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sub rosa (usa) #sr 327 lp

dub taylor “lumière for synthesized & concrète sound” long playing record

  • lumière: side one (17:09)

  • lumière: side two (14:50)
june 2011 release ; extremely well-handled vinyl reissue of this legendary bit of american “private press” electronic music, initially readied via the varese international (later, sarabande) label in 1972 by founders chris kuckler & dub taylor at the fledgling imprint’s debut release ...

i’ll let fly the description of the creel pone reproduction, as it sums up my feelings re: the music ::

zonked - you’d probably yield about half of the titles here on the mms site if you entered that term into the (r.i.p.) search engine. it’s a nice catch-all adjective that i use to denote sound-projects that cause the fluids in my central-vocabulary-lobe to dry up just as i’m gearing to describe them in words. so handy...

this record is zonked. and by that i don’t mean that i can’t conjure up other adjectives (i most certainly can; fried, surrealist, inept, genius, etc...), just that i can’t get my head around describing what it is mr. taylor is doing exactly. it almost sounds like someone... as the brits say “taking the piss” out of musique concrète ... but then again there’s this twisted logic to the construction of the whole thing that’s just so... out... (i.e. “i know... let’s just pile everything up on top of itself and not edit it at all ...”) - the sound-combinations so seemingly random that’s it’s hard to believe a conscious composer / technician type didn’t lay this to tape back in 1972 ...

my favorite bits are when a voice (i assume it’s the composer’s) comes in near the beginning, half-buried: “sounds good ...” ; from there a wave of surging / burbling synths and filtered white noise let loose on the whole frequency range, leaving little in the way of ... you know ... “musical sense”... there are some bike-horns, what sounds like someone dialing in an fm radio (then leaving it between stations), a jet passing overhead, a guitar-amp feeding back while someone “snaps” into a microphone, etc... sounds are panned hard left / right for entire sides at a time. some backwards speaking kind of rises to the top, then it’s back to “normal” ... and that’s just the first side ...

from here on out, any time someone plays me a record like the shaggs or y. bhekhirst, reveling in the fact that it got made in the first place, i’m going to play them this, as it’s so much better of an example. i’m just completely dumbfounded that the sentient folks over at varese went the distance... kudos!

note: their are a bunch of drop-outs on the b-side that are, (un)surprisingly, part of the sonic stew, not any weird mastering issues on p.c.’s part (wouldn’t be the first time he’s fallen asleep at the console though! that lout...)

... this version is pretty much a 1/1 replica of said, right down to the vinyl color ... highly recommended !!!
sub rosa press release...
dub taylor
lumière (for synthesized and concrète sound)

vinyl lp limited to 500 copies

this real masterpiece of concrète and synthesized music was no more available since its original manufacture in 1973.

dub taylor is an us composer, producer, engineer and designer born june 22, 1948 in burbank, california. he has many creative facets: recording and mastering engineer, record producer as well as composer, graphic designer and visual artist. he has studied with pianist richard bunger and composer karlheinz stockhausen. not long after the release of lumière, taylor established vargod studios for electronic music and recorded sound, where in 1974 he created his second work, variations on the 'dudley do-right' theme for sampled and processed sound (never released before, this exclusive track is included on the cd version). taylor has bounced between the music world and the visual arts for most of his life and continues to pursue diverse creative projects.

lumière evolved over a period of three years from 1969 to 1972. i started by recording random sounds: jets taking off at lax, my girlfriend laughing and screaming, my cat bartok biting a microphone, conversations, etc. i also sampled music, film soundtracks and tv and radio broadcasts.

during this period i acquired the first self-contained portable synthesizer, the newly-designed arp 2600. i began to envision an electronic and musique concrete piece combining various natural and processed sound recordings with synthesized sound into a suite of noise.

in june of 1972 i did a preliminary version of elements of the piece. by october i was ready to put it all together. i set up all these reel to reel machines with tapes i had pre-recorded and plugged them into a mixing board, feeding stereo to a two-track master 15 ips revox a77 tape deck. my idea was to create a sound collage with form but without losing spontaneity and an element randomness. so i rehearsed my fade-ins and fade-outs and the starting and stopping of the various playback decks and when i was ready i went for it, 'playing' all these machines like a musical instrument in this mad moment of creation.

in effect, lumière was a 'live' performance. the only later additions were the silence gaps inserted near the end of the piece using pieces of blank leader tape.

