Special Edition: Book + CD (One8)

A limited combined edition bringing together the book and the original recording of John Cage’s ONE8 for solo cello, performed by Michael Bach.

The edition includes:

Michael Bach: Fingerboards & Overtones
Pictures, Basics and Model for a New Way of Cello Playing
German / English
edition spangenberg, Munich, 1991
ISBN 3-89409-063-4

John Cage: One8 for solo cello
Original recording performed by Michael Bach
Mode Records, New York

The book is dedicated to John Cage and documents Michael Bach’s fundamental studies of overtone techniques and polyphonic playing on the violoncello. These studies formed an important basis for Cage’s work on One8, which was created in close collaboration with Michael Bach.

The combination of book and CD brings together the theoretical, technical and practical dimensions of this work: the book presents the principles and musical ideas behind the new approach to cello playing, while the recording provides a direct experience of the resulting sound world in John Cage’s One8.

A special edition for those interested in John Cage, contemporary cello playing, overtone techniques, polyphony and the development of new instrumental techniques.

Article on the first performances of ONE8 and 108 and on the book Fingerboards & Overtones,
published in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit on December 6, 1991, by Eckhard Roelcke.

Artikel über die Uraufführungen von ONE8 und 108 sowie über das Buch Fingerboards & Overtones,
erschienen am 6. Dezember 1991 in der Wochenzeitung Die Zeit. Autor: Eckhard Roelcke.

Article on Michael Bach’s Fingerboards, published in 1993 under the title “KLANGSPUREN”
in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Mainz. Author: Uwe Sommer.

Artikel über die Fingerboards von Michael Bach, erschienen 1993 unter dem Titel „KLANGSPUREN“
in der Neuen Zeitschrift für Musik, Mainz. Autor: Uwe Sommer.

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Doctoral dissertation by Catherine Roblin, Université Louis Lumière – Lyon 2,
submitted on December 20, 2000.

Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades von Catherine Roblin, Université Louis Lumière – Lyon 2,
eingereicht am 20. Dezember 2000.