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Artist
Leo Küpper
12+ albums
contemporary classicalcomposerbelgianinstrumentalClassical
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Belgian composer Leo Küpper (b.1935) started to experiment with electronic music in 1959 as a student at Liège University, Belgium, using two Brüel & Kjaer oscillators and a tape recorder. From 1961, while studying musicology in Brussels, he worked at Brussels Apelac electronic music studio, founded by Henri Pousseur in 1959. Küpper founded his own ‘Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Electroniques Auditives’ in Brussels in 1967. He created interactive sound installations he called ‘Public Computer Music’ (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma, 1977) and various electronic instruments like the ‘Automates Sonores’, the Kinephone in 1987, or the ‘Ordinateur Musical’, a voice-activated computer with electronic sounds interacting with the audience. These interactive musical events sometimes took place in Sound Domes (1977-1987), architectural structures with up to 100 speakers, like in Linz, Austria, 1984. Küpper was always fascinated with the human voice and some of his best works use it as source material. He researched the world of phonemes and glossolalia, or speaking in tongues in Christian and Orthodox liturgy. He founded the Phonemic and Vocal group in 1982, with singers using the musical machines described above. One of his compositions of 1974 is based on Antonin Artaud’s poem ‘L’enclume des Forces’. He often worked with actors and students, more rarely with professional singers (like mezzo-soprano A.M. Kieffer), in which case his music is comparable to Luciano B
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Electronic Works & Voices 1961-1979
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Electro-Acoustic
Electronic Works & Voices 1977-1987
Digital Voices
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Ways Of The Voice
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Küpper: L'Enclume des forces; Électro-poème; Automatismes sonores
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An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Fifth A-Chronology 1920-2007
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Kouros et Korê/Innominé
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História da Música Eletroacústica Cd 25 - 1974
Complete Electronic Works: 1961-74
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Complete Electronic Works 1961-74
An anthology of noise and electronic music vol. 5 - fifth a-chronology 1920-2007