Andy WIlson (Ed.): Cosmic Orgasm - The Music of Iancu Dumitrescu

Of all living composers, Dumitrescu is the one who has most exploded sound. Dumitrescu’s work is a negation, from the depths, of everything in contemporary music symptomatic of distraction, of banalisation, and of a radical loss of purpose. His music is not a new convolution in the knot of modern music, but an unravelling of the curse.
Tim Hodgkinson 

As a creator of radical music that breaks convention, riding on the edge of the classical avant garde onto realms more closely associated with the likes of Nurse With Wound or The Hafler Trio, Iancu Dumitrescu has the talent to lure you in, mystify and startle with unnerving ferocity.
Alan Freeman

Contents

Ben Watson: Why The AMM Says ‘Listen to Dumitrescu!’    1
Ben Watson: Spectrum Festival Preview    3
Ronsen, Peyret, Leroy: Iancu Dumitrescu - Acousmatic Provoker    7
Ben Watson: Statement at Conway Hall, Spectrum 2008    38
In Resonance with Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram     39
Out to Lunch: Our Kinetic Kynicism Knows No Bounds    84
Iancu Dumitrescu: On the Inside Looking In    87
Tim Hodgkinson Interviews Iancu Dumitrescu    95
Tim Hodgkinson: A Note on Phenomenology    107
Costin Cazaban: An Adventure in Experimental Music    109
Eugene Thacker: Pulse Demons (extract)    125
Andy Wilson and Ben Watson: The Music of Iancu Dumitrescu     131
Ben Watson: Spectral Music at the Beginning of the 21st Century    159
Guillaume Ollendorff: At the Heart of Chaos    163
Guillaume Ollendorff: The Society of the Spectrum    171
Tim Hodgkinson: The Tasks of the Composer    193
Iancu Dumitrescu: Reply to Tim Hodgkinson    207
Tim Hodgkinson: Reply to Iancu Dumitrescu    213
Ryan Kirk: Interviews Dumitrescu    215
Ana-Maria Avram: Composer From Bucharest, Romania    237
Iancu Dumitrescu: Biographical Notes    245
Iancu Dumitrescu: Catalogue of Works    253

Pressbook    263
Discography    285
Related Recordings    359

Index    369