Word: wellen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Composers Balz Trümpy and York Holler, whose works followed, were in roughly the position of the actors in that children's play. Trümpy's Wellen-spiele made the first use ever of a digital sound processor. This is a new device that modifies sound as it is performed by an ensemble by the use of mikes onstage. Much of the composition was too bland to show off the new processor, but its climax was a long, breaking roll of waves accompanied by pulsing gongs. The Holler Arcus used the more conventional method of taping...