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| Cornelius Cardew's opus magnus Treatise is a 193-page graphic
score written between 1963 and 1967 while he was performing with the
improvisation group AMM. The score's graphic notation, with its
intricately devised graphic lines, shapes and symbols, was intended to
question the limits of compositional practice. Decisions concerning
pitch, timbre and duration, along with the choice of instruments and
the number of performers, are left entirely to the discretion of those
willing to devise the rules and means for its performance. This
realisation of 4 pages from Treatise by Keith Rowe (tabletop
guitar) and Oren Ambarchi (guitar), possibly the most powerful ever
achieved, was recorded live at Bimhuis in Amsterdam on Feb 8th 2009.
Rowe and Ambarchi use the guitar as a point of departure for completely
new techniques and sound environments. Already in the 1960s Rowe made a
radical departure from traditional jazz, redefining the guitar in the
British collective AMM. He prefers to lay the instrument on the table
to manipulate its sound with springs, fans, office appliances and
electronics. Ambarchi, also in Sunn O))), Menstruation Sisters and
Burial Chamber Trio, predominantly mould guitar sounds into dark sonic
patterns. Cornelius Cardew might be considered the most relevant
contemporary composer from Great Britain. In the end of the 1950s
Karlheinz Stockhausen was very impressed by Cardew's abilities as a
musician and his knowledge of new music and invited him to participate
to the historical 'Kontrefestival' concerts in Cologne (an important
pre-fluxus event). In 1960 Cardew was at Darmstadt were he met John
Cage, David Tudor and among others Walter Marchetti. Cage's
experimental techniques were very inspiring for Cardew who, in 1969
founded the Scratch Orchestra, a large, rotating group of professional
and amateur performers committed to collective experimentation which
might be considered as one of the most convincing collective
experiments in the history of 20th century avant-garde culture. Edition
limited to 300 copies, reproducing, on the sleeve and the innersleeve,
the 4 pages from Treatise performed by Rowe-Ambarchi. |
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ARTISTS
Oren Ambarchi (guitar); Keith Rowe (tabletop guitar) |
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