This video interview in the Bucharest home of spectralist composer Iancu Dumitrescu aims to shine new light on how avant garde music functioned in Romania before the revolution in 1989
The Portugal based collaborative project Unearthing The Music explores how experimental music, artists and communities existed under authoritarian regimes in Europe after 1945. This video features Romanian composer Iancu Dumitrescu, who first started releasing his music via his country's sole record label Electrecord in 1981.
“By gathering music, videos, articles, testimonies, opinions and investigative studies on an online resource centre,” states Unearthing The Music, “as well as promoting awareness and discussion over this issue, we aim to contribute to understanding to what extent and how it was possible, over the diverse regime grips on the arts in the different countries covered, to live in a creative mindset, to develop self expression through innovative music making, and to contribute to such an European Identity staple as is its creative, adventurous and genre-bending music happening right now.”
Iancu Dumitrescu is interviewed in The Wire 308. Subscribers can access the full article via the digital archive.
