MARCEL DUCHAMP : Musical Erratum + In Conversation

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Format: CD [LTMCD2504]
Shipping Weight: 0.1lbs
Label: LTM

1,800円

'This 74 minute album offers four spoken word extracts by Marcel Duchamp (in the English language), including The Creative Act, a fascinating lecture delivered in Houston in 1957, as well as a lengthy interview recorded in 1959.
The remainder of the album explores Duchamp's unique musical experiments. Devised in 1913, the Musical Erratum for piano forms part of the sequence of notes and projects which led to his celebrated artwork, La Mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires, meme (The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Batchelors, Even. Abstract, elusive and even "unachievable" according to the artist himself, the Musical Erratum in fact consists of two scores. In the first, notes are replaced by numbered keys, with virtuoso performance is discouraged in favour of novel mechanical instrumentation.
The second offers a form of chance composition, by which numbered balls are dropped into the moving wagons of a toy train. Two versions are included here: a conventional (non-virtuoso) performance on piano, and one on which spinning rotary discs brush the piano strings to produce extraordinary tones.'

Tracklist
1 Musical Erratum, La Mariee Mise a Nu Par Ses Celibataires, Meme (Prepared Piano) 10:12
2 The Creative Act (Lecture By Duchamp, 1957) 7:23
3 A L'Infinitif (Reading By Duchamp, 1967) 4:02
4 Interview (Conversation With Duchamp, 1959) 11:03
5 Interview (Conversation With Duchamp, 1959) 21:20
6 Musical Erratum, La Mariee Mise a Nu Par Ses Celibataires, Meme (Piano) 1:03
7 Musical Erratum, La Mariee Mise a Nu Par Ses Celibataires, Meme (Piano) 7:00
8 Musical Erratum, La Mariee Mise a Nu Par Ses Celibataires, Meme (Piano) 1:17
9 Musical Erratum, La Mariee Mise a Nu Par Ses Celibataires, Meme (Piano) 3:40
10 Musical Erratum, La Mariee Mise a Nu Par Ses Celibataires, Meme (Piano) 0:18
11 Musical Erratum, La Mariee Mise a Nu Par Ses Celibataires, Meme (Piano) 1:08
12 Musical Erratum, La Mariee Mise a Nu Par Ses Celibataires, Meme (Piano) 1:28
13 Musical Erratum, La Mariee Mise a Nu Par Ses Celibataires, Meme (Piano) 1:23

Credits
Engineer ? Duncan Cameron (tracks: 6 to 13)
Interviewer ? George Heard Hamilton (tracks: 4, 5)
Liner Notes ? James Hayward
Piano ? Tom Feldschuh (tracks: 6 to 13)
Piano [Prepared] ? Kristine Scholz (tracks: 1), Mats Persson (tracks: 1)

Notes
Written in 1913, the Musical Erratum for piano forms part of the sequence of notes and projects which led to Duchamp's celebrated artwork, La Mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires, meme (The bride stripped bare by her batchelors, even, often called The Large Glass). La Mariee… is also the sub-title of the 1913 piano work. Abstract, elusive and even "inachievable" according to the artist, the Musical Erratum consists of two scores. In the first, notes are replaced by numbered keys, and virtuoso performance is discouraged in favour of novel mechanical instrumentation. The second offers a form of random composition, by which numbered balls are dropped into the moving wagons of a toy train. Famously, Duchamp described the whole as "a very useless performance, in any event." Two versions are included on this CD, including a conventional (but non-virtuoso) performance on piano, and another on which spinning rotary discs brush the piano strings to produce extraordinary tones.
("The Creative Act" lecture, and both "Interviews", are in english)