condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (minimal sticker removal residue on back)

The title is a portmanteau: Matuziáda, from the name of the flautist István Matuz - one of the outstanding Hungarian performers of his generation, a prize-winner at La Rochelle in 1978 who went on to play with the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Boulez - and the suffix that in Hungarian suggests a sequence of competitive events, an athletics series, a challenge. Five four-part pieces for flute with electronic devices. A sustained inquiry into what one instrument and one performer, working through electronics, can become.

By 1980, when this LP appeared on Hungaroton, László Dubrovay had returned from his West German period - the WDR commission, the studios of Cologne and Freiburg, the training with Stockhausen and Rumpert - to teach at the Budapest Academy of Music. Matuziáda concentrates what he had learned into an intimate collaboration: Matuz performing alone with electronic processing and live manipulation, the flute's natural spectrum extended, distorted, multiplied, refracted into textures that preserve the breath origin while placing it in an entirely alien acoustic space. Individual works within the series carry subtitles in the Discogs data - including one titled "Streams" - suggesting movement, flow, material in continuous transformation rather than arrival at fixed states.

More focused and austere than the earlier Live Electronic LP, and less hectic than what would follow with the Computer Music works, Matuziáda is perhaps the most formally concentrated record in Dubrovay's electronic period. Original Hungaroton pressing.