{"id":4023,"date":"2022-02-03T23:25:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irminschmidt.com\/site\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2022-02-03T23:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:25:02","slug":"irmin-schmidt-5-klavierstucke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irminschmidt.com\/site\/irmin-schmidt-5-klavierstucke\/","title":{"rendered":"Irmin Schmidt – 5 KLAVIERST\u00dcCKE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW ALBUM OF PIANO PIECES OUT ON MUTE\/SPOON RECORDS ON 23 NOVEMBER 2018<\/h6>\n

IRMIN SCHMIDT<\/strong> has announced 5 Klavierst\u00fccke<\/strong>, an album of five piano pieces recorded last year by the influential composer, musician and founder of Can. 5 Klavierst\u00fccke<\/strong> is out on Mute in conjunction with Spoon Records on 16 November 2018<\/strong> on vinyl, CD and digitally and the release coincides with events centered around his works later this year including the International Film Festival Braunschweig and the Volksb\u00fchne Berlin.<\/p>\n

Listen to Klavierst\u00fccke III here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Irmin Schmidt explains, \u201cThe tracks are spontaneous meditations, only played once and recorded simultaneously – no edits or corrections. They are formed from an emotional memory in which Schubert, Cage, Japan (Gagaku) and Can are equally present.\u201d<\/p>\n

5 Klavierst\u00fc<\/strong>, was recorded and produced by Gareth Jones in the South of France on Irmin Schmidt’s two\u00a0grand pianos. Schmidt partly prepared his Pleyel piano, in the way he\u00a0was taught by John Cage himself, and the other piano –\u00a0Irmin Schmidt\u2019s 100-year-old Steinway –\u00a0remained unprepared. Several pieces were recorded in one\u00a0session on the prepared\u00a0piano only, others contain recordings from both pianos. All ambient sounds were\u00a0recorded on site – around Irmin Schmidt’s studio – and\u00a0there are no other instruments\u00a0or electronics of any kind.<\/p>\n

As a composer and as one of Can\u2019s founding members, Irmin Schmidt has scored more than one hundred soundtracks. Outside of his work with Can, he has released over a dozen solo albums and written an opera, Gormenghast, based on the novels of Mervyn Peake. In 2015, he was made a Chevalier de l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to art and culture, one of France\u2019s highest honours, and in 2018 Faber Social published Can \u2013 All Gates Open, a two part book \u2013 the first section is Can\u2019s biography, written by Rob Young, and the second section is Can Kiosk, a collage of diary entries and interviews edited and written by Irmin Schmidt.<\/p>\n

The work of Irmin Schmidt will be a large part of the International Film Festival Braunschweig this autumn, with events including a retrospective of his work for film. Schmidt will also present two new compositions for orchestra he wrote in collaboration with Gregor Schwellenbach: Can Dialog<\/strong> – featuring motifs from Can, which premiered at the Barbican in 2017 – and the suite Filmmusiken<\/strong> – an orchestration of several of Schmidt\u2019s soundtracks. Irmin will conduct the Staatsorchester Braunschweig for the premiere of Filmmusiken at the Film Festival in November and this will be the first time that Can Dialog has been presented outside of London.<\/p>\n

Later this year the Volksb\u00fchne in Berlin\u00a0will honour Can\u2019s work with a performance of Can Dialog and Filmmusiken. Irmin Schmidt will be conducting the Deutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg followed by a Can Tribute concert curated by Jochen Arbeit (Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten) and the Babylon Cinema in Berlin will be screening a retrospective of Schmidt\u2019s film work with a Q&A through the week. This is Irmin Schmidt\u2019s first solo release since Electro Violet<\/strong> \u2013 a collection of his entire solo work – in 2015.<\/p>\n

Find out more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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