8 - Vinko Globokar, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Carlos Roqué Alsina - Discours II, Sequenza V, Solo, Consecuenza - 1969

Vinko Globokar, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Carlos Roqué Alsina

Discours II, Sequenza V, Solo Für Melodie-Instrument Mit Rückkopplung, Consecuenza

DGG 104 992, 1969

 

Blow it...

A1 - Vinko Globokar - Discours II Pour Cinq Trombones
A2 - Luciano Berio - Sequenza V For Trombone Solo
B1 - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Solo Für Melodie-Instrument Mit Rückkopplung
B2 - Carlos Roqué Alsina - Consecuenza Op. 17 Für Soloposaune

Engineer - Heinz Wildhagen
Producer - Karl Faust , Dr. Wilfried Daenicke
Trombone - Vinko Globokar


On performance practice of Solo:

Solo for a melody instrument with feedback is a work for a soloist with live electronics (four technician assistants) composed in 1965–66 by Karlheinz Stockhausen. It is Nr. 19 in his catalogue of works. Performance duration can vary from 10.5 to 19 minutes.

Stockhausen discovered early on that the originally imagined spontaneous performance of Solo was far more difficult than expected. Consequently, versions prepared in advance were used from the outset, following Stockhausen’s suggestions. In the first commercial recording, with Vinko Globokar on trombone, Stockhausen supplemented the live performance with excerpts from his electronic composition Hymnen, following the method he had already used in Mikrophonie II, where he inserted tape recordings of his own previous compositions. In the case of the trombone recording of Solo, this involved a lengthy section from the Second Region of Hymnen, including its prefatory "bridge". The trombone phrases are initially answered by electro-acoustically distorted military-band sounds of the German national anthem, similar to the way in which sounds from Gesang der Jünglinge, Carré, and Momente played back on tape answer the technologically alienated live voices of the mixed choir in Mikrophonie II. By 1969, Stockhausen had also taken to merging Solo with other works in a single composite performance. 

Notes:
- Track B1 recorded by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne.
- Originally issued as part of the Avantgarde boxset (1968).