D2H proudly presents to you Laibach’s brand new album entitled LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE.       
Album is the laibachian interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach’s work The Art of Fugue (Die  
Kunst der Fuge). The majority of the material has been created already in 2006 and premierly
performed the same year on June the 1st at Bachfest in Leipzig.
Bach himself lived and worked in Leipzig from 1723 till the end of his life in 1750. In this  
period he also wrote the Art of Fugue, one of his most mysterious and baffling works. The
Art of Fugue is a collection of fugues and canons that display the full gamut of fugal      
transformational techniques, such as augmentation and diminution. The theory that the work  
was intended as an intellectual exercise rather than for performance is borne out by the
fact that no instruments are specified in the score. But although the Art of Fugue (the    
title was not Bach’s own) reveals Bach in his most academic and puzzle-solving guise, it is  
no mere pedantry and there is much here of great energy and inspiration. Since Bach did not  
specify any instrumentation, the big question is: what instrument or instruments should the
Art of Fugue be played on? There are many keyboard recordings, but versions are available    
for everything from saxophone quartet to orchestra. Since the work is very much based on    
mathematic algorithms, Laibach decided to use computer and computer program as the key      
╗instrument½, providing a very special electronic interpretation and showing that J.S. Bach
with his work could as well be understood as the pioneer of electronic, techno, computer    
music.                                                           
LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE is available as digital download at MUTE (EMI), and as a CD record,     
released by Dallas Records.
Tracklist:
01   contrapunctus 1                                            
02   contrapunctus 2                                            
03   contrapunctus 3                                            
04   contrapunctus 4                                            
05   contrapunctus 5
06   contrapunctus 6, a 4 im stile francese                              
07   contrapunctus 7, a 4 per augment et diminut                          
08   contrapunctus 8, a 3                                          
09   contrapunctus 9, a 4 alla duodecima
10   contrapunctus 10, a 4 alla decima                                
11   contrapunctus 11, a 4                                        
12   contrapunctus 12, canon alla ottava
13   contrapunctus 13, canon alla duodecima in contrapunto alla quinta
14   contrapunctus 15, canon per augmentationem in contrario motu
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