new CD by Ralph Lichtensteiger :
sonorite sans memoire II · voyage acoustique (two) 2005

http://www.lichtensteiger.de/sonoriteTwo_CD.html

1) I ecriture chiffree I · for James Drew · 21:26
2) II ecriture chiffree II · respiration · 20:57
3) III derivation · exploration I · 10:23
4) IV derivation · exploration II · 8:00
5) V non-arrival · rappeler · 6:29
6) VI improvisation · relations · 8:53

Total 76:10

Ralph Lichtensteiger : piano [1, 2, 3, 5], double bass [3, 6], percussion [5, 6], gong [3, 5, 6], eggshells [3], voice (respiration) [2], software instruments [1, 2, 3, 4], environmental sound treatment [1, 2, 3, 4]

Saba Tewelde : vioce [3, 4]

Track [1, 2, 4] Software instruments : FontanaMixer 1.0, generative sound environment by Dr. Karlheinz Essl, based on “Fontana Mix” (1958) by John Cage · fLOW 2.0, ambient sound generator by Dr. Karlheinz Essl · MetaSynth 4.0, sound design and electronic music application · CellSynth 1.7 (Living Memory Ltd.) · Max MSP 4.3 (Cycling ’74)

Environmental sound recordings : March 20, 21, 27, 28, 2005 in Frankfurt (Hochst) via Sony DAT-Recorder (ZA5ES)

Digital piano recordings : March and April, 2005 (Roland RD-150) | Voice recordings : March 25, 2005

Realization/Software : ProTools, Spark LE

All compositions by Ralph Lichtensteiger © 2005 by musique trouve · Frankfurt

Cover photo : Facade de Saint Trophime d’Arles (France) 2004 © by Ralph Lichtensteiger


L’archeologie sonorite.
Non-arrival, ecriture chiffree.
Coquillage et crypte.
Dissociation, consonance, depolarisation.
Espacement, espace intermediaire, interspace.
Derivation and exploration, the process continues.
Paysage musicaux, beler, decharge.
Tranquillite, memoires sonorite.


"The most brutal and meaningful revolution to strike the world of music in recent years did not germinate from debate on musical writing (serial or other) but, much more profoundly, from the world of sounds themselves, in other words in the sonoral universe that the composer is invited to administrate."

— Tristan Murail, 'La Revolution des Sons Complexes', Darmstadter Beitrage zur Neuen Musik, 1980, XVIII, pp. 77-92

"In our horizontal models of time and movement, our image of the sediments of time, our expressions of 'down' through history and 'up' through evolution, the vertical pole becomes the continuous present, the connecting thread, the simultaneous, perpetual 'now' that we are living at this instant and have always lived. It is the single point that when displaced becomes the line, becomes the surface, becomes the solid forms of our world and minds, and that without the imparted energy of movement (time) or the direction of movement (space), becomes the point once more, a process incremented by our breath as we each recapitulate its great form in the course of our individual journey."

— Bill Viola, I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like, 1986


"The first object I made when I came to New York was a box with sound, which is a cube about eight inches on a side. I recorded the sound of making this box and put a speaker in it so that it plays for three hours the sounds of its being constructed."

— Interview with Robert Morris. Conducted by Paul Cummings, March 10, 1968



E 12,90 | order

incl. shipping (Germany)
plus E 4 (Europe)
plus E 6 (international)

ALL CDs AND DVDs ARE UNIQUE (with No.) AND ISSUED IN LIMITED EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND DESIGN ELEMENTS. ALL CDs MIXED AND RECORDED VIA HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL AUDIO TECHNIQUE AND EQUIPMENT.

All Compositions by Ralph Lichtensteiger
Copyright 2005 by RALPH LICHTENSTEIGER | musique trouve · Frankfurt

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Ralph Lichtensteiger