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Herbert Eimert

Epitaph Für Aikichi Kuboyama / Sechs Studien

Label: Wergo

Series: Studio Reihe Neuer Musik

Format: CD

Genre: Compositional

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* 2022 Stock * With the legendary “Studio Reihe Neuer Musik” series, Wergo created a trademark of advanced contemporary music in the Sixties of the past century already. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the label now releases these highlights of 20th-century music history in an excellent sound quality on CD for the first time.
"Studio Reihe” now continues withnow continues with works by Herbert Eimert:  In view of recent events, especially in Japan, Herbert Eimert's piece “Epitaph für Aikichi Kuboyama” has taken on a sad topicality today: When in 1954 the first hydrogen bomb, the so-called Bikini bomb, was tested in the South Pacific, the Japanese fishing boat Fikuryumara was approximately 130 km from the epicentre. All fishermen on board required months of medical treatment; the fisherman Aikichi Kuboyama died of radiation poisoning after five months and became the first long-distance fatality of the nuclear age.

The poetic epitaph for Kuboyama, or more precisely the sound material drawn from the inscription spoken in German, forms the basis of the present tape composition: “Of all the sound spectra known to us, that of the spoken word is not only the richest and most complex, but also the one most similar to electronically produced sounds.” (Eimert) By using electronic equipment such as loudspeakers, tape recorders, amplifiers, and filters the stream of spoken words is always present under the surface as though the inscription on the gravestone constantly flows past the listener’s ears in ever-shifting transformations of sound. 

Eimert’s “Sechs Studien” [Six Studies], composed immediately after “Epitaph”, was created from the same source material. In contrast to “Epitaph” “Sechs Studien” uses only abstract musical sounds: that is, sounds in whose spectrum the spoken word can no longer be recognized.  The recordings were originally published on LP in 1966

Details
Cat. number: WER 67732
Year: 2012
Notes:
Epitaph für Aikichi Kuboyama Komposition für Sprecher und Sprachklänge Vorarbeiten: 1957/59 Tonband-Herstellung: September 1960 bis März 1962 Uraufführung: 9. Juli 1962 in der Stadhalle zu Darmstadt, im Rahmen eines Gastabends des Westdeutschen Rundfunks Köln aus Anlaß der Ferienkurse für neue Musik Sechs Studien Entstanden: während der Arbeit am "Epitaph" Endgültige Fassung: März 1962 Ursendung: 4. September 1962, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (c) + (p) 1966/2012