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Epiloghi. Six Ways Of Saying Zangtumbtumb

by Arturas Bumšteinas

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Epilogue 1. Desire - Creaking, Crackling, Rustling 02:10
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Epilogue 2. Hate - Noises Obtained By Beating On Wood 03:06
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Epilogue 3. Love - Whispering, Muttering, Gurgling 06:02
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Epilogue 4. Sadness - Wails, Howls, Sobs 06:47
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Epilogue 5. Joy - Whistling, Hissing, Puffing 11:24
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Epilogue 6. Wonder - Roars, Thunders, Explosions 09:02
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Night on the Sailship 32:03
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EPILOGHI brings together two important sound works by Lithuanian composer and sound artist Arturas Bumšteinas. “Epiloghi. Six Ways of Saying Zangtumbtumb” and “Night on the Sailship”. Both works were conceived as radio works and “Epiloghi. Six Ways of Saying Zangtumbtumb” received the “Palma Ars Acustica” EURORADIO award for the best Radio Art production of the year 2013.
This main composition on the CD is a multiple homage to Luigi Russolo’s manifesto “Art of Noises” (1913), René Descartes’ philosophical treatise “Passions of the Soul” (1649) and Jacopo Peri’s opera “Dafne” (1598). Each of its six parts is a hypothetical epilogue to the lost opera of Jacopo Peri “Dafne” (which is the earliest known work that is today considered an opera). Each of these epilogues is based on one of the basic human affects - desire, hate, love, sadness, joy and wonder and is paired with one “family of noise” from Russolo’s “Art of Noises” manifesto and each of these “families of noise” found it’s own equivalent on the Baroque theater stage. These so-called equivalents of the Futurist Intonarumori noise instruments are the noisemaking machines that were used in Baroque theater performances to illustrate the phenomena of nature such as wind, thunder, rain, storm and so on. The noise machines can still be found in several historical European theaters and that’s where they were recorded together with various other sounds of stage machinery. The instrumental parts were composed by employing melodic/harmonic materials from around two hundred different popular melodies from the 16th to the 21st century. Despite the title, only one part of the whole composition is directly related to “Zang Tumb Tumb” (1914) – the poem by the Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
“Night on the Sailship” is based on recordings of theater noise machines, stage prop and coulisse machinery. This composition is an imaginary nocturnal soundtrack for the large sailing ship (a barque or a brig).

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released February 15, 2014

Composed By – Arturas Bumšteinas

Harpsichord, Fortepiano, Voice – Christine Kessler (tracks: 1 to 6)

Design – Isabelle Vigier
Engineer [Recording] – Andreas Stoffels (tracks: 1 to 6)

Producer – Deutschlandradio Kultur (tracks: 1 to 6),
Klangkunst (tracks: 1 to 6), Marcus Gammel (tracks: 1 to 6)

Sounds [Historic Theater Noise-machines And Stage Prop] – Arturas Bumšteinas*, Christer Nilsson (7), Eimantas Ludavicius, John Kapenekas, Kati Schmidt, Per Simon Edström, Sofia Borg
Technician [Harpsichord Tuner] – Markus Fischinger (tracks: 1 to 6)
Voice [Voice Sample] – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (tracks: 1 to 6)

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