NYMAN MICHAEL

ΠΕΙΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ
Το ανά χείρας βιβλίο σκιαγραφεί την ανάδυση μιας, αγγλοαμερικανικής κυρίως, μουσικής παράδοσης που προέκυψε μέσα από τις ιδέες και τη μουσική του, John Cage και διαφοροποιήθηκε ριζικά από το συντηρητικό αισθητικό πλαίσιο της ευρωπαϊκής μεταπολεμικής αβανγκάρντ. Οι καλλιτέχνες στους οποίους αναφέρεται (Morton Feldman, Christian Wolf, David Tudor, Cornelius Cardew, Alvin Lusier, Steve Reich, Fluxus, AMM, MEV και πολλοί άλλοι) ασχολήθηκαν με τη μουσική ως διαδικασία χωρίς την επιδίωξη ενός τελικού προϊόντος. Διεύρυναν τα όρια της μουσικής συ...
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(3CD) SOUNDTRACKS [BOX SET]
Michael Nyman's score for Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano is one of the most successful film soundtracks of all time. The film itself won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival in 1993 and went on to win several Oscars at the 1994 Academy Awards. The soundtrack of the film went on to become a multi-million seller. Perhaps surprisingly for music with such strong ties to its original source many of the pieces from The Piano were subsequently used in a variety of other settings in film, television and advertising making it ...
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(CD+DVD) COLLECTIONS
Portrait of a Label as a title for the collection of musical works needs little explanation, since the album simply gathers together, in chronological order of their release, single tracks, representative images, so to speak, from each of the MN Records CDs, from 'The Piano Sings' in 2005 to 'The Glare' in 2009 (with The Coldest Place on Earth as a bonus track that connects both these albums). A personally-owned and self-curated record label gives a composer the power of independently presenting his recorded work-as-collection with a frequ...
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(3CD) COLLABORATIONS [BOX SET]
This three disc collection presents three very different modes of collaboration that Michael Nyman has been involved with in recent years. Acoustic Accordions [2009] The collaboration with the Motion Trio simply involved the accordionists 'translating' familiar Nyman music into their personal sound world. The Glare [2009] With 'The Glare', the soul singer David McAlmont was encouraged to write his own vocal lines and lyrics to an agreed selection of Nyman's pre-existing music. Sangam [2012] 'Sangam' presents two compositions that Nyman joi...
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(3CD) PIANO [BOX SET]
This 3CD Box Set Collection contains three albums of piano-related and 'The Piano'-related music to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nyman's soundtrack to Jane Campion's film....
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(P/B) EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC
Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing which developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the post-war modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John Cage whose legendary 4' 33'' consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence to be performed on any instrument. Such pieces have a conceptual rather th...
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