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Kurzwellen by Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Release Date: 1970

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

This version has the interlocking circles logo with "ST" and "33" on front cover to the right of catalog number. Compare to Kurzwellen which is missing it.

Kurzwellen is a piece where the musicians need to improvise and react to signals they receive on randomly tuned shortwave radio's.

Same work recorded twice during two different performances.
Record 1 was recorded in the television studio's of Radio Bremen on the 5th of May 1968, during the festival Pro Musica Nova (47').
Record 2 was recorded in the Rhenus studio in Godorf for the Cologne Radio (WDR, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln) on the 8th and 9th of April 1969 (53'30).

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