Günther Rabl - Mite E-Lite, Abgesang - ccr302

from the Album 'Ain't there TV after Death' available as CD or Digital Download at https://shop.canto-crudo.at/ MITE E-LITE homage to a power generator a commission of the IEM, Graz In Siebenwirthen there is no electric power connection. If in some cases electronic devices are to be used, one has to put an old McCulloch Mite E-Lite generator into operation. The motor also has to be started up to pump water out of the well into a higher lying reservoir (one notices that the reservoir is full when the spill water ripples over the roof). Sure, there would be newer, environmentally-friendly, muffled models of generators. However, the sound of Mite-E-Lite is more beautiful. It has character. It tells a story. The recording of such a process (the starting-up, the kicking-in, the first backfiring and, lastly, the autonomous stalling of the engine) builds the basis of the whole composition. The sound itself and its rhythmic and harmonic structures find utilization within the piece. The first