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The Early Gurus of Electronic
Music, 1948 - 1980
• 3
CDs - 42 original music tracks from
1948 - 1980, running over 3 1/2 hours
• 1 DVD - 20 film &
video tracks featuring rare performances, interviews, animations,
and experimental video, running 2 1/2 hours
• 112 Page Book -
extensive artist interviews, commentaries, and
archival photographs, with a forward by Brian Eno
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This one-stop box set places in the hands of its owner an in-depth overview of the origin and development of electronic music that charts its first four decades in 42 music tracks and 20 video tracks -- short pieces, excerpts, performances and interviews -- totalling between them over 6 hours of material (see below) documenting the early history of electronic music; plus a 112 page, photo-packed booklet that discusses each work and comes with a forward by none other than Brian Eno. This is going to be pretty hard to pass up at our super special price. Needless to say, but, of course, we will say it anyway: this is a one time offer and supplies are limited (but not that limited, as we have managed to put in a good supply).
“Many
of the ideas in this collection have now been so completely assimilated
into popular listening that it may sometimes be hard to remember how
surprising it all was on first outing. Some of it still sounds pretty
exotic. These CDs are important as part of the story of how we got to
where we are now–the cultural conversation so far–and as a still
fruitful repertoire of future possibilities.” — Brian Eno (from the
forward to the book)
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CD Track List:
CD
1
1) Clara Rockmore “Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentimentale” [ 2:08 ]
2) Olivier Messiaen "Oraison” [ 7:42 ] performed by Ensemble D’Ondes De
Montréal
3) Pierre Schaeffer “Etude aux Chemins de Fer” [ 2:50 ]
4) John Cage “Williams Mix” [ 5:42 ]
5) Herbert Eimert / Robert Beyer “Klangstudie II” [ 4:27 ]
6) Otto Luening “Low Speed” [ 3:40 ]
7) Hugh Le Caine “Dripsody” [ 1:26 ]
8) Louis and Bebe Barron “Main Title from Forbidden Planet” [ 2:19 ]
9) Oskar Sala "Concertando rubato” [ 3:07 ]
10) Edgard Varèse "Poem Électronique" [ 8:00 ]
11) Richard Maxfield “Sine Music” [ 6:00 ]
12) Tod Dockstader “Apocalypse Part II” [ 2:01 ]
13) Karlheinz Stockhausen “Kontakte” [ 6:20 ]
14) Vladimir Ussachevsky “Wireless Fantasy” [ 4:35 ]
15) Milton Babbitt “Philomel” Edit [ 4:57 ]
16) MEV “Spacecraft” Edit [ 6:06 ]
Total playing
time: 72:18
CD 2
1) Raymond Scott "Cindy Electronium” [ 1:55 ]
2) Steve Reich "Pendulum Music (I)" [ 5:52 ] performed by Sonic Youth
3) Pauline Oliveros "Bye Bye Butterfly” [ 8:02 ]
4) Joji Yuasa “Projection Esemplastic for White Noise” [ 7:36 ]
5) Morton Subotnick "Silver Apples of the Moon Part 1" Edit [ 4:20 ]
6) David Tudor “Rainforest Version I” Edit [ 5:09 ]
7) Terry Riley "Poppy Nogood" [ 7:55 ]
8) Holger Czukay “Boat-Woman-Song” Edit [ 5:01 ]
9) Luc Ferarri “Music Promenade” Edit [ 7:00 ]
10) Francois Bayle "rosace 3” [ 3:19 ]
11) Jean-Claude Risset “Mutations”Edit [ 4:55 ]
12) Iannis Xenakis “Hibiki-Hana-Ma” Edit [ 4:39 ]
13) La Monte Young “Drift Study 31 I 69 12:17:30 - 12:49:58 PM NYC”
Edit [ 7:00 ]
