KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Zion I by Jan Paul Wendt
Analog Audio
Event Type
MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
P.WEN.JAN.01Program Length
15 minDates
1973-04-20 | broadcast| 402 | created
Description
A recording of “Zion I” by Jan Paul Wendt. According to the accompanying literature found with the tape, and likely written by the composer:“The palace of holiness in the midst’ is the true meaning of the word Zion, symbolizing the center of the wheel of life that radiates, in time and space, all the endless and diverse manifestations of its ever-becoming breath of life or prana.
“(Nothing else need to be added. Additional information could be enlightening??...)
“This piece has been composed from raw environmental sources, found in nature and in every day human life. The very process of synthesis (a true collective art, and not the random artificial efficiency of sound generators) denotes the mind, air, Hermes, Science, rationality. The majority of sounds heard are nothing else but variation and repetitions of one sound source: The human voice. At once, the human soul finds itself encaptured in the sorrowful song of the Morning Dove (a series of delays of loops composed from the vocal tracks re-recorded at random high speed), to the Awesome power of Machines, and the words, m=naked, uttered.”
Genres
Electro-Acoustic / ElectronicMusical Selections
Zion I, for tape (14:15) / Jan Paul WendtSubjects
Electronic musicAmbient sounds
Music, concrete
Musique concrète