soprano
Atelier de Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles
Lionel Arnaud, conductor |
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