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Gottfried Michael Koenig

German-born composer Gottfried Michael Koenig rose to prominence - after a grounding in church music, composition, acoustics and computer techniques - in the field of electronic composition. While working at West German Radio (WDR) from the mid-1950's he developed his own techniques. From 1954 to 1964 he worked at the Studio for Electronic Music of the WDR Cologne and from 1964 to 1986 he was director of the Institute for Sonology at the University of Utrecht

German-born composer Gottfried Michael Koenig rose to prominence - after a grounding in church music, composition, acoustics and computer techniques - in the field of electronic composition. While working at West German Radio (WDR) from the mid-1950's he developed his own techniques. From 1954 to 1964 he worked at the Studio for Electronic Music of the WDR Cologne and from 1964 to 1986 he was director of the Institute for Sonology at the University of Utrecht

Radio Cologne Sound Das Studio für Elektronische Musik des WDR
Small repress available! Biggest Tip possible! ** English/German edition. 288 pp + 5CD plenty of incredible music, most of which have never been heard before **  From the Wolke Verlag imprint, who've already brought us incredible books like Karl Berger's "The Music Mind Experience", "FMP Free Music Production - The Living Music", Peter Brötzmann's Along the Way, and George Lewis' "Composing While Black. Afrodiasporic New Music Today", to name only a few and a great many more - comes one of the m…
The Avantgarde Series
The legendary DG Avantgarde vinyl series (1968-1971) is turning 55! In order to celebrate this occasion, the series is now released on 21 CDs for the first time. The Avantgarde series serves as a historical document for a time of radical change in musical thinking and the breaking of artistic boundaries. The question "What is music?" confronted many of the composers and musicians involved in the series, and the anti-authoritarian spirit of the 1960s and 1970s was a palpable influence. Deutsche G…
Les Espaces Électroacoustiques II
The idea of exploring important 20th century electro-acoustic compositions within their historically informed performance practices, and using this as the basis for the production of a new interpretation in 5.1 surround sound, has created quite a stir. It originated at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) at the Zurich University of the Arts, and found its expression in the double SACD Les Espaces Électroacoustiques I. — This album now brings us further milestones of ele…
Process and Form: Selected Writings on Music
Gottfried Michael Koenig (* Magdeburg, 1926) collaborated intensively with Karlheinz Stockhausen in the 1950s in the Electronic Music Studio of the WDR in Cologne, where he himself also produced several landmark pieces of electronic and serial music. He moved to the Netherlands in 1964 to become the artistic director of Utrecht University“s Studio for Electronic Music, which in 1967 became the Institute of Sonology. Under Koenig“s supervision, the institute played a pioneering role in the develo…
Gottfried Michael Koenig
Restocked, reduced price: beautifully prepared overview of Gottfried Michael Koenig's work (including early 60s WDR electronic classics), produced in conjunction by the Instituut of Sonologie and NEAR/Donemus w/ Edition RZ. During the early '60s, Koenig began writing a program -- named simply 'Project 1,' or PR1 -- designed to compose and generate music via the computer; when in 1964 he accepted the position of creative director with the Institute for Sonology in Utrecht, Holland, he took the so…
Acousmatrix 1|2
Bvhaast's Acousmatrix series was originally released around 1990; a total of 7 releases (9 discs) that acted as some of he defining documents of early electronic and tape music. They were recently reissued as a complete 9CD boxset (BVHAAST 0206), or are now also available as separate volumes (in new 2006 designs that are quite striking and appropriate). "Composing and generating sound via computer technology as early as the mid-'60s, Gottfried Michael Koenig was a pivotal force in cementing the …
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