Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to main navigation

Product information "Ultra Sounds"

Ultra Sounds is the first study of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES), an early »laboratory« for the production of electronic and electro-acoustic music, and the first of its kind in the Eastern Bloc. It was established in fall 1957. Composers and engineers working there produced some of the most original and often challenging electronic music, »musique concrète« and radio plays of the era. The Studio formed an island of international connection, hosting many leading composers from the East and the West. This well illustrated book features essays by leading musicologists and architectural, art and film historians, as well as interviews with engineers who worked in the Studio and transcripts of historic lectures and broadcasts by key figures in its history. It offers a comprehensive account of the Studio in the context of the revival of modernist experiment in post-Stalinist Poland in the 1960s.

Texts by Bolesław Błaszczyk, Dariusz Brzostek, David Crowley, Lukas Jiřička, Aleksandra Kędziorek, Michał Libera, Iwona Lindstedt, Zofia Lissa, Bohdan Mazurek, Antoni Michnik, Daniel Muzyczuk, Józef Patkowski, Agnieszka Pindera, Katarzyna Świętochowska and Michał Mendyk, Krzysztof Szlifirski, Joanna Walewska-Choptiany, Peter Weibel.

Softcover

19,2 x 25,8 cm

336 pages

ca. 120 color and b/w illustrations

English

Available

ISBN 978-3-86828-921-3

2019

Editors:

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódz, David Crowley

Design:

Magdalena Frankowska, Artur Frankowski / Fontarte


0 of 0 reviews

Average rating of 0 out of 5 stars

Leave a review!

Share your experiences with other customers.