1. Aela (10:33)
2. Skrzydla (8:15)
3. Music for 16 Cymbals and String Orchestra (14:54)
4. The Wind Quintet (10:11)
   

   Aela realized at "Studio Eksperymentalne" of the Polish Radio at Warsaw.
   Skrzydła realized at Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges.
   Muzyka na 16 Talerzy I Orkiestrę Smyczkową composed in 1969
   Kwintet Dęty composed in 1964.

   
   
   A classic of electroacoustic music, Kotoński was the first contributor to the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio. Established in 1957, the Studio was a major world center of tape-recorded music. Kotoński was the first person in Poland to compose an autonomous work for tape, the Concrete Etude (for one strike of the cymbals). This 2 minutes and 41 seconds long composition was based on a recording of a single strike of a soft stick against a medium-sized cymbal. The sound, selected from a number of similar recordings, was subjected to complex transformations. The resulting extensive material was used to create a work whose every element had a carefully planned structure. Kotoński's Etude was one of the purest examples of concrete music - the art looking for new means of expression and adopting the latest developments in electroacoustics for artistic purposes. Etude was first performed at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 1960, to be later repeated at a number of events in Poland and abroad. It has also made it to the textbooks, where Kotoński is named as one of Poland's top creators of the new music. Kotoński has composed many other works for tape as well as has used either pre-recorded or live electronic sounds in compositions for traditional instruments.
   
   

This recording is part of the Wolf Fifth Archive
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