Bernardo Mario Kuczer - The Loudest Sky (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

With the publication „The Loudest Sky“ For the first time, selected electronic compositions by the Argentinian composer Bernardo Mario Kuczer (1955–2023) will be made available to the public. Highlights from his legendary tape cycle Civilización o Barbarie (1984) as well as previously unpublished digital sound worlds from his last creative years.

Kuczer, born in Buenos Aires and initially active as a guitarist in a rock band, came to Europe in the early 1980s to study with Brian Ferneyhough in Freiburg. His breakthrough came in 1984 at the Darmstadt Summer Courses, where he performed excerpts from Civilización o Barbarie caused a sensation. Belgian musicologist Harry Halbreich spoke at the time of "extraordinary music by a mad visionary." For this radical cycle, which pushed the boundaries of electroacoustic music, Kuczer became the first Latin American composer to be awarded the Kranichstein Music Prize.

Civilización o Barbarie is a monumental explosion of sound – 21 independent pieces that transform real sounds into brutal, physically perceptible soundscapes. Kuczer's music follows the tradition of musique concrète, but is more uncompromising, wilder, inspired by futurism, noise music, and the eruptive energy of Jimi Hendrix.

After retiring from the music industry in 1999, Kuczer devoted himself entirely to digital art: He developed his own programs, created new soundscapes, and impressive visual works. His later digital compositions are more subtle and atmospheric—an invitation to listen and immerse yourself.

„The Loudest Sky“ documents these two poles of his work: the raw power of his analogue works and the fragile poetry of his digital sounds. This provides, for the first time, comprehensive access to the electronic oeuvre of an artist whose music is uncompromising, challenging, and uniquely expressive.

Tracklist:
01. Civilización o Barbarie: Contre-rime
02. Civilización o Barbarie: Peripéteia II
03. Civilización o Barbarie: Peripéteia III
04. Civilización o Barbarie: Ejercicio de aire (2:C+c72x2)
05. Civilización o Barbarie: Escenas-Miró
06. Civilización o Barbarie: hole the black
07. MYM 50-2 No. 99 Contruccion regala No. 2
08. MYM 50-2 No. 27 dans l'île de la cité
09. XM'ngolia+3,4+Limiter
10. XM'n'lith 25
11. XMists


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