Twenty one artists were invited to contribute a sound piece inspired
by Karlheinz Stockhausen's seminal composition premiered in 1956:
Gesang Der Jünglinge.

If a music piece is taught in music lessons in highschool, and
held high as a landmark of a specific style or method or epoch,
we would add it to the common cultural goods, just as we might
do with our knowledge of, say, statesmen or famous artists.
Therefore we would speak of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gesang
der Jünglinge as part of our common cultural goods, and as
the example of electronic music that is widely known outside
its field. The piece has even been embraced by popular culture:
The Beatles as the composer himself advertises on his
website have not only used a black and white photograph of
Stockhausen on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
BandÓ, but Paul McCartney has also claimed "Gesang der
Jünglinge" as his favorite piece by Stockhausen. The band
"Sonic Youth" has declared that their name directly stems from
the piece's title.

Apart from these general facts, the piece marks a turning point
in electronic music for its use of spatialisation on multichannel
speakers as well as the unique melting of human voice and
electronically generated sound.

The works on this CD are not plain homage, nor are they
sampled from the original. They are rather a survey of the current
state of electronic/electroacoustic music that exists half outside
the academic music life. The composers, musicians and artists
on this CD are interested in locating themselves within their
own history by further exploring the topics of sound spatialization
and/or use of human voice with electronics, or they undertake
a transformation of the original concept towards a personal
approach to the sound, or to the original's biblical words.


liner notes by the artists: download here

reviews

the general level of the whole set that leans towards an undifferentiated excellence.
__Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes

These 21 Untitled Songs are exquisite photographs of a beautiful landscape
—DWarburton paristransatlantic.com

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Disc I

1. Janek Schaefer listen
2. Andrew Deutsch listen
3. André Gonçalves
4 .jgrzinich
5. Stephen Vitiello
6. Heitor Alvelos
7. Maksim Shentelev
8. Marc Behrens
9 .Rui Costa
10.Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox
11.yoko.lennon

Disc II

1. Anna Homler & Michael Intriere
2. Achim Wollscheid
3. Steve Roden
4. Asmus Tietchens
5. @c
6. Dale Lloyd
7. Derek Holzer
8 .Paulo Raposo
9. James Eck Rippie
10.CM von Hausswolff