Günther Rabl
LANDSCHAFT (landscape)
LANDSCHAFT MIT PIANIST (landscape with piano player)
tape music, 34min, 3-channel, Allentsgschwendt 1986
piano: friedrich Gulda
1986 the new director of the Konzerthaus in Vienna wanted to organize some concerts with contemporary music. Not familiar with the music production of today, he asked Friedrich Gulda, what he should take. Gulda recommended me among some others. At that time we didn't play together any more since a couple of years, but we stayed in contact and Gulda knew most of my tape music. So he recommended STYX - my brandnew piece, a symphonical monument for 4 speaker systems combined with a computer-synchronized panorama projection of slides by Renate Porstendorfer. The organizer agreed, but there was one small problem: STYX, 48 minutes long, was considered too short for a normal concert program. On the other hand, I didn't want to combine it with earlier music of mine. Gulda offered me to play a piano improvisation as an introduction, but I was not satisfied with that solution either and after some days I suggested to make a new piece together for piano and tape. This actually was the birth of LANDSCHAFT MIT PIANIST and we started to work on it in spring 1986. My idea was to make a tape composition just out of piano sounds, an autonomous piece
of music, which leaves space for an optional piano improvisation. We performed LANDSCHAFT MIT PIANIST in the Konzerthaus Vienna, in December 1986, at first in the small hall, one week later in the big hall. It was quite a success. Three big loudspeakers, one for each channel of the tape, were surrounding Gulda's grand piano like another three instruments. Thus my part, though coming from tape, was not just an image of music (like a stereophonic recording would have been), but acoustic reality, that can opposit the big sound of a grand piano. There is a good recording of this concert. The piano part was recorded on seperate tracks, so it can be used for an acousmatic multi-channel reconstruction of this evening. A new mixdown on CD now is available.
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The pure tape part, simply called LANDSCHAFT,
can be performed by its own and it is very versatile concerning
loudspeaker setup. An impressive performance was maybe the one in
the big machine-hall of the Technical Museum in Vienna 1989. I could
install a speaker setup in 4 layers, from the floor up to the 3rd
gallery, and it was sounding really intensiv, although I had to
play a stereo-mix for technical reasons. copies of the 3-channel original or stereo-mix in high resolution on request. please ask for details. |
speaker setup for the performance of LANDSCHAFT, |
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