Mauricio Kagel Acustica: Avantgarde Series

Mauricio Kagel's Acustica Reissued for the Avantgarde Series on 180g 2LP from Deutsche Grammophon: Mastered & Cut from the Original Analog Tapes at Emil Berliner Studios

Mauricio Kagel’s Acustica, composed for experimental sound-producers and loudspeakers, stands among his most ambitious and radical works. Combining electroacoustic tape material created at WDR with acoustic performances on roughly 200 graphic-score cards, it embodies Kagel’s idea of ‘Instrumentales Theater’ — where sound, gesture, and performer presence merge into a single dramatic and musical act. The work explores an expanded field of musicality, using invented instruments and found objects to free sound from traditional performance conventions.

Beyond its avant-garde innovations, Acustica reflects Kagel’s anarchic and deeply human vision. Its multitude of global sound sources mirrors the diversity of his Buenos Aires upbringing, transforming chaos into playful order and highlighting the autonomy of each performer within a collective whole. Through Acustica, Kagel forged a uniquely Latin American response to the European avant-garde: a vivid, democratic sound-world of invention and humanity.

Mastered & cut from the original analogue 1/4 inch 2-track master tapes by Rainer Maillard and Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios.

The Avantgarde Series features original artwork and a newly designed, beautifully crafted collector’s sleeve with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey, and pressed on 180g vinyl.