The piece reminded me of an ultra-low budget rip-off/ allusion/hommage
of Stockhausen's Mikrophonie 1 (1964).
Here's part of it (only 81/2 mins!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnkPtb9B69o&feature=related
But you can see more details of the performers and what they are doing
to the poor tam-tam here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-3m5ulM2oM&feature=related
Mikrophonie 1 is from 1964 and in those days many people found it - and
its ilk - really unsettling. Earnest Marxists thought it was bourgeois
decadence but most people, I think, were almost horrified.
Nowadays - in a different era - we easily laugh at this stuff and at
the polystyrene scraping ( a much more jokey, Cagey thing anyway)?. I'm
not so sure we would have been so easily laughing back then.
Now all that - Stockhausen, Berio etc has almost all gone. In Britain,
what have we got now? Classic FM, Classical Brit Awards with the latest
orchestral work by McCartney, Karl Jenkins...
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