Ilhan Mimaroglu-TWO COMPOSITIONS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC TAPE (1976) Folkways

Another great record from Ilhan Mimaroglu, who celebrates his 86th birthday today.

Notes excerpted from the insert (enclosed):To Kill A Sunrise
Although this is a piece of program music, the listener needs no program text as what is meant to be said is said in plain words which are part of the music....I wish to avoid, however, one possible misinterpretation. The piece is a dirge, a "song of mourning" for those who are murdered by the lackeys of the ruling class. It is not a criticism of the killers. I am not saying to them "you shouldn't have done what you've done to all those people who who wanted to change the world and and overthrow what you represent," or it would have been like saying to the enemy general "you shouldn't have killed our soldiers." such a criticism would amount (to) changing sides and trying to come to terms with those who are fought against.
The piece was composed in September through December, 1974, and first heard publicly in one of the evenings of electronic music given by the Ripert Center at The Kitchen, NYC, January 29, 1975(...)La Ruche
The piece is titled after a famous Paris building where such painters and writers as Picasso, Modigliani, Mac Orlan and Appolinaire had lived and worked.
At the time I was proceeding with the first experiments on on a new piece commissioned by the GRM, I learned that this historic building, still used as working and living quarters by many artists was facing demolition, to be replaced by a high-rise. My nocturnal visits to the environs soon turned into near-pigrimages, and the music I was composing developed under the influence of that place described as "unwonted, mysterious,phantom, a castle of mists(...)
Ilhan MimarogluIlhan Mimaroglu - TWO COMPOSITIONS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC TAPE (1976) Folkways Records
Side One:
To Kill A Sunrise (A Requiem For Those Shot In The Back)
Composed in the studios of the Columbia-Princeton Center For Electronic Music, New York, 1974

Side Two:
La Ruche
Composed in the studios of the Groupe De Recherches Musicales,ORTF, Paris, France, 1975
(Jacques Wiederkehr-Cello
Michel Merlet-Harpsichord
Martine Joste-Piano)






















Please Note:
I am offering this record in two separate files,as La Ruche has some
distracting and persistent crackle in some sections; If you are annoyed by such vinyl artifacts, I suggest that you do not grab this particular file (#2).

If anyone can identify any of the music used for punctuation in "To Kill", (other than Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band's "Sun Zoom Spark") I'd appreciate it.
Dr I

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