Philip Corner
Pictures Of Pictures From Pictures Of Pictures
Rare and long out of print LP...This album, featuring solo piano compositions, was released in 1983. The work draws inspiration from Modest Moussorgsky's 1874 composition "Pictures at an Exhibition," which was based on ten etchings. Klaus Peter Brehmer reissued these etchings, while Philip Corner contributed his own interpretation. The repetitive melodies and rhythms reflect Russian folklore and minimalism, while the spatial arrangement resembles Japanese interiors. The succession of images in painting and music over a century parallels the relationship among Sotatsu Tawaraya, Korin Ogata, and Hoitsu Sakai in Japan. One can link Philip Corner's composition as an attempt of the Radiodays project to realize an acoustic exhibition. An exhibition is the reason for a composition, this is re-translated into the visual, the developed graphics serve again as a basis of a renewed transformation. "From sight into sound and back again; and then back again... This work is selected by Ursula Block / gelbe MUSIK, Berlin
Recorded in 1985 at Elektronisches Studio der Technischen Universität Berlin.
"10 movements for piano after the originals of Moussorgsky, following the graphic interpretations of K.P. Brehmer."
"(these are semi-improvisations, each movement lasting exactly 5 minutes; to be studied with the recorded version by the composer: LP by Edition Block, Berlin)."