- dub taylor

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1970s-electronic
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plunder-phonic

 best of 2011 !!! 
sub rosa (usa) #sr 327 cd

dub taylor “lumière for synthesized & concrète sound” compact disc

  • lumière (for synthesized and concrète sound) part one (17:11)
  • lumière (for synthesized and concrète sound) part two (14:52)
  • variations on the ‘dudley do-right’ theme (3:19)
june 2011 release ; cd version of this extremely well-handled reissue of alegendary bit of american “private press” electronic music, initially readied via the varese international (later, sarabande) label in 1972 by founders chris kuckler & dub taylor at the fledgling imprint’s debut release ...

i’ll let fly the description of the creel pone reproduction, as it sums up my feelings re: the music ::

zonked - you’d probably yield about half of the titles here on the mms site if you entered that term into the (r.i.p.) search engine. it’s a nice catch-all adjective that i use to denote sound-projects that cause the fluids in my central-vocabulary-lobe to dry up just as i’m gearing to describe them in words. so handy...

this record is zonked. and by that i don’t mean that i can’t conjure up other adjectives (i most certainly can; fried, surrealist, inept, genius, etc...), just that i can’t get my head around describing what it is mr. taylor is doing exactly. it almost sounds like someone... as the brits say “taking the piss” out of musique concrète ... but then again there’s this twisted logic to the construction of the whole thing that’s just so... out... (i.e. “i know... let’s just pile everything up on top of itself and not edit it at all ...”) - the sound-combinations so seemingly random that’s it’s hard to believe a conscious composer / technician type didn’t lay this to tape back in 1972 ...

my favorite bits are when a voice (i assume it’s the composer’s) comes in near the beginning, half-buried: “sounds good ...” ; from there a wave of surging / burbling synths and filtered white noise let loose on the whole frequency range, leaving little in the way of ... you know ... “musical sense”... there are some bike-horns, what sounds like someone dialing in an fm radio (then leaving it between stations), a jet passing overhead, a guitar-amp feeding back while someone “snaps” into a microphone, etc... sounds are panned hard left / right for entire sides at a time. some backwards speaking kind of rises to the top, then it’s back to “normal” ... and that’s just the first side ...

from here on out, any time someone plays me a record like the shaggs or y. bhekhirst, reveling in the fact that it got made in the first place, i’m going to play them this, as it’s so much better of an example. i’m just completely dumbfounded that the sentient folks over at varese went the distance... kudos!

note: their are a bunch of drop-outs on the b-side that are, (un)surprisingly, part of the sonic stew, not any weird mastering issues on p.c.’s part (wouldn’t be the first time he’s fallen asleep at the console though! that lout...)

smaller (yet ; still round) version here comes w/ the album in glorious digital, replete with a contemporaneous “bonus track” (in the form of a rather jon appleton-esque reworking of the “dudley do right” theme ... listen to the sound-sample for that ... i agree, it’s interesting, but nowhere near as good as the lp itself ... kind of takes away from the raw splendor of said, imho)... highly recommended !!!
sub rosa press release...

dub taylor
lumière (for synthesized and concrète sound)

digipack cd

this real masterpiece of concrète and synthesized music was no more available since its original manufacture in 1973.

dub taylor is an us composer, producer, engineer and designer born june 22, 1948 in burbank, california. he has many creative facets: recording and mastering engineer, record producer as well as composer, graphic designer and visual artist. he has studied with pianist richard bunger and composer karlheinz stockhausen. not long after the release of lumière, taylor established vargod studios for electronic music and recorded sound, where in 1974 he created his second work, variations on the 'dudley do-right' theme for sampled and processed sound (never released before, this exclusive track is included on the cd version). taylor has bounced between the music world and the visual arts for most of his life and continues to pursue diverse creative projects.

lumière evolved over a period of three years from 1969 to 1972. i started by recording random sounds: jets taking off at lax, my girlfriend laughing and screaming, my cat bartok biting a microphone, conversations, etc. i also sampled music, film soundtracks and tv and radio broadcasts.

during this period i acquired the first self-contained portable synthesizer, the newly-designed arp 2600. i began to envision an electronic and musique concrete piece combining various natural and processed sound recordings with synthesized sound into a suite of noise.

in june of 1972 i did a preliminary version of elements of the piece. by october i was ready to put it all together. i set up all these reel to reel machines with tapes i had pre-recorded and plugged them into a mixing board, feeding stereo to a two-track master 15 ips revox a77 tape deck. my idea was to create a sound collage with form but without losing spontaneity and an element randomness. so i rehearsed my fade-ins and fade-outs and the starting and stopping of the various playback decks and when i was ready i went for it, 'playing' all these machines like a musical instrument in this mad moment of creation.

in effect, lumière was a 'live' performance. the only later additions were the silence gaps inserted near the end of the piece using pieces of blank leader tape.

