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Pogus 21011-2
Rune Lindblad
Death of the Moon
Rune Lindblad was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1923. He began composing music in 1953. This was a time when composers in Germany and France were feuding over the merits of electronic music made by pure wave oscillators versus musique concrete, which used the tape recorder as its main instrument. Rune Lindblad did not see these genres as mutually exclusive. In fact he extended his work to incorporate other mediums along with his approach to music. Deeply involved with woodcuts and painting, Lindblad was already experimenting with using damaged 16mm film in his Optica 1 as early as 1959.
Not surprisingly, since Lindblad represented no institutionalized school of thought, his experiments went unnoticed for many years, with the exception of his demonstration of musique concrete in a concert at Folket Hus in 1957. The audience demanded their money back and the critics called his concert “pure torture.” Until the original release of these recordings on the Radium and Pogus labels, there had been only 2 recordings of Rune Lindblad’s compositions ever available. One was the single side of a 7” record released in 1957, the other a full-length album published in 1975. Both of these recordings were poorly distributed and remain fairly unknown.
Rune Lindblad taught at Gothenburg University, and numbered among his students Rolf Enstrom, Ake Parmerud, and Ulf Bilting. He died in 1991.
CD premastering: George Blood Professional Audio Services, Philadelphia, PA
Photo: Annika von Hausswolff
Cover art: Dan Andreana
Layout: Matthew Schickele
Thanks to Stefan Lindblad, C. M. von Hausswolff, Gen Ken Montgomery, and David Prescott.
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