Various Artists
Fünfzehn Tonspuren (LP)
Very rare and obscure Astrian compilation produced and released in 1984 by the Hochschule Für Angewandte Kunst in Wien with diverse experimental/electronic/NDW/minimal/free "acoustic materializations of 15 imaginary films/videos in the form of an LP" by artists appearing only here and including Hans Weigand, Gudrun Bielz, Lisi + Rose Breuss, Karl Kowanz, Tommy Schneider, Rupert Putz, Inge Graf + Zyx, Ebba Sinzinger + Anna Petschinka, Christina Brandauer + Ralph Ralph, Helmut Rainer, Gary Texas, Eva Schlegel, Romana Scheffknecht + Ecke Bonk, Günther Schrom, Felix Dorner
condition (record/cover): NM / EX
A document of the Viennese art school rather than the record industry. Fünfzehn Tonspuren, "fifteen tracks," was issued in 1984 under the imprint of the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna and recorded that spring in the city's Floridsdorf district. Its fifteen short pieces are exactly what an early-1980s art academy might produce: post-punk fragments, synthesizer and tape experiments, drum-machine sketches, musique concrète, a track built from a television set and a radio.
It is uneven by nature and fascinating for the same reason, a snapshot of student avant-gardism at a precise moment. Genuinely scarce. The Hochschule pressing.
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