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Soothing Sounds for Baby, Vol. 1
from: Basta
: :Alongside apple-cheeked watercolor paintings of infants, the original cover design for the Soothing Sounds series of records bore the charming inscription, 'An Infant's Friend in Sound.' Composer Harry Warnow was already legendary (as 'Raymond Scott') for his whimsical electronic and big-band novelty musics. With this 1962-63 series, Scott turned his astonishing array of invented and modified keyboards and recording techniques toward pure electronic music with an infant-friendly spin. Intended as 'aural toys' for the nursery, Soothing Sounds' deceptively simple 'tic-tocs' and unthreatening seesaw melodies play on the calming properties of repetition--much ...
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Strings & Machines
: :Hugh Livingston, cellist, commissioned and performed the works on this CD. And all of the works call for electronics as well as cello, as Livingston describes it, 'practical off-the-shelf hardware in some cases ... the video projection unit and screen, two Macintosh computers, the SGI and ISPW providing computing horsepower, and enough cable that Mark and I felt like a major stage show as we packed up a van and headed up the California coast for the concert tour ...' And despite a stage filled with $150,000 of equipment, it ...
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Stäbler: ....Im unaufhölichen Wirbel...
from: Col Legno
: :Hugh Livingston, cellist, commissioned and performed the works on this CD. And all of the works call for electronics as well as cello, as Livingston describes it, 'practical off-the-shelf hardware in some cases ... the video projection unit and screen, two Macintosh computers, the SGI and ISPW providing computing horsepower, and enough cable that Mark and I felt like a major stage show as we packed up a van and headed up the California coast for the concert tour ...' And despite a stage filled with $150,000 of equipment, it ...
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Maritime Rites
from: New World Records
:Album Description:In the middle 1970s I began to formulate ideas and projects leading to the making of music outside the concert halls—often in large open and naturally beautiful sites. Ports, rivers, lakes, caves, quarries, fields, and woods, always ready sources of my musical inspiration, now became my new music theaters. —Alvin Curran Maritime Rites is a series of ten environmental concerts for radio composed by Alvin Curran (b. 1938) in 1985. This series features the Eastern Seaboard of the United States as a musical source in collaboration with improvised musical performances ...
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Alvarez: Papalotl
from: Saydisc
:Album Description:In the middle 1970s I began to formulate ideas and projects leading to the making of music outside the concert halls—often in large open and naturally beautiful sites. Ports, rivers, lakes, caves, quarries, fields, and woods, always ready sources of my musical inspiration, now became my new music theaters. —Alvin Curran Maritime Rites is a series of ten environmental concerts for radio composed by Alvin Curran (b. 1938) in 1985. This series features the Eastern Seaboard of the United States as a musical source in collaboration with improvised musical performances ...
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The Prepared Piano
from: Karaoke Kalk
:Album Description:In the middle 1970s I began to formulate ideas and projects leading to the making of music outside the concert halls—often in large open and naturally beautiful sites. Ports, rivers, lakes, caves, quarries, fields, and woods, always ready sources of my musical inspiration, now became my new music theaters. —Alvin Curran Maritime Rites is a series of ten environmental concerts for radio composed by Alvin Curran (b. 1938) in 1985. This series features the Eastern Seaboard of the United States as a musical source in collaboration with improvised musical performances ...
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Classical Music Composed by Computer: Experiments in Musical Intelligence
from: Centaur
:Album Description:In the middle 1970s I began to formulate ideas and projects leading to the making of music outside the concert halls—often in large open and naturally beautiful sites. Ports, rivers, lakes, caves, quarries, fields, and woods, always ready sources of my musical inspiration, now became my new music theaters. —Alvin Curran Maritime Rites is a series of ten environmental concerts for radio composed by Alvin Curran (b. 1938) in 1985. This series features the Eastern Seaboard of the United States as a musical source in collaboration with improvised musical performances ...
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String Theory
from: Eclectra Records
:Album Description:'Waterloo's enterprising NUMUS Inc. is enabling the emerging generation of musicians to be sensitized to the contemporary music of the wider world.' -- TORONTO STARThis recording features five new works composed by Ontario composers for strings and other instruments. Features Canada's top artists including Mark Fewer, concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony. This is the second album for NUMUS, one of Ontario's leading new music presenters. Riveting first track for string quartet and drum kit by young post-minimalist Generation Y composer Jascha Narveson, a Bang on a Can protegé. Composer Omar ...
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3 Works for Live Electronics
from: Lovely Music
:Album Description:David Tudor, electronics; with Takehisa Kosugi, electronic violin and vocals; produced and recorded by David Tudor, Nicolas Collins, and John D.S. Adams. Originally released on LP in 1984 and rereleased in September 1996, just following Tudor's death on August 13, with the addition of Phonemes. Pulsers explores the world of rhythms created electronically by analog, rather than digital, circuitry. With analog circuitry, the time-base common to the rhythms can be varied in many different ways by a performer, and can eventually become unstable. Untitled is a part of a series ...
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Virgil Thomson: Four Saints In Three Acts
from: Nonesuch
:Album Description:David Tudor, electronics; with Takehisa Kosugi, electronic violin and vocals; produced and recorded by David Tudor, Nicolas Collins, and John D.S. Adams. Originally released on LP in 1984 and rereleased in September 1996, just following Tudor's death on August 13, with the addition of Phonemes. Pulsers explores the world of rhythms created electronically by analog, rather than digital, circuitry. With analog circuitry, the time-base common to the rhythms can be varied in many different ways by a performer, and can eventually become unstable. Untitled is a part of a series ...
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