Composition database

This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

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Music for New York

Composer
Eötvös Péter
Original / Hungarian title
Music for New York
Foreign language / English title
Music for New York
Year of composition
1971
Type
Tape music
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
sax.s., perc., tape
Duration
11 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Publisher / Source
tape available at the composer
Recordings
BMC CD072, 2002 - László Dés (sax.s.), András Dés (perc.)
1 min. sample
1 Music for New York
Remarks, other info
Revised: 2001

Soprano saxophone and percussion improvisation with tape

The 1971 recording of Music for New York was an improvisation on Hungarian folk instruments (zither and hurdy-gurdy) transformed with an English EMS (Synthi A) synthesizer. László Dés (sax.s.) and András Dés (perc.) added further improvisations in 2001.
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Eötvös, Péter: Electrochronicle BMC Records