condition (record/cover): NM / EX

A companion volume to the 1979 Magyar Elektronikus Zene LP - which had documented the older generation of Hungarian electronic composers including Zoltán Pongrátz and Iván Patachich - this 1983 release turns to five composers born between 1945 and 1954, all working at the Electronic Music Studio of Hungarian Radio in Budapest. Where the earlier anthology represented an established practice, this one is a survey of what the next generation was doing with the same facilities and a different set of references.

The five works recorded between 1975 and 1981 span the range of approaches available within Hungarian institutional electroacoustics at the time. Iván Székely's For Alrun (1975) combines sung voice with tape, the Hungarian text woven through processed electronics in a way that makes the language itself a timbral element. Máté Victor's Viatrone pairs trombone with tape, the acoustic instrument's slide and lip technique extended by what the studio can do around it. László Király's Piano Piece is more severe - the piano against its own electronic shadow. István Szigeti's Souvenir de K., for reciter and tape, belongs to a tradition of memorial composition that runs through the music of this generation; Katalin Liptay speaks the Hungarian text. Miklós Csemiczky's Meditatio mortis completes the set in the most austere register of the five.

The LP appeared the same year that Creel Pone later paired it with the 1979 anthology on a celebrated reissue, confirming its status as an essential document of this scene. Original Hungaroton pressing, with notes in Hungarian, English, German, and Russian.