{"id":8625,"date":"2020-03-23T11:10:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T10:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/blog\/new-music-monday-1\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T09:18:23","slug":"new-music-monday-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/blog\/new-music-monday-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Monday #1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Concert preparations, rehearsing, the atmosphere until the last note is played and of course to inspire you as an audience – these are just a few things that we as an ensemble are missing out in the current situation.<\/p>\n

However, in order to continue to provide you with regular listening pleasure, we release a new recording of our online label here every Monday, following our Monday concert series. Pianist Ulrich L\u00f6ffler will start with\u00a0Alvin Lucier<\/strong>‘s\u00a0Nothing is Real<\/em>,\u00a0from now on online available for free for one week<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

>>> Download<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Alvin Lucier<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Nothing is Real<\/em>\u00a0(for piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder and miniature sound system)<\/p>\n

Ulrich L\u00f6ffler reports here about his first, unforgettable listening experience of the piece:
\nI remember the first time: Essen, mid-1990s. Neither did I know the name of the interpreter, nor what kind of music she played at all, a simple, strangely familiar music, melody fragments on the different registers of the piano, plus wonderful sounding pauses…
\nAfter some time the interpreter leaves the piano and conjures the music she just heard out of a teapot. She changes the sound by opening the lid sometimes half, sometimes wide, she raises and lowers the teapot, the sound disappears and comes back. I was completely captivated by the magic of this “tea ceremony” and again and again I thought very quietly “Man, I already know that”…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Extract of the score:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Set-Up<\/strong>
\nGive the miniature loudspeaker to the bottom of the inside of the teapot.
\nRoute the cable from the loudspeaker out to the amplifier.
\nRoute the output of the recorder to the input of the amplifier.
\nPlug the microphone into the recorder.
\nAmplify the teapot with a pair of closely-positioned microphones.<\/p>\n

Performance<\/strong>
\nPlay the melodic fragments of the song in order,\u00a0 holding the sustaining pedal down throughout.\u00a0 Let the clusters formed by the sustained notes sound from 5 to 10 seconds or longer.
\nRecord the performance.
\nAfter the last fragment has been played, fade out and rewind the tape.\u00a0 Play it back into the teapot.\u00a0 From time to time, as the fragments sound and their clusters sustain, raise and lower the lid of the pot, changing the resonances and extending the melodic fragments with resonance tones, notated in parentheses.\u00a0 The raising and lowering of the teapot-lid will roughly follow the contour of the resonance tone melodies.\u00a0 In situations where resonance tones are not produced, directions for opening and closing the lid are simply stated.\u00a0 Rhythms are free.
\nOnce or twice during the performance pick up the pot, hold it above the surface it reats on, then gently put it back down again, making resonance dissapear and reappear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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First release of “New Music Monday” on our onlinelabel – one week for free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-8625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programmnote","tag-label-musikfabrik"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8627,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions\/8627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}