- dub taylor

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first in stock on
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threads:
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1960s-electronic
1970s-electronic
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digital-musics
sound-art
sound-poetry

 best of 2008 !!! 
sub rosa (belgium) #sr 270 cd

“anthology of noise & electronic music / fifth a-chronology 1920-2007” double compact disc set

  • rogelio sosa - vinylika (7:02) 2003
  • christian galaretta - maranon (part vi) (10:27) 2004
  • li chin sung aka dickson dee - shame (4:57) 1994-2007
  • francois-bernard mache - prelude (5:28) 1959
  • richard maxfield - pastoral symphony (4:01) 1960
  • wolf vostell - elektronicher de-colagge. happening raum. (3:00) 1968
  • charlemagne palestine - seven organism study (7:53) 1968
  • andre boucourechilev - texte 2 (4:36) 1959
  • helmut lachenmann - scenario (12:30) 1965
  • alireza mashayekhi - shur, op.15 (6:28) 1966
  • claude ballif - points, mouvements (10:14) 1962

  • mauricio kagel - antithese (9:21) 1962
  • vladimir mayakovsky - and would you? (0:32) 1920
  • raoul hausmann - fmsbw (recorded by henri chopin) (0:45) 1918
  • gil joseph wolman - megapneumies, mars 1963 (4:54) 1963
  • leo kupper - electro-poeme (5:54) 1963-1970
  • josef anton riedl - leonce und lena (2:17) 1963
  • sten hanson + henri chopin - tete a tete (5:08) 1973
  • dajuin yao - satisfaction of oscillation (9:27) 1997
  • pere ubu - sentimental journey (7:01) 1978
  • ground zero - live 1992 (1:01) 1992
  • masonna / yamazaki "maso" takushi - spectrum ripper (part i-ii-iii) (3:32) 1996-1997
  • sutcliffe jugend - blind ignorance (5:39) 2007
  • club moral - l'enfer est intime (6:32) 1985
  • dub taylor - lumiere (part i) (17:11) 1972
january 2008 release ; the fifth volume of this ongoing series of double-disc compilations collecting newly unearthed/discovered/licensed gems from the assorted back alleyways of early electronic music with contemporary offerings from a current crop of like-minded electronic music practitioners ...

for this volume the (many) highlights include françois-bernard mâche’s “prélude,” wolf vostell’s “elektronicher dé-collage,” helmut lachenmann’s “scenario,” and from the more recent end of the spectrum a particularly nice blast from maso yamazaki & a bit of gristle from legendary early uk noise act sutcliffe jügend ...

given the purview of mms; these compilations are becoming something of a yearly festival - much in here to be excited about, thanks to the hard work of sub rosa’s guy-marc hinant. highly recommended, of course; and not just this most recent volume (the prior four all contain a veritable king’s ransom in early electronic music gold...)
sub rosa press release...
an anthology of noise & electronic music vol. 5 - fifth a-chronology 1920-2007

charlemagne palestine, père ubu, sutcliffe jügend, li chin sung aka dickson dee, alireza mashayekhi, rogelio sosa, christian galaretta, françois-bernard mâche, richard maxfield, wolf vostell, andré boucourechliev, helmut lachenmann, claude ballif, mauricio kagel, vladimir mayakovsky, raoul hausmann, gil joseph wolman, léo kupper, josef anton riedl, sten hanson + henri chopin, dajuin yao, ground zero, masonna, club moral, dub taylor

digipack 2 cd + 50 pages booklet
sr270

here i am, for the fifth time, facing this impossible task no one has asked me to do. how can one bring together the history of electronic and concrete music to the history of noise music? for this volume, i want to highlight pieces illustrating a technique (claude ballif's points,mouvements), a country (shur, op. 15 by alireza mashayekhi), a studio (helmut lachenmann at the ipem), there are also historic (françois bernard mâche's prélude), and radical (spectrum ripper by masonna) works that have ripped apart ancient definitions. all this organized with internationalism in mind and, for once, a focus on the voice - not as sung words, their traditional facet in music (from pop songs to lieder and operas), but as the word itself, recited, distorted, rendered abstract or disaggregated and screamed (the incantation so often a part of rock and noise music).

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