Total playing
time: 73:28
CD 3
1) Charles Dodge "He Destroyed Her Image" [ 1:59 ]
2) Paul Lansky “Her Song” [ 3: 04 ]
3) Laurie Spiegel “Appalachian Grove 1” [ 5:20 ]
4) Bernard Parmegiani “En Phase / Hors Phase” [ 2:29 ]
5) David Behrman "On the Other Ocean" Edit [ 6:48 ]
6) John Chowning “Stria” Edit [ 5:11 ]
7) Maryanne Amacher “Living Sound Patent Pending” [ 7:02 ]
8) Robert Ashley “Automatic Writing” Edit [ 7:07 ]
9) Alvin Curran “Canti Illuminati” Edit [ 7:25 ]
10) Alvin Lucier "Music On A Long Thin Wire” Edit [ 6:43 ]
11) Klaus Schulze “Melange” [ 6:52 ]
12) Jon Hassell “Before And After Charm (La Notte)” Edit [ 7:59 ]
13) Brian Eno “Unfamiliar Winds (Leeks Hills)” [ 5:21 ]
Total playing
time: 74:04
DVD Track List
Track 1: Clara Rockmore "The World’s Greatest Theremin Virtuosa"
(excerpt, 10:36), 1998
Track 2: John Cage "Paying Attention" (excerpt 6:19) Frank Schaeffer:
Video, Andrew Culver: Audio, 2004
Track 3: Jean-Claude Risset "Mutations" (6:35) Film by Lillian F.
Schwartz, music by Jean-Claude Risset, 1973
Track 4: Steve Reich "Three Tales: Dolly" (excerpt, 10:38) Video by
Beryl
Korot, Music by Steve Reich, 2003
Track 5: Morton Subotnick "Sidewinder" (excerpt 6:29) Performed by
Morton
Subotnick and Tony Martin, 1976
Track 6: Holger Czukay "Floatspace" (3:14) Performed by Holger Czukay,
1986
Track 7: Bebe Barron "Interview with Bebe Barron" (excerpt, 7:56)
Interview by Eric Chasalow, Filmed by Barbara Cassidy, 1997
Track 8: Paul Lansky "The Dust Bunny" (17:08) Music written and
performed
by Paul Lansky, Sound design by Ted Coffey, Animation and Story by
Grady Klein, 2004
Track 9: Leon Theremin "Paul Lansky's lesson with Leon Theremin"
(3:32) Video by George Lewis, January 1991
Track 10: Iannis Xenakis "Bohor" (3:59) Sound Visualization by Liubo
Borissov, 2005
Track 11: Milton Babbitt "Interview with Milton Babbitt" (excerpt,
8:36)
Interview by Eric Chasalow, Filmed by Barbara Cassidy, 1997
Track 12: Laurie Spiegel "Improvisation on a 'Concerto Generator'"
(2:40)
Music, Performance, and Interactive software by Laurie Spiegel, 1977
Track 13: David Behrman "Music with Melody-Driven Electronics"
(excerpt,
5:13) Performed by David Behrman, Don Cardoza, E. Jedidiah Denman,
Katharine Morton, 1976
Track 14: John Chowning "Stria" (12:25) Animations and Explanatory
Material Created by John Chowning, 2005
Track 15: Robert Ashley What She Thinks (It’s History) (excerpt, 3:59)
Performed by Robert Ashley, Mimi Johnson, Paul DeMarinis, and “Blue”
Gene Tyranny, 1976
Track 16: Max Mathews "Phosphones" (excerpt, 2:29) Music and Light
Performed by Emmanuel Ghent, Choreography by Mimi Garrard, Performed by
the Mimi Garrard Dance Company, 1971
Track 17: Pauline Oliveros "Bye Bye Butterfly" (8:21) Performed by
Pauline Oliveros and Tony Martin, 2005
Track 18: Alvin Lucier "Music for Solo Performer" (excerpt, 11:45)
Performed by Alvin Lucier, 1965
Track 19: Mother Mallard "Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece
Company"
(excerpt, 5:13) Film by Edin Velez, Music by Mother Mallard (1976)
Track 20: Robert Moog "Moog: A documentary Film by Hans Fjellestad"
(excerpt, 5:54) 2005
To get a better idea where the makers of this set are coming from, here's
the original introduction.
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