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Avant Marghen Vol. 3 (7LP Box)

Label: Alga Marghen

Series: Avant Marghen

Format: 7 LP box

Genre: Sound Art

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Third volume in the Avant Marghen boxset series, numbered edition of 80 copies. "This luxury boxset actually includes a new picture disc edition of Revue OU anthology plus an Henri Chopin LP and the Ben Patterson LP.

1) VA Revue OU. Record 1 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. First of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974.
2) VA: Revue OU. Record 2 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Second of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974.
3) VA: Revue OU. Record 3 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Third of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974.
4) VA: Revue OU. Record 4 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Forth of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974.
5) VVAA Revue OU. Record 5 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Fifth of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from1958 to 1974.
6) Henri Chopin The Body Is A Sound Factory & Co. LP (16VocSon046). Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Originally issued in an edition of 300 copies, only available with the vinyl edition of the Revue OU LP anthology. This LP includes previously unreleased audiopoems dating from 1965 to 1981.
7) Ben Patterson A Fluxus Elegy LP. First 80 copies from the original 345 copies edition issued in 2006. This Ben Patterson composition, issued on is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitches or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches or tones performed by another person, thus alternating pitches or tones of one part with those of another part to create a whole. Second principle: use of cyclical and open-ended forms involving one or more ostinato melodic/rhythmic pattern as a foundation. Third principle: community participation... non-specialists are encouraged to join in long performances with much repetition. Fourth principle: rhythmic complexity with the juxtaposition of double and triple patterns, multiple layering of different patterns, and interaction between a core foundation and improvised parts. And, most important, the family 'ownership' of a specific tone: in the musical culture of these tribes, each ancestral family 'owns' and is responsible for one or more specific tones, which must be sounded at specific points, sequencing with the many other specific tones 'owned' by other families, to create a seamless melody. Ben Patterson made a music based on this information by taking the initials of artists listed in Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties and encoding them in basic International Morse Code. These 'dots and dashes' were then performed on a Yamaha DJX keyboard (voice pattern setting), connected to a Digitech JamMan Looper (over-dub setting), connected to an Eurorack MX 602A mixer. Front cover reproducing the original score."

Details
Cat. number: alga022
Year: 2007
Notes:
Limited edition of 80 copies. With the exception of "A Fluxus Elegy", the records in this set was previously issued in the "Revue Ou" LP box-set in 2002. "A Fluxus Elegy" was originally released on LP in 2006. The first 5 LP's are picture discs with artwork from the original OU magazine on one side and all of the original labels printed together on the other. All these LP's have the same artwork - unique to this set - and come in transparent plastic sheets. A pen mark in green and yellow inform about the tracks on each LP. The last two LP's, "The Body Is A Sound Factory & Co." and "A Fluxus Elegy" are pressed on black vinyl and come in b&w jackets. Both have inner sleeves with the same design, unique for this release. "The Body Is A Sound Factory & Co." cat.#: 16VocSon046 "A Fluxus Elegy", cat.#: 17VocSon061 The picture discs doesn't have individual cat.# All pieces on the first 5 LPs were originally released on records accompanying Revue OU magazine between 1964 and 1974. Originally the tracks of the picture-LP's were released together with the Revue OU magazine between 1964 and 1973. Side A originally released as Revue OU 20-21 in 1964 as a 10". Side B originally released as Revue OU 23-24 in 1965 as a 10". Side C originally released as Revue OU 28-29 in 1967 as a 10". Side D originally released as Revue OU 30-31 in 1967 as a 10". Side E originally released as Revue OU 34-35 in 1969 as a 10". Side F originally released as Revue OU 36-37 in 1970 as a 10". Side G originally released as Revue OU 38-39 in 1971 as a 10". Side H originally released as Revue OU 40-41 in 1972 as a 10". Side I originally released as Revue OU 42-43-44 in 1973 as a 10". Tracks J1 to J10 originally released as Revue OU 26-27 in 1966 as a 7" Tracks J11-J14 originally released as Revue OU 33 in 1968 as a 7". Track K1 recorded in 1965 and previously released on the LP Poésie Sonore in 1983 on Igloo (IGL 013). Track K2 (1968) and K3 (1972) were first included in the luxe edition of Le Corpsbis & Co. issued by Nepless in 1996. Track K4 recorded in 1974. Track L1 recorded in 1973. Track L2 recorded in 1981. The track time on B9 is for the tracks B7 to B9. The track time on I5 is for the tracks I4 and I5.