Tektra

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2021-12-01

Label: Reiger-records-reeks

[On box, front:]
tektra
kybernetische musik
cybernetic music
musique cybernétique

[On box, back:]
Electroacoustic project
for four channels
(Stereo version)

Realisation
Instituut voor Sonologie
Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht
1980-81

This CD edition offers Tektra digitally for the first time in consistent channel order with Etoral and Rhenit in their original positions and uncut, revealing almost five additional minutes of music that was not available in digital format until now. The recording is mastered from a transfer of the original master tapes that are present in the Lydia and Roland Kayn Archive.

® 2021 Reiger records reeks © Edizioni Suvini Zerboni-Sugarmusic, Milano

[In booklet:]
Produced by Ilse Kayn
Lydia-und Roland Kayn Archive

Artwork: Bill Maerklin (1980); 29.7 x 21 cm, LRKA

Realisation: Instituut voor Sonologie Der Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht

Photos:
Waltraud Frisch, Hamburg
Ilse Grumm, Bussum (1972)

Special thanks: Ian Fenton, Lydia Kayn, Fraans & Roos Welling

Roland Kayn - "About himself" and TEKTRA - Work, Form, Process is translated from the original German liner notes of the 1984 Tektra Colosseum LP release.

Incidental information:
The printed durations for tracks 1-1 (42:27), 2-1 (44:21), 3-1 (14:27), 3-2 (12:45), 5-1 (20:10) and 5-2 (28:01) do not match the actual durations (listed above).

Discs issued in card sleeves with a 16-page booklet, housed in a sturdy laminated hinged lid card box. Pre-orders from the label include an extra card insert with a handwritten thank-you note from Ilse Kayn.