MAURICIO KAGEL

[pigs]

.....Is a cool dope argentine self-taught avant-garde composer. He had english literature lessons off Borges. He is also one of Zorn's biggest classical music influences, with Kagel's implementation of dah 'theatre of the absurd' into music havin' been a proper major inspiration for the Cobra.

He was one of the major forces of musical modernism next to Stockhausen and Boulez (or thereabouts) in the early '60, but his name has whittled down a little.

Check it if u haven't checked it.

[King]

Check it if u haven't checked it.

Ok.

[Offering]

pigs said:

.....Is a cool dope argentine self-taught avant-garde composer. He had english literature lessons off Borges. He is also one of Zorn's biggest classical music influences, with Kagel's implementation of dah 'theatre of the absurd' into music havin' been a proper major inspiration for the Cobra.

He was one of the major forces of musical modernism next to Stockhausen and Boulez (or thereabouts) in the early '60, but his name has whittled down a little.

Check it if u haven't checked it.

Cool P, thanks for the heads up.....meanwhile, also check this guy out www.myspace.com/vincentbergeron......

Great music, I think.

[pigs]

That's very strange and great indeed.

Here's a dope Kagel interview with New York/downtown keyboardist Anthony Coleman: www.bombsite.com/kagel/kagel.html

[pigs]

For anyone curious in Kagel, I suggest purchasing (or illegally downloading the following orgasmic komposichuns:

Szenario
String Quartets
Tantz-shcul
Etudes for Large Orchestra
Duodramen
Heterophonie

[Offering]

The problem with the Bergeron stuff is that its for sale as download only, or else Id have maybe bought some. Still, digital age and that shit, I should maybe move with the times right?

[pigs]

Hey Pappa, I added 'Bergeron' and got this comment: "I can identify with your attitude, lists and comments AND (the only important thing really), YOUR PIECE IV. Right now, I am listening to you in crappy speakers included in a monitor so everything sounds like telephone recordings on Trout Mask Replica.

Hey, have anything to do with Offering
radio show ? I added them lately and read you mention them."

;D

[Offering]

pigs said:

Hey Pappa, I added 'Bergeron' and got this comment: "I can identify with your attitude, lists and comments AND (the only important thing really), YOUR PIECE IV. Right now, I am listening to you in crappy speakers included in a monitor so everything sounds like telephone recordings on Trout Mask Replica.

Hey, have anything to do with Offering
radio show ? I added them lately and read you mention them."

;D

Well, thats cool....Networking, its what its all about. I did message him to enquire about his music, but its for sale download only, and my computer barely works at the best of times, let alone downloading music and transferring it here there and god knows where.....I hate computers.....


....thanks for letting me know though dawg!

[Skuj]

Kagel has always greatly interested me. But I only have one CD of his, which is among my all time favs. "1898" and another title, which presently eludes me.

[HolgerregloH]

Today I had the luck to see the third version of Mauricio Kagels "Two-Man-Orchestra for 2 One-Man-Orchestras" (1971-1973) at the Tinguely Museum in Basel/CH.

60 minutes full of crazy sounds & action. The music machine was build in 3 months with over 200 instruments, played by Wilhelm Bruck & Matthias Würsch.

Afterwards I had the chance to talk with Bruck. He is really into it. He tells Kagels reglement is very strict. The musicians must build the machine and must sit all the time in the performance on the same place. Most of the time the instruments must played indirectly with strings, long sticks or other mechanics.


www.zweimannorchester.net/

some pics I did:
www.myspace.com/my/photos/album/3200081

[Deleted]

It's a massive welcome for me to see a thread on Kagel!!  He's one of my three favorite classical Composers, alongside Xenakis and Webern.

Kagel is one of Zorn's influences yes, and probably one of the best to listen, to understand the way Zorn's classical music works (for example Memento Mori or Cat 'O nine Tails)