A 70-minute sonic journey about the poetics close to James Joyce's book experiments. A pioneer of electroacoustic music and sound poetry, called a late dadaist, he shocks, moves, scares and makes us laugh.
In the year of his 80th birthday, Eugeniusz Rudnik - "homo radiophonicus", a world-famous Polish phonopoet, an icon of contemporary art, created four extensive sound collages. Cutting and gluing kilometers of tape, he released a 70-minute dose of new electroacoustics at its best. The purest, pulsating Rudnik.
The album consists of four amazing sound visions: “ERdada” - a collection of sound waste, i.e. coughs, hoarseness, so-called drool and ordinary burps, cut from e.g. official speeches; “Dzięcielina pałała na taśmę stereo” - an experiment without any specific form, based on an upside down Mickiewicz text; “Memini Tui” - a musical tribute to the deceased friend Arne Nordheim; “Elektrowyzwoliny” - a story about the process of cutting the tape, spun with the multiplied sounds of Bolesław Błaszczyk's cello.
The visual setting of Łukasz Pawlak takes us to the heyday of professional radio tape. Longplay in a unique format (cardboard packaging in the size of a vinyl record cover) and a booklet filled with Rudnik's original comments have the worth of a work of art. This project marks the beginning of the Exclusive series of Requiem Records.
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Tracklist
ERdada 80/50/39’40” na taśmę 39:40
Dzięcielina pałała na taśmę stereo 16:01
Memini Tui 14:46
Elektrowyzwoliny 3:58
Production
Production and content overview: Bolesław Błaszczyk
Recordings of the cello in the Elektrowyzwoliny track: Ewa Guziołek-Tubelewicz
Mastering: Marcin Bociński
Photography: Magdalena Błaszczyk
Translation: Marlena Marton-Kargul
Artistic concept, graphics: Łukasz Pawlak
All tracks were recorded in the studio of Bolesław Błaszczyk with the use of historic equipment decommissioned by the Polish Radio. The quotes in the text come from public statements by Eugeniusz Rudnik. Manuscripts of technical sketches by Eugeniusz Rudnik concern the sound projection of the prepremiere of Arne Nordheim's Solitaire in Henie / Onstad Kunstsenter near Oslo in 1968.
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