Günther Rabl - Styx

€6.00 - €12.00

Günther Rabl - Styx

€6.00 - €12.00

4-channel tape composition (1984-85)
stereo mixdown 1988

original sources : analog tape 1" 4(8)-ch 7.5ips dbx
basic material : in- and outdoor recordings
(sirene, car break, harvest machines, cello-chords, street noise)
methods : continuous transformation, tape composition
tools : analog devices by Georg Danczul
produced at the composers studio, Allentsgschwendt, Austria

Styx introduces a point of view, a limit of thinking and feeling, from which the most iridescent sound patterns can be conceived in their essential features and thus become accessible for a musical composition. Derived from five basic sources, fragments of outdoor recordings, endless metamorphoses of sounds and sonorous processes are produced in rising and falling order by a constant change of electronic transformation and conctruction.
"The mercylessness of the sounds turned some visitors into flight. The remaining audience was maybe helpless, but certainly banished by the power of the performance."
Die Presse about the first performance at the Konzerthaus Vienna 1986
"A bunch of acoustic horror-visions, barbarisms, explosions, short circuits, bombardments..."
Süddeutsche about the performance at the Philharmonie Munic 1987