Vittorio Gelmetti
Vittorio Gelmetti (1926-1992) was an Italian composer, born in Milan and died in Florence. He began writing electronic music and later carried those techniques into music theatre and instrumental works. He also wrote music for cinema, television and radio. Gelmetti's film credits include Red Desert (1964), Sotto il segno dello scorpione (1969), Il sasso in bocca (1969) and La llamada del vampiro (1972).
Organum Quadruplum - Ipotesi A - L'Opera Abbandonata (LP)
condition (disc/cover): M/M (still sealed)
Vittorio Gelmetti (1926-2005) worked outside the Italian academic avant-garde and made a music built from other music. Organum Quadruplum (1967), written for a concert at St. Paul's American Church in Rome, sets a choir and Frederic Rzewski on organ against tape, popular songs and radio noise. Ipotesi A (1974), a study for the opera Non otterrete risposta, has Gelmetti on piano, percussion and bird call.
Side B, L'opera abbandonata tace e volge la cavi…
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**Very rare original 1972 LP masterpiece, few copies available.** Ultra rare LP of experimental electronic music on Gemelli. Vittorio Gelmetti was one of the best italian radical composers at the same level of Walter Marchetti, Giuseppe Chiari, and Piero Grossi. Member with Chiari of MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva), Gelmetti found himself amidst many activities in the 1960s, composing for film, completing orchestral work, and then, as we find here, creating electronic works.This collection focuses…
Sotto Il Segno Dello Scorpione
Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar present the world-premiere release of Vittorio Gelmetti's experimental score for the cult movie Sotto il segno dello scorpione (also known as Under the Sign of Scorpio).
Directed by Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, the film takes place in a kind of fantastic prehistoric time when volcanos ravage and wipe entire civilizations off the face of the earth. When an island gets buried under lava and ash, a group of survivors manages to get away and reach a nearby islan…
Organum Quadruplum
Here’s a special one: the 1974 “Edizioni Musicali e Discografiche Pubbliart” - essentially, a private imprint - issue of Vittorio Gelmetti’s electronic music, including the extended 1969 piece “L'Opera Abbandonata,” composed at the Studio Eksperymentalne of the Polish radio in Krakow with Bohdan Mazurek - an incredible 23-minute collage of radio static & plundered audio material - plus the 1967 "Organum Quadruplum” - oddly, a “Live Recording” - chair-shuffles & stifled coughs dot the transcripti…
Musiche Elettroniche
LONG OUT OF PRINT, FEW AVAILABLE An outstanding CD with the amazing shortwave radio experiments and dronology-through-musique-concrete certainly make this an excellent recording, consisting in historic magnetic tape pieces recorded between 1963 - 1969. GELMETTI was born in Milano on April 25, 1926. After a few works composed with the traditional means in the late 50’s he is attracted by electronic music and produce some important works... Beautiful digipack with lots of academic liner notes in G…