Civilización o Barbarie
Civilización o Barbarie is a tape - cycle of the Argentinian composer Bernardo Mario Kuczer from the year 1984.
Construction
The cycle consists of 18 independent pieces of tape that can be played individually as well as in open, variable designable grouping with other pieces of the cycle. The total duration of the 18- part cycle is about two and a half hours, amounts, however with all the versions on well over three hours.
Structure of the overall cycle
Although all 18 pieces and their various versions belonging to Civilización o Barbarie, on the one hand regarded as an entirely separate, individual pieces, the cycle includes the other hand, as a whole different work groups and group works that can be classified as cycles within the total cycle, as follows:
The Peripeteia cycle:
Duration Peripeteia IIa, IIb ', (IIb ''), IIc, IIe '', IIf ( IIa = 2'20 '') Peripeteia III 3'33 '' Peripeteia IV 12'41 '' Peripeteia V 8'00 '' peripeteia VI 6'25 '' peripeteia VII: 3'14 '' Iña'K peripeteia VIII: Periplo 11'40 '' The group: " ... de la mémoire ":
Une mémoire la vie 10'08 '' finale, ou la mémoire pulsante 9'39 '' Cri de la mémoire fermée 15'00 '' The pieces: " Ejercicio de aire ":
Version: (2 cx 2) 8'36 '' C 2 Version: ( 1C st) 8'36 '' Version: (1b ) 8'47 '' Version: (C / 1x 10) 16'00 ' ' 2 a cycle of the individual pieces, the only part of the overall cycle:
Contre- rime 10'36 '' one other desert 9'32 '' ( 16'37 '') Him'l 7'19 '' 7'57 '' Dream line ( 9'30 '') Escenas Miró 7 ' 57 '' hole the black 5'45 '' ... and silence next to 6'16 '' Work history and reception
The first public, actual premiere of some works from " Civilización o Barbarie " took place in 1984 at a studio concert of the Darmstadt Summer Courses.
For this cycle has been Kuczer the first Latin American composer awarded the Kranichsteiner Music Prize.
In a report on the Darmstadt Summer Courses 1984 published in the monthly magazine " Le Monde de la musique " No. 72, November 1984, wrote of the Franco- Belgian musicologist Harry Halbreich:
1986, for the following event of the Darmstadt Summer Courses, Kuczer was invited to perform a second concert with works from the Tonbandyzklus.
Civilización o Barbarie was later Klaus Huber, one of the three judges proposed as personal choice of the jury for the World Music Days of the International Society for Contemporary Music, held in Cologne in 1987.
Although 1984-1999 several works of the cycle at various concerts and festivals in Europe have also been detailed in " group form" or as part of mixed concerts, a substantial portion of the pieces has not yet premiered.