Topic: Extreme instrumental musique concrète

[Mandryka]

Everyone knows that Lachenmann  was interested in taking ordinary musical instruments and using them in new ways to produce an augmented range of sounds. This is a thread to explore the impact of that idea, either pieces which use Lachenmann type extensions in un-Lachenmann ways, or pieces which find ways of extending instruments in ways Lachenmann had hardly dreamt of.

[Mandryka]

And here's a lovely example to kick it off. In Pietà Lisa Streich attached motors to the strings of the instruments, they turn pieces of paper producing sounds.


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