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artist · various artists
release · in memoriam max brand
year · 2001
genre · electronic
label · rhiz
catalogue · cd006
date · 12-apr-2004
quality · 171kbps/44,1khz
source · compact disc
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cd 1:
01 dieter kaufmann - brandschaden - eine verdichtung 5:15
02 curd duca - max brand konzentrat 17:36
03 max brand - text 1 0:43
04 max brand - notturno brasiliero 5:49
05 max brand - french folk song: au clair de la lune 1:03
06 max brand - french folk song: crocodile 1:39
07 max brand - french folk song: mlle 0:59
08 max brand - french folk song: corbleu marion 1:37
09 max brand - french folk song: il Θtait une bergΦre 1:02
10 max brand - stormy sea 3:35
11 max brand - text 2 1:43
12 max brand - walzer 1 1:00
13 max brand - walzer 2 1:03
14 max brand - fragment 1 0:57
15 max brand - fragment 2 0:53
16 max brand - fragment 3 1:15
17 max brand - fragment 4 1:21
18 max brand - fragment 5 0:41
19 max brand - commercial 1 0:43
20 max brand - commercial 2 1:23
21 max brand - commercial 3 0:48
22 max brand - rhinoceros: cortage for a cat 9:01
23 max brand - text 3 0:48
cd 2:
01 patrick pulsinger & erdem tunakan - max brennt 6:39
02 radian - fragment 3:31
03 fritz ostermayer - false frequencies for a fake funeral 5:28
04 epy - hannah 4:14
05 pita - pita "brand new" 4:19
06 peter androsch & wolfgang dorninger - french folk song 1 1:20
07 dorninger & androsch - french folk song 3 1:52
08 dorninger & androsch - french folk song 5 1:09
09 dorninger & androsch - french folk song 2 1:23
10 dorninger & androsch - french folk song 4 1:47
11 alois huber - xeto 3:58
12 curd duca - tape suite 2:23
13 fon - west&335; 4:54
14 philipp quehenberger & peter kollreider - exit 6:34
15 elmⁿ - das milleniumsproblem 5:01
16 musikkreis ms20 - au claire de la lune 3:49
17 pure - brand2.1mixtrunc2 5:14
playtime · 02h 04m 29s
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n conjuction with the phonotaktik 99 festival in vienna a
selection of max brands is made available to the public for the
first time
the result is a double cd
cd i/max brand contains some brand originals and serves as good
cross section of brands multi faceted archive
cd ii/in memoriam contains re-workings of original brand matireal
by various members of of the new electronic scene of vienna
including pulsinger/tunakan, radian, fritz ostermayer, epy, pita,
dorninger/androsch, alois huber, curd duca, fon,
quehenberger-kollreider, elmpƒ, musikkreis ms 20 and pure.
max brand composer, musician, producer, dramatist, librettist,
filmmaker, theoretician and visionary.
born in 1896 to a jewish family in l'vov, in the northern region
of the multinational austro-hungarian empire; upper middle-class
childhood in vienna; voluntary service in the imperial army; a
polish citizen from 1918 to the time when he was granted austrian
citizenship; sympathizer with the communist party of austria; in
1937 forced to emigrate to switzerland via prague; in 1939, fled
from paris to new york by way of brazil; in 1946 became an
american citizen; in 1975, returned to austria; in 1980, died in
langenzersdorf, near vienna. relegated to obscurity by music
historians and critics, his life can be treated only as an
individual case considered from several perspectives - but in
particular as that of a pioneer in the production of electronic
music.
a contemporary of arnold schoenberg, alban berg, kurt weil and
ernst krenek, max brand completed his compositional studies under
franz schreker in vienna and berlin. against the background of
futurism with its celebration of speed, technological innovation
and revolution (and working against currents of communism and
anti-semitism), he wrote his first pieces under the influence of
schoenberg's circle. in 1927 fritz lang directed "metropolis", al
jolson appeared as "the jazz singer" in the first sound film, and
walter ruttman created his cinematic work, "berlin: the symphony
of a great city". brand's quest for a truly "modern opera", which
would make use of these and similar 1920's technology and
intellectual trends in music and theater production, resulted in
his greatest success: "hopkins the machinist", a machine-opera
which featured dramatic, cinematic staging and also offered its
audience a moral lesson, was a musical admixture of late-romantic
operatic impressions, machine sounds, and jazz, and enjoyed
tremendous success in germany. upon his emigration to prague,
brand's cultural involvement in vienna - including the ballet-mime
theater, productions for the vienna opera and the raimund theater
- had to be abandoned. the majority of his early works were left
behind in prague when he set off for the united states. while his
stay in brazil brought about collaborations with heitor
villa-lobos, his musical work in new york from the 1950's onward
was characterized by lack of success.
in 1959 brand, then over 60 years old, turned in a completely new
direction which was at the same time was consistent with his
earlier concepts: in order to create electronic music, he had
robert moog, then at the beginning of his career, build a special
synthesizer, a prototype of the moog series which later became
ubiquitous in the world of pop music. the resulting works -
"notturno brasileiro" (1959), "die astronauten" (1962), and "ilian
4" (1974) - failed to achieve success, and today they are rarely
performed and recorded and are unavailable.
in 1975, the patriarch, who was in many matters conservative, fled
the "american way of life" and returned to europe. most of his
sound equipment was destroyed en route, and this precluded his
continuing to work in the area of electro-acoustics for at least a
year. before his death in 1980, many tapes of sound material were
reworked, mixed together, or destroyed.
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