Le mammouth céleste

Switzerland, January 2003
FILM, Documentary, 84 min.

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directed by
Marie-Jeanne Urech
Status
In distribution

“He is absolutely impossible, unbearable, intolerable... and brilliant!” That is how musicologist Harry Halbreich sums up in a few words his composer friend Horatiu Radulescu. A naturalised French citizen of Romanian origin but living in Switzerland since 1998, Horatiu Radulescu has since 1969 been considered the father of spectral music. A prolific composer, with a catalogue of more than 100 works performed all over the world, inventor of the “sound icon”, an instrument that is intended to be “the opposite of the violon”, Horatiu Radulescu declares readily that the composer Stockhausen was influenced by his own diploma work.

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World Premiere
January 2003
Original Version
French (german subtitles),  colour, Beta SP, 84 min.
Production
Françoise Rapin
Producer
directed by
Marie-Jeanne Urech
Cinemato­graphy
Marie-Jeanne Urech
Music
Horatiu Radulescu
Location Sound Mix
David Lipka, Anne Urech, Stéphanie Isoz
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