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Album: Images of the Dream and Death [ALBUM]
Track: 1 of 2
Title: Images of the Dream and Death Part I & II
Artist: Akos Rozmann
Label: Ideologic Organ
Cat#: SOMA016
Formats: LP/Digital
Digital Release: 26th August 2013
Physical Release: 26th August 2013

About This Release:

This recording is the 4th version of Images of the Dream and Death; revised at EMS/Elektronmusikstudion,
Stockholm 2001 for a performance in Essen.
The 1st version was realized with Buchla synthesizer at the State Academy of Music, EMS/Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm1974-77 (released on Phono Suecia as PS 27, 1986); the 3rd version in April 1990 (released on Phono Suecia as PSCD 27, 1991).

Composed & produced by kos Rzmann
Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin April 2013.

Cover painting by Ferenc Fzeskuti. Rzmann's portrait by Per B. Adolphson.
Ideologic Organ curation and art direction by Stephen O'Malley
Liner notes by Jim O'Rourke and Mats Lindstrom

Images of the Dream and Death / Bilder infr Drmmen och Dden

My intention in composing this work was, with the aid of sound, EMS and the studio of the State Academy of Music in Stockholm between August 1974 and June 1977, to portray Good and Evil.

I failed, however, to depict Good "idealistically". The figures which I use here are always characteristic of deserted, anxious, weeping humanity. When I conjure forth the Good in the introduction to apiece, other "forces" soon make themselves felt. The beginning of the third movement, for example, reminds one of the sound of distant bells. These approaching impulses inspire peace andserenity, but all the alien elements which then reveal themselves stand in the way of "development"; their impact is devastating. The sound of the bells becomes muddied, it is transferred beyondrecognition and finally ceases.

With my composition I seek to describe a process. The main emphasis is on the two contrary elements declaring themselves simultaneously, and on a scrutiny of the changes which occur whenthey interact.

First movement: "sounds" characterizing various "types" (Good and Evil) - cries, weeping, shrieks, grows, etc. - occur at random and are linked together by noise, movements, beats, etc.

Second movement: this portrays various forms of matter and various phenomena connected with our existence:

a. Earth
b. Water
c. Movement-energy

The structure of movements 2 and 3 is characterized by the different blocks accompanying one another. Each block is a fully worked-out unit, the meaning of which depends on the position itoccupies in the development of the composition.
Third movement: the "sound types" from movement I now constitute different groups. Among them we find blocks denoting the Good (e.g. the sound of bells) or Evil (e.g. metallic rattling, violentblows, the knocking of wood-like objects). The antitheses discernible between the musical units are a new element.
- kos Rzmann (from Nutida Musik nr. 3 1977/78)


kos Rzmann was born in Hungary in 1939. He studied composition and took his organist's and composer's diploma at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. Between 1971 and 1974 he studiedcomposition with Ingvar Lidholm at the State Academy of Music in Stockholm. He became organist of the Catholic Cathedral in Stockholm in 1978.