Name: The Sound Pool
Brand: Musica Elettronica Viva

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BYG529326

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Limited edition

Release date

2023-02-24

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Orchard

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5060767441299

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Musica Elettronica Viva

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Electronic

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Charly

Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) is a groundbreaking music collective that was formed in Rome in 1966. The group, consisting of Allan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Jon Phetteplace, Carol Plantamura, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum and Ivan Vandor, aimed to break free from the conventions of contemporary music and create an open and experimental sound.
MEV's unique approach involved using contact microphones on unconventional objects such as bed springs, glass sheets, tin cans, rubber bands, toy pianos and even sex vibrators. They also incorporated traditional instruments like trumpet, cello and saxophone alongside homemade synthesizers with dozens of oscillators.
The collective embraced improvisation and critical listening over written scores or leadership. Rehearsals and concerts were characterized by spontaneous combustion and continued until exhaustion. MEV believed they had reinvented music during this time of general euphoria but certainly rediscovered it. Their music could seamlessly transition between self-regenerating unity or irrevocable chaos - both considered valuable goals.

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Original 1970 BYG album, facsimile-edition. Newly mastered to vinyl from original BYG tapes. Lacquers cut by Alchemy Mastering at AIR STUDIOS. Insert with exclusive liner notes by author, and music journalist Kevin Le Gendre PIONEERS OF LIVE ELECTRONICS, FOUND SOUND AND URBAN ENVIRONMENT-AS-INSTRUMENT, MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA CREATED SUITES THAT WERE AS IMAGINARY AS IMAGINATIVE. Formed in Rome in the late 60s, the ever shifting collective Musica Elettronica Viva included such luminaries as Fred Rzewski, Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum among others, and aimed to conduct the most radical experiments in sound possible. Although the above were primarily composers they were greatly inspired by avant-garde jazz titans such as Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane and were intent on drawing on any sound source, from keyboards and drums to cans and plates of glass. Like a volcanic eruption and ensuing lava flow The Sound Pool is a masterful electronic music opus that retains all the heat and light of the kind of performance associated with a stellar improviser. Constantly changing shape and density the music veers provocatively between the distinctive curls and squelches of synthesizers and the crash and stomp of household or industrial objects that are amplified and manipulated to conjure all the imagery of a marathon piece of physical theatre.This re-mastered version of The Sound Pool confirms Musica Eletttronica Viva as one of the most original artists of the late 20th century. The ensemble blurred the boundary between electrics and acoustics and conventional and unconventional instruments to create something that still sounds as if it is on the cusp of the present and the future.

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