La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura

La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, for solo violin and tape, was composed in 1988. For this composition, Nono recorded hours of Gidon Kremer's violin playing and then started analysing his style and tone quality. He used the violin sounds to create an eight-channel tape of independent parts. In the studio the material was transformed electronically. Nono conceived the performance of La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura as a musical interaction between the soloist and the projection of the eight-channel tape. The score allows the violinist to choose the points at which he begins each section of the work, and to interpretate the length and tempi. The tape-projectionist is given equal freedom. Therefore every performance of La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura is different from the other. Recorded December 1991 at the Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel Stiftung des SWF. Packaged in a gatefold card sleeve with 24-page booklet.