ROBERTA SETTELS - ISOLATION (LP by BIN Records)
The world knows many talents whose work is covered with
dust. Richard Lainhart for instance (see elsewhere), or
Roberta Settels. She is from America, but now lives in
Sweden. She studied in the seventies and 80s with Pierre
Boulez and worked on the UPIC system, guided by Iannis
Xenakis. In 1985 she released a LP on her own label Music
In Crisis called 'Isolation', with four pieces to be
'played as parts of a unified composition focused on the
Meinhof story' - it says on the cover of a re-issue by
BIN from Denmark. This record, more than Lainhart, is a
real eyeopener. Is this really from 1985? Very, very hard
to believe, but if it's true, then it's truly a forgotten
classic. It deals with the death of Ulrike Meinhof after
being isolated in prison. The silence of isolation is
brought alive through electronic music. Music in which
almost nothing seems to be happening. Here the silence
of say Lopez, Meelkop, Behrens or Chartier is forecast
by some fifteen years. A sparsetone here and there, a
sine wave, isolated from the rest. Only in the fourth
part,'P1 - Information?' there is a sudden lot of
activity, but even then it still remains sparse.
Freightening music, sounding the isolated work inside a
prison cell very well.
(FdW)
Address: http://totem.menneske.dk/
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