Die Schachtel


last edited in Jan 2010

:: NEW RELEASES DELAYED

We apologise with our clients, but due to some unexpected problems the announced releases are delayed. We’ll announce the new release date as soon as we’ll have a sure date. Thanks for your understanding and patience.

:: PRIX ITALIA

After five years of intense, passionate and sometimes painful work, Die Schachtel (in collaboration with RAI) is proud to announce the release of the long-awaited massive Book+6CDs boxed edition dedicated to some of the most compelling Italian radio works which took part in the prestigious Prix Italia, a world-famous contest established by the RAI (the National Italian broadcasting company) in the early Sixties and still well alive today, aimed to award the best and most uncompromising audio-visual produced throughout the world.

Imagination at play. The PRIX ITALIA and Radiophonic Experimentation.
Radioplays by Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, Niccolò Castiglioni, Nino Rota and Salvatore Sciarrino, produced from 1959 to 1981 at the Milan RAI Electronic Musica Studio di Fonologia. Edited by Angela Ida de Benedictis and Maddalena Novati.

Die Schachtel/Rai Trade - ISBN 9788890487316

technical note
Please note that some copies of the CD3 (Don Perlimplin) featured in the Prix Italia Box may have a defective track position and display. Just write us your address complete with your email and we will be happy to send you the correct CD to replace the defective one. Please note that we will not substitute the entire box.

avviso tecnico
Alcune copie del CD3 (Don Perlimplin) incluso nel cofanetto Prix Italia potrebbero avere una tracklist difettosa. Se doveste riscontrare questo problema vi preghiamo di scriverci il vostro indirizzo e email e vi spediremo gratis una copia sostitutiva del CD difettoso. Nota: non verrà sostituito il Box, ma solo il singolo CD.

new releases out now

LUIGI ARCHETTI
NULL II - NULL III

Null II and Null III are the second and third part of the well-known Italian/Swiss composer’s massive electronic work on the theme of “nothing” (Null), whose first part saw the light with the 2010 Die Schachtel “Null” edition in ZeitComposers series.In this pieces Archetti’s thick sound drones borders on the edge of tonality as their many layers develop with a sort of “geological” pace. (more...)

MARTINO TRAVERSA
CRITICAL PATH

Martino Traversa is a renowned Italian composer who studied at Salzburg’s Mozarteum, at the CCRMA at Stanford University and with Luigi Nono from 1987 to 1989.
The CD “Critical_Path” presents for the first time ever a selection of his electronic music works, composed between 2000 and 2008 (more...)

:: John Cage begins anywhere

A very special Die Schachtel art edition, a fine art print on Baryta FB, Hahnemühle, sized 30" x 40" in edition of 15 copies, numbered and signed by the author, Roberto Masotti. Photo taken during the rehearsal of "Empty Words", a Cage's milestone performance which took place at Teatro Lirico in Milan on December 2nd, 1977. The composer sitting at a small school desk, reading words and phonemes taken from diary of H.D.T. with the help of a small light. Empty Words is a long text derived from the journals of Henry David Thoreau, achieved through extraction of its words, letters, and phrases through Cage's use of the I Ching. Nothing in Empty Words is actually meaningful, but Cage is moving beyond language into the realm of pure speech, something nearly musical related to both sound poetry and randomly generated texts.

Produced in the occasion of "John cage begins anywhere" held at O' art center in Milan, 2011