We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Set Sail for the Sun

by Salt Lake Electric Ensemble

supported by
Stephen Martin
Stephen Martin thumbnail
landwatersky
landwatersky thumbnail
Jon
Jon thumbnail
Kai 'Oswald' Seidler
Kai 'Oswald' Seidler thumbnail
Burton Thomas
Burton Thomas thumbnail
rchrdtylr
rchrdtylr thumbnail
Phil Long
Phil Long thumbnail
diskant
diskant thumbnail
Dominic Ellis
Dominic Ellis thumbnail
Mark Glaza
Mark Glaza thumbnail
marc medwin
marc medwin thumbnail
whistler_fred
whistler_fred thumbnail
Dan Levy
Dan Levy thumbnail
/

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This is a CD-R version of the album carefully printed and assembled by the artists. It comes packaged in a standard jewel case complete with album artwork and liner notes. The CD-R is an archival grade disc that has been guaranteed by the manufacturer to last for a minimum of 100 years. Art design by Matt Starling and Ryan Fedor.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Set Sail for the Sun via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 1 day
    Purchasable with gift card

      $5.99 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $5 USD  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    6
    releases

    Get all 6 Salt Lake Electric Ensemble releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Lost Love Socialite | nice eliza!, Return: for the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Japanese Waves/Rainbow Road EP, Terry Riley's In C: 53 Rooms for Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Karlheinz Stockhausen's Set Sail for the Sun, and The Salt Lake Electric Ensemble Perform Terry Riley's In C. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $30.74 USD or more (25% OFF)

     

1.
Set Sail for the Sun 16:26
buy track

about

Be aware that the music begins very quietly and gradually becomes loud.

This piece was inspired by Karlheinz Stockhausen's score "Set Sail For the Sun," which comes from his collection titled "From the Seven Days."

It reads:

Play a tone for so long
until you hear its individual vibrations
hold the tone
and listen to the tones of the others
-to all of them together, not to individual ones-
and slowly move your tone
until you arrive at complete harmony
and the whole sound turns to gold
to pure, gently shimmering fire

Album notes:

The cycle of fifteen pieces that make up "Aus den Sieben Tagen" (1968), including the work on this recording "Setz die Segel zur Sonne" (Set Sail For the Sun), form an interesting contrast to a large number of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s works.

Written in a year of personal and social turbulence (the same year Pink Floyd set the controls for the heart of the sun), it represents for some an immense departure in his oeuvre. For indeed it is the scientific, even pedantic level of detailed notation (however novel many of the new symbols he invented) both in subsequent and earlier works that lead critics to align his music with the post-war atomic age; a new faith in technology and progress perceived to be reflected in the complexity of his written scores and new reliance on machines to realize precise measurements of sub-atomic time and articulation.

Containing only a short text, these pieces ask the performer(s) to use intuition to realize a composition with no written pitches, rhythms, dynamics, or instrumentation; to listen to both inner projections and often the sound production of the ensemble as a whole. Asking the players to “…play a tone for so long until you hear its individual vibrations…” may in essence not be so far removed from the monistic examinations of sine tones and their combinations present in more famous electronic works such as Kontakte or Gesang der Jünglinge.

The Salt Lake Electric Ensemble approached Set Sail For the Sun with significant discussion of just what “pure, gently shimmering fire” would really sound like, and the types of timbres both acoustic and electronic that would permit the ensemble to “listen to the tones of others…and slowly move…until you arrive at complete harmony”.

Recorded live, this music asks the listener to transcend form and analysis, and use a similar inner instinct to navigate the ocean of sound.

credits

released April 9, 2015

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Salt Lake Electric Ensemble image

Salt Lake Electric Ensemble Salt Lake City, Utah

Formed in the summer of 2009, the Salt Lake Electric Ensemble grew out of the desire to interpret Terry Riley’s masterwork “In C” on the laptop computer. The group unites the talents of local visual/multimedia artists, electronic musicians, and rock bands The Rubes and Tolchock Trio.

Past performances include the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, The Utah ArtsFestival, the University of Utah and BYU. ... more

contact / help

Contact Salt Lake Electric Ensemble

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Salt Lake Electric Ensemble, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now