AMI SHAVIT YOM KIPPUR 1973 ISRAEL EXPERIMENTAL SOUNDS OF WAR

Description: AMI SHAVIT "Yom Kippur 1973" SUB ROSA Records, 2019Imported from BELGIUMLP "The soundtrack of my mind. Sounds derived from the war which still and always live in my mind" Released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series, "Yom Kippur 1973" is a previously unheard masterpiece of Israeli multimedia artist Ami Shavit. As a professor of both philosophy and art and established kinetic artist in the 1970s, Shavit was fascinated with new and interactive technologies. While mostly focusing on visual art and mixed-media installations, a trip to New York in 1972 introduced him to synthesizers and triggered his curiosity to do some explorations into the world of music or "sound" as he preferred to call it. Ami's research was focused on the concept of meditative music that would help people to relax and create a cozy mood associated to the alpha brain waves and biofeedback. Before starting his artistic career, like all Israeli citizens, he had to serve in the army to his personal regret. Shavit had an operational position, which meant a high probability to get involved in a so called "hot situation". When in 1973 the Yom Kippur war broke out, Ami was enlisted again and got the unfortunate opportunity to encounter, in Hanoch Levin's words "the dead". Being an operation officer, he was in charge of evacuating Israeli wounded officers from battlefields to hospitals. "Some 6000 injured men passed through us during that war," he recalled one year later in a newspaper interview. "I witnessed some sights that I can hardly forget. On the one hand I felt that as an artist I had to express the war events, on the other hand I felt that this is an almost impossible mission. Only Goya and Picasso, in his Guernica, addressed this topic successfully." "Yom Kippur 1973" is the final and seminal of Shavit's sound experiments ever recorded and now finally available to the world. It is an extraordinarily strong piece in which the hectic moods and terrific experiences of war are deeply transmitted to the listener. May all soldiers, who are often forced to go through traumatic experiences beyond their own will, find ways to artistically digest and process the unwanted memories. - Released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series, "Yom Kippur 1973" is a previously unheard masterpiece of Israeli multimedia artist Ami Shavit. - Before starting his artistic career, like all Israeli citizens, he had to serve in the army to his personal regret. When in 1973 the Yom Kippur war broke out, Ami was enlisted again; being an operation officer, he was in charge of evacuating Israeli wounded officers from battlefields to hospitals. - "Yom Kippur 1973" is the final and seminal of Shavit's sound experiments ever recorded. - It is an extraordinarily strong piece in which the hectic moods and terrific experiences of war are deeply transmitted to the listener. New Condition - Never Played - Sealed Satisfaction Guaranteed!

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