Ton-Zeichen / Tone-Signs. Electronics, Percussion, Double Bass, Wine Glasses, Violoncello, prepared Piano and Stones

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Heller, Barbara & Nikolaus Heyduck
Tone-Signs. Electronics, Percussion, Double Bass, Wine Glasses, Violoncello, prepared Piano and Stones
Interpreters: Heller, Barbara & Nikolaus Heyduck
Label: Salto Records International
Editionsno.: fue 7004 SAL 7004

1. Wenn Töne auf Bananenstauden wachsen würden…
2. Welle für Ulrike Feld (perpetuum mobile)
3. Sich winden…
4. Eine Welle kehrt um
5. Spiralwelle
6. Welle für Ulrike Feld

Barbara Heller’s Ton-Zeichen (”Tone-Signs”) are single pages of drawings integrated with traditionally–notated sequences of pitches. So melodies on these pages ”grow” from the leaves of banana plants, cover ”stony acres”, or form mussels that sing a ”song about the lost pearl”. Barbara Heller and Nikolaus Heyduck used different sound and noice sources for these recordings: from violoncello, prepared piano, xylophone and glockenspiel to wine glasses and even stones and bricks. The electronic realizations on the present CD develop beautiful expansive, meditative sound landscapes.
“What an extraordinary era of music history